K. G. Sreeju Nair

In this article I am going to explain about the ASP.Net Wizard control and how you can use it in your application. When there are large forms, the wizard control is a useful tool that helps the end user to fill the form quiet easily. When you have large forms, it is a better approach to split the forms to various steps. In this article I am going to demonstrate how ASP.Net wizard control can be applied to multi-step form application. I am using ASP.Net 4.0 with Visual Studio 2010 for this demonstration.

Recently one of SharePoint WCM client has reported that they were not able to update the site. All the edit/new/upload menu items were missing from the site. It was fine till the week before and suddenly it happened. I thought of publishing the steps for troubleshooting the issue as it may help somebody facing similar issues.

(This article is based on ASP.Net 4.5 developer preview, when the version is released there may be changes applied.)

Microsoft has released developer previews for Visual Studio 2011 and .Net framework 4.5. There are lots of new features available in the developer preview. One of the most interested things for web developers is the support introduced for new HTML 5 form controls.

In this demonstration, I am going to create a list definition using Visual Studio 2010. For the demonstration purpose, I am going to create a list definition for storing expenses, once deployed, the list definition can be used to create lists to store expenses. The list definition will define a list template that inherit from custom list and add columns expensedate and amount.

Developers can extend SharePoint by creating new features. Using features developers can develop customizations and extensions that can be capable of automated deployment, management, un-installation and upgrading. SharePoint Feature allows developer to create a set of functionality to group into a component and allows administrators to add that functionality to the site/site collection. In addition to this, administrator can disable or uninstall the feature if they wish. With SharePoint 2010, it is possible to upgrade the feature to a new version. In this article I am going to demonstrate how to create a feature using SharePoint 2010.

Recently I came across with an assignment to upgrade MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010. MOSS 2007 was already installed but no documentation was available. I asked the system administrator and he had no clue as he just joined the company. I need to know the service pack installed in the MOSS 2007 farm and I thought of document this as it may help others.

Recently one of the project I was in a situation to build navigation for line of business data, the existing system available was fully designed as object oriented and it connects with some database other than SQL server. While thinking about showing navigation controls to the user, it was not a good idea to drill through objects as it takes lot of resources and more number of connections. So I decided to use a custom SiteMap provider that uses LOB objects to create navigation. In this article I am going to summarize the major steps I went through.