Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft.
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Office developer tools for Visual studio 2012
I have installed
Windows 7 32 bit OS
Visual studio 2012 ultimate
I also have office365 preview(sharepoint online) I need to develop an app for office365. But I have downloaded the tools from ...
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How to do workflow for the following situation
Workflow has to start automatically when an item is created in the SharePoint list. After that it has to copy the record and add five times into the same list. Problem that I faced it executing ...
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Help understand ContentType/List upgrade
Everywhere i read on the web it says that Content Types and List once deployed through Xml files they cannot be updated anymore.
I have created a VS 2010 solution, created a SharePoint List ...
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How to add an aspx page to sharepoint 2007 with visual studio 2008
Probably a question with an obvious answer, but I'm lost.
How do you add a custom aspx page (with code behind) to a project in visual studio 2008 for sharepoint 2007.
I've created the project using ...
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Which SharePoint web service would I use to upload an image from <input type=“file”… />?
The copy service seems to want to take an item from one source url to another. I looked in the list service but nothing jumped out at me as an option. Can someone point me in the right direction?
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Sharepoint Project automatically retracts Visual studio
I have a Sharepoint project with a workflow and every time I try run it, as it deploys the solution it automatically retracts. This retraction happens 1 second after the deploy.
Below is the build ...
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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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How can i create app package for SharePoint 2013 App Catalog by using MSBuild?
I know that I can create an app package in VisualStudio 2012 RC simply by right clicking on App Project and then clicking "Publish". But how I can do the same with MSBuild?
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Build with SP Designer 2007, package with VStudio 2008
This is for a MOSS 2007 portal. I need to add a web part page to a WSS site. I would like to brand the page using SharePoint Designer 2007, but not save to site directly since that results in ...
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WSPbuilder is not including feature.xml during wsp build - MOSS 2007 and VS 2008
I am trying to deploy one existing Custom Project to MOSS 2007. I am able to compile using Visual Studio 2008 and using WSPBuilder am able to build as wsp. But my WSP is only containing my project.dll ...
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Error occurred in deployment step 'Activate Features' - When feature stapling to My Sites
I am trying to deploy a feature to My Sites in SharePoint 2010 and nothing seems to be working. I did this perfectly fine on the test environment but can't seem to get it working on the production ...
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Change Add new Item Text
I've developed a ListTemplate via ListDefinition in SP 2010 using Visual Studio. Nearly everything works fine, but the Link at the bottom of my ListInstance is missing the Text "Add new Item". Is ...
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What is the best way to create a splash page in SP 2010 that contains just a picture and a list of languages
Do I need to create a new master page? what should be included in this master page regarding that I don't what a menu, footer, logo, and nothing but my picture and a list of languages and flags. I'm ...
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unable to update the list item in nested if-else condition in Visual Studio State Machine Workflow
I am working on State Machine Workflow using Visual Studio 2010 Workflow.
I want to update the list item on item changed. But unable to update the item. I am updating the item in nested If-Else ...
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How to create List Definition based on Wiki Page Library in Visual Studio 2010
While creating Wiki Page Library from the browser (Site Actions->More Options->Wiki Page Library) is easy, doing it form Visual Studio not so much.
When I create new ListDefinition in VS2010 I use ...
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Developing from Windows 7 box [closed]
I have Visual Studio on my desktop (Windows 7 Enterprise). What is the bare minimum I need to install in order to make sure I can reference SharePoint objects?
Following is my justification.
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SharePoint Development Licensing
I have 2 SharePoint Development licensing questions that I am currently having a hard time believing as I currently understand them.
SharePoint Developers must purchase a Visual Studio Premier with ...
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can't deploy from VS2010 to Sharepoint 2010
I have run VS 2010 as an administrator
The user, which is running VS2010, have db_owner rights to the config, content, and central admin DBs of SP2010.
In my hostfile i have
127.0.0.1 ...
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Deploying web part from Visual Studio?
I exported a Core Search Results Web Part and created a new Visual Web Part in a Visual Studio project. I have added some code to the .cs page and the code for my exported webpart to the .webpart file ...
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Elements.xml Id substitution
I have a site column defined in an Elements.xml file in Visual Studio. The SharePoint project this is in does all sorts of initial configuration on the website. I need to set the UserSelectionScope to ...
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Compiling code against the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 sandbox assembly
Some Background
I am working on a large project that is going to be deployed to SharePoint Online (i.e. Office 365), so all of my SharePoint projects have to be created as sandbox solutions.
As part ...
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Web Part Resources e.g. Images and Scripts [duplicate]
What is the best practice for including resources such as Images / Stylesheets / Scripts in a custom visual web part (built with Visual Studio)?
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Add Button without Visual Studio?
Is it possible to add a button to the standard ribbon to SharePoint 2010 without Visual Studio 2010?
I'm trying to follow this tutorial:
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Custom XSLT for taxonomy field in xsltlistviewwepbart for SharePoint 2010
I'm trying to modify the out-of-the-box rendering of the xslt list view webpart to collapse the terms, and show (..more) if there are more than 1 term in the field.
I already did this for an "Authors" ...
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Visual Studio 2010 opens “Create New Site” page in browser when I run “Start Debugging” instead of the site I am trying to debug
I am an Office 365 user and fairly new to Sharepoint. I am trying to write a sandboxed solution for SharePoint online. To do this, I have setup a local developer environment and am currently trying ...
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I'm trying to understand how Visual Studio, SharePoint Designer and Foundation work together
I'm working in a user area and am limited to Sharepoint development on the client side only. This means that all custom forms and their associated scripts will live in site libraries instead of on the ...
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sharepoint custom workflow by visual studio
i wanted to know if it possible to create a workflow in visual studio for a form library to make approval for forms by manager and if it possible how ,and if it possible to make a certain code inside ...
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Deploy solution using powershell
I have a solution with 4 projects to automatically some processes in Sharepoint.these projects are:
WebPartProject: Create a custom webpart
CreateTemplate: Create 2 documents libraries (with ...
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Restart an errored workflow programmatically
I am trying to figure out the best way to restart an errored out workflow.
A little background:
We get seemingly random error-outs (error and stack below) in a visual studio created workflow when ...
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Use Secure Store Credentials to connect to database with Windows Authentication in Visual Studio solution?
Background: I have an external content type that has been developed in a Visual Studio 2010 solution. This content type is based mostly off elements in a database that are accessed via stored ...
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Including Mapped Layout Folders from other Projects for Packaging
Overview
We have a solution that has grown to encompass many projects over time. We are setting up a package that will deploy everything in the solution, to reduce the effort for new people to set ...
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Custom Ribbon Button on Custom List (created in VS)
I've created a custom document library which is defined through a Visual Studio solution. I also have ribbon customizations which add buttons. My problem is that these buttons do not display on the ...
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How to use updateAllTasks in a custom workflow
I am making a custom workflow in Visual Studio. I want to use the updateAllTasks workflow item to update all the tasks. I am trying the following in the invoke method.
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SharePoint 2010 Dev Machine Deploy to Stage Machine
Machine 1: Virtual Development box with Visual Studio 2010, SharePoint 2010 Foundations, Designer 2010.
Machine 2: SharePoint 2010 Enterprise (Staging Environment)
Question: Does Machine 2 need to ...
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Can't debug/deploy solution from VS 2010
I have encountered strange problem on my dev VM.
Background:
Having my VM open (VM Player), I put host computer into sleep mode, then I woke it and put into sleep mode for second time. After waking ...
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Keeping all workflow versions under the same association column
I've followed the blog post http://www.howtosp.com/blog/2012/01/03/running-two-versions-of-workflow-in-sharepoint/ and with some addtioknal refactoring managed to save my workflow and in the tests ...
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Hide custom list definition?
I have a custom list definition, created in visual studio. We no longer want users to create lists from it. We have existing lists created from it, therefore deactivating the solution is not an ...
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create custom sharepoint new form in visual studio
I am creating a custom list inside a feature receiver. I would like to create a custom New Form for my list.
So, the list is not created via List definition.
Can anyone guide me how to create the ...
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error activate feature list template/instance in site definition
i've created a SiteDefiniton project and a Sharepoint ListDefinition project. In the SiteDefinition I created a listinstance of my template, but in deployment the activation of the ListInstanceFeture ...
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Manually Workflow printing items from list
I have a problem with list item and printing them. I must create workflow or jscript printing this item using template. Steps that I need to do:
Select item/items on list
Run workflow or jscript ...
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Create External Content Type with Linq query
I have the following issue. I created BDC Model in VS 2010 to which i added Linq to SQL model(that has two tables in it). No I'm wondering can i create entity (class) that is represented in sharepoint ...
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Including a WorkFlow in a WSP
I am creating a feature that I want to install a couple of workflows when activated and bind them to a list. Is there a way you can use SPD and then export your workflow to include them in your visaul ...
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Same custom column name in 2 different solutions, 2 different ID guids, yet I get a “Duplicate field 'x' was found” error
So I have two completely different solutions, I'll call them solutionA.wsp and solutionB.wsp and they are being deployed to the same site
Both of them contain a site column definition for a column ...
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Adding CSS file to a master page - illegal characters in path?
I'm making a custom master page with a custom CSS file, being deployed in a feature form VS2010. I'm using the CssRegistation control to add the new CSS, but whenever I try to load a page that uses ...
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How to add web application (project from Visual Basic 2010) to Sharepoint Foundation
I would like to ask, how I can add web application (this is Visual Basic project) to my site collection in Sharepoit Foundation? Can I do this without create web part? If no or yes please tell me how ...
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Get the activation properties of a workflow from a page external to the workflow
I'm trying to get the activation properties you bind on the activity OnWorkflowActivated in an aspx page which doesn't belong to the workflow.
It looks like I'm able to get to the workflow this way
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Silverlight Application Development : Custom UI Form Development Beginner Question
So I am new to SP Dev, and completely new to the idea of developing Silverlight applications, and the use of Expression. But I am trying to understand how Expression gets used with Visual Studio in ...
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Create reports from SharePoint lists
We currently have SharePoint 2010 Standard with SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, and Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate for development. As I understand it, to be able to create reports from SharePoint lists I ...
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Non-global fields for custom content types?
I've been tasked with creating a fairly complex system in sharepoint 2010. Coming from a background of from-scratch .NET applications, I'm used to defining tables with their own "local" columns.
My ...
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Custom Visual Web Part editable CSS
I am making a custom visual web part in Visual Studio 2010 and I am trying to add a editable CSS style sheet to it. What I mean is I want to make a property that the user can access through the edit ...
