Category Archives: Shorts

Handling Long Operations

Posted on November 9, 2012 by Stu

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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Create a local term set

Posted on August 13, 2012 by Stu

SharePoint Short #12 Instead of creating term sets that are available farm wide, it’s also possible to create a term set that is only local to a particular site collection. Create a site column as normal, selecting Managed Metadata type … Continue reading →

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SP 2013 – SQL Native Client

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Stu

SharePoint Short #11 If you’re trying to install SharePoint 2013 and during the installation of the prerequisites it fails with the message “Error: The tool was unable to install Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Native Client” and the error … Continue reading →

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SharePoint Best Practices

Posted on July 18, 2012 by Stu

SharePoint Short #10 Excellent resource listing the best practices for SharePoint 2010: SharePoint 2010 Best Practices Details things from planning, deployment, development and lots more. Definitely worth bookmarking for future reference.

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Clear Designer Cache

Posted on July 18, 2012 by Stu

SharePoint Short #9 When using SharePoint Designer, especially in a development environment where content and assemblies can frequently change, SPD can start to behave erratically, sometimes loading content that has been removed from the web site, or using an older … Continue reading →

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