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Firefox Friday #2 – SharePoint & Firefox
Firefox does have issues when being used with SharePoint, let’s ID the known issues and workarounds: Feature Limitation Connect to Outlook, Connect to Office, and Sync to SharePoint Workspace Works with an ActiveX control, but requires a Firefox control adaptor. Microsoft Office 2010 does not provide a Firefox control adaptor for this control. The feature […]
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Firefox Friday #1 – Useful Plugins for SharePoint Development
As SharePoint developers we are bound to IE but often fallback to other browsers for various reasons such as performance, HTML standards compliance, or in my case with Firefox – the plugins available. The official Technet on what is and is not supported on various browsers (Chrome is notably not even in there): http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263526.aspx. […]
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Firefox Friday #3 – SharePoint Login Prompts on Firefox
If you are using Firefox as your default browser, then either you get an IE tab add-on to view SharePoint sites in Firefox, or type your user name and password each time when you access to the SharePoint server. There is a way thought to allow you to save your typed Windows credentials in Firefox […]
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TFS Power Tools for Visual Studio
The Team Foundation Server Power Tools for Visual Studio is a free add-on for VS 2010. If you are planning on or are currently working with TFS 2010, this is a must-have: Tool Description Alerts Explorer A plug-in to Visual Studio, Alerts Explorer provides a graphical user interface that supports flexible subscription of alerts based […]
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SharePoint 2010 Get Current Username / Logged in User
Have been exploring the SharePoint Client Object Model and in particular the Javascript Object Model While there are methods to get the current user info, you can also simply borrow the logged in username from the top right of the screen: This technique is a little complex for my liking however, so here’s a snappier […]
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MSDN Quick Links
The MSDN Library homepage has a newish “beta” quick links section which is a great index for navigating in an easier way than the somewhat dense tree nav: MSDN Library Welcome to the MSDN Library, an essential source of information for developers using Microsoft® tools, products, technologies and services. The MSDN Library includes how-to and […]
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The specified file is not a valid spreadsheet or contains no data to import
Trying to import an Excel file in as SharePoint 2010 List resulted in the error: The specified file is not a valid spreadsheet or contains no data to import Double-checked the spreadsheet for formula errors, consistency etc. everything looked good but still no importo. The solution is to go to Internet Explorer > Internet Options […]
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Optimize images for web directly inside Visual Studio 2010
Probably in the 90s sometime, you achieved insider web design knowledge learning that you should not really be referencing a 4MB image file as little content image in a web page. Friends, family and associates we’re amazed as you made their Geocities pages suddenly 10X faster by replacing the image bloat. These days, the people […]
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Recover from broken pages in SharePoint 2010
I’ve used various mod’s of this trick for different CMS’s over the years, here’s the one for SharePoint 2010 (thanks itgroove Sean!). So you’ve applied a new master page or page layout, tinkered with something you didn’t think was going to break in the UI, and now you’re left with a mangled wreck of a site […]