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SharePoint Designer 2013 Error Cannot Create New,Edit, Display Forms + Solution

TweetSo you’ve taken on creating a cool new “New Item” or “Edit Item” or “Display Item” Form for a client  and all is good until….bam!  You run into a nasty problem, what do you do: Take a break and have an adult beverage? Quit working on SharePoint projects? Google for the answer? Or figure it [...]

Add The SharePoint 2013 Geolocation Column to a Content Type

TweetQuick Tip – The PowerShell code below adds it as a Site Column, once you do that  navigate to your custom Content Type and add it from existing site columns. Cheers, Oscar Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue $fieldXml = “<Field Type=’Geolocation’ DisplayName=’My Location’ />” $web = Get-SPWeb $webUrl $fieldName = $web.Fields.AddFieldAsXml($fieldXml) $web.Update()

SharePoint 2010 – Integrating Twitter Bootstrap and jsRender Part 1

TweetLately I’ve been working with various open source frameworks and integrating them into SharePoint to improve the UI and overall user experience. Two of  these awesome frameworks are Twitter Bootstrap created by the guys (@fat and @mdo) at Twitter and jsRender by BorisMoore and can be found at https://github.com/BorisMoore/jsrender “Optimized for high-performance pure string-based rendering, without DOM [...]

Development of Mobile Apps using Adobe Flex – Similarities to Windows Phone Development

Development of Mobile Apps using Adobe Flex – Similarities to Windows Phone Development

TweetAfter working on my Windows Phone App, I decided I needed to target other platforms.  The most obvious one being iOS which is in the works, but also Android why not?  Doing a little research I stumbled upon the Adobe Flex Builder 4.6 (ok it was actually a recommendation from a good friend of mine @jonathanhartsf who [...]

A little fun flying

A little fun flying

TweetA good friend of mine visited from DC, we decided to meet up in Vegas and among other things enjoy aerobatics. Now back to work

Holiday Skiing at Sugar Bowl

Tweet My wife and daughter very happy we made time this year despite the hectic Holiday party-mania

Merry Christmas from my daughter and me

Merry Christmas from my daughter and me

TweetMy daughter and I created these two greeting cards on her new arts and crafts table.  Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Adding PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer Shortcut to a page.

TweetYou probably already know that branding the PerformancePoint Site is a good undertaking and you should consider doing it on your branding efforts.  But what if you just need the shortcut to the PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer within a page or even your own design? Her is a quick tip, just drop this code into either [...]

SharePoint 2010 – Set Regional Settings Time Zone using PowerShell when Provisioning a New Site

TweetAs you probably already know SharePoint 2010 has added functionality when dealing with multiple Time Zones.  There are two areas aside form the Web Application level where a user can set this preference.  The first is managed at the site level via the Site Settings > Regional Settings page. The second is managed at the [...]

Access SharePoint Object Properties Declaratively in your User Control

TweetThis short post really isn’t anything new as it relates to typical .NET core development.  But I think at times while working on SharePoint projects we forget those same techniques apply. Prime example is using the DataItem object properties declaratively rather than wiring to the OnRowDataBound Handler.  And yes, there are times when you must [...]