Part 2 – Edit Profile and My Site links A project I am working on called for a custom implementation of the SharePoint Welcome menu control. The replacement control needed to provide the following: Implement the look and behaviors that the designers created. Exclude some default SharePoint menu items (such as My Regional Settings). Reuse…

Part 1 – Overview, Profile Picture, and User Name A project I am working on called for a custom implementation of the SharePoint Welcome menu control. The replacement control needed to provide the following: Implement the look and behaviors that the designers created. Exclude some default SharePoint menu items (such as My Regional Settings). Reuse…

Generic Handlers (.ashx files) deployed to the _layouts directory are not directly supported by Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint projects like custom .aspx application pages are. This post will cover how to add them to your Visual Studio project and deploy them properly to the ISAPI folder.

Just wrapped up a project developing a custom metadata editor to plugin to the Colligo Contributor for SharePoint client. If you aren’t familiar with Colligo, it’s a desktop client application/outlook add-in/explorer file manager, that enables users to save documents or emails directly to SharePoint, and be prompted for metadata at the time of saving. Colligo…

I’ve been writing a slurry of code to return list item XML so that it can be parsed and consumed by AJAX components on the client side. Since Lists.asmx does not work in anonymous access scenarios, I’ve been creating many proxy .ashx Http Handlers installed in the LAYOUTS directory, to query via the object model…