Bhushan’s Tech Journal

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

nn nThis was the one of good learning while workingnwith MS Office Add-In using visual studio so thought to share. n nEach document ships with some kind of metadatanwith it, and to them we call as properties. For word documents there are threentypes of properties available (As per my knowledge). And here are those n … Read more

nn nI don’t know why but suddenly I started facingnthis error while I was trying to create new document or edit existing documentnin the SharePoint document library. was using Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010. n nError Message was: – Error while accessing officendocument cache. n nSolution: n nA quick search on the dear friend google … Read more

nn napp.config file is not getting read afterninstalling word add in installer? n nSolution: n nIn Installer project there is a registry key fornadd in which has manifest entry. MSDNnDocumentation says that manifest values should benset to – [TARGETDIR]YourAddIn.vsto|vstolocal , now when this is changed to filenpath like file:/// [TARGETDIR]YourAddIn.vsto|vstolocal andnreinstalling add in I got … Read more

nn nusing SP = Microsoft.SharePoint.Client;nnnn n using (SP.ClientContext _ctx = new SP.ClientContext(“http://YourSiteUrl”)) n n{ n n  SP.ListItem _listItem = null; n n n n nctx.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials; n n  n n  SP.List _testList = web.Lists.GetByTitle(“TestList”); n n  SP.CamlQuery _query = newnSP.CamlQuery(); n   query.ViewXml = @”<View><Query><Where><Geq><FieldRef Name=’ID’/>” + “<Value Type=’Number’>10</Value></Geq></Where></Query></View>”; n n  SP.ListItemCollection _listitems =n_configList.GetItems(_query); n … Read more

nDocument Information Panel – This is the windownwhich shows all the properties associated with the document. Let it be out ofnthe box / default properties (like Title, Keywords), or custom properties orncontent type properties. nn nWait, what are content typenproperties? nConsider a scenario where you have a SharePointnsite and a document library. You create some … Read more