Jaspers' Weblog My personal blog about me, my work and what I like.
Technical / October 10, 2011 / Jasper / 0
This weekend I added a suggestion for a new simple but powerfull feature in the next version of Visual Studio. In my opinion it’s a pretty good one (otherwhise I wouldn’t have posted it anyway), so I thought perhaps you agree on this. Feel free to vote and help me get this one up there.
Technical / October 5, 2011 / Jasper / 0
I use the blog feature of SharePoint 2010 quite often. It provides a good way of publishing new news items in your organisation. But sometimes, there’s the requirement of displaying your blog messages on a different site, for exmaple the landingpage of your intranet. Well there are a few ways of accomplishing this, but usually
Technical / October 3, 2011 / Jasper / 0
When you’re using FBA authentication to allow external users access to your SharePoint environment, you’ll notice that when using people search, those account will also show up. In some cases this might be usefull, but sometimes you’ll want to exclude those users and only show your internal domain users. Settings this is is quite easy
Technical / September 8, 2011 / Jasper / 0
In a project I’m working on, we’re using external lists with corresponding external content types to display data from a remote SQL server in SharePoint. All worked well and the customer was satisfied. Untill one day, the customer requested that a custom action was added to the external content type. “No problem!” I said, well
Technical / July 25, 2011 / Jasper / 5
Last week I updated several farms with SP1 and the June 2011 CU. After updating, several users reported problems with grouped list views. After some investigation, the problems can be easily reproduced: – Create or open an existing list which contains a grouped view – Expand one of the groups to show data – Reload
Technical / June 29, 2011 / Jasper / 0
Today I stumbled upon a nice feature on Codeplex. It’s quite simple and allows you to copy the URL to a SharePoint document directly to clipboard. This comes in handy when you’ve got WebApps setup to display documents when you click them, because the URL to documents will become something like: https://www.site.com/_layouts/WordViewer.aspx?id=…. If you want
Technical / April 28, 2011 / Jasper / 0
In SharePoint 2010 the calendar list was tweaked with a new great interactive calendar view. A request often heard is: can you give appointments a different color based on their category? Well actually you can and it’s not even that hard, just a little trick you have to know.
Technical / April 14, 2011 / Jasper / 0
When you crawl content from a file share, you’ll notice that when SharePoint displays search results, all the displayed dates are exactly the same. Instead of displaying the date the file was last modified, it seems to display the date on which the file was added to the search index. When you want to display
Technical / April 11, 2011 / Jasper / 0
Lately I’ve been installing a lot of SharePoint Foundation environment. Mainly because it’s free and Dutch folks tend to be a bit cheap 😉 I’ve added Search Server Express 2010 to those installations to enhance the search options available to the users. Now usually, I install english software so all management things are in English,
Technical / March 27, 2011 / Jasper / 0
For a new project I’ve started, I decided to try out ASP.NET MVC. I consider my ASP.NET skills as good, so I assumed that would give me a head start with MVC. Not sure if it did though, thinking ‘old’ ASP.NET based seems to be more of a challenge as opposed to really helping. A