One of the most common question I get when I demo SharePoint 2010 is why the Windows Explorer view doesn’t work on the server itself. By clicking on the Explorer View button , the following error message appears To make it work, just install the Desktop Experience feature : and it will work :
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Depending on the language that you use when you browse the site, the alert will be created with the appropriate language. The following procedure gives more explanation: 1. Create an alert when I navigate the site in English : 2. I received the following mail to confirm that my alert has been created: 3. Create [...]
Common situation when designing workflow is that you start to design workflow in SharePoint Designer and then you want to add some code in Visual Studio. In the following example, I will go through the procedure to create a workflow in SharePoint Designer and then open it and deploy it from Visual Studio. Let’s start [...]
A lot of customers are going to use SharePoint 2010 in order to do video collaboration. Indeed, in the previous version customers needed to buy third-party (like Bamboo Video Web Part) to display video inside SharePoint pages. In this current version, a native Media Web Part can be used to do that. This Media Web [...]
MUI in SharePoint 2010 seems to lack some very basic features… Let’s do a typical scenario : Create a document library (choose Display on QuickLauch). Let’s call this library My own doc lib Display this library on your site home page You should see this : Next step is to translate My own doc lib [...]
For those of you who have try to have a look at administration pages in SharePoint 2007 to understand how things works, it may not be possible to do the same in SharePoint 2010. In SharePoint 2007, we used to have the Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationPages namespace defined in Microsoft.SharePoint.dll and this assembly was readable from .NET Reflector: [...]
