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FAST Search Tip #1: Enabling Stemming in PowerShell
Recently, I’ve been working with FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 and, although it’s a great search platform with pretty impressive features, I believe there are still too many manual installation and configurations steps, and too many of those features Read More...
SharePoint Tip #27: Choice Columns and DataSheet Views
Using features to create Choice site columns is pretty straightforward (check this post for additional information). See below a sample feature element for that purpose. < Field     ID = " {538c71e4-8650-4ce7-b021-920effa66346} Read More...
SharePoint Tip #26: Comments in Content Type Definition
There is an issue with SharePoint 2010’s CAML parser that causes SharePoint to ignore fields in a Content Type definition. When defining a Content Type feature element, avoid placing comments inside the <fieldrefs> element as that will cause SharePoint Read More...
Free Webinar: LINQ to SharePoint
The European SharePoint Conference organization committee has been setting up a series of free SharePoint-related webinars in preparation for the conference. I’ll be presenting one of these webinars, next Tuesday, June 14th 2011 , at 12PM CET , Read More...
Business Connectivity Services
A few weeks ago I had an article of mine published on PROGRAMAR magazine, issue number 28, a Portuguese developer-focused magazine. Here is the translated version of the article. SharePoint 2010 is a complex platform with an impressive set of out-of-the-box Read More...
European SharePoint Conference 2011
I’m pleased to announce I have been chosen as a speaker in the European SharePoint Conference 2011 , which will take place in Berlin, 17th – 20th October 2011. I’ll be delivering 3 sessions, two on Wednesday and one on Thursday, as described Read More...
SharePoint PT: 10th Meeting
If you’re into SharePoint and you happen to be in Lisbon next Saturday, April 16th , then you may be interested in the 10th Meeting of the Portuguese SharePoint Community (SPUG PT). The meeting is free and it will take place between 9.30AM and 1.00PM Read More...
Flushing the BLOB cache in SharePoint 2010
If you’re developing a SharePoint-based public Internet portal, you’re probably using the BLOB (Binary Large Object) cache . This caching mechanism stores a copy of the binary files (images, documents and such) in the file system of each front-end web Read More...
Adding an Assembly to Safe Controls in SharePoint Tools for Visual Studio 2010
Using SharePoint Tools for Visual Studio 2010 allows you to build SharePoint solution packages very easily. When you create a SharePoint project, Visual Studio allows you to specify if the assembly for that project should be included in the package and, Read More...
Renaming a Feature in SharePoint Tools for Visual Studio 2010
If you’ve created SharePoint projects using SharePoint Tools for Visual Studio 2010 , you probably know that, when you create a SharePoint Feature and generate the SharePoint package (WSP file), the final name given to that feature is not what you expected. Read More...
Optimizing a VM for SharePoint 2010
Creating an optimized SharePoint development environment was not an easy task with Sharepoint 2007, but it’s even harder with the new SharePoint 2010. The new version has a lot more features but, because of that, it’s also much more resource demanding, Read More...
Portuguese SharePoint User Group and Microsoft Events
I’m proud to be a member of the new Portuguese SharePoint User Group (SPUG PT) and I’ll be cross-posting and translating all my future posts to the User Group’s blog ( http://www.sharepointpt.org ) which will also feature posts from other community members. Read More...
SPC’09: My Site and Social – Architecture & Planning
Disclaimer: This post is based on notes taken while watching a conference session. For that reason, it may contain incorrect information or data that I might have misunderstood. Also, the product it refers to was not available yet at the time of the writing, Read More...
SPC’09: Introduction to Excel and Excel Services 2010: the Top 10 New Features You Must Know
Disclaimer: This post is based on notes taken while watching a conference session. For that reason, it may contain incorrect information or data that I might have misunderstood. Also, the product it refers to was not available yet at the time of the writing, Read More...
SPC’09: Building Solutions with Business Connectivity Services using Visual Studio 2010
Disclaimer: This post is based on notes taken while watching a conference session. For that reason, it may contain incorrect information or data that I might have misunderstood. Also, the product it refers to was not available yet at the time of the writing, Read More...
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