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Call a PowerShell script from SharePoint feature reciever
This is not likely to be something you use on a day to day basis, and I can see how some people might disagree with this method – preferring to use other techniques e.g. SharePoint project types etc...
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Unit testing for SharePoint 2010 development
When developing for SharePoint 2010 Unit testing is often overlooked and it shouldn’t be. It’s true that SharePoint is a product and we don’t need to test that, but the code we write to extend is the...
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Display content from Reusable HTML list in a MasterPage
This is as useful as it is simple!Having a footer for example in your master page without the overhead of being responsible for its maintenance.Here is a simple WebControl that you can reference in...
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Moved to the Cayman Islands.
Those of you that know me in the physical world will know that I got a job in the Cayman Islands and have been whittering on about it for that last couple months!Although very excited and looking...
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Start SharePoint 2013 development today...
SharePoint 2013 was recently released in beta.There are plenty of things to start playing with and what can be easier than using a box thats in the cloud, free and ready to go!?Sign up for a free...
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Cayman Stroke and Stride, Race 1.
This is a series of 3 races.1. 400m swim and 2 mile run.2. 600m swim and 2 mile run.3. 800m swim and 2 mile run.(then the triathlon build up begins!)You can check it out here....
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Cayman Stroke and Stride–Race 2
After a bit of a bad start to the set of 3 races, last night went a lot better. For a start I made sure I had plenty of battery in my watch. I decided to go for it a lot more with the swim, I still...
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Lance Armstrong–such a shame…
This is obviously all over the news at the moment, I for one find it disappointing reading about it (BBC article - http://scle.me/T5gHDV ) .I can’t really understand the thinking behind it. This goes...
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Windows Phone 8, 1 month in…
After being an iPhone user since v2 (I skipped the non-3G v1 effort) I recently decided to jump ship and try Windows Phone 8.The iPhone experience, although tweaked here and there over the years, has...
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Finding cycling routes
Having recently moved to a new city, in fact a whole new country! Well, technically not new as I’ve moved back to the UK from the Cayman Islands, but a city in the UK where I have never lived...
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Installing Windows 2012 on VMWare 8
This seems like a simple task, but considering the problems I had, I thought I’d just knock out a quick post!VMWare 8 is not the latest version, so perhaps this is ironed out somewhat in version 9!?I...
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Kendo UI grid – disable row select on command button
Recently I’ve been working more and more with the Kendo UI components.For those that don’t know, Kendo UI is a collection of HTML 5 controls from the wizards at Telerik.As with most controls,...
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Newly deployed SharePoint site definitions not found in PowerShell
This is a new problem for me, something that I have done many times in SharePoint 2010. I deploy a new site definition to SharePoint (in this case from Visual Studio 2012, although I can’t see it will...
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Merge multiple dll ‘s into one WPF application
It’s pretty standard scenario to have your application reference assemblies that are not part of the .net framework. In those instances the default behaviour is for VS to sit those dll’s along side...
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Build JS file for .net Constants class
It’s pretty common practice for me to have a Constants class in all my projects, especially so in SharePoint projects where you are likely to have Field name, Content Type ID’s and probably some GUID’s...
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Visual Studio cleared / deleted my ascx.g.cs file when adding a Register...
Having landed on this page, you’ve most likely experienced the joy of VS clearing the contents of your ascx.g.cs file when adding a Register declaration, in the hope you can simply drop in your super...
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Windows 8.1 blurry display, multiple monitors
I recently upgraded to Windows 8.1, everything went quite smoothly except the display.I have an extra monitor plugged into my laptop, pretty standard setup I should think, connected via HDMI. The...
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Resize SharePoint 2013 App Part
The new App Model of SharePoint 2013 comes with several options for development, one of these being an app part, which from the users perspective works very much like the web parts of old!However, from...
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SharePoint: Incoming mail in a development environment
If you’re cutting any code for SharePoint, you’ve probably got yourself a nice standalone VM with everything isolated and working just about so.So, what happens when that rare project comes in where...
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SharePoint App “Fast People Search”
The requirement came up for us as a company to get a little app into the App Store.As a consultancy we generally work on projects for specific clients, as such there isn’t a great deal of scope to work...
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