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Creating a Custom Welcome Menu for SharePoint Server 2010 – Part 1

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 some existing SharePoint menu items (such as Sign Out/Sign in as a Different User).
  • Allow for the addition of other custom menu items in the future.
  • Display thumbnail of the user’s profile picture.

I had to create a control that looked and behaved like the following:

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The designers came up with some clean, semantic markup married with some jquery, for me to start from:

<div class="header">

    <img class="header-logo" src="/images/header_logo.png" alt="" width="169" height="78" />

    <div class="header-bar">

        <div class="profile_menu">

            <a href="#" class="profile_btn">

                <span class="image"><img src="" style="width:20px;height:20px" /></span>

                <span class="name">John Doe</span>

                <span class="arrow"></span>

            </a>

            <div class="profile_dropdown">

                <div class="dropdown_bkgrd">

                    <ul>

                        <li>Edit Profile</li> 

                        <li>My Site</li>

                        <li>Log Out</li>                        

                        <li>Sign in as a Different User</li>

                    </ul>

                </div>

            </div>

        </div>

    </div>

</div>

This is part 1 of a three part series.

  1. Part 1 – Overview, Profile Picture, and User Name
  2. Part 2 – Edit Profile and My Site links
  3. Part 3 – Sign Out/Sign in as a Different User

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Adding and Deploying Generic Handlers (.ashx) to a SharePoint 2010 Visual Studio Project

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.

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