(Navdeep Madan) If you have create a custom web part ListviewByQuery API, you will not be able to get the ECB menu.

(Boris Scholl, Eric Carter and Peter Jausovec) Visual Studio 2010 provides the templates and tools you need to develop complete SharePoint solutions. In this chapter you will create your first SharePoint solution and we will introduce you to some of the projects, project item templates, and tools th

(momalek) I have been trying to develop a new custom SharePoint site definition on SharePoint 2007 that would put a discussion list view web part on the home page of the created site.

(Scott Jamison) SharePoint 2010 has quickly become the standard for managing content within an enterprise. Microsoft breaks SharePoint into six key feature areas as follows:

(Mike Walsh) For those of you without access to SharePoint Foundation 2010 (or SharePoint Server 2010) systems to work through this book, this hour shows how to install SharePoint Foundation 2010 (SPF 2010).

(Corey Roth) One request I have seen a lot from people since MOSS 2007 is the desire to add a link to the subfolder of a document on the search results page. This is useful when the user wants to see what else is in that folder or if they want to perform other operations on that document (such as […]

(Chun Liu) The default login page of FBA in SharePoint 2010 is very simple. It only provides a Login control with the user name, password and remember me option. We usually have to create a custom login page to accommodate other security requirements, for example, adding a verification/secure code o

The SharePoint disk based cache for BLOBs (Binary Large OBjects) maintains a folder and file hierarchy on a local drive of the Web Front End servers. This hierarchy is mirrored in an in-memory index, that is persisted to disk each time the SharePoint Application Domain is shut down. Modifying or del

(ramrk) This can be categorized into 3 steps: –Permission –User profile import –Audience setup

(Andrew Connell) The new support for LINQ in SharePoint 2010 makes it much easier to read and write data to/from SharePoint lists. The way it works is that you run a utility SPMETAL.EXE to generate the entity model that is used as the context for the queries. Quite helpful but it only includes the f