SharePoint Asynchronous Event Receivers and the powershell.exe process
We recently had a very strange problem with one of our custom Event Receivers in our production SharePoint environment. The Event Receiver implemented the Asynchronous ItemUpdated event. It was used to...
View ArticleSharePoint InlineSiteSettings 2010 – improved productivity for Administrators...
After having released SharePoint InlineSiteSettings for SharePoint 2007 a while ago, and having used a little desktop application called Launchy which is used to start desktop applications using just a...
View ArticleBypass caching with jQuery AJAX GET requests
As I seem to use this trick quite often and I keep forgetting the exact details on how to implement it, I thought it would be good to document this. Using jQuery, I often make ansynchronous GET...
View ArticleMinimal implementation of a custom templated ASP.NET control using the...
Below you will find a code snippet to demonstrate a minimal implementation of a custom ASP.NET control that allows page designers to specify a template which will be used by the control to render...
View ArticleReleased: SharePoint WebPartSlices
I have recently released my sixth CodePlex project (list of all my CodePlex projects), titled SharePoint WebPartSlices. To all the jQuery fans – Sorry, no jQuery this time! SharePoint WebPartSlices is...
View ArticleReleased: SharePoint 2010 Developer Dashboard Visualizer
As announced before, I have been working an open source project that visualizes the data in the Developer Dashboard in SharePoint 2010. The good news is that SharePoint Developer Dashboard Visualizer...
View ArticleContext in SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services (or the lack of it)
The problem I see with Business Connectivity Services is the lack of context available when writing your custom code to retrieve and update data. As a result, custom BCS implementations are not very...
View ArticleHow to interpret the information in the Developer Dashboard in SharePoint 2010
When I first had a look at the Developer Dashboard in SharePoint 2010 I was a bit confused. The numbers shown in the nested unordered list on the left, representing load times in milliseconds, didn’t...
View ArticleReleased: SharePoint LiveListData
Last week I published my fourth CodePlex project, called SharePoint LiveListData. It is an “assembly-free” solution which means that it contains no server side code. It is implemented as a jQuery...
View ArticleA developer’s thoughts on the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 in Las Vegas
After having attended the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas last week, I decided to write a blog post in which I will summarise my thoughts on SPC09 and SharePoint 2010 from a Developer...
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