Author Archives: Mike Polen

Developing a Webpart with a Dynamic UI

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Mike Polen

One of the problems I run into when writing web parts that display SharePoint data is when the UI is dependent on dynamic content. In the past I have generated the HTML on the server-side. This works but it not the best solution as C# is not the best language to code HTML in. Also separation of concerns  is an important principle to me and I want my UI separated from my server-side logic so that server changes are isolated from UI changes and vice versa. The the solution I came up with utilized several different technologies and has shown to be flexible and robust to changes.  
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Posted in .Net, Development, Development, JavaScript, JQuery, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010 | 2 Comments

My Site Unreachable by Some Users

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Mike Polen

I ran into a weird situation at a client the other day and it took some digging and guessing to resolve. The issue was that one user in the IS department could not reach the IS Director’s my site. Everyone else in IS (including me) could see it just fine and this user could visit all other my sites. When this one person went to the my site he was presented this wonderful error page:  
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Posted in Administration, SharePoint 2007 | Tagged | 1 Comment