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Get Datepart in SharePoint Designer Workflow
Yesterday someone asked me how to get the datepart (f.e. the year of a date) inside a SharePoint designer workflow. I thought it would be some default action in the "Utility Actions" group, but I thought wrong. There is no such pretty common action. This post however shows a simple technique to get datepart Year, Month and Day.
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Framed Office Web Apps SharePoint 2010
In a project I'm working on we wanted to use Office Web Apps in SP2010 to preview selected documents in the browser. To do so we've created a very simple web part that renders an I-Frame with the URL set to one of the Office Web Apps urls depending on the document extension. Unfortunately the X-Frame header, that is added by the Office Web Apps service, prevents Internet Explorer to render the documents in an I-Frame! To solve this we've create a very simple HttpModule that checks for the header and changes the value from "DENY" to "SAMEORIGIN". This post simply shows the code for such a module that enables previewing of documents with Office Web Apps inside an I-Frame
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Missing server reference in SharePoint 2010
Unfortunately the "missing server references" health rule in Central Admin Health Monitoring does not display the URL were these uninstalled web parts reside. So to get these pages you'll have to execute some SQL against the mentioned content database. Because this is something that tents to come back regularly on development machines I've created a little SQL script to speed up the process of finding the url's you'll need to delete the web parts.
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WorkflowAction and the Secure Store
I have been working on this custom workflow action which allows you to post data to another servicer. This can be used to send messages to a web service for example. One thing I really wanted to have in there is security. And with security I mean the Secure Store. It is however very difficult to use the Secure Store from inside a workflow action. -
SharePoint 2010 BCS model deploy errors
Today I again faced an annoying SharePoint BCS deployment bug. I encountered it before in the beta but figured it would be solved in the release version so I forgot about it. Today it bit me in the rear again.
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Configure hMailServer for SharePoint
There is this great free mailserver called hMailServer which can be found here. It is very stable and works definately like a charm. There is some awesome documentation and thus a breeze to configure. I wanted to use this free mail server on my SharePoint 2010 development / demo machine but got stuck with two problems to resolve.
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SharePoint Calculated Field from string to number
Every now and then you run into unexpected SharePoint behavior. The Title field of an item is a 'single line of text' field. In my specific case however this Title field contained a file number. Not a problem at all, BUT you get a really strange sort order when you start to sort numbers as strings. File number 1000 comes before file number 9. This is however expected behavior.
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Google Analytics and jQuery, happy together
Google Analytics is great out of the box already, but you can do much more than just registering your page loads. Especially with all these “Web 2.0” sites it can be convenient to not register page loads, but events! In this blog post I’ll show you how you can use jQuery in combination with Google Analytics to get a great insight on what actually happens on your website while you’re not looking!
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Get rid of the style="border-width:0px" from the Image tag.
I do have pet projects in which I try to get every single nitty gritty detail right. And then it bothers me that by default the ASP.NET Image control adds a style="border-width:0px" to the rendered image tag even though I never asked for it. Not even does it add the style attribe without asking, it doesn't offer a way to get rid of it! You can get rid of it though!
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Asynchronous DataContext
Triggered by a blog post of Scott Hanselman I was wondering if I could create a generic extension method to asynchronously retrieve objects from a DataContext. And well I could. I ended up with two classes.
