Intellisense not working in a master page in sharepoint visual studio solution

http://johanleino.wordpress.com/2010/10/27/sp2010-intellisense-not-working-with-master-pages-in-vs2010/

Code Access security

In visual studio
http://blog.mastykarz.nl/code-access-security-policy-template-visual-studio-2010-sharepoint-developer-tools/

In web.config file
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/navdeepm/archive/2009/09/19/code-access-security-in-sharepoint.aspx

Using C#
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.security.permissionset(v=vs.110).aspx

Config tool
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xbk2s3fa(v=vs.90).aspx

Create Public Key Blob for an Assembly

http://www.ashokraja.me/post/Create-Public-Key-Blob-for-an-Assembly.aspx

Metadata navigation is not supported for content type column

http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/sharepoint-server-help/configure-metadata-navigation-for-a-list-or-library-HA101820113.aspx

Search index has issues with Draft item security setting in a document library

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6572157/sharepoint-search-not-indexing-contents-of-document-libraries

Indexing list columns is necessary for large lists

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sowmyancs/archive/2013/07/31/sharepoint-list-throttling-amp-indexed-columns.aspx

Some very useful powershell commands

http://blog.falchionconsulting.com/

Mobile carousel image viewer

I have used the html script from below blog for mobile carousel control, this is a great control, thanks to Matteo Spinelli who has done a great job providing such a useful control in as little code as possible. It users css styles for image transitions which is very efficient in browser.

HOW TO

https://github.com/cubiq/cardview/blob/master/demos/simple/index.html

DEMO

http://lab.cubiq.org/cardview/demos/simple/

It was requirement of the project to use this control for horizontal swapping, which unfortunately seems to be having few issues, therefore I have modified the cardview.js file to work a little smoother in horizontal swapping mode. The complete code can be found here.

SharePoint 2010 uncustomize a page layout

 To uncustomize a page layout or master page,

1) Using C#: http://dirkvandenberghe.com/2009/03/24/how-to-ghost-back-page-layouts.html

http://jamestsai.net/Blog/post/SPFileCustomizedPageStatus-amp3b-SPFileRevertContentStream-The-way-to-check-SPFile-GhostUn-Ghost-status-and-Revert-to-site-definition-via-code.aspx

2) Using powershell script: http://admin-sharepoint.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/unghosting-customized-page-layouts-with.html

3) Using SharePoint Designer: http://mosshowto.blogspot.co.uk/2008/10/re-ghost-master-pages-sharepoint.html

4) Using stsadm: http://blog.ithinksharepoint.com/2011/05/10/issue-with-updating-sharepoint-publishing-page-layouts-and-ghosting/

5) Using site settings, though this works for a normal site page, I am not sure if will works for a page layout or a master page: http://rolandoldengarm.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/page-layouts-in-master-page-gallery-not-updated-after-a-deployment/  

6) Free utility: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/514279/Ghostplusun-ghostedplusSharePointplus2010plusfiles

To disable customization
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/steve_fox/archive/2010/03/08/ghosting-unghosting-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx

other references:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=sharepoint+2010+customize+page+layout&oq=sharepoint+2010+uncustomize+p&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.20326j0j8&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8#es_sm=93&espv=210&q=sharepoint+2010+unghost+page+layout&start=10

SharePoint 2010 page layouts versioning

A page layout deployed through visual studio feature automatically updates the underlying page layout file everytime a new deployment is done, however

1. This change is not reflected in version history, thus there is no way to figure out by just looking at the master pages gallery when was the page layout modified last time. The only way this can be verified is by opening the feature folder under 14 hive and making a note of the last modified date for the page layout file.
2. The page layout does allow us to manually upload a new version, but EnableSessionState attribute is not allowed in manually uploaded page
3. If a custom class derived from a PublishingLayoutPage class is used as base class for the page layout then manually uploaded page layout requires it to be registered as a safe control, even though the same template deployed through a feature does not.

Accessible mega menu

http://adobe-accessibility.github.io/Accessible-Mega-Menu/

Find GPS location of client browser

http://blog.walisystemsinc.com/2012/02/html5-geolocation-and-sharepoint-2010_20.html

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/31965/Learn-How-to-Find-GPS-Location-on-Any-SmartPhone-a

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/8128/Writing-Your-Own-GPS-Applications-Part-I
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/9115/Writing-Your-Own-GPS-Applications-Part-2
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/28528/Writing-GIS-and-Mapping-Software-for-NET


http://gps2.codeplex.com/
http://gps3.codeplex.com/
http://geoframework1.codeplex.com/
http://geoframework.codeplex.com/
http://dotspatial.codeplex.com/

http://www.paulund.co.uk/how-to-use-geolocation-api-with-google-maps
http://viralpatel.net/blogs/html5-geolocation-api-tutorial-example/

http://www.geoplugin.com/examples

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/409999/getting-the-location-from-an-ip-address
http://krister.fi/jquery.geolocator/
http://www.9lessons.info/2011/06/geo-location-with-html5-and-jquery.html
https://github.com/manuelbieh/jQuery-Geolocation

http://tympanus.net/codrops/2012/10/11/real-time-geolocation-service-with-node-js/

For old browsers below posts have some useful hints:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/hh580735.aspx
https://github.com/estebanav/javascript-mobile-desktop-geolocation

Sharepoint reusable content in custom user control

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jjameson/archive/2011/04/14/reusable-content-in-sharepoint-publishing-html-fields-part-3.aspx

Microsoft Certifications

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/uk_faculty_connection/archive/2013/02/15/get-free-certification-exam-for-70-480-programming-in-html5-with-javascript-and-css3.aspx

http://wakeupandcode.com/study-guides-for-mcsd-70-480-programming-html5-jscss3/ 

Google analytics

Set up tracking code
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1008080?hl=en

Measure the number of transactions and revenue using Ecommerse tracking

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/ecommerce3



Walkthroughs
http://econsultancy.com/uk/blog/8479-10-great-google-analytics-walkthroughs

Documentation Driven Development

http://www.slideshare.net/coordt/documentation-driven-development

Change powershell prompt to display timestamp

http://www.vistax64.com/powershell/29802-prompt-timestamp-ps-2007-01-01-23-00-01-c-windows.html

SharePoint Browser File Handling

Browser file handling in sharepoint prevents the web browser from diplaying a html file directly and instead shows a download prompt ... more information can be found here:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/8073.sharepoint-2010-and-2013-browser-file-handling-deep-dive.aspx

Scaling div size with background image whilst keeping aspect ratio

The easiest way is to use below style for the div

<div class="divImage" style='<%# "background: url(\"" + DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "divImage") + "\") no-repeat center center; background-size: cover;" %>'></div>

A more detailed approach is listed in this post

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15883157/is-it-possible-to-make-a-responsive-div-with-a-background-image-that-maintains-t

Responsive and desktop versions

http://www.foraker.com/choosing-between-responsive-web-design-and-a-separate-mobile-site-to-improve-mobile-visitors%E2%80%99-experience/

http://css-tricks.com/user-opt-out-responsive-design/

Upgrade browser warning javascript

http://blog.avtex.com/2012/07/17/custom-sharepoint-browser-warning/
http://www.browser-update.org/ 

Sharepoint 2013 Custom Image reditions

While going through this article I found a link to and article on custom image renditions in SharePoint 2013, its certainly useful.

http://blog.mastykarz.nl/responsive-image-renditions-sharepoint-2013/

Windows process explorer

This comes in handy if we need to find out a dlls is being used by which processes. I had to use it when I got an error "cannot access assembly because it is being used by another process" while uninstalling a dll from GAC.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/356913a7-dda7-41a7-8702-f71ec0a8b7db/cannot-add-assembly-to-gac?forum=sharepointdevelopmentlegacy

The reason for  "cannot access assembly because it is being used by another process" error was that I has added a reference to this dll in a Visual Studio 2012 project and the project was open. The issue was resolved after I close all instances of visual studio

SharePoint assign unique master page to a page layout

http://blog.pixelmill.com/821/sharepoint-2010-assign-a-unique-masterpage-to-a-page-layout-in-a-publishing-portal/

Mobile image viewer

HOW TO

https://github.com/cubiq/cardview/blob/master/demos/simple/index.html

 

DEMO

http://lab.cubiq.org/cardview/demos/simple/

SharePoint custom summary links field with rich HTML

http://blog.zebsadiq.com/post/How-to-allow-rich-text-editing-on-summary-link-description-field.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa981226%28v=office.12%29.aspx
http://webarj.wordpress.com/2007/05/07/templating-field-controls-in-moss-page-layouts/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb861799%28v=office.14%29.aspx

While following steps in the above post I was unable to add using directive for System.Windows.Controls namespace found in PresentationFramework.dll, after searching a little on internet I realized that the dll reference can not be added since I was trying to use 32 bit dll version found in Program Files (x86) directory. Instead when I added dll reference to Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\v3.0\PresentationFramework.dll, the namespace was available.

The sharepoint software factory also has precipices to add custom fields although not one for custom summary links field
http://spsf.codeplex.com/

after installing it I was getting an error "The package SPAM.SPSF could not be activated, the template cannot be unfolded", the reason was I did not activate the SPSF extention as explained here
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff697223.aspx

Field Definitions
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa979575.aspx

Finally I used below steps to create a simple field which only saves URL to a custom list
http://bernado-nguyen-hoan.com/2011/11/07/walkthrough-custom-field-type-for-uploading-and-displaying-images-in-sharepoint-2010-lists/

And then added that lists default view webpart to the "View Rendering Template" and "Diplay Rendering Template". The steps to create a list view webpart programmatically are explained in below post,

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1588019/programmatically-insert-a-list-as-a-webpart-in-a-webpart-page-in-wss-3-0


However I did not use any webpart zone in my control and simply added the webpart to the base.TemplateContainer.Controls collection.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ms543215(v=office.14).aspx

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10313188/simple-url-picker

Maharastrian Receipies

www.madhurasrecipe.com/http://www.youtube.com/user/madhura94?feature=watch

Restrict inserting webpart in SP 2010

http://blog.mastykarz.nl/disable-inserting-web-parts-sharepoint-2010-rich-text-editor/

Deleting orphaned content type

If deleting an orphaned content type gives the error "SPException: The content type "XYZ" is part of an application feature.", we need to change "IsFromFeature" flag in content database for the particular content type from "1" to "0" as explained in these posts:

http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/11114/how-to-delete-a-content-type-part-of-an-application-feature

http://apichot.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/how-to-delete-orphan-content-type.html?_sm_au_=iVVW6SjD4nF5Jrt6

and then  delete the content type either manually or using code as explained here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms453791.aspx

If you get an error "Content Type is still in use<nativehr>0x800710d3</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack>" follow below instructions
http://www.mysharepointadventures.com/2011/06/content-type-is-still-in-use-woes/

There are some times broken link as explained in below post, but this method is too risky to try and not supported by microsoft. I have just mentioned it here for a reference, but I would not recommend it.
http://mqsharepoint.blogspot.co.uk/2009/01/content-type-is-still-in-use.html?_sm_au_=iVVtTJsssQkjV8tM 

The page allows a limit of 11 direct dependencies, and that limit has been exceeded.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/1002e7e0-69b8-4ce4-a3be-1ea52eda543d/user-controls-in-master-page-a-limit-has-been-reached

SharePoint Error: The security validation for this page is invalid

http://blogs.technet.com/b/meamcs/archive/2011/04/04/troubleshooting-sharepoint-error-the-security-validation-for-this-page-is-invalid.aspx
http://www.sharepoint-tips.com/2007/09/security-validation-for-this-page-is.html

Duplicate fields (columns) in custom content types in sharepoint 2010

http://www.scolts.com/Blog/Post/4/Removing-Duplicated-Field-Links-from-Content-Types

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/677e0174-d823-4d51-bd3a-208d37083e43/identical-duplicate-fields-in-content-type

Jquery date dropdown for mobiles

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6132083/jquery-mobile-3-dropdown-datepicker

HTML characters

http://brucejohnson.ca/SpecialCharacters.html
http://ikreator.com/special-characters/ 

SharePoint 2010 get object type from URL

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sanjaynarang/archive/2009/04/07/find-sharepoint-object-type-from-url.aspx

fix for sharepoint 2010 scrollbar not displayed issue

http://blog.creative-sharepoint.com/2012/02/sharepoint-2010-2-simple-steps-to-fixing-scrollbar-issue-in-google-chrome/

http://kyleschaeffer.com/sharepoint/sharepoint-2010-scrolling/

Add  !important to every style in the second post

Solutions file schema

http://blogit.create.pt/blogs/andrevala/archive/2008/02/17/SharePoint-2007-Deployment_3A00_-Creating-Solutions.aspx
http://geekswithblogs.net/SoYouKnow/archive/2010/02/16/rebuilding-a-.wsp-file-in-4-easy-steps.aspx 

Install sharepiont on windows 7

http://www.aartechnologies.co.uk/aar-technologies-web/share-point-2013/

save site as template

/_layouts/savetmpl.aspx

Media management

http://weblogs.asp.net/spano/archive/2012/01/12/media-processing-component-for-sharepoint.aspx

Lightweight picture library slideshow control

http://blog.vgrem.com/tag/picture-library-slideshow-web-part/
http://caroufredsel.dev7studios.com/

Get thumbnail url
http://sharepointcore.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/sharepoint-picturelibrary-thumbnail-url.html?_sm_au_=iVVSqPZ0s4FTNrLH 

Custom breadcrumb control

http://www.sharepointblues.com/2010/02/08/a-single-breadcrumb-for-all-sharepoint-pages/

Templated site map path control
http://blog.mastykarz.nl/building-breadcrumbs-sharepoint-2010/ 

Channels in SP 2013

http://sp2013.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/channels-in-sharepoint-2013.html

Remove tables from webpart zones

http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/32193/how-can-i-remove-the-tables-rendered-around-the-webparts-in-the-rich-content-are
http://blog.mastykarz.nl/removing-web-parts-tables-sharepoint-2010/
http://customspwebpartzone.codeplex.com/
http://jphandson.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/sharepoint-2010-step-by-step-how-to.html?_sm_au_=iVVq05PVr98q5k5R

http://www.lifeinsharepoint.co.uk/2012/04/29/igoogle-ui-sharepoint-2010-part-four-control-adapters/
http://www.lifeinsharepoint.co.uk/tag/control-adapters/

compat.browser schema
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms228122(v=VS.80).aspx

Measure performance using SPMonitoredScope

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff512758%28v=office.14%29.aspx
http://zimmergren.net/technical/sp-2010-developing-for-performance-part-2-spmonitoredscope
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8276723/sharepoint-2010-spmonitoredscope-performance-implication
http://www.wictorwilen.se/sharepoint-2013-what%E2%80%99s-new-with-the-spmonitoredscope
http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2009/10/28/using-the-developer-dashboard-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx
http://www.rightpoint.com/community/blogs/viewpoint/archive/2011/10/03/using-the-sharepoint-developer-dashboard-and-spmonitoredscope.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2009/10/28/using-the-developer-dashboard-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx

Downlaod Jquery

http://jqueryui.com/download/#!
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4112017/are-there-a-minified-compressed-versions-of-the-jquery-ui-css-themes-on-googles

CSS Best practises

CSS font-size and height width, etc.
http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/css2em.htm


Get em width using javascript
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12241251/is-it-possible-to-get-the-width-of-the-window-in-em-units-using-javascript

Wrap button text (This was really nice)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/862010/how-to-wrap-text-of-html-button-with-fixed-width

SharePoint get names of all lists in a site

At first I thought portalsitemapprovider is a good option for this, but after searching a bit I realized that's not the case.

Using client object model
http://softarchitect.wordpress.com/2011/08/30/sofware-architecture-sharepoint-2010-getting-name-of-all-the-lists-in-a-site-via-client-side-object-model/

Using server side object model
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/44fef3c8-ea07-41e9-a1d9-a27111fcb48b/spsitedataquery-spquery-navigationprovider-portalsitemapprovider-what-do-i-use

CAML Query builder

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16420835/u2u-caml-query-builder-no-longer-available

Since U2U free version is not available anymore, use the below tool
http://karinebosch.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/caml-designer/



SharePoint property & Object model explorer
http://stefan-stanev-sharepoint-blog.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/sharepoint-2010-explorer-using-client.html?_sm_au_=iVVpDQsPQ7qJjrJN
http://spm.codeplex.com/

This codeplex utility can generate C# code as well

http://spcamlqueryhelper.codeplex.com/

Search contents in a sharepoint site

There are several ways to fetch data from sharepoint 2010. Below are few of the most standard ones, however it is worth mentioning that the list does not include client object model or web services which are equally important aspects.

These methods can be used for:

1. Execute search queries
2. Get enumeration of list items, documents, lists, pages, etc.
3. Get navigation structure either with hidden objects included or without them
4. Iterate through all contents in SharePoint 2010 site

Overview
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/638734/Basics-of-Sharepoint-Search

Using search API
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/18202.using-the-keywordquery-class-to-search-sharepoint-content.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms544561%28office.12%29.aspx
http://www.dotnetmafia.com/blogs/dotnettipoftheday/archive/2008/02/19/how-to-use-the-moss-enterprise-search-keywordquery-class.aspx

Using site data query
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spsitedataquery.webs.aspx
http://www.pointsharepoint.com/2008/08/spsitedataquery-crosslistqueryinfo.html
        --- from a single list
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/f54cdcd1-d2a3-470e-a939-835934e801c4/using-spsitedataquery-to-pull-items-form-specific-lists

Using CrossListQueryCache
http://donahoo-development.com/index.php/2010/04/16/crosslistqueryinfo-and-crosslistquerycache/
 http://bloggingabout.net/blogs/bas/archive/2009/03/27/using-the-crosslistqueryinfo-and-crosslistquerycache.aspx
http://sharepoint.nailhead.net/2008/04/musing-on-crosslistquerycache-class.html
http://donahoo-development.com/index.php/2010/04/16/crosslistqueryinfo-and-crosslistquerycache/

Using ContentByQueryWebPart and CrossListQueryInfo and CrossListQueryCach
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.publishing.crosslistquerycache.aspx

SharePoint query classes
http://purunep.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/sharepoint-query-classes-and-where-to-use-them/
http://extreme-sharepoint.com/2012/07/17/data-access-via-caml-queries/

SharePoint 2013
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/office/Query-Search-with-the-372139b5

SPChangeQuery
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spchangequery.aspx

SharePoint web part life cycle

http://sharepointdeveloper.info/webpart-life-cycle/

Visual studio webpart property code snippet

http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/18935/easy-way-to-add-a-custom-web-part-property-to-a-web-part
http://www.myfriedmind.com/2009/05/sharepoint-2007-properties-snippet/

Add a webpart property
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms415817%28v=office.14%29.aspx
https://www.nothingbutsharepoint.com/sites/devwiki/articles/pages/how-to-create-sharepoint-2010-custom-visual-webpart-properties.aspx 

Create content types in VS

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg295290%28v=office.14%29.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff648024.aspx
http://leedale.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/creating-an-enhanced-rich-text-field-in-your-sharepoint-content-types/
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2172714/deploying-content-type-with-publishing-html-field-by-feature-saving-content-not
http://sharepoint-ss.blogspot.co.uk/?_sm_au_=iVVWSNbsjQF5kPbs
http://harishnagalapur.wordpress.com/

Add-in to create page layout from custom content type
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/990bd0c8-a55b-4643-a35d-88136594c3d9/

referenced here
 http://rburgundy.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/sharepoint-2010-create-page-layout-based-on-a-custom-content-type-in-visual-studio-2010/

First four characters of the field name must be alphabets
http://www.dannyhansen.nl/sharepoint/sharepoint-2010/first-character-sharepoint-2010-internal-field-name-replaced-with-its-hexadecimal-code

Creating content types programetically
http://sharepointdragons.com/2012/04/10/content-type-galore/

Script to change multiline textbox mode
http://chweber.wordpress.com/tag/sharepoint-2010/

SharePoint OOTB field types
http://sharpointpractice.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/sharepoint-field-types-elementsxml.html?_sm_au_=iVVpRKFRLF7qMSnQ

Fieldref element in the content type
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa543225.aspx

Jquery Image animations

http://www.designrazzi.com/2013/free-image-hover-effects/

Carousel
https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=cr#bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&fp=bc2618353d976e60&q=jquery+carousel+
http://sorgalla.com/projects/jcarousel/ 

Apply CSS only to IE

To apply css file only for IE use this tag

<%-- Added a version number to force refresh --%>

<!--[if lt IE 9]>

        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="/_layouts/Myfeature/css/MyIEStyles.css?v=5" />

<![endif]-->