SharePoint 2010 dialogs are JavaScript pop-up dialogs consisting of an iframe to request the other pages in the SharePoint. These pages can be publishing pages or application pages.When you call a pop-up dialog in SharePoint 2010, the content is displayed by using the system master page. The dialog functionality in SharePoint exposed by SP.UI.Dialog and SP.UI.ModalDialog classes.The dialog code...
Activating and Deactivating Feature programmatically in SharePoint
Sometimes, You may need to activate/deactivate Feature programmatically in SharePoint. Feature should have the scope of the web, site or web application or Farm.You can get the Feature by accessing Feature properties of Site or web. Write the following code to retrieve the activated features available in Web application/Site/Web level. var webApplicationFeatures = webapplication.Features var...
Using Property bag in SharePoint 2010
What is Property bag? Property bag is basically a hash table of key-value pair options. Property bag feature is available in Windows SharePoint services 3.0. It allows you to add properties to objects in SharePoint site. Property bag helps you to store meta data as key-value pairs example Connection Strings, file paths, server names and other settings in SharePoint application. Advantages of...
What is Katana and OWIN for ASP.NET?
Katana is not a revolutionary new project in ASP.NET world. It is just a next step in ASP.NET, The points that drive to go for Katana and OWIN are, Basically ASP.NET was optimised for two types of customers one classing ASP developers and second one LOB(line of business app) developers. From the beginning it was expected to run these applications under IIS(internet information services)...
jQuery UI autocomplete in ASP.NET MVC
jQuery UI is a jQuery plug-in which contains widgets and it is tightly integrate with jQuery API. To include jQuery UI across your MVC application refer the below scripts in layout view. <script src="~/Scripts/jquery-1.8.2.min.js"></script> <script src="~/Scripts/jquery.unobtrusive-ajax.min.js"></script> <script src="~/Scripts/jquery-ui-1.10.2.min.js"></script>...
Windows 8 File Explorer Tips
File Explorer is a great way to see the files and folders on your computer as well as libraries, folders and control panel.This post outlines some enhancements and tips in using File Explorer in Windows 8. 1. The first thing in File Explorer which you can notice is the menu is a ribbon menu. The File ribbon shows you the frequently used locations. It also let you to open the new window, new...
Top Developer News this week (May Week 2)
This post outlines Top links for Microsoft developers in May week2. Windows Blue public preview available date Build conference will announce the Windows Blue public preview. “Windows Blue†is a code name for the next release of Windows. If you attend the Build conference then you will get the Windows Blue preview. Visual Studio 2012.3(Update 3) “go live†CTP is available Visual Studio...
Using ListView Control in ASP.NET 4.5
ASP.NET ListView Control has a great features that GridView and Repeater controls had control over the markup. The ListView Control allows you to display the data in various formats including grid format, bulleted list format and in flow format. You will be having the better control on HTML and CSS to format the data. This post explains the ListView templates, properties and Inserting and...
Validation Components in ASP.NET MVC
Validating the user input and showing a user-friendly error message is an important step in Web Application development. ASP.NET MVC framework provides validation features which helps developer to validate model values. The validation features in MVC allows you to write the validation using attributes which is called data annotations. This post outlines the data annotation features that you can...
Top developer news this week
This post gives you the links for latest announcements for Microsoft developers. Announcing the Release of WebMatrix3 As most of the developers probably know that WebMatrix is free light-weight tool for building ASP.NET applications. There are tons of new features in this release including Windows Azure integration, ScottGu outlined the features here and this tool can be downloaded from here...