In Part 2 of this article, we discussed how to deploy Web part . In this article we will se how to add controls in web part. 1. Create a new web part project (refer part1) 2. Override the method CreateChildControls 3. Buid your project and pakage it. So that you can deploy in your site and use it. [...]
Read more →In Part 1 of this article, we discussed how to create a simple Web part and how to bind it as WSP package. In this article we will see how to deploy the packaged so that you can use it in any of your sites. Copy the WSP to your SharePoint server Open command prompt and [...]
Read more →Customising a sharepoint site is really a challenging job and there may be situations in which you might need to create a new theme. The simplest way is to create the new theme by taking a copy of the existng them. SharePoint theme folder has mainly 3 elements theme.inf, theme.css and images. Create a copy [...]
Read more →In this article we will see how we can develop a webpart which will display the latest posts from different blogs. This was easily achievable using a Content Query WebPart but there are few issues. one of them was the non availability of options like choosing blogs. Only option available was to create a new [...]
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Read more →We can copy our user controls to the layouts or control templates folder manually. But moving user controls from development to production manually is very risky or not recommended. Here is how you can deploy these changes programmatically. 1. Create a web part project or wsp builder project and create a folder. 2. Add all [...]
Read more →Recently, there was an interesting question in stackoverflow I am doing a survey in SharePoint, using the built in survey tool. I want to add a comment box next to my “ratings” questions. e.g. Q1. Do you like fish? Not at all They’re alright I love fish! Comment: How can I do this all within [...]
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