Bhushan’s Tech Journal

nn nI was exploring the Lync APIs after installing LyncnSDK on my machine and as a curiosity tried to display the users communicator /nLync Image in custom control. n n n nTo get the following example working – you will neednto install the Lync SDK or add the references of Lync APIs to your project.nLync … Read more

nProblem:nnGenerally we initialize the client context straightnaway by creating new object of class ClientContext and by providing the url ofnthe site as well as needed credentials, but for sites using claims basednauthentication (let it be Office 365 site or On Premise site) this logic won’t,nso what’s the solution?n n n nSolution:n n nUser must be … Read more

nProblem:nn nWhile working with SharePoint Online – sometimes it isnrequired to take the backup of the site or to export the site to some othernenvironment, but due to no access to SharePoint server, we end up with writingnhuge code to migrate the site contents to another site using any client objectnmodel. n nIf server side … Read more

nAfter long research on this – came up with something like this , however there are lots of approaches already available on net which shows you to do the same using SharePoint designer or by creating new column.nThanks to improved SharePoint 2010 APIs which gives the SPField.ListItemMenu property , but one thing to note here … Read more

nFew days back , questioned was thrown at me like – hey dude , have you ever tried extending ribbon in outlook? and my answer at that point was ‘No’. then next question was – is it possible to have some buttons in the ribbon which will allow you to create new meeting request and … Read more

nThis one is just to share how can we get the values of custom properties in user profiles in SharePoint 2010. actually this was the outcome of a quick POC while answering on MSDN SharePoint forums. so thought to share as this may help someone.nnI have created a custom user profile property of type string … Read more

nThis is just to quickly share some views on how to create a custom site definition using Visual Studio 2011 Beta.nnThis is a great enhancement for someone like me who really remembered all XML tags which are in Onet.xml / Site Definition. Now you dont have to do this manually at all , just create … Read more

nNow here it comes ,  It’s 00:20 AM and I just installed VS 2011 beta version on my SP Virtual machine. I know that this is bit late to install this beta since MS has released it quite few days back , but I believe in better late than never so posting this just to … Read more

nn nWhile working with VSTO AddIn, there was a need tonget the source path of the document while it is being opened from a SharePointndocument library. n nAfter little efforts, managednto find the property like n n n nGlobals.ThisAddIn.Application.ActiveDocument.Path; n n n nBut this works only when you open an existingndocument from the library and … Read more

nn nWhile working with the Add – In, came across the scenarionwhere I needed to replace the text in word document programmatically, this isnhow it can be done n nFollowing code finds the word occurrence andnreplaces with the desired characters in first paragraph of the document. n nprivate voidnFindAndReplaceText(object _wordToFind, object _replaceWith) n n{ n … Read more