Sharepoint 2010 – Chris Coulson's Developer Notes

InfoQ FBA Pack Interview

Chris Coulson — Tue, 27 May 2014 16:50:23 +0000

I was recently interviewed about the FBA Pack by Jonathan Allen of InfoQ. The interview is here: http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/05/

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SharePoint 2013 FBA Pack Released

Chris Coulson — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:38:12 +0000

The SharePoint 2013 FBA Pack has been released. It was ported from the SharePoint 2010 FBA Pack (which was originally ported from the SharePoint 2007 CKS Forms Based Authentication Solution), and includes all of the features from the SharePoint 2010 FBA Pack: Go and grab it!

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Filter a SharePoint Calendar List With a Date Picker

Chris Coulson — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 21:40:41 +0000

I was trying to add a date picker to allow the filtering of a Calendar list in SharePoint. Unfortunately I had SharePoint Foundation, which is missing the Date Filter web part which only comes with the Enterprise edition of SharePoint. I found this article, which works great for filtering a specific date. My calendar items have a StartTime and EndTime though, and could take place over several days.

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Removing Null Characters (0x00) From Values in SQL Server

Chris Coulson — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:17:30 +0000

I recently came across a problem while crawling a BCS data source in SharePoint 2010. Most of the 130,000 records were getting indexed, but I was getting an error on 25 records: When I first took a look at the offending records in the database I couldn’t see any actual problems. The issue was that the null character in the data was being treated as a string terminator, so it was not being returned...

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Adding Breadcrumb Navigation to SharePoint 2010 Application Pages

Chris Coulson — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:50:20 +0000

The application pages in my SharePoint 2010 FBA Pack were not properly displaying the breadcrumb navigation. They didn’t include ‘Site Settings’ in the navigation – they went straight from Home to the application page. I used the following blog entry to add the breadcrumb navigation: http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2008/04/16/adding-breadcrumb-navigation-to-sharepoint-application-pages-the-easy...

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Bulk Delete SharePoint Site Users with PowerShell

Chris Coulson — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:00:20 +0000

Below is a PowerShell script for deleting a filtered list of users from a SharePoint site. Simply copy the script to a .ps1 file, adjust the $SITEURL to the url of the site and adjust the $USERNAMEFILTER to a lowercase string that is contained in all of the usernames you would like to delete. The script is based on a combination of the scripts from: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vijgang/archive/2009/04/

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Mixed Http and Https Content with SharePoint 2010

Chris Coulson — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:51:33 +0000

Have you ever wanted to have mixed https and http content in SharePoint? By that I mean a login page and user pages secured by https, while the rest of the content is delivered unsecured via http. Having the content either all http or all https is a breeze, but I wanted to be able to deliver both, and I ran into problem after problem. Here’s how it’s done, step by step: Note: This tutorial is...

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Mixed Anonymous and Secure Content with SharePoint 2010

Chris Coulson — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:51:08 +0000

In this tutorial i’m going to step you through how to set up a SharePoint 2010 publishing portal with both anonymous and secure content. 1. Create a new Web Application in Central Admin. Make sure that you select ‘Yes’ for Allow Anonymous. All other values can remain at the defaults. For this example I’m going to use FBA Claims based authentication. 2. Using central admin, create a site collection...

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Performance Profiling a SharePoint 2010 Project using EQATEC Profiler

Chris Coulson — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 05:11:44 +0000

I wanted to profile a SharePoint 2010 project i’d been working on, in order to find some of the slower methods so that they could be improved. I decided to give EQATEC Profiler a try since it had some good recommendations on StackOverflow and was FREE. EQATEC works by modifying and rebuilding your assemblies. Since I use Visual Studio 2010’s built in package and deployment features, it needs to be...

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Search Refinement Panel Web Part “Show More” Link Not Working

Chris Coulson — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 21:57:37 +0000

I recently discovered that the “Show More” link on the Search Refinement Panel web part had stopped working, seemingly out of the blue. With a bit of debugging I discovered that the functions defined in the onclick event: were returning “Object Expected”. For some reason the functions were no longer defined. I eventually figured out that the problem was that I had removed the Search Box web part...

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