Monthly Archives: September 2011

Congratulations! You’re the SharePoint Admin! Now what?

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Adam Preston

As a SharePoint consultant, I’m tasked to go into companies and implement SharePoint – either the company is expanding its role with SharePoint and upgrading it, or kicking the SharePoint tires for the first time. More often than not, there is a person within the organization before or, unfortunately, during the project who is the lucky recipient of the inevitable finger pointing, followed by an announcement of, “congrats, this is now yours to own!” The blank stare, wide eyes, and sweat beading off the face quickly begins shortly thereafter.  
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Windows 8 & Internet Explorer 10 accessing SharePoint 2010

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Adam Preston

Internet Explorer 10 is chrome-less when launched from the new Metro-style UI in Windows 8.

You can enter the site URL at the bottom. Notice the areas for quick access to Frequent and Pinned sites:  
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Change the Welcome Page / Homepage in SharePoint 2010 Programmatically

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Adam Preston

When exporting and importing sites throughout SharePoint 2010 that are upgraded sites from SharePoint 2007, you probably noticed that the homepage for the imported site is defaulted to SharePoint 2010′s wiki-style page at /SitePages/Home.aspx. However, until you start using these new pages you may want to revert or keep the homepage as the default.aspx page. To do this manually, you need to go to Site Actions > Site Settings > Look and Feel > Welcome Page. However, this Welcome Page link is only available for those sites where the Publishing feature is activated at the Site Collection and Site level.  
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Sitecore Include Files – Part 2

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Rick Matherly

In an earlier blog post, I discussed using Sitecore include config files and gave some real world examples.  This post will highlight more features of include files and provide additional examples.  
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Upgrade InfoPath 2007 to 2010

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Jim Brocato

Converting InfoPath 2007 Form into InfoPath 2010

  1. Locate the manifest.xsf file in the Visual Studio 2008 InfoPath 2007 template project source code under the “InfoPath Form Template” directory.
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Using the DataContractSerializer

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Jim Brocato

    All of us that have used WCF have encountered the default serializer, DataContractSerializer. All we have to do is decorate the types that we want our services to consume or expose with the DataContract/DataMember attributes and the DataContractSerializer will handle serializing our .Net types to XML and deserializing from XML to our .Net Types. What I want to cover in the post is how this serialization/deserialization is actually done and the ways we can influence the serialization process.
  
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