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Creating directory structure from custom ribbon action

Environment: 2013, VS2012 I'm trying to develop a custom ribbon button for a document library that creates a folder (ie: a new project) and populates it with a hierarchy of sub-folders. I have some ...
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How to add a calculated column to list view programmatically?

I have created a SharePoint feature where I have added a list named "Employees". I have added a Content Type "Employee" and added to it some columns like "Vacation Days Taken", "Vacation Days ...
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How to set the rowlimit in content query webpart by code?

I need a content query web part that returns me the last 10 modified or added documents into any document library on that specific website. How can I add the rowlimit by code? ContentByQueryWebPart ...
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The object specified does not belong to a list when publishing a page

I am creating a method to remove all webparts from a publishing page, however at the end in the publish method it throws me this exception The object specified does not belong to a list. What am ...
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Napa App: _spPageContextInfo is not defined

Am creating a vanilla Napa app and am seeking to reference the host URL as follows: var ctx = new SP.ClientContext(_spPageContextInfo.webServerRelativeUrl); Yet _spPageContextInfo is being flagged ...
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Anonymous access: Add an Item to List without allowing to View the List

I'm creating a 'Contact Us' webpart with form to allow anonymous user to send a message which will be added to a SharePoint List. However I cannot grant the anonymous user the permission to Add ...
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Unable to create SPUserToken objects or use SPSecurity class

As shown in this image, I am unable to create a SPUserToken or run the SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges() delegate in order to elevate the current user for the purpose of managing list item ...
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How custom HTTPHandler works in sharepoint 2013

I am reading some existing code in a project and there are some custom handlers that validate some data on application pages. The question is: Does these HTTPHandler get executed for every simple ...
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Redirect From one app page to another

I am creating a Provider hosted app. In that I have created two different .aspx pages. I want to redirect to the other page. But I am not able to find it out how to redirect. When I check my ...
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how to create workflow for provider hosted apps in visual studio ot sharepoint designer?

I want to create a Provider Hosted app. In that I will manipulate SharePoint list items. I am adding items to a SharePoint List and for that I want to create a List Workflow to auto-generate the ...
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ViewState Timing Issues with SharePoint 2013 & ListView plus DataPager

Good morning! I'm porting an existing custom 2010 webpart containing a ListView and a DataPager to 2013 and seeing some weirdness with the DataPager and I believe the cause is associated with the ...
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what we shall use in sharepoint now Ajax or jQuery

I need to add message boxes and other components every now and then. I can use jquery plugin or ajax so I was wondering which one is the best to use in this type of scenario. I see in Sharepoint ...
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C# How to read display templates location in Sharepoint 2013

Sharpeoint 2013 has a default filter template located at: _catalogs/masterpage/Display%20Templates/Filters/Filter_Default.js How can I read the absolute path of the _catalogs masterpage in C# ? ...
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SharePoint 2013 list items paging

I'm trying to make a webpart with list items paging. I followed this link http://www.directsharepoint.com/2011/03/step-by-step-guide-to-implement-paging.html and on SharePoint 2010 server it works ...
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Will code created with 32 Bit SharePoint Designer 2013 be readable to another computer with the 64 Bit version of SPD 2013?

One of the developers on my team is installing SharePoint Designer 2013 on a machine with 32 Bit office. He attempted to install the 64 bit version and this error appeared: Got we can't install the ...
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SharePoint 2013 Development enviroment

Can one develop SharePoint solutions without having installed SharePoint 2013 on local, development machine? There will be one 'test' machine, however it will be placed on other machine, to save ...
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Customizing discussions list in SP2013 with JsLink

I'm working on a community site and was looking at ways to modify UI of the discussion list that is presented to the user (and possibly more going forward). It is my understanding according to the ...
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Will SharePoint developers still need asp.net webforms skills for 2013 and beyond?

Will asp.net webforms skills still be a requirement for SharePoint development down the road? Or will webforms become just one development technology out of many a SharePoint developer can choose ...
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Server Error in '/' Application. Runtime Error

I am new to SharePoint. I am developing a web part. I that I have created the .aspx page. When I am going to access that page by the URL it throws an error like. Runtime Error Description: An ...
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Is it possible to have CAML Join without Lookup Columns?

I am new to SharePoint. I am developing a web-part in that I am trying to join two list. I have a same web-part in that lists were join using LINQ query. But it takes more time to fetch the data. So ...
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Error in Web.EnsureUser(user) :- User Not Found

Hey Friends I am trying to develop a web part in that I am fetching the user name. But doing this I am getting the error that User cannot be found. But the main thing is that in the line where I ...
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Add panels to site dynamically

I have a main panel which is called linksAndPicturesPanel within this panel, I want to add more panels -> 1 panel for the link and 1 panel for a picture (red and green). Furthermore, it should be ...
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Can a sandboxed WebPart access SPWeb.AllProperties

Well, subject says it all. Although MSDN has plenty of info what classes are accessible in a sandboxed solution I just couldn't find the info if I can read or write to SPWeb.AllProperties. Basically ...
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Simultaneous development environment for SP2010 and SP2013 in single OS

I have on my laptop a development environment as win7 with std IIS, SharePoint 2010 Server, SQL 2008 R2 and Visual Studio 2010. I already installed Visual Studio 2012 side by side. But what about ...
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Why there is Server Connection “Online” While Developing WebParts in VS2012 for SP2013

I am new to SharePoint. And though I am taking my training on CloudShare by creating cloud machine of SharePoint-2013. When ever I am developing any visual WebPart in Visual Studio 2012 there is ...
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Sharepoint 2013 Community site: Unable to reply on a post

Im working on Sharepoint 2013 Community site template. When I manually create a discussion in discussions list liking and replying features are working fine, but when I programmatically add a ...
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SharePoint 2013 email templates

I have a SharePoint 2013 instance that I would like to modify the default email template. I want to put my company's logo as a header and the company contact info as a footer on every email that is ...
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The remote event receiver callout failed

I've created an AppEventReceiver for my High Trust Remote app, when I deploy the app through Visual Studio 2012 I get the following error The remote event receiver callout failed The HTTP request is ...
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Sharepoint 2013 Developer Edition

Most of the Microsoft tools have developer editions available in MSDN subscriptions, but I dont seem to find one for SharePoint. I was just wondering how people do their development if they dont have ...
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“SharePoint is not a database!” article of 2009 - does it still apply for SP 2010 and 2013?

I'm talking about this blog post by Chris Woodill. He mentions the following advantages of modeling data via SQL programming instead of SharePoint's lists: Primary And foreign keys: one of the most ...
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SharePoint 2013 “Working On It” a lot during development with no CPU/disk activity

When doing anything that requires SharePoint to recycle, like deploying a project to SharePoint from Visual Studio, it takes forever for SharePoint to spin up again. The deployment is about the same ...
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Where To Start Learning SP 2013 For SP 2010 Developers

What are your ideas for beginning to learn(upgrade) to SP 2013 development?
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SharePoint 2013 development from Visual Studio 2012

Do I need to install VS 2012 after SP 2012. I don't see SP 2013 Project options only SP 2010. I install VS 2012 before SP 2013.
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SharePoint 2013 Standalone VM for Development good enough?

I'm building a VM for SP 2013 development. Will be developing Solutions, WebParts, Custom forms, Dataviews, Business Data Connectivity, Custom Fields, inline Jquery, SSRS reports for deployment into ...
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Creating a site programmatically - folder does not exist on server

I'm trying to create a site programmatically using a console application, but have been getting an exception whenever I try to add a new SPWeb "The folder that would hold URL'/sites/[sitename]' does ...
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Is it possible to package, deploy, and use my own image for a ribbon CustomAction in a SharePoint-hosted App for SharePoint 2013

I've been working on a SharePoint-hosted app for SharePoint 2013. In order to "extend the reach" of the app a bit, I've included a CustomAction that will add a button to each document library's ribbon ...
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How to get user tasks from My Site task list?

I'm working on a solution in SharePoint 2013. It's a Web Part that is going to display the five tasks that are due next from the task list on the current users' My Site. I'm new to SharePoint and kind ...
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Is there a hack to installing SharePoint 2013 on Windows 8?

Apparently SharePoint 2013 is not officially supported on Windows 8 (which does not make sense to me). And, just like the Vista hack for WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 I am looking for a hack to install ...
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SharePoint 2013 Development - What's New and Different

I wonder what is new and different in SharePoint 2013 development. I am a SharePoint developer since 2007 and 2010, but have not received any SharePoint 2013 development training. When upgrading from ...
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Display a custom column in Flat view in sharepoint discussions list

Hi in sharepoint 2013 community site discussions list I have added a custom column. I wanted to display that field in Flat view. Default Flat view in the discussions list can't be edited so I created ...
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Sharepoint 2013: Get url of discussions in Discussions List

Im working on Sharepoint 2013 Community site, Im developing a custom webpart where I filter the discussions and displaying the title of the discussions as a Hyperlink. How can I find the url of the ...
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What SharePoint 2013 Development can be done in Visual Studio 2010?

It looks like the tools for developing SharePoint 2013 customizations are mostly in Visual Studio 2012 and "Napa for Office 365." If you've tried developing solutions for SharePoint 2013 in Visual ...
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Sharepoint 2013 Community site: Get values from “Discussions List” list

Im trying to get values from "Discussions List", When I tried to get the values of "Body" field from that list its giving only the values of the replies of discussion. I couldn't access the values of ...
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Sharepoint Community site: Display custom field in Discussions List

Hi Im working with Sharepoint 2013 Community site, i have added a custom column in discussions list but when I go to discussions page(Topic.aspx) I cannont view that custom column. Is it possible to ...
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App parts with O365 Dev preview; 405 Error

I am working with a SharePoint hosted app project using VS2012 pointed to my O365 dev preview account. Following this example: ...
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Difference between SP 2013 Preview development environment and SP 2013 Server Preview

Just going through few projects provided by Microsoft for sharepoint 2013 developers I seen requirements for development tools, it says This sample requires the following: Visual ...