Bhushan’s Tech Journal

n nn nLastnweek I was working with localization in SharePoint and just wanted to sharensome thoughts. We all know that this can be Managed with the Resource files andnat run time we can read the values based on the culture (either UI culture ornyour site’s culture) and reosurce files are kept in the 14 hive … Read more

nHow to enable and disable SharePoint 2010 rating programmaticallynnIf you have referred the details in the previous post on Working with the SharePoint 2010 Rating – Part 1 for theoretical explanation on what happens in the background, now let’s do something interesting in Visual Studio.n nWhen you visit the list settings page and click on … Read more

n nRecently I was doing some R&D with the SharePoint Ratings and so thought to share my thoughts.n nAs we know that with the launch of SharePoint 2010 version, we got new social features like content tagging and content rating. For content ratings, we can rate the different contents in the list and libraries in … Read more

n nIf the user wants to hide the default properties of a web part or some sections in the default tool part of a web part. How to do this? Here are the approaches. n nI created a simple web part inheriting from SharePoint Web Part class So according to me, there can be two … Read more

n nA thought came in my mind yesterday while I was sitting idle and doing nothing (except browsing on InternetJ).. Thought was to get the list of URLs through .NET code which we save or mark using browser IE as favorites. n nWe all know that when we mark as any URL as favorite using … Read more

n nnToday I tried creating extending stsadm command line utility given by SharePoint platform and followed instructions specified on MSDN site, a very good article can be found here. n nSometimes we want to perform some tasks related to SharePoint sites , but somehow we end up with facing errors when done using UI , … Read more

n nThere are some times when we might want to check /restrict the height and width of Image before uploading to SharePoint Images Library n nto address this situation , I have tried creating a event receiver which checks the width and height of image which we are uploading from file system , and If … Read more

n nHere is simple console application, which adds /sets the Image for SharePoint Publishing Page n nWell, some basics before to dive in to the code, n nWhen you create any Publishing Page in SharePoint then by default it gets created from Publishing Page content type, and so by default it has some fields to … Read more

n nWhile working with SharePoint 2010 or SharePoint 2007, there are some scenarios when you want to take your content database of your web application to read only state. n nFor example when? n nThat’s a usual question one can ask , and answer is , when you / IT administrators are doing some migrations … Read more

n nHave you ever worked with SharePoint 2007 List Item Events? If yes then you would have probably noticed that when we attach any event receiver with list then it gets attached at the template level n nwhat I mean is suppose I have created an event receiver for say Calculations List which is basically … Read more