Archive for October, 2010

Search for Sharepoint 2010

Search has got a whole lot bigger, you don’t need to look at google or MSFT to see that. Search has exploded in the past 10 years and one of the fantastic bi-products of the explosion is search for sharepoint 2010. Learning from all its mistakes in 2003, 2007 and online Sharepoint Search now trumps [...]

Sharepoint Virtual PC – Sharepoint Development Environment

If you are developing for sharepoint you have likely come across the stumbling block. Your running something like Windows 7, Vista or XP, Visual studio 2008, 2010 something like that. You want to develop for sharepoint directly but when you go to make a fresh webpart or indeed any solution for sharepoint it basically says [...]

The search service is not able to connect to the machine that hosts the administration component. Verify that the administration component ‘s0meAppID-Here3-3fsdf3ef33425′ in search application ‘Search Service Application’ is in a good state and try again

“The search service is not able to connect to the machine that hosts the administration component. Verify that the administration component ‘s0meAppID-Here3-3fsdf3ef33425′ in search application ‘Search Service Application’ is in a good state and try again” Ever see this? In a strait up install of sharepoint 2010 it’s not surprising to see several of these [...]

“Sharepoint 2010″ is..

What is “Sharepoint 2010″ for you? For almost each and every stakeholder you asked that question too in your organisation (if you already have sharepoint) you would get a different answer. If you don’t already have it chances are 90% of people would not even know what “sharepoint 2010″ is. My personal definition for 2010 [...]

Upload image directly into Sharepoint Picture Library – CSharp

We have touched on inserting an image directly into a default sharepoint picture library (using csharp and in sharepoint 2010) but what if you want to upload an image directly into Sharepoint 2010, but to a specific gallery? Well the first step is to find the specific guid of a gallery – something you can [...]

Sharepoint 2010 Publishing Page Layouts

Its often you want to make a new sharepoint publishing page or to update an existing one strait via code. In csharp, thanks to microsoft’s ever improving sharepoint support this is really easy. One of the key points when updating publishing pages however is getting and setting the right page layout. You can use code [...]