Bhushan’s Tech Journal

n nSharePoint logs are quite important in many scenarios when we don’t find what’s wrong in Event Viewer n n n n n nI was working with SharePoint 2010 environment and saw this, in 14 hive Logs, all logs were of size 0KB n n n nSo to solve this, n n n nI checked … Read more

n nWhile working with SharePoint sites, we can change the regional settings of the site by using user interface and that’s easy to be done n nYou can do it like n nClick on Site Actions > Site Settings > Click on Regional Settings link under Site Administration n nand this is the small code … Read more

n nWhile working with SharePoint Publishing sites we usually come across using Variations, and sometimes we want to work with them programmatically n nas Variations are the outcome of SharePoint Publishing Infrastructure , so of course we need to use SharePoint Publishing APIs .. Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing n none can use simple single line of code to … Read more

n nWhenever we think of querying something in SharePoint site and showing results to users, then some intial thoughts pop ups in our mind like using Content Query web part. n nno doubt that Out-of-the-box CQWP works pretty fine and does great content wrap up, but there are certain scenarios when we need to think … Read more

n nHave you ever come across such error?  I faced.. and solved n nThis error is basically related to the module element and usually comes when you try to provision a file to the SharePoint site which never exists on physical path / file system of the server n nHere is the example case: n … Read more

n n n nIf you have gone through part 1 of this series then you will understand how Microsoft has implemented their variation landing page and logic n nWe had a requirement to implement custom variation landing page, I used word custom because we didn’t want user to get redirected using browser’s culture, instead we … Read more

n nWhen we talk about SharePoint Variation, we usually get thought of making sites multilingual. Yes that’s correct. n nI will not be describing all in depth of Variations like how Variations can be set up and about installing language packs, there are many well articles which describes this in details n nWhat I am … Read more

n nWhile working with publishing sites, I came across the point where I wanted to change the welcome page of the site n nwell the first thing which comes to our mind is to use server object model and make use of Publishing APIs and yes that’s correct , now second thought we generally plan … Read more

n nI was working with SharePoint 2010 Modal dialogs for first time and was showing my custom application page in modal dialog n nMy application page was using custom master page and there were some buttons on my custom application page which were causing post back and doing some changes in user profile (basically accessing … Read more

n nn nn nLet’s have a look at how we can create custom list by using our own List Definition n nThere is <ListTemplate> element using which we can easily create our own list definition.          Andrew Connel has explained this very well in this post n nBut this is something different approach I wanted to … Read more