Author Archives: Bernado

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About Bernado

Based in Australia, I am a freelance SharePoint and Dynamics CRM developer. I love developing innovative solutions that address business and everyday problems. Feel free to contact me if you think I can help you with your SharePoint or CRM implementation.

Data validation in publishing pages in SharePoint 2010

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Bernado

Like many things in SharePoint – this should be simple but turns out it is not. I had a requirement to ensure that a DateTime field (Next Review Date) on the page is equal to or greater than the current … Continue reading →

Posted in Page Layout, SharePoint 2010 | Leave a comment

Custom PortalSiteMapDataSource to display full site structure in left navigation in SharePoint

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Bernado

I had a requirement to ensure that all sites within the site collection would display the full site structure (up to the 1st level sub-site) on the left navigation. Given the site structure below for example: For any site underneath … Continue reading →

Posted in Branding, SharePoint 2010, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Gotcha when working with master pages and page layouts in SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Bernado

A common thing to do when editing master pages and page layouts in SharePoint is to edit them in SPD and then copy the source code to Visual Studio for check-in to source control. There is a gotcha here. When … Continue reading →

Posted in Branding, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Designer | Leave a comment

Woohoo! I’m now certified!

Posted on August 12, 2011 by Bernado

..in SharePoint 2010 Application Development :). Just passed the TS 70-573 exam. Next in sight is the MCPD in SharePoint 2010 app dev :).

Posted in Stuffs | 2 Comments

Making web requests to external sites from SharePoint

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Bernado

In most enterprise settings you will need to go through a proxy server to connect to external sites. In Windows the proxy settings in IE actually affects the apps on that machine. If you write a console app to test … Continue reading →

Posted in SharePoint | 2 Comments

IgnoreIfAlreadyExists attribute when provisioning files in SharePoint

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Bernado

The IgnoreIfAlreadyExists attribute of a File element when provisioning a file can be mysterious. Most of the posts on the net are saying that: When this attribute is set to FALSE, an error will be thrown if the file already … Continue reading →

Posted in SharePoint 2010 | 1 Comment

Should I call Dispose on SPWeb.ParentWeb?

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Bernado

I was coding away and wondered if I should call Dispose the parentWeb object below? I found some official guidance on this and thought I’d blog it here, partly to help jolt my memory later on. The short answer is: … Continue reading →

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Weird rendering behaviour in SharePoint with self-closing DIV tags

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Bernado

I was doing branding in SharePoint 2010 and noticed that SharePoint will render elements declared after a self-closing DIV as children of that DIV. So, if my master page has something like this: The page will be rendered as: Changing … Continue reading →

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Weird error deploying SharePoint workflow using Visual Studio

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Bernado

It was working all fine, until one day I started getting the error below when deploying the workflow using Visual Studio: Error occurred in deployment step ‘Activate Features’: Unable to locate the workflow’s association data. To restore the association data to … Continue reading →

Posted in Visual Studio 2010, Workflow | Leave a comment

‘WARNING: Template is not found and is not applied’ when using custom WebTemplate with PowerShell

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Bernado

WebTemplate is the new way of doing site definitions in SP2010 (see this for a good overview: http://sharepointchick.com/archive/0001/01/01/site-definitions-vs.-webtemplates.aspx). Where you need to refer to the custom WebTemplate, you’d use the ‘{FeatureID}#WebTemplateName’ syntax, e.g: {56C8E551-565B-482A-A038-CCC18A878607}#MyWebTemplate I however have found that this does … Continue reading →

Posted in PowerShell, SharePoint 2010, WebTemplate | 4 Comments