Working with the SharePoint platform you will quickly realise that the easiest and probably best and most direct way to…
Quick tip: Comment out Visual Studio code (keyboard shortcut)
Most starting developers always ask if there is a quicker method to commenting out a piece of code, than having…
Basics: Undo “Exclude from Project” in Visual Studio
OK, so this is truly a silly post but I still remember how anxious I was the first time I…
Basics: Enable/Disable features via the SP2010 Management Shell
There will be a time that because of your custom code or for any other reason, SharePoint will refuse to…
How to: Resolve reference errors
If you’ve had experience with previous versions of Visual Studio, you’ll remember that whenever you attempted to use a class…
Basics: Locate a SharePoint website web.config
I was talking the other day about working with the web.config file in order to allow your SharePoint installation to…
Quick tip: Delete duplicate items in MS Outlook 2007 (with ODIR)
People don’t normally end up with huge .pst files because of duplicate email items. However, there are cases when that’s…
Basics: Add a simple JavaScript button on the SP2010 ribbon
Single Button addition on the SharePoint 2010 Ribbon, using the available tabs and groups (no new definitions)! This is the…
Basics: Customising the SP2010 Ribbon
An obvious change in the SharePoint 2010 User Interface is the implementation of the Office Ribbon, which was not available…
Basics: SharePoint Claims and SAML
SharePoint Claims is a way for SharePoint to validate the credentials of a subject. For the developer, this provides no…