Querying SharePoint Search from PowerShell
FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 (FS4SP) is a really powerful, flexible and scalable enterprise search engine. However, when compared with the search landscape in SharePoint 2013, it feels like...
SharePoint 2010: Failed to register SharePoint Services on configuration wizard
When i try to run SharePoint configuration wizard after install SharePoint 2010 beta, the wizard application throw a timeout exception and the SharePoint configuration steps aren’t done. To...
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...
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),...
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...
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 ...
The Taxonomy feature has not been activated
If you’re trying to create a managed metadata site column type on SharePoint Server 2010 Beta and it’s returning the following error: The Taxonomy feature (Feature ID "73EF14B1-13A9-416b-A9B5-ECECA2B0604C")...
Service Pack 1 for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint Foundation 2010
Service Pack 1 for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint Foundation 2010 has been release, here is the list of links to download the SP1 and the language packs:SharePoint...
Browser File Handling avoiding Permissive mode
A change in behavior from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 is that only file types marked as "safe" are allowed to be opened in the browser or opened on...
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....