‘The list cannot be displayed in Datasheet view…’ Message when Attempting to Edit in Datasheet in SharePoint 2010
So if you’ve come to this post because you see that same message, the same solution may work well for you too.
How to Send Files Directly to a SharePoint Document Library via the Windows Explorer ‘Send to’ Menu
I often wished I could copy files to my Temp folder using the Send to the menu from Windows Explorer.
Looking for a Knowledge Management Tool in SharePoint? Look No Further…
Being able to share and obtain knowledge online is of critical importance, and since knowledge management in SharePoint is no exception, I’m pleased to announce the release of SharePoint Knowledge Base Solution Accelerator R2.0 for SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010....SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: Using jQuery with SharePoint
As you know, jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid Web development. You may be wondering, however, if jQuery can be used to help a SharePoint site flourish....SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: Using LINQ to Query SharePoint Lists
As you know, LINQ to SharePoint List works the same way as LINQ to Object, LINQ to DataSet, and LINQ to SQL. LINQ to SharePoint Provider is integrated with SharePoint 2010, and is defined in Microsoft.SharePoint.Linq to help us work with SharePoint List faster, more...New Minor Release Announcement: Alert Plus
If I were to sum up Alert Plus with one word, it would be ExtremelyFlexibleWorkOfSharePointArt… OK, OK I cheated and made up my own word, but it really is an Extremely Flexible Work of SharePoint Art. Alert Plus is one of our oldest products...Guest Blog by NewsGator’s J.B. Holston: Part Three: An Evening in A-Day-in-the Life of a Social CEO
As reported in Part One and Part Two of this blog post, I 'work socially' as CEO of NewsGator. Here is a look at the evening of just one productive workday using social computing tools. Like I mentioned in the two previous posts, I continued my goal of...Second SharePoint Saturday Vietnam a Great Success
The second SharePoint Saturday Vietnam took place this past weekend on a beautiful, sunny and clear Saturday in Ho Chi Minh City. Even before entering the venue, I was impressed the banner at the front gate featuring the new SharePoint Saturday logo and the logos of...Guest Blog by NewsGator’s J.B. Holston: Part Two: An Afternoon in A-Day-in-the Life of a Social CEO
As reported in Part One of this blog post, I 'work socially' as CEO of NewsGator. Here is a look at the afternoon of just one productive workday using social computing tools. I continued my goal of educating and informing my thriving network of influence as...Storage Options with the SharePoint Video Library
The Bamboo SharePoint Video Library is just bursting at the seams with useful features: Yes, it can automatically generate thumbnails; Yes, you can view videos without requiring Silverlight (unlike the SharePoint Server 2010 Asset Library); and yes, it’s...Guest Blog by NewsGator’s J.B. Holston: Part One: A Morning in A-Day-in-the Life of a Social CEO
As CEO of NewsGator, I'm a huge proponent and user of the latest social collaboration tools. I'm often asked by my peers to offer perspective on how I actually use these technologies for "business" purposes so I decided to choose one random day in my...Bamboo Travels to Denver for SharePoint Fest
When I arrived in Denver yesterday, I was immediately concerned. I was sure my plane had taken a wrong turn and dropped me off in Seattle as it was gray and rainy here in the Mile High City. But it has become quite apparent a little bad weather will not slow down...TechEd: ‘Creating Custom SharePoint Service Applications 101’ with Todd Bleeker
This afternoon Todd Bleeker opened his TechEd session, Creating Custom SharePoint Service Applications 101 by saying that Service Applications is "probably the most complex topic you can talk about in SharePoint 2010." Todd went on to say that this...TechEd: Chris Mayo on ‘Developing Collaboration Solutions in the Cloud with Microsoft SharePoint Online’
Chris Mayo, a Microsoft Senior Technical Evangelist for Office 365, focuses on “dealing with building solutions with these products,” hence the topic of his TechEd session this afternoon on Developing Collaboration Solutions in the Cloud with Microsoft...This Week in Bamboo (May 8th, 2011 – May 14th, 2011)
At Bamboo this week, a minor release of Alert Plus Web Part was released with many resolved bugs, new improvements and updated features for both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010. Please check out our storefront for the latest of Alert Plus Web Part version...TechEd: Daniel Benson & Mark Stone on ‘Creating Great End User Experiences with Fast Search for SharePoint 2010’
With a session focused on "customizations that can be made to Fast Search for SharePoint both at the back-end and front-end to drive great search experiences," I probably should've realized that I'd picked an advanced, intended-for-developers session...TechEd: ‘Integrating Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online’ with Girish Raja
Girish Raja, a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft whose focus is on evangelizing platform technologies to developers and companies, spends most of his time on CRM, but since he also has a SharePoint background, integration between the two platforms is a favorite...TechEd: ‘The 10 Immutable Laws of Microsoft SharePoint Security’ with Rick Taylor
Making reference to the truly Olympic distances between buildings here at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Rick Taylor began his TechEd session on The 10 Immutable Laws of Microsoft SharePoint Security by saying, "Welcome everyone … to the...TechEd: ‘Creating Self-Service Analytic BI Applications with Microsoft SharePoint 2010’ with Peter Myers
At TechEd today, Peter Myers presented a demo-centric session on Creating Self-Service Analytic BI Applications with Microsoft SharePoint 2010. Peter began by explaining that BI (Business Intelligence) "is delivered as a suite of components and service...
TechEd: ‘Applying Branding from an Existing Website to Microsoft SharePoint 2010’ with Jon Flanders
Your proof of concept should involve building a homepage and a subsection with several pages inside that section.
New Discount Package: List and Forms Extensions Toolkit
Have there been times where you wanted to extend the capabilities of the columns in SharePoint Lists to add features such as format validation, security, or column dependency, but searching for the functionality online keeps sending you to some program called...New Minor Release of SharePoint Video Library: Digital Asset Management Just Got Better!
Bamboo Solutions recently released a new version of SharePoint Video Library, a custom Document Library that allows users to manage their video and audio files. Better still is the fact that SharePoint Video Library works on BOTH SharePoint 2010 and...
Media Advisory: Bamboo Solutions Provides Expertise & Insight Into Challenges Facing SharePoint Users with Monthly Webinars
Bamboo Solutions, a leading provider of products that enhance Microsoft SharePoint, today announced the dates for their next round of SharePoint Webinars. Offered monthly, each free, one-hour webinar addresses common issues users face when deploying SharePoint...Media Advisory: Bamboo Solutions Provides Expertise & Insight Into Challenges Facing SharePoint Users with Monthly Webinars
Bamboo Solutions, a leading provider of products that enhance Microsoft SharePoint, today announced the dates for their next round of SharePoint Webinars. Offered monthly, each free, one-hour webinar addresses common issues users face when deploying SharePoint...SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: How to Create a Custom List Edit Form for Development in Visual Studio 2010
SharePoint lists contain list forms that allow users to display, edit, and add items to a list. In this post, we will take a look at how to create a customized list edit form for development in Visual Studio 2010. Challenge: How do I create a customized list edit form...Sneak Preview: TechEd North America in Atlanta Next Week
My 2011 SharePoint World Tour continues Monday as I wing my way to Atlanta for TechEd North America 2011. I’ll be in Atlanta through Thursday and, as per usual, will be blogging as many SharePoint sessions at the conference as I can manage. ...New Major Release Announcement: List Search Simple Web Part
Microsoft provides some of the most powerful search engines around, including SharePoint Server, Search Server and, most recently, FAST. But what if you want to provide a simple, effective search interface for a specific list or library? Well, you could roll up...SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: Working with the Status Bar in SharePoint 2010
Among the useful new features in SharePoint 2010 are the enhancements available with the addition of the Status Bar, helping to provide a more productive experience for users. This seemingly small feature can be used in extremely creative and interesting ways to...New Product Announcement: Cross-Site Display Web Part
With SharePoint Designer, connect to the SharePoint site where you want to display the list or library. Navigate within that site structure and open the Web Part page on which you want to display your SharePoint List or Library from a different site. In the menu...SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: Display Visual Representation of SharePoint 2010 Workflow Status with Visio Graphics Service
SharePoint 2010 offers a ton of new features that I think everyone who is familiar with SharePoint is getting to know more and more. One of the features that people are very interested in is called Visio Graphics Service. This is a SharePoint 2010 server application...Enter for a Chance to Win a Full-Conference Pass for SPTechCon Boston!
Bamboo Nation is thrilled to once again serve as a media sponsor of SPTechCon with the upcoming East Coast edition in Boston, MA, and we’d like to share our excitement with you. Our friends at SPTechCon have generously provided us with a full-conference...
SharePoint Search Query Returning Unexpected Results? Check Your Metadata Property Mappings
I’ve gone into “the mailbag” to pluck a question that allows me to kick off an investigation into learning the answer to the question.
SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: How to Create External Lists & Include Databases Using SharePoint Designer 2010
This walkthrough shows you how to create a model for the BDC service that returns information about contacts in a sample database.
This Week in Bamboo (April 24th, 2011 – April 30th, 2011)
SharePoint Video Library Release 1.3.8 was released to the storefront this week for both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 with new improvements, new features, and some resolved bugs. At the same time, we fixed many issues and released patches for the...Dux Raymond Sy Announces SharePoint Saturday: The Conference
Conference organizer Dux Raymond Sy has announced that the inaugural SharePoint Saturday: The Conference (SPSTC) will take place in Washington, D.C. this August 11-13. Building on the worldwide success and momentum of the SharePoint Saturday phenomenon,...SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: Creating Connections Between Web Parts
This article will guide you through how to create a connection between Web Parts. You can create connections between Web Parts so that when you want to perform an action in one Web Part, it changes the contents of another Web Part. Challenge: How can I...SharePoint 2010 Lessons Learned, Part 6: A Cautionary Tale Involving Deleting Photos While Editing a Blog Post
Today I’d like to share the lesson that was the most painful, and it involves editing a post that’s in Save as Draft form.
SharePoint 2010 Lessons Learned, Part 2: How to Create a Blog
I’d finished creating the initial round of pages for the Sharing the Point site launch, a significant aspect still needed to be created.
SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: How to Add or Remove a Custom Button on the Ribbon
SharePoint 2010 contains numerous improvements in the user interface and has been built so that it can be extended even further. By now, I’d guess that most of you have seen the Ribbon in SharePoint 2010, and many of you have probably even tried actions...This Week in Bamboo (April 17th, 2011 – April 23rd, 2011)
This week in Bamboo, we launched a major new product: Cross-Site Display Web Part (HW63 Release 1.0) for both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010. Why did we build it? Cross-Site Display Web Part allows users to view lists and libraries across sites...
SharePoint 2010 Lessons Learned, Part 8: ‘What? I Can’t Embed Video in a Blog Post? You’re Kidding, Right?’
I may have mentioned the following video-related discovery earlier in this series but, it’s now time for me to devote a post to the matter.
