Web Development

SharePoint 2010 – Creating a Content Query Web Part (CQWP) Link Target

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7 months ago
by Jonathan Dack in , , ,
When you setup a CQWP and point to a Links List it allows you to define a few fields of data in the output: 'Title' and 'Link' (unless you have an image as part of your link). This is fine, however we also want to provide a target value. I'm sure there's way to hack at the webpart and do something creative with the XSL, however I've come up with a much simpler method using a calculated field.

Customizing the SharePoint 2010 Welcome Menu (PersonalActions)

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7 months ago
by Jonathan Dack in , ,
Creating a CustomAction is pretty easy, you just need to identify the GroupId and Location of the menu you wish to modify and then you're good to go. You even have a simple function called a URLAction where you can direct people to page when they click on your custom action. What isn't so obvious is if you actually wanted your application page to popup in a modal view. Here is the code I used to get this done.

Sharepoint Security: Minimum Rights Required to Check SPBasePermissions

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8 months ago
by Dave Yules in , ,
Recently I was tasked with securing an ASP Button on our Sharepoint 2010 portal using C#. What we needed was to check and see if the SPContext.Current.User had specific rights to an SPList, then display the button if they did.

Embedding a PDF Object in a SharePoint 2010 Web part using C#

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10 months ago
by Dave Yules in , ,
Recently I was assigned the task of displaying a PDF in a SharePoint Web part. I figured it’d be easy enough to display it in an iframe or simply embed it on the page, but unfortunately my assumption couldn’t have been further from the truth.

Export Gridview to CSV in a SharePoint 2010 Webpart

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11 months ago
by Jonathan Dack in , , ,
I was recently tasked with creating a Gridview in a SharePoint 2010 Webpart. In addition to assigning data to the Gridview, I also needed to create a way to export the data. The code to export to Excel was working, but with ugly user prompts. so I went with CSV. Here's the code...

The Sitecore Blog Module

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1 year ago
by Jonathan Dack in , ,
Sitecore is one of the leading providers of CMS (Content Management System) solutions and recently they launched an open module called EviBlog enabling you to host a corporate blog within your existing Sitecore environment.

Things to consider with SEO

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1 year ago
by Jonathan Dack in ,
Search Engine Optimization is the process of increasing the amount of visitors to a web site by ranking high in the search results of a search engine. The higher a web site ranks in the results of a search, the greater the chance that that site will be visited by a user.
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