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“Best Practices” for SharePoint customizations/development to easily migrate to new SharePoint versions

Do you know of any documents that describe “best practices” for SharePoint customizations (especially custom developments) in order for these customizations/code (for example web parts, event ...
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How to run a popup window from code behind in web Part writen in C#

I must run a popup worning when somebady exceeded a something walues. I try a Sharepoint Modal and javascript, but I don't know how to run something from behind code to run javaScript, or Sharepoint ...
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Dynamically registering JavaScript from within a sandbox web part

I am mid-way through development of a corporate intranet that will be hosted in SharePoint Online. For this reason, we are restricted to using sandbox solutions. One of the last "gotchas" that I need ...
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Setting up sites with lists and custom content types

I am creating a proof of concept at work. It will be creating a web applciation with a site collection in it. The site collection will have 1 or 2 custom content types and a few lists set up. I will ...
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Best Practices for StateMachine Workflow update operations

In our Workflow we have lots of updates to running workflow Document library item and its associated tasks..currently we are using simple approach as For Document Library : Public Shared Sub ...
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Correct way to store and retrieve +2000 List items Sharepojnt 2007

So I've read all the whitepapers, and I know that you can store up to 5 million list items in a list as long as you use folders. What I'm after, is, has anyone written some nice recursion that gets a ...
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What to do on feature deletion/deactivation

as I am trying to wrap my head around silverlight and sharepoint there's one thing I find most irritating: Provisioned xap-Files and/or web-Parts remain fully active upon deactivation/uninstallation ...
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Migrate Web Applications or migrate Site Collection from Development to Live

I have a Web Application in development with 7 site collections. I need to get them all into my production environment. No Web Application exists in production. Is it best to backup and restore the ...
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Migrating site collections from developemnt to live

I have several site collections that have been created in development. I now need to move them to live. In the live environment these site collections do not exists. What is the best way to migrate ...
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How should I check if SharePoint site is loaded on a desktop or on a mobile device?

I'm taking my chances and only using 1 web application and 1 masterpage for my SharePoint site, which I'm now also optimizing for mobile devices. I'm currently in the progress of developing a ...
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When to choose web application vs SiteCollection vs Subsite?

In SharePoint you have the following types of objects: Web application (1) A container in a configuration database that stores administrative settings and entry-point URLs for site collections. ...
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Cross Site Collection Navigation

We are using SharePoint for our Intranet. We will have a site collection for the Intranet. Then a site collection for each department in the business. I.E. HR, IT, Finance. We are creating a custom ...
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Authoring Environment

I have taken a new job and have been introduced to a new SharePoint environment that has been set up. The topology is as follows. Dev - > Authoring -> Testing -> Production I am a little confused by ...
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Setting SPWeb.AllProperties on WebPart Install

I have a WebPart where I need to set a custom property in SPWeb.AllProperties. How can I on install check to see if a property is set? If it is not set I want to set it. Or is it best just to do this ...
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Using SPContext.Current or using static URL

There are multiple ways to work in the SP object model. The starting point for instantiating objects looks different when you look at different developers. Many times I see people doing this: SPList ...
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How to set permissions for SP2010 Server

I'm new to SharePoint 2010 and am creating numerous Publishing sites with workflows, each for a different department. Each department needs to have a few people assigned to be able to create pages, ...
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Customization best practices for SP2010 [closed]

We'd like to customize the look of our SharePoint 2010 pages and sites but didn't know what some best practices are: We'd like to change the look of pages some without breaking the link between them ...
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SharePoint 3 tier Service Application with EF

I'm looking for some best practices on how to setup a three tier application design with a SharePoint Service Applications. A case example: suppose I have customers, each customer has a set of ...