On WCF Performance

Posted on May 15, 2012 by David Romig, Sr.

Most introductory WCF materials show you how to mark complex data types as serializable. But there are few materials that show how to optimize communication of complex WCF data structures. In this post, I’ll review a couple of issues related to efficiently communicating complex types in WCF.  
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My Site Custom Quota Template Not Applying

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Adam Preston

A SharePoint 2010 Quick Tip: The My Site web app is hardcoded to only use the “Personal Site” quota template. So, if you try to create a custom template and apply that – think again. The template will not be applied and thus newly created My Sites will have unlimited storage.  
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Sitecore Quick Tips – Device Fallback

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Rick Matherly

I needed a print version of a page that was different enough to make using CSS print styles impractical, so I decided to use the Print device in Sitecore. I setup the Print device to detect the query string “p=1″, then setup the layout for the Print device.  
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Preventing Cross-Site Links in Sitecore

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Rick Matherly

I have multiple sites setup in one Sitecore instance; and host names are used in the web.config “sites” section to manage this:

<site name=”site1″ hostName=”www.site1.com” rootPath=”/sitecore/content/site1″ … >
<site name=”site2″ hostName=”www.site2.com” rootPath=”/sitecore/content/site2″ … >  
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Reset Customized List Forms from InfoPath back to Default

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Adam Preston

If you have a SharePoint 2010 List Form that you have customized using InfoPath and for whatever reason need to revert back to the default forms, then follow this simple process below:  
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Enable Office Web Apps across Site Collections using PowerShell

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Adam Preston

So you have installed and configured the amazing Office Web Apps for SharePoint 2010. You are now at the step of activating it for your users. Perform this quick tip to use PowerShell to activate the feature across all of your site collections within a given web application.  
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Overloading vs. Optional Parameters

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Rick Matherly

I recently needed to add a new parameter to an existing method, and I didn’t want to update or break any existing code.  Normally, I just make an overloaded method, but this time I decided to use a relatively new feature in C#, optional parameters.  In my case, this turned out to be a mistake.  
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Creating a Database Backup and Restoring it in Code

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Tom Becker

When running regression tests many times you have to rely on very specific bits of data to be present in your database for the correct results to come out reliably.  This can typically be handled by a few simple inserts and deletes to massage the data that you need.  Other times there is just too much data to handle in that way.  So you need to just start from scratch and re-create your database.  
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Hey Virginia! Have You Heard About SHARE: The SharePoint Conference for Business Users?

Posted on March 26, 2012 by bjs

If you are in the SharePoint community and follow me at all (@sharepointmom), you know that I am VERY passionate about our SharePoint community.  Not just our local community but the global SharePoint community.  The main thing missing since I started my journey has been end user resources!  To think that an entire conference could be dedicated to business end users would have been a laughing matter a couple of years ago.  Thankfully, the business is being heard!  SHARE to the rescue!  
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Microsoft Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell Review

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Adam Preston

Recently Microsoft released the Microsoft Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell. Being that I dabble in PowerShell for SharePoint, this certainly got my interest. After what was a very quick installation, I launched the Script Explorer and was presented with a nice clean interface:  
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