Contents tagged with Sharepoint
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Develop SharePoint Add-In using SharePoint 2016 On Premise and Visual Studio
In this article, I am going to explain how to create SharePoint hosted Add-In using Visual Studio and how to deploy this Add-In to SharePoint 2016 on premise version.
Building a successful Add-in include two steps. First you need to author your Add-In using Visual Studio. Once you build your Add-in you need to deploy this Add-In to a SharePoint environment and test the Add-In. You can deploy the Add-In to SharePoint online or to the on-premise SharePoint. This article covers the deployment of Add-in to the On Premises version.
Step 1: Create Your Add-In
Open Visual Studio as administrator. From the Menu, select File -> New -> Project
In the new Project Dialog box, from the left menu, expand Visual C#, then Office/SharePoint and choose SharePoint Add-in. Also you can use the search box in the top right corner to locate the Add-n Project template.
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Walkthrough: Installing SharePoint 2016
Over the past years, every time a SharePoint version pops out, I used to share my installation experience. I have done this for 2007, 2010 and 2013.
You can refer those posts from the below URLs.
https://weblogs.asp.net/sreejukg/installing-sharepoint-2007-moss-2007
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Hide Ribbon in SharePoint 2013 Publishing site
In SharePoint all authenticated users will see the ribbon control in the top of the page.
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Import profile picture from Active directory to SharePoint 2013 User Profile
Recently I came across a requirement in one of the SharePoint 2013 on premise portal implementation. All the user’s picture is updated in active directory, the question was can we import this picture uploaded to active directory to the Picture property in user profile. The answer is yes and in this post I am explaining the steps for doing it so.
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Get the login name of the current user in SharePoint 2013
Recently in one of my project, I wanted to retrieve the logged in user’s login name in the format of domain\username. This seems simple and to retrieve the username, I used the below code.
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Access Denied Error, when retrieving user profiles count from SharePoint
Recently for one of my SharePoint project implementation, I wanted to list the number of user profiles available in SharePoint. So I added the following code.
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Customize SharePoint 2013 look and feel for intranet sites
It is important to customize the look and feel of SharePoint portal implementation to match your corporate branding. For public websites, branding is in the top of the list, where you need to create appealing websites. SharePoint 2013 addresses the branding of publishing sites and intranet sites in both different ways as the customization requirements varies. For Publishing site, you have design manager where you will be able to define and use your own master pages and page layouts. For intranets that level of customizations are not required, so SharePoint offers certain themes out of the box and it is easy to create your own.
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Enable RSS feed in SharePoint 2013
For the purpose of this walkthrough, I have created a picture Library named “MyPictures” and added five pictures to this library. The thumbnail view of the picture library is as follows.
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SharePoint 2013: A feature with ID has already been installed in this farm
When you try to deploy a Visual Web Part you may get the following error.
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Install SharePoint 2013 on a two server farm
When SharePoint 2010 was released, I published an article on how to install SharePoint on a two server farm. You can find that article from the below link.
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Apply language packs to SharePoint 2013
Any collaboration platform that allows teams to work together should have the user interface available in multiple languages. As a market leader in portals and collaboration technology, it is one of the important but easiest features to configure inside SharePoint 2013. Now a days it is common in enterprises to have teams mixed with people speaks different languages. Getting the menus and commands translated to user’s local language will increase the productivity for the user. In this walkthrough I am going to demonstrate how you can apply language pack in SharePoint 2013.
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Installing SharePoint 2013 on Windows 2012- standalone installation
In this article, I am going to share my experience while installing SharePoint 2013 on Windows 2012. This was the first time I tried SharePoint 2013. So I thought sharing the same will benefit somebody who would like to install SharePoint 2013 as a standalone installation. Standalone installation is meant for evaluation/development purposes. For production environments, you need to follow the best practices and create required service accounts. Microsoft has published the deployment guide for SharePoint 2013, you can download this from the below link.
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Configure Email notifications on SharePoint 2010 list
In this article I am going to demonstrate how you can configure email notification feature on SharePoint List. For the purpose of demonstration I chose the default tasks list that is coming with almost all default SharePoint sites. Tasks list have one column “Assigned To”. When an item is created in the task list, I would like to send an email to the user to whom the task is assigned. The scenario is very simple and straight forward.
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Getting started with LINQ to SharePoint
One of the major advantages of SharePoint 2010 is the support for LINQ. If you are new to LINQ, I would recommend you to read the below article from MSDN.
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SharePoint 2010 : Sharing data between Visual Web Parts
Web Parts are essential parts of SharePoint 2010 that helps developers and site owners to customize the SharePoint portal. There are lots of out of the box web parts available in SharePoint 2010. When you are building business portals definitely you will be in need to create your own web parts corresponding to your business requirements. SharePoint 2010 supports Visual web parts. Visual web parts allow developers to easily design the user interface as they are doing in conventional ASP.Net applications.
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Developing custom field type for SharePoint 2010
The ECM features of SharePoint 2010 are excellent. The best thing is the extendibility of the platform using SharePoint designer and Visual Studio. By default SharePoint includes field types such as Single line text, multi-line text etc. The following is the snapshot of the fields available in SharePoint 2010
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SharePoint 2010: Missing new and edit options from the Site Menu
Recently one of SharePoint WCM client has reported that they were not able to update the site. All the edit/new/upload menu items were missing from the site. It was fine till the week before and suddenly it happened. I thought of publishing the steps for troubleshooting the issue as it may help somebody facing similar issues.
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Create a List Definition in SharePoint 2010 using Visual Studio 2010
In this demonstration, I am going to create a list definition using Visual Studio 2010. For the demonstration purpose, I am going to create a list definition for storing expenses, once deployed, the list definition can be used to create lists to store expenses. The list definition will define a list template that inherit from custom list and add columns expensedate and amount.
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Developing SharePoint 2010 features using Visual Studio 2010
Developers can extend SharePoint by creating new features. Using features developers can develop customizations and extensions that can be capable of automated deployment, management, un-installation and upgrading. SharePoint Feature allows developer to create a set of functionality to group into a component and allows administrators to add that functionality to the site/site collection. In addition to this, administrator can disable or uninstall the feature if they wish. With SharePoint 2010, it is possible to upgrade the feature to a new version. In this article I am going to demonstrate how to create a feature using SharePoint 2010.
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Determine the version of MOSS 2007 installed
Recently I came across with an assignment to upgrade MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010. MOSS 2007 was already installed but no documentation was available. I asked the system administrator and he had no clue as he just joined the company. I need to know the service pack installed in the MOSS 2007 farm and I thought of document this as it may help others.