May 6, 2012

Creating FAVICON for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007

In this article, we have learned how to Changing the FavIcon in SharePoint 2010. But there is no favIcon for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 by default. Then how to create favicon for the lower versions of the SharePoint. Here is the solution. Steps: 1. Open the SharePoint site (WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007) in SharePoint designer 2007 2. Edit the master page 3. Add the below tag before end of the HEAD tag in the...

May 5, 2012

SharePoint site continually prompting for passwords

Scenario: I got a scenario where the SharePoint site is not allowing a user to login to the site even on giving correct username and password. It is an intranet site and hence it will take the Windows Authentication. But after 3 consecutive wrong attempts, password should be locked since it is...

May 3, 2012

Changing Favicon in SharePoint 2010

What is Favicon? All the top websites in the internet will have their favicon in the address bar. Similarly SharePoint 2010 sites also have its favicon in the address bar as shown below: What is the use of Favicon? When we are saving a site as a favorite then this icon will be saved for the...

Programmatically get SharePoint Users with Group Name

In this article, we will come to know how to list all the users from the SharePoint site using c#. Scenario: We have to retrieve all the Users from the SharePoint site with the Group Name using object model. Solution: I have created a console application which will group the users with the Group Name and also display the User details. Code (.cs): 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 using...

May 1, 2012

RegisterForEventValidation can only be called during Render()

To know about creating a Grid view with Paging and Exporting the view to Word and Excel documents read this article. The following is the screen shot which you get due to this error: This error occurs whenever we are trying to render control to response. To fix this problem I...

Control 'GridView1' of type 'GridView' must be placed inside a form tag with runat=server

To know about creating a Grid view with Paging and Exporting the view to Word and Excel documents read this article. The following is the screen shot which you get due to this error: This error occurs whenever you are trying to export the grid view data to excel or word. This occurs due to...

Grid View with Paging into Excel and Word in ASP.Net

After reading this article, you will come to know the following:    1.   Using grid view control in the ASP.Net applications    2.   Creating and connecting the SQL database in the ASP.Net applications    3.   Creating PAGING in the grid view    4.   Tabbed navigation in the ASP.Net application with single GRIDVIEW  ...

Apr 22, 2012

New features of SharePoint Designer 2010

Read this article, to know the Basics of Workflow in SharePoint. Read this article, to know about Implementing Designer workflow in SharePoint using SharePoint designer 2007.In this article, we will come to know about the new features added in the SharePoint designer 2010 for the workflow. What...

Apr 16, 2012

Workflow using SharePoint designer 2007

To know about the basics of the Work flows in SharePoint, read this article. In this article, we will learn how to create a designer workflow in SharePoint designer 2007. Scenario: 1.   Create a workflow in SharePoint designer 2007 2.   This workflow should be automatically...

The security validation for this page is invalid in SharePoint

Sometimes, when a user with least permissions in the SharePoint site, creates or updates an item, then the following error will be shown: “The security validation for this page is invalid. Click Back in your Web browser, refresh the page, and try your operation again” When you are creating a custom...