Web parts are ASP.NET controls that can be added to web part zones.
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Organizing WebParts in Visual Studio - Best Practices
My team is responsible for maintaining a SharePoint 2010 site that was developed by another group. This maintenance includes updates to existing web parts (approximately 20). Currently, all of these ...
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SharePoint 2010 Application Pages. vs. Web Parts
I have done many a search on this issue with mixed results and ensuing ambiguity. The time has come to nail it down for good. If I'm developing the equivalent of a complex ASP.NET application, and I ...
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Performance problem with custom web part
We've implemented a custom web part which we use to render content of an external website into a SharePoint page.
During our test we encountered some strange performance issues.
When we open a ...
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How do I find in which (sub)sites a WebPart/Feature is used?
I need to find out on which (sub)sites a certain webpart is used. In a data sharing environment with many subsites and pages, I want to check if and where certain (third party) webparts are used. Is ...
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Why does having `windows.onload` break page editing?
This is related to an earlier question that I posted:
Can't edit page after adding custom web part!
Basically, I have created a web part with some javascript. When I add this web part to a ...
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Replace the Default Page in a SharePoint WebSite
I have been asked to programmatically do the following in a SharePoint 2007 team site collection:
Create a website using the OOTB blank site template. (Please note, for project specific reasons, we ...
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How to save variables per user session per page
I am using three webparts. Webpart A creates a value when the user clicks on the button in Webpart A. WebPart B uses this value to create a list with items the user can select. WebPart C uses both ...
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Google Maps v3 on Web Part page
Has anybody been able to implement Google Maps v3 on a Web Part page (SharePoint 2010)?
The maps render fine if I display them in a separate .aspx page, but as soon as I try to embed the code in a ...
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How to localize webpart title, description, group, quickadd group in Sandbox solution
I've seen other similar questions (like this one), checked Microsoft documentation (like all the ones stemming from and related to the page Localization of Sandboxed Solutions in SharePoint 2010), ...
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Implement Interface in custom “Connected Web Part” to provide “Filter Values”
Question 1.1
What interface do I need to implement into my custom web part, to make it a provider for "filter values" for a normal XsltListViewWebPart?
Answer
- IWebPartParameters
"XSLT List ...
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Why would a site admin or designer use a Web Part Page instead of a new sub-site/sub-site collection?
I am a site owner, and up until now, I have always created sub-sites instead of using basic pages or Web Part pages. I would like to understand what advantages Web Part Pages have over just adding a ...
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How do I deploy the new version of a webpart?
As stated here (and as i checked), to upload a new version of an installed webpart, uninstalling the assembly from the GAC and installing the new version would suffice. I've tried it and it worked.
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Which Redirect method should I use?
I'm using SharePoint 2010. I have webparts, then when OK/Save/Cancel etc is clicked, it will redirect a user to the relevant page.
Over the past few months of writing different WebParts I have ...
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Why is my CAML query working in CAML Builder but not in the application?
I have a CAML query that queries a calendar list and I want it to return all the items in the list with an EventDate of today or later, ordered in ascending order. The CAML query I'm using is this:
...
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Is it possible to hide a webpart from webpart gallery programmatically?
Is it possible to hide it? I'm developing a webpart for a special page and it shouldn't be possible to place it somewhere else.
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When to use VS 2010 vs. SP Designer for development
When do we use Visual Studio 2010 for SharePoint 2010 web part development and when do we stick with Designer? Are there pros/cons? As a noob, it seems that for more robust, customized web parts, ...
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How to add list web part to the SharePoint page using Managed Client Object Model?
I am trying to add new web part to the SharePoint page using Managed Client Object Model that will display a list. I can't seem to be able to figure out the code of the web part's XML that is ...
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Can I get the source for the out-of-the-box web parts in SharePoint 2010?
I'd like to take an existing web part and add some functionality. Can this be done? I figured out how to download the dwp for the webpart but this does not appear to have any source code in it.
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WebPart where to store a connection string
I have a webpart that connects to an external DB. I need somewhere to store the connection string. It is possible for this data source to change but would always be the same for the site collection ...
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Where to load data in the lifecycle of custom webpart
I have a webpart where I access a sharepoint list and render contents of that list.
At the moment I'm fetching the data in CreateChildControls().
When a button is clicked the data will be fetched ...
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Problem installing web part using Powershell
We've developed a custom Visual Web Part using Visual Studio 2010 for Sharepoint 2010 Server.
The webpart gets deployed when executed from VS (F5), so we can add it wherever we want using Sharepoint ...
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Webparts on Application Pages (_layouts)
Is it possible to have web parts on application pages. In other words having a web parts page in the _layouts catalog? Have tried inheriting from webpartpage, no errors but nothing happens when ...
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Get and remove all currently displayed notifications from SP.UI.Notify
I am sending a variety of notifications via
SP.UI.Notify.addNotification("blah", true);
setting the "sticky bit" to true so that the notification stays visible. When I display a second ...
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Multicast playing of video inside SharePoint
If I use the Flow Player (http://flowplayer.org/) to play videos (which is stored on a network storage) using the Content Editor Web Part in SharePoint 2007, will the videos operate in a multicast way ...
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Exception on connecting webparts
I have a couple of webparts on a page, XsltListViewWebPart and SPSlicerTextWebPart instances. I need to programmatically connect the filter (slicer) to the xslt webpart. When I do so, I need a ...
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ASP.Net WebPart or SharePoint WebPart
This is an almost religious question; what are your preferred base classes for building WebParts in SharePoint? Are you using the ASP.NET WebPart (System.Web.dll) or the SharePoint WebPart ...
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How to validate Web Part property value?
A custom web part has custom web part properties. I would like to validate with custom server side code when user changes property value (or when properties are bing saved). Is that possible? Can I ...
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Weekly update from the boss
I am a site owner for a military unit (we are going heavily to SharePoint.) We have SharePoint 2007 installed, and have no flexibility to add more web parts. We also have limited ability to ...
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How to programmatically create a chart in SharePoint?
I need to create a chart based on items from a list dynamically in a webpart...
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Catch exception in web part, or let it bubble up?
I'm writing a web part for other sites to use in their SharePoint installation. In the logic of the web part I throw exceptions at certain failure points. I'm wondering whether it is a better ...
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SharePoint Admin and Developer Roles [closed]
Currently in our organization we have a three man SharePoint development team where we do everything other than SharePoint admin.
Our organization has development, test, and production servers.
We, ...
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Is there a list of Sharepoint 2007 WebParts, Features and ContentTypes that Sharepoint installs with?
Does anyone know where I can find a list of all the WebParts, Features and ContentTypes that are available to a regular Sharepoint installation?
What I need to do is identify any of the above in a ...
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Location of web parts in use
After running preupgrade check, I found a few instances of some web parts I'd like to further investigate. These are 3rd party web parts that I'd like to know where they are actually being used.
For ...
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How do I handle custom webpart property type update during re-deployment
I have a custom webpart that was defined with a property like
[Personalizable(PersonalizationScope.Shared), WebBrowsable(true), WebDisplayName("Chart Type"), Category("Chart - Required")]
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Adding ScriptLink for js file to my Visual Webpart causes error: “Cannot make a cache safe URL for…”
Full error:
Cannot make a cache safe URL for
"sprocketcomplete/layouts/sprocketcomplete/js/sprocketcomplete.js",
file not found. Please verify that the
file exists under the layouts
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How to remove web parts from an unghosted page layout
Background:
So I've apparently committed the cardinal sin in SharePoint. I edited a page layout in SharePoint Designer! This of course injected the special SPD meta attributes into the layout which ...
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Possible to security trim what web parts a user can put on a page?
Basically when you select Insert -> Web Part you get this menu:
Is it possible to determine what is available here based on a users role?
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Sandboxed web part failing with “No available sandboxed code execution server could be found”
I'm deploying a web part as a component of a sandboxed solution from Visual Studio 2010 to Windows 7 SharePoint Foundation Server 2010 on my development box, and I receive the following error when ...
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Is there a web part to display all subsites with description?
I am looking for a way (via web part?) to display all sub-sites of a site collection with output similar to output you see under "Sites & Workspaces" (under All Site Content)...
I know there is a ...
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Setting height to 100% in Page Viewer Webpart
I want to insert another web page inside a SP2010 page. With "Page Viewer Webpart", it only takes a small portion of the vertical space available on my SP page.
I had the same problem in SP2007, and ...
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Tool for Site Admins to manage their own Active Directory security groups?
We are deploying a new SharePoint 2010 environment. All access is controlled via Active Directory security groups (placed inside existing SharePoint groups). Due to this, we are looking for a tool ...
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Tooltip showing latest pictures inside a Picture Library for SharePoint 2007
Inside a SharePoint Document List, I keep a few folders - Folder A, Folder B, Folder C.
Each folder have some pictures inside them.
May I know if there are any web part that can help me display at ...
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Custom web part deployment produces 'Cannot import this webpart' error
I have built an empty SharePoint project in Visual Studio 2010 with some custom web parts in it. When I've tested these on my local development machine they can be added to a page without any trouble.
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Trying to use an SPWeb object that has been closed or disposed and is no longer valid.
I debugged this code and it never throws me an exception, however after ALL code is executed I got this message
Trying to use an SPWeb object that has been closed or disposed and is no longer valid.
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List of SharePoint 2010 Out-of-Box Web Parts
Can anyone provide me with a nice URL where it will show all the Out-of-Box web parts in SharePoint 2010 and what each one of them can do?
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What is the proper way to add jQuery to a MasterPage?
Currently I am using this method in the header:
<script src="/_layouts/MNCAssets/scripts/jquery-1.5.1.min.js"></script>
But for some reason, my webparts that use jQuery don't appear to ...
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How to programmatically add a webpart to a page?
I have created a webpart, now I need to add that webpart programmatically into the EditForm.aspx page. Can anyone help me on this.
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Moving a web part to a different zone on a page
How do I programmatically move a web part from one zone to another on a page? I have multiple sites that I want to loop through each site and update the page.
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Side-by-side web parts on a wiki page: possible?
I want to have two small web parts (weather and traffic reports) arranged side-by-side, rather than one on top of the other, on a wiki page (Home.aspx). It appears that I'll need a web part zone to do ...
