Monthly Archives: November 2012

Editing SPView objects

SharePoint Short #14 Making a change to a SPView object directly will not work: listObject.DefaultView.Title = "new title"; listObject.DefaultView.Update();listObject.DefaultView.Title = "new title"; listObject.DefaultView.Update(); What you should do is instantiate a new variable from the view you want to make changes … Continue reading

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Enhanced Lookup Field – Part 3

This is part three of the post on how to create a custom lookup field for SharePoint. Other pages in this post are: Part 1 – Creating a custom lookup field type Part 2 – Add field editor class Part … Continue reading

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Handling Long Operations

SharePoint Short #13 Got some code that may take a while to complete? Good idea to let the user know they may have to wait a while, so put your code within the SPLongOperation block, as shown below, and it’s … Continue reading

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