I was recently working on an administrative page for Central Administration, and had the need to use an AudienceEditor control in a form, and more difficult yet, use it inside an AJAX UpdatePanel. The AudienceEditor is the control that is used to enable a user to pick audiences, such as on the Target Audience field…

Part 3 – Sign Out/Sign in as a Different User A project I am working on called for a custom implementation of the SharePoint Welcome menu control.

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.