Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft.
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List of best practices on structuring SharePoint 2010 solutions
I am looking for good guidance on how to structure a SharePoint Solution including:
Visual Studio Project Structure
Features (how to separate features)
Namespaces
When to use multiple project ...
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Migrating a solution from 2007 to 2010
Let's say we have a well-established solution in Visual Studio 2008, using WSPBuilder to bundle it up into a package. It has a handful of features and a whole whack of assets to deploy (.webpart, ...
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Error message: “A sharepoint server is not installed…”
Im trying to develop a Visual Web Part using Visual Studio 2010 RC. I have not installed SharePoint 2010 locally on my developer box, but I have installed it on my Windows 2008 Server VPC.
When I try ...
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Best practices for creating a shared code library for SharePoint projects
I have several projects for SharePoint 2010 (mostly they are separate solutions built each to separate wsp's) in active development. And I have a similar tasks in these projects (logging, ...
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Change XSLT for Discussion Board, deploy via VS2010
So we are creating a branded web site for a client to deploy internally (kind of an intranet), but 99% of users won't see the ribbon, just a branded information site.
They want to use the Discussion ...
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Using solutions and features in creation/branding of SharePoint websites
I am new to SharePoint website creation and branding and I need your advice.
For my first SharePoint site I have done the following:
1- Created/edited a master page.
2- Added CSS and JavaScript ...
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How to read a column type SPUser, DateTime, Currency with EcmaScript?
I have a list in SharePoint 2010 with some columns. All are default types. So I have
"Single line of text"
"Multiple line of text"
"Date and Time"
"Choice"
"Number"
"Currency"
"Person or Group"
...
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Check if task has already been submitted on opening InfoPath task form and switching view to reflect so
I am trying to make my custom task form (of Visual Studio Sequential Workflow) to switch view to "Submitted" in case someone has already submitted this task before, since this task could be assigned ...
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Including Description with Page Layout
I'm deploying a couple of custom page layouts as part of a feature for SharePoint 2010, and am having issues including the description with the page layout. I'm looking to include descriptive text as ...
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SharePoint 2010 - Visual Studio Project Structure
What are your project structures for sharepoint projects. For example my simple structure is: Think of a project named MyPortal
MyPortal.sln
--MyPortal.Branding (Custom master pages, page layouts, ...
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Disable value in dropdown menu after being selected
I have created a library in which i am using the drop down column with some values.These Values will depend on the group to which the user belongs.
For Eg.
If Drop Values are A, B , C, D, E
and ...
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SharePoint Web service requests take 30-60 secs initially
When trying to access SharePoint WSS 3.0 server using the web services API, the software service we are developing will hang anywhere between 30-60 seconds when making any call (pick anyone of them, ...
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Why won't my site column deploy from an elements file?
See Can site columns be deployed in sandboxed solutions? for background on this.
I've tried to reproduce the sandboxed feature with a site column as built by Hilton Giesenow shown on How Do I: Create ...
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Use Visual Studio 2010 To Create SandBoxed Site with Content
I have a site that was built with the UI: It has a lot of custom .aspx pages with webparts and there are custom site columns, content types, and even a document library with several support files.
My ...
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Can site columns be deployed in sandboxed solutions?
I have created a package in Visual Studio 2010 for SharePoint 2010 which contains a single feature, called "SiteColumns", which link to a single elements file defining a single site column.
I have ...
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Workflow action SendEmail does not use “From” field
I have a Visual Studio 2010 workflow for a SharePoint 2010 Server. It uses the default workflow action "SendEmail" to send an e-mail. Everything works out perfectly, but the sender of the e-mail is ...
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How to debug sharepoint webservice?
I've followed Walkthrough: Creating a Custom ASP.NET Web Service and everything works fine.
I just want to know how to enable debugging for this web service over network. Could you help me?
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How to set visual webparts to load one after - another sharepoint 2010
I have a webpart page which have 2 custom visual webparts. When i set the debugger point on both the page loads of the webpart the 2nd visual webpart debugger is hit...that makes me think the 2nd ...
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DropDownList to display External Content Type?
I am creating a visual web part in Visual Studio 2010 for SharePoint 2010 Server. I would like to use a DropDownList that shows data from an external content type (that is tied to a SQL Database ...
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Content rotator for SharePoint lists
I'd like to build a content rotator web part for SharePoint 2010 to display list information. I'm working with the ever-popular AnythingSlider. A couple of questions:
How would I let the page author ...
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How to create the wsp package in visual studio 2010 with following features? [duplicate]
I want to create a wsp package. When I deploy it, it must add features such as two SharePoint lists, one webpart, one image library sequentially. Can I do this in WSPBuilder? I want to deploy this on ...
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Error occurred in deployment step 'Add Solution': Sandboxed code execution request failed
Whenever I try to debug (i.e. F5) a SharePoint 2010 Project I get this error. All the SharePoint services are running. Messages in Output window:
Add solution
Adding solution 'my solution.wsp'...
...
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Deploying webparts to default.aspx with a SiteDefinition feature dependency
I tried deploying a Site Definition with a custom default.aspx page.
Within the <WebFeatures> node of the Site Definition's Onet.xml I tried to reference a Feature which would get a web part ...
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error while signing sharepoint assembly with certificate
Our company purchased a certificate to sign our assemblies. But if I go the signing tab in project properties and select the certificate there, I'll get the following error: "an attempt was made to ...
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Custom web part throws error when I try to add it to page
I am working on a custom web part, that keeps error out with:
A web part or web form control on this page cannot be displayed or
imported. the type is not registered as safe
any time I ...
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2answers
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MOSS 2007 + Visual Studio 2008 : How to I deploy a Visual Studio 2008 Web Application to SharePoint Server 2007
Q1. How to I deploy a Visual Studio 2008 Web Application to SharePoint Server 2007? I notice that there is not much materials on such deployment except for one which mention Visual Studio 2005 (not ...
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Get related items from a parent list item through lookup
I've got 2 lists: Companies and Employees. In Companies I have a text field called Name and in Employees I have a lookup to Companies based on the company Name.
What I'm trying to achieve is to get ...
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WSDL and DISCO file from webservice
Not so long ago, I've tried creating a webservice for sharepoint.
I followed this tutorial. In this tutorial you can see that you also need to
create a wsdl and disco file. I didn't do this, and ...
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Sharepoint 2010 - wpresources for Bin / web Application Deployment
In SharePoint 2010 , using visual studio 2010 :
i have bin / web application deployment.
i want to add java script file under Virtual Directories\/wpresources//
I cannot use the Resources mapped ...
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Changing directory name of features in SharePoint 14 Hive - Impact on already deployed features?
I'm moving from a WSPBuilder based SharePoint 2010 solution to a Visual Studio 2010 based solution. After porting the WSPBuilder based solution to a plain Visual Studio based solution I tried to ...
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How can I access Controls in VisualWebPart1.cs from UserControl.ascx
I make a Webpart and want to use the controls from the VisualWebpart1UserControl.ascx in the VisualWebpart1.cs. Is this possible?
I wrote following code in the VisualWebpart1.cs:
...
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Cannot edit form in InfoPath when list was created in Visual Studio
I am using SharePoint 2010 Enterprise, InfoPath Designer 2010 and Visual Studio 2012.
When I create a list using the SharePoint UI, I can use the "Customize Form" button on the "Customize List" ...
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How do I retrieve the “Title (linked to edit)” column from event list to display in my custom web part.
I am creating a visual web part to display the calendar events in the form of an events list with custom css. The web part will be on the home page of my site. Here is what I have right now and it is ...
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Can't change title field display name
I'm using visual studio to develop custom content type, which uses Element as base content type. I'd like to change title field's display name, by doing so:
<FieldRef ...
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How do you do version/source control in SharePoint?
How do you do version/source control in SharePoint Visual Studio projects (I'm using 2010)? Can it be connected to SVN, for example? I'm new to SharePoint.
