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Hopefully, you were able to impress the boss with my last post on the Chart Web Part . I explained how to use the BCS with the Chart Web Part to display great looking charts using external data. Another option is to use Excel Services. ...
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Last week, I showed you how to use the QueryManager class to query SharePoint Enterprise Search. In that post, I mentioned that we can actually use the QueryManger class to harness the true power of federated search and query multiple locations at once...
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One request I have seen a lot from people since MOSS 2007 is the desire to add a link to the subfolder of a document on the search results page. This is useful when the user wants to see what else is in that folder or if they want to perform other...
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Last week, I talked about the KeywordQuery class and how to use it in SharePoint 2010. I mentioned that a new way to query also existed using the QueryManager class. This class is extremely powerful and can allow us to issue federated queries...
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Spoke today at the SQL Saturday in Baton Rouge. Great event, very well organized. My session was almost stand room only. Code http://cid-361d40f9c10eefaa.office.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/SP2010ClientOMDemos.zip Slides http://cid-361d40f9c10eefaa...
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By now, I’m sure you know that there have been a ton of changes and improvements in SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search. The underlying architecture of Enterprise Search has been ripped out of the old SSP model and is now based on Service Applications...
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Two weeks ago, I posted about how to create scopes and scope rules using PowerShell . At the end of the post I mentioned that there was no rule type for creating scope rules by content type. I knew there had to be a way to do this, so I created...
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I’m excited to see that we’ve already got some community contribution to the SharePoint PowerShell Community Toolkit. Pete Cuttriss provided us with two new methods useful for working with scope display groups. I also have the source code...
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This weekend, I got inspired to create what I think could be a great new CodePlex community Project. Last week, I saw a post in the forums as well a comment on the blog asking if specific PowerShell commands existed in regards to Enterprise Search...
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I noticed this little issue after doing my last SharePoint 2010 upgrade. The client was a fan of the Tag Cloud Web Part on his My Site and wanted to bring that functionality onto one of his team sites. I figured this would be no problem, so...
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Last week at the Dallas Techfest I spoke about using TypeMock to Unit Test your SharePoint code. I wanted to follow that up with a few blog posts about mocking, SharePoint, and TypeMock. This first post will just be a quick intro on how to get setup....
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Code: http://cid-361d40f9c10eefaa.office.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/SharePointUnitTestingCode.zip Slides: http://cid-361d40f9c10eefaa.office.live.com/view.aspx/.Public/SharePointTesting.pptx
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I’ve been customizing rendering templates a lot lately using a wide variety of scripting technologies such as JavaScript, jQuery, and SPServices . One requirement I had with all of these rendering templates was to call a custom web service to populate...
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On a recent SharePoint 2010 migration I completed, this was one of the first questions I was asked. After seeing versions of SharePoint all these months, it never occurred to me that the dropdown list wasn’t there any more until someone pointed...
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Speaking tomorrow at 9am (July 29th) over unit testing SharePoint with TypeMock. I’m a little scared seeing that I’m the only SharePoint session for the entire day. :) Here is more info about the event: http://dallastechfest.com/Default.aspx