SharePoint 2010 dialogs are JavaScript pop-up dialogs consisting of an iframe to request the other pages in the SharePoint. These pages can be publishing pages or application pages.When you call a pop-up dialog in SharePoint 2010, the content is displayed by using the system master page. The dialog functionality in SharePoint exposed by SP.UI.Dialog and SP.UI.ModalDialog classes.The dialog code...
Activating and Deactivating Feature programmatically in SharePoint
Sometimes, You may need to activate/deactivate Feature programmatically in SharePoint. Feature should have the scope of the web, site or web application or Farm.You can get the Feature by accessing Feature properties of Site or web. Write the following code to retrieve the activated features available in Web application/Site/Web level. var webApplicationFeatures = webapplication.Features var...
Using Property bag in SharePoint 2010
What is Property bag? Property bag is basically a hash table of key-value pair options. Property bag feature is available in Windows SharePoint services 3.0. It allows you to add properties to objects in SharePoint site. Property bag helps you to store meta data as key-value pairs example Connection Strings, file paths, server names and other settings in SharePoint application. Advantages of...
Windows Azure support to SharePoint 2013
Last week Microsoft announced general availability of Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS) support for Windows Azure. You can signup here to see what is new in this release? Key Enhancements are made in General Availability like creating a new virtual machine and virtual networks in Windows Azure. This post outlines the steps to create a new SharePoint 2013 virtual machine and setting up a...
Creating SharePoint App using Office Developer Tools
Office Developer tools for Visual Studio 2012 allows you to develop Apps for office and SharePoint 2013. The tools can be downloaded from here. This post outlines the steps to create the SharePoint ContactListApp using Visual Studio 2012. Create a new Project in Visual Studio 2012 and select App for SharePoint 2013 template. once you click ok it then asks you to give the name for App and...
Social Features in SharePoint 2013 Part2
A Big boost for social features in SharePoint 2013 which were an extension for the features introduced in SharePoint 2010. In SharePoint 2013 Collaborating and exchanging information options have been improved a lot, Features like Micro Blogging, Community sites and sharing introduced in SharePoint 2013. The out of the box SharePoint 2013 social features can be read here and this post outlines...
Setting up PowerShell ISE in SharePoint
PowerShell ISE is really cool and it is basically like mini Visual Studio IDE. It is an integrated graphical scripting environment that helps with the PowerShell. Using this tool you can build your scripts and debug line by line by putting break points. It is very powerful tool included in the operating system. You have turn this feature on as shown below If you open the ISE first time...
Creating Custom Tiles in SharePoint 2013
The default sitepage in SharePoint 2013 site contains Tiles but if you want to create custom tile in your site page then follow the steps described in this post. The default SharePoint 2013 site tiles looks as below You can remove the above tile using remove this link and create your own tiles, To create your own tile you need to use a new list template called “Promoted Linksâ€. This list...
Setting SharePoint Master Page using Power Shell
You can use Master Page under look and feel section in SharePoint site settings for changing the Master Page for your site.
You can also use power shell script to achieve the same
$web = Get-SPWeb
$web.CustomMasterUrl = "/_catalogs/masterpage/v15.master"
$web.MasterUrl = "/_catalogs/masterpage/V15.master"
$web.Update()
SharePoint Social Data using Java Script
This post shows the code to call the default like button functionality in SharePoint 2010 and also shows you how to show the number of likes for given URL using Jquery and SPServices. Call the below javascript function in sharepoint socialdata.js file for liking an item. Below code can be used on an image click to replicate the SharePoint 2010 like 1: function AddCompanyQuickTag(URL, T) 2: { 3:...