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Hide SharePoint Ribbon Items

To hide a menu item from the SharePoint ribbon add a custom action to a module in your Visual Studio SharePoint project: <CustomAction Id="CustomIdentifier.Ribbon.Documents.New.NewFolder.Hide" Location="CommandUI.Ribbon" RegistrationType="ContentType" RegistrationId="0x"> <CommandUIExtension> <CommandUIDefinitions> <CommandUIDefinition Location="Ribbon.Documents.New.NewFolder"> </CommandUIDefinition> </CommandUIDefinitions> </CommandUIExtension> </CustomAction><CustomAction Id="CustomIdentifier.Ribbon.Documents.New.NewFolder.Hide" Location="CommandUI.Ribbon" RegistrationType="ContentType" RegistrationId="0x"> <CommandUIExtension> … Continue reading

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Register Code Behind InfoPath Form for Web Browsing

This post describes how to deploy a web browser compatible InfoPath form, with code-behind, through a SharePoint feature. Installing and registering an InfoPath form, along with a custom content type is pretty straight forward once you know the required steps. … Continue reading

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InfoPath Object Reference not set Error

After designing an InfoPath form and as you try to upload and register the form to SharePoint, through the Central Administration site for example, you may see the following error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object … Continue reading

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Sharing WebPart and User Control Properties

When creating a Visual WebPart, sometimes you want the main functionality to be contained within the user control and not the WebPart, so that, for example, you can use the WebPart on multiple pages, one where the WebPart is hosted … Continue reading

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