SharePoint 2013 Certification

Below is the links to know about initial release for Certifications in SharePoint 2013: Exam 70-331: Core Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/Exam.aspx?ID=70-331 Exam 70-332:Advanced Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 http://...

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Web Part with Custom Tool Part in SharePoint

To know about Basics of Creating a Custom Web Part with Validations and Deploying it in the SharePoint, read this article. In this article, we will know how to create a custom web part in SharePoint with Custom Tool Part (Custom Properties).Before creating a custom web part with custom tool part,...

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How does Ribbon in SharePoint 2010 works?

A file called CMDUI.XML stays at the web front end which contains the Out-of-Box site wide Ribbon implementation i.e. all the Ribbon UI for the entire site. In addition to this you have a CustomAction for each ribbon component. These CustomActions have CommandUIExtentions block which has CommandUIDefinitions and CommandUIHandlers which make up the activity of the ribbon component. So, when...

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Consuming a web service using ASP .NET

To know about basics of web service read this article. To know about creating a web service using ASP .NET read this article. Background: In the previous article we have learned about creating a web service. Now in this article, we will learn how to consume a web service using asp .NET. Real Time...

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Creating Web Service using ASP .NET

To know about basics of web service read this article. 1.   Create an ASP .NET web service application using Microsoft Visual Studio. 2. Take a scenario that we have to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit and vice versa. 3.   Below is the code for our scenario: using System; using...

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Basics of Web Services

Introduction: In this article, we aim at learning the basics of web services and understand how does web service works. WebService: 1.   Web services are the easy way to create communications between different applications of different platform. 2.  Web Services extend these...

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Captcha using Java Script

Background: Now a days, all the web sites requires inputs (contact us, feedback, etc.) from the end users. But many sites face a problem of spam or unwanted or junk messages. To avoid this we have a java script code which will generate the random codes which should be entered by the users manually. This...

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Create Site Collection in Separate Content Database in SharePoint

Problem: When a “Site Collection” is created in a web application, then the proceeding Site Collections created in the same “Web Application” will use the Same Content DB. This creates problems in the following scenarios: 1. Size of the one Site Collection grows large then it will affect the...

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This item could not be crawled because the repository did not respond within the specified timeout period - SharePoint Search Error

Problem: Environment: WSS 3.0, Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 The Search server is crawling the contents properly and the search is working as expected. Suddenly, search crawling stopped and the error in the Search log is "This item could not be crawled because the repository did not respond within the specified timeout period. Try to crawl the repository at a later time, or increase the...

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Advantage of PowerShell over STSADM

In SharePoint 2010, new concept called Power Shell is introduced. The main adavantage of using Windows Power Shell over STSADM is follows: Windows PowerShell is built on the Microsoft .NET Framework and accepts and returns .NET Framework objects. Hence, can interact with .Net objects directly. Here we use commandlets (cmdlet) instead of commands. Commandlet is a instance of .Net objects We...

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Event ID 28721 in Source cannot be found

Problem:I have faced this problem when I tried to upload a document one of my document library in SharePoint. Neither the upload is successful nor no errors while uploading.Event Log:I was unable to view any errors with respect to the document upload in the event log. I could see only the following...

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Parser Error Data at the root level is invalid. Line 1, Position 1

I have got this error message suddenly in a (WSS 3.0) SharePoint site. The site is working as expected and it does not throw any errors before.The error screen shot is below: From the error message, I could understand that there is a problem with the browser comapatibility. Solution:I have navigated...

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The POP3 service could not create the mailbox – the account already exists

In Windows Server 2003, I have configured POP 3 service, created domains and mailboxes.I have created many users and associate mail boxes in the POP3 service and deleted for some reasons.When I try to create the same user I have got the error:The POP3 service could not create the mailbox - The account...

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Download Image from Right Click Disabled Website

In this article, we will know a small trick where we can download the images from the web page in which the right click is disabled in the web page.Usually, web masters will disable the right click on the web pages in order to protect the content in the web page.But sometimes, we need to download...

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SharePoint 2013

Everyone knows SharePoint 2013 server and SharePoint 2013 foundation has been released with many new features by Microsoft.   Here are the few links for the SharePoint 2013 for the start up:   Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 Preview SharePoint Foundation 2013 Preview SharePoint Designer 2013 Language Packs for SharePoint Server 2013 Preview  Let’s start using...

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Visual Studio Workflow in SharePoint

Part II To know about the Basics and Advantages of using Visual Studio Workflow read this article. In this article, we will how to Create a Simple Sequential Workflow Console Application. Steps: 1. Open Microsoft Visual Studio -> File -> New Project -> Select Visual C# -> SharePoint...

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Visual Studio Workflow in SharePoint

Part I To know about the Basics of Workflow in SharePoint, read this article. To know about the Creating a Designer Workflow, read this article. To know about the New Features added in SharePoint Designer 2010, read this article. In this we will learn about Basics of Visual Studio Workflows in SharePoint. Windows Workflow Foundation -WWF: Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is a Microsoft technology...

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Prevent Outlook from Sending Emails with a Blank Subject

Objective: In the IT Industry, Outlook is most popularly used as the Email client. The subject line is a very important part of any email. Many times has it happened to you that you have sent an email through Outlook without a subject line? After clicking the Send button, you realize that you have...

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