Office Web Apps Uninstall Issues

When you install Office Web Apps to your environment, it becomes highly integrated  with your SharePoint. You have to be obey some important rules if you want to uninstall one of these coupled components, Office Web Apps and SharePoint. After you unistalled Office Web Apps from the Control Panel, you […]

SharePoint 2010 Keyboard Shortcuts

I’ve never used keyboard shortcut combinations in SharePoint 2010. But today in a usability discussion I wondered which keyboard shortcuts are available in SharePoint and I decided to list those I can find. Using these hot keys can be very effective. Home Link Alt + 1 -> ENTER Skip to […]

SharePoint 15 Preliminary SDK

Microsoft has released a technical review SDK for SharePoint 15 (or SharePoint 2013). This preliminary SDK is called as SharePoint 15 Technical Preview Managed Object Model Software Development Kit. You can download and dig into new SDK before next version of SharePoint released. Regarding to the release date of Office 15 […]

Web Part Maintenance Page

You implement your web part, build and deploy it to your SharePoint server. However your web part page can give errors due to a bug in your code or some other problem. Unfortunately in most cases web part page can not be opened in edit mode. There are many scenarios that causes this kind of […]

Deploy Initial Data With List Instance

This blog demonstrates creating a list instance from custom list definition and deploy some inital data with the list instance. In my previous blog I explained how to create custom list definition with custom content type and gave an abbreviation list example (Custom List Definition in SharePoint 2010). In this blog  I’ll continue with that example. […]

Build SharePoint 2010 Development Environment

For some time we’ve been looking for the best development environment for SharePoint 2010. Different than other earlier SharePoint versions, SP2010 can be installed on Windows 7 or Windows Visto for development purposes. Other alternative for development is using virtual machines. I think virtual machine option has still more advantages. […]

Programmatically Manage SharePoint Recycle Bin

SharePoint object model allows to access recycle bins of web sites or site collections by calling RecycleBin property of the SPWeb or SPSite classes respectively. [crayon lang=”c#”] SPRecycleBinItemCollection recycleBinItemcollection = yourSite.RecycleBin; //or SPRecycleBinItemCollection recycleBinItemcollection = yourWeb.RecycleBin; [/crayon] RecycleBin property will return recycle bin items as SPRecycleBinItemCollection. Items of this collection […]