#SharePoint Archive

05 April

SHAREPOINT DESIGNER 2007 IS NOW FREE!

Microsoft is now offering its Office SharePoint Designer 2007 for free. As of today it selling for $200+ on on Amazon. Here is the download link on Microsoft for SharePoint Designer 2007.

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27 March

Set the SharePoint Welcome Page through code

You might end up with this requirement quite often to set your custom page as a welcome page for site/subsite instead of default.aspx provided by SharePoint. Its quite a tedious job to set up default pages manually when you...

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27 March

Programmatically Delete all items from a SharePoint List

At times we want to delete all the items from a SharePoint List. Here are some excellent solutions to delete all the SharePoint list items efficiently. Below is the PurgeList method from Keith Richie which does an excellent job...

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14 March

SharePoint – Add IntelliSense when editing CAML files in WSS v3 / MOSS 2007

After years of developing code using VS.NET IntelliSense feature its pretty painful to write CAML (Collaborative Application Markup Language) in XML files where IntelliSense is not available by default.

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13 March

SharePoint – Add or Delete Site Column reference from Content Types

Content type does not contain a column, or field. It only contains a reference to a site column or field. Therefore you should create a site column before you can add it to the content type definition.

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13 March

SharePoint – Add folders to Document Library programmatically

Today I had a requirement to add folders programmatically to the default ‘Site Collection Images’ document library. Its quite simple and can easily be achieved with few lines of code. Here is a method of how to do that:

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24 February

Review of: SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard

The SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard from Chris Obrien is a excellent tool for SharePoint 2007 content deployment.

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24 February

Using STSADM.EXE to Create Empty Site Collection

There are situations when we want to create empty site collection, like when your content deployment job is failing due to conflicting content. In these cases STSADM.EXE comes handy. STSADM.EXE is the only means to create a completely empty...

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21 February

List of 10 useful SharePoint Tools from CodePlex

Here are some really useful SharePoint tools available at CodePlex. I have tried some of these tools while others in the list seems to be popular and worth checking. CodePlex is Microsoft’s open source project hosting web site.

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