Category Archives: SharePoint

Register Code Behind InfoPath Form for Web Browsing

Posted on March 13, 2013 by Stu

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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Sharing WebPart and User Control Properties

Posted on February 8, 2013 by Stu

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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Working with Word and OpenXML

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Stu

When working with Word documents using the OpenXML SDK, it’s not obvious how to remove document protection. The following code shows you how: using (WordprocessingDocument wordDocument = WordprocessingDocument.Open("[path to Word document]", true)) { DocumentFormat.OpenXml.OpenXmlElement protectedDocElement = wordDocument.MainDocumentPart.DocumentSettingsPart.ChildElements.FirstOrDefault(el => el.XmlQualifiedName.Name.Equals("documentProtection")); if … Continue reading →

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Web Config Updates

Posted on January 8, 2013 by Stu

The SPWebConfigModification class for SharePoint provides an easy way of updating the web config for a web application. Sometimes, however, I’ve seen it used incorrectly. For example, it’s not advisable to try and write to the web config on Web … Continue reading →

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Enhanced Lookup Field – Part 4

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Stu

This is the fourth and final part of the post describing 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 … Continue reading →

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