How to: Make a custom web part appear in the web part gallery (SP2007)
If you have a custom web part that does not appear in your web part gallery, the most probable cause is that you have not defined it in the module.xml file. Remember that, once you have created a custom web part in VS, you will need to add/reference it in the module.xml file. In your [...]
Read MoreHow to: Deploy/Retract solutions to SharePoint through spsadm
So, everything is just fine when you use the DEPLOY command through Visual Studio to deploy your code to your SharePoint platform but how to do you deploy with the sdsadm? It turns out, it’s not that hard after all. Just follow the steps below to deploy or retract a solution: 1. Add the solution [...]
Read MoreWhat is: Site columns, content types and lists
SharePoint 2010, just like its predecessor, supports the fundamental elements that made SharePoint 2007 such an important platform. Content types, site columns and lists. In the sense of SharePoint, everything is a list. A site column is a definition of a reusable -within the specified web site that they’ve been defined in- column. That means [...]
Read MoreHow to: Locate the SharePoint Root (SP2010)
In SharePoint 2007, the file system location where all the SharePoint deployment files resided was called the “SharePoint Hive”. The name changed in SharePoint 2010. It is now called the “SharePoint Root” and it is located on the server file system, in the following path: <drive>:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14 Developing for the SharePoint [...]
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