http://blog.vossers.com SharePoint & Code Wed, 12 May 2010 14:46:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Below you will find a code snippet to demonstrate a minimal implementation of a custom ASP.NET control that allows page designers to specify a template which will be used by the control to render itself, using the ITemplate interface. Markup: 1: <my:MyTemplateBasedControl runat="server" id="myTemplateBasedControl1"> 2: ... http://blog.vossers.com/index.php/2010/05/12/minimal-implementation-of-a-custom-templated-aspnet-control-using-the-itemplate-interface/ I have recently released my sixth CodePlex project (list of all my CodePlex projects), titled SharePoint WebPartSlices. To all the jQuery fans - Sorry, no jQuery this time! SharePoint WebPartSlices is a server-side solution that allows users to transform all Web Parts on a page into IE8 Web Slices simply by adding ... http://blog.vossers.com/index.php/2010/02/04/released-sharepoint-webpartslices/ What's that supposed to mean? That's what went through my head when I saw a new link which had appeared on the List Settings page (listedit.aspx) in SharePoint 2010. When I clicked the link, I was directed to a page where I could manage the available views per "location". The word "location" ... http://blog.vossers.com/index.php/2009/12/27/per-location-view-settings-in-sharepoint-2010-views-per-content-type/ If you are into developing SharePoint solutions using jQuery, you should really have a look at the following GREAT CodePlex projects. Both projects have been developed by real experts in the SharePoint & jQuery field :) jPoint - Developed by a team lead by Will Lawrence (@willhlaw) jPoint is an open source javascript API and script deployment framework for Sharepoint. It ... http://blog.vossers.com/index.php/2009/12/16/jquery-developer-frameworks-for-sharepoint/ As announced before, I have been working an open source project that visualizes the data in the Developer Dashboard in SharePoint 2010. The good news is that SharePoint Developer Dashboard Visualizer is now up on CodePlex. SharePoint 2010 Developer Dashboard Visualizer is a jQuery-based solution that extends the Developer Dashboard by plotting an interactive diagram ... http://blog.vossers.com/index.php/2009/12/13/released-sharepoint-2010-developer-dashboard-visualizer/ The problem I see with Business Connectivity Services is the lack of context available when writing your custom code to retrieve and update data. As a result, custom BCS implementations are not very reusable because the lack of configuration options per External List. Let's look at an example. ACME Ltd, an ISV ... http://blog.vossers.com/index.php/2009/12/13/context-in-sharepoint-2010-business-connectivity-services-or-the-lack-of-it/ When I first had a look at the Developer Dashboard in SharePoint 2010 I was a bit confused. The numbers shown in the nested unordered list on the left, representing load times in milliseconds, didn't seem to actually cover 100% of the the request that was being handled. Basically it turns out that ... http://blog.vossers.com/index.php/2009/11/27/how-to-interpret-the-information-in-the-developer-dashboard-in-sharepoint-2010/ Last week I published my fourth CodePlex project, called SharePoint LiveListData. It is an "assembly-free"  solution which means that it contains no server side code. It is implemented as a jQuery plugin. So what does it do? It uses AJAX to automatically reload any list-based Web Parts as soon as a ... http://blog.vossers.com/index.php/2009/11/03/released-sharepoint-livelistdata/ After having attended the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas last week, I decided to write a blog post in which I will summarise my thoughts on SPC09 and SharePoint 2010 from a Developer point of view. The majority of the sessions I attended were developer-oriented sessions.  There are so many new ... http://blog.vossers.com/index.php/2009/10/30/a-developers-thoughts-on-the-microsoft-sharepoint-conference-2009-in-las-vegas/ UPDATE: Although the instructions below still work, it appears that this method is a bit outdated since there is a much easier method out there!  VMWare Converter. Credits to Peter vd Berg, thanks! Disclaimer: playing with partitions is always a risky thing and can mess up your machine. I cannot be held responsible ... http://blog.vossers.com/index.php/2009/09/22/increasing-the-size-of-your-vm-disk-using-vmware-and-gparted/