This blog post is about one of those questions you get asked where you wonder is that possible? It’s pretty useless, and your time would probably have been spent better than trying to figure out if it’s possible, but nevertheless you end up investigating it to prove to yourself that […]
If you from a site within a web application running with classic mode authentication try to create e.g. a team site and your mysite web application are running with claims authentication you will see the following error in your ULS Log. System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED)), […]
The 2013 wave of Microsoft products introduced a brand new app concept that received a lot of attention during the launch. Now more than a year later it might be time to look back at how the app model have done. The First Year with the App Model For SharePoint […]
Did you ever had the urge or need to get an overview of documents uploaded to your SharePoint installation. One of our customers asked us to give them an overview of Microsoft Office files (xlsx, xls, doc, docx, ppt, pptx and pdf), and they were pretty surprised by the result, […]
Are you are lead developer or in some other way responsible for more than just your own code? Do you find yourself creating the same code structures so often that you start to see repeating patterns? Then maybe it is time to look into Visual Studio Extensions to help improve […]
I’m doing some testing of the LightSwitch product that is shipped in a brand new version with Visual Studio 2013 for building data-centric apps. The good news is that LightSwitch no longer depend on Silverlight, but now supports HTML5 and jQuery for the client side rendering, which is a big […]
In SharePoint 2013 the rating functionality that can be enabled on all libraries, have been extended with a simple like/unlike functionality in addition to the 5 star rating from SP2010. Obviously this is something the customers love, as it reminds them of their well-known facebook like functionality. Unfortunately Microsoft for some reason decided to only enable the functionality directly from the page library list view, where most end users will never end up when working with publishing sites. In this post I present some javascript that can be included on a page layout to enable users to like/unlike the page directly from the page.
This is a collection of useful articles about SharePoint branding: How to use CssRegistration
Today I had one of the usual SharePoint guessing games with their little too generic exceptions. I had some code, in a common library that tried to access the data of a field of the the type SPFieldType.User on a SPListItem. This worked fine when logged in as farm administrator, […]
This is some xslt I have been fiddling with in order to calculate the age of persons in a list from their birthday (or in fact their CPR number, the danish social security number). Unfortunately calculated columns in SharePoint doesn’t support getting today’s date, this is because their values are […]