How to: Delete a SharePoint 2010 term store group without breaking your mouse
When dealing with the term store in SharePoint 2010, one thing that is a bit of a pain is deleting term groups. While we can delete a term set by simply selecting Delete from the context menu, this...
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Using the Notifications Framework in a SharePoint 2010 AJAX enabled Web Part
There’s quite a lot of decent content out there about creating AJAX-enabled Visual Web parts in SharePoint 2010. Such as http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/gg620536. However, when it comes to creating a...
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SharePoint 2010: Search via REST
With the release of SharePoint 2010 we got a whole load of useful REST services. For example, we can read data from any list or library using ListData.svc and we can do some clever stuff with Excel...
View ArticleProgrammatically Update Enterprise Keywords
If you’ve tried to programmatically update a Managed Metadata field, you’ve probably found that it gets a bit messy if you’re using an SPField object. Behind the scenes the Managed Metadata column is...
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Capturing ULS data via TypeMock
As I’ve probably mentioned before, I use TypeMock for unit testing of my SharePoint server side code. Most of the time I’m not interested in what my components will write to ULS when operating normally...
View ArticleSending and receiving SPListItem references via JSON
One of the big changes in SharePoint 2013 is the focus on client side processing. Over the next few years I suspect SharePoint developers will be spending a lot of time in the wacky world of...
View ArticleQuick Tip: SPRoot shortcut
How many times a day do you find yourself typing C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared \Web Server Extensions\<whatever>? Save yourself some trouble – define an environment variable...
View ArticleManaged Metadata: Missing a trick?
In the beginning there was a problem, cascading drop downs, or more specifically the lack of them in MOSS 2007. Although there were many valiant attempts to introduce such functionality none of them...
View ArticlePowerShell primer for SharePoint developers: Part 1
With SharePoint 2010 PowerShell if the preferred command line interface. In SharePoint 2013, a working knowledge is pretty much essential to get things like search up and running. Despite that, I’m...
View ArticlePowerShell Primer for SharePoint Developers: Part 2
In my last post in this series I covered the basics of PowerShell, explaining what it is and how it works and introducing ways to find your way around the various facilities that are available. In this...
View ArticleISO 639-2 to Windows LCID mapping
If you’ve ever had the misfortune to have to map three character ISO language codes to windows LCID’s then you’ll know it’s a bit of a pain. The ISO codes can be found here and the LCID’s can be found...
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