Remember having to create features that deploy custom content types in MOSS 2007? How painful it was? How you just really didn’t want to do it? In SharePoint 2010, it is super easy. Just see here.
This issue has been bugging me for months. On several sites that I’ve branded, I’ve add a DOCTYPE to the masterpage that indicates to the browser to render the pages in standards mode. An unfortunate side effect of this occurs when you try to move webparts on a page: the little bar that pops up [...]
Today, all of the sudden the tab and escape keys stopped working in Virtual PC. Had never happened before. I reinstalled VM Additions, restarted the VM, nothing worked. I then found the solution in a form post: “If you are running into this issue on Vista and Windows 7 you can get the TAB key [...]
Found this great tutorial on creating bootable, sysprep’d VHD’s on the fly here. I plan on trying this out later this week and posting my findings.
All of this javascript goodness became useful while I was using jquery to call Sharepoint web services, specifically after I wrapped all of the functionality into a class. 1. Context – this issue arose while using jquery’s .ajax() method as so: $.ajax({ url: “../_vti_bin/lists.asmx”, type: “POST”, dataType: “xml”, data: soapEnv, complete: this.processResult, contentType: “text/xml; charset=\”utf-8\”" [...]
Here’s a good way to ensure all of your Infopath Forms open in a browser, no matter where they’re linked from: http://www.sharepointblogs.com/koning53/archive/2009/06/10/ensuring-infopath-forms-to-open-in-forms-services.aspx
This is mostly for my purposes… If you’re having trouble with Vista/Server 2008 not shutting down, try running: fsutil resource setautoreset true C:\ and then restarting your computer. This resets the NTFS transaction logs on your C: drive which apparently can become corrupted. As a bonus, I think it sped up start-up as well…