Danushka Silva

It's all about SharePoint

November 2009 - Posts

SharePoint Server 2010 Beta

As you're all waiting for SharePoint 2010, Now is the chance to taste it. Click here to download your SharePoint Server 2010 Beta version now.

Custom Master pages on SharePoint

Few months ago I wanted to create a custom master page for a SharePoint portal and after some research I found a way of customizing master pages on SharePoint. But I couldn’t post a blog about it. Here I am attaching my custom master pages and I will update this as I develop it further in the future. I will explain the ways of customization soon.

SpringnetMoss Intranet for Spring Global Services on MOSS 2007
DilmahMoss Intranet for another customer on MOSS 2007
HostedWss Hosted WSS site on WSS 3.0
Awesome SharePoint features in Visual Studio 2010

Few days ago MS has announced Visual Studio 2010. It contain many SharePoint project templates and grate features for SharePoint developers. Here is the short overview which Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog has given. Read more at Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog.

SharePoint Project and Project Item Templates

The following SharePoint specific project templates and project item templates are available in Visual Studio 2010:

Project Templates

· Empty SharePoint project
· Visual Web Part project
· Sequential and State Machine Workflow
· Business Data Connectivity Model
· Event Receiver
· List Definition
· Content Type
· Module Project
· Site Definition

Project Item Templates

· Empty Element
· Web Part
· User Control
· Application Page
· Association Form
· Initiation Form
· Business Data Connectivity Resource Item
· List Instance
· List Definition From Content Type
· Global Resources File

Besides above mentioned project templates, there are two import project templates for importing .WSP file contents and importing reusable workflows:

· Import Reusable Workflow
· Import SharePoint Solution Package