So many months of hard team work to make the better for the Pestana Websites using SharePoint 2010 environment.

I’m a member of the fantastic team that work in this project and I want to congratulate everyone (my colleagues, my company, the client stakeholders, the design company).

For more information about this award:

http://sharepointeurope.com/content/award-winners-2012.aspx

Pestana Websites:

http://www.pestana.com

http://www.pousadas.pt

http://www.pestanapriority.com

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You can follow this MSDN article that explains all that you need to implement Silverlight application library caching.

Basically, the Silverlight packages specifies assemblies as external parts of the application package (a zip file that contains the assembly dll). Then, it will download all of the required package parts specified on application manifest.

To do this, you just need to create a xml file named <assembly name without extension>.extmap.xml. It must have content similar like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<manifest xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 

          xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

  <assembly>

    <name>System.Json</name>

    <version>2.0.5.0</version>

    <publickeytoken>31bf3856ad364e35</publickeytoken>

    <relpath>System.Json.dll</relpath>

    <extension downloadUri="System.Json.zip" />

  </assembly>

</manifest>

File Elements Description:

• name – Assembly name
• version – Assembly version
• publickeytoken – Key token which you used to sign the assembly.
• relpath – Assembly file name.
• extension – Uri where it’s possible to download the assembly package.

Note: You cannot use the application library caching on out-of-browser applications.

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• Only use images with 92 dpi (the designers are habituated to use images with 72 dpi, and they should only use images with 92 dpi because Silverlight always use this resolution).
• To import the design mockup to Expression Blend, the designer should use the RGB as the color model.

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This article focuses to customize the ribbon positioning in SharePoint 2010 master pages, but it explains all that i needed to known.

Followed (and tested on my dev environment) by the article, you must to ensure that you have the following containers on your SharePoint master page:

• Ribbon container – Div which the control id is s4-ribbonrow. You need it to put the SharePoint ribbon.
• Body container – Div which the control id is s4-workspace and an inner div which the control id is s4-bodyContainer. You need it to put your page content.

I'd a webpart zone on my page content (inside the page layout), and the only problem was when I tried to change the webpart settings, because I didn’t saw the settings control (the SharePoint rendered the control outside the body container).

To fix that (I spent a lot of time debugging), you need to ensure that you’ve a div (which control id is MSO_ContentDiv) on you page content. It’s necessary, because when you want to change the webpart settings the SharePoint will render the settings control inside this div.

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The Taxonomy feature (Feature ID "73EF14B1-13A9-416b-A9B5-ECECA2B0604C") has not been activated.

Check this post.

Basically, you need to run the following command in the Command Prompt:

STSADM -o activatefeature -id 73EF14B1-13A9-416b-A9B5-ECECA2B0604C -url http://<server> –force

Don’t forget to change <server> to the name of your SharePoint server.

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This configuration setting ensures that your application will override important application level settings used when you developed your web application. It will ensure that the following configurations are done:

• debug is set to false
• page output tracing is disabled
• force customErrors to be shown to remote users (it will ensure that the end user only see friendly error messages)

If you want to activate this setting, you need to put the following configuration on the machine.config:

<configuration>

      <system.web>

            <deployment retail="true"/>

      </system.web>

</configuration>

Some references:

• deployment Element (ASP.NET Settings Schema)
• Top 10 Best Practices for Production ASP.NET Applications

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I downloaded the assemblies, then i added the assembly references on the project, and then i tried to compile the project. But the compiler found the following error message:

I found solution to fix this on the Rob’s blog.

To fix this you need to open the Properties for each assembly (via file system) and then click Unlock as you can see in the following screenshot:

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You just need to add the AcceptReturn property on your Text Box control as the following sample:

<TextBox x:Name="textBox1" AcceptsReturn="True"></TextBox>

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I used the following commando to view the current identity value:

DBCC CHECKIDENT ('TableName1', NORESEED)

and then, it returned the following message:

Checking identity information: current identity value '53', current column value '53'.
DBCC execution completed. If DBCC printed error messages, contact your system administrator.

Finally, after I've checked the current identity value, i needed to reset this value and I've used the following command:

DBCC CHECKIDENT (TableName1, RESEED, 0)

and then, it returned the following message: 

Checking identity information: current identity value '53', current column value '0'.
DBCC execution completed. If DBCC printed error messages, contact your system administrator.

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The syntax is very simple and quickly to understand. I will leave here some samples of how you can use REST to get data.

To access to your Excel file, you can use the following link:

http://<site>/_vti_bin/ExcelRest.aspx/<library>/<file>/Model

• <site> – SharePoint site (such as createit:8080)
• <library> – SharePoint document library that contains the excel file (such as Profits)
• <file> – The Excel file that you want to getting data (such as ProfitsV2.xlsx)

And then you will be able to get some different type of data as the following samples:

Used Excel file screenshot (to compare with data results using REST):

• Get workbook (ATOM format)

http://createbox/devplatform/_vti_bin/ExcelRest.aspx/Simulators/WorldMarkets.xlsx/Model

• Get a range (HTML format)

http://createbox/devplatform/_vti_bin/ExcelRest.aspx/Simulators/WorldMarkets.xlsx/Model/Ranges('WorldMarkets')

• Get a range (ATOM format)

http://createbox/devplatform/_vti_bin/ExcelRest.aspx/Simulators/WorldMarkets.xlsx/Model/Ranges('WorldMarkets')?$format=atom

• Get a graphic (Image format)

http://createbox/devplatform/_vti_bin/ExcelRest.aspx/Simulators/WorldMarkets.xlsx/Model/Charts('Chart%201')?$format=image

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