SharePoint Customization

Display loading image when adding item in SharePoint list

2014-04-21T02:55:00.000-07:00

Today i am going to explain how to show loading/Progress image in SharePoint list new form when new item is added.

Please follow below steps.

First you need to download any animated .gif image named it as "Loading.gif". In this example i have used Site Asset library to store the image.
Open the list in which you want to show this loading image and click on new item link.
SharePoint list NewForm.aspx will open.
Now edit the NewForm.aspx page.
Add the content editor web-part above the existing web-part.
Now add below script,css and image tag by edit the html in content editor web-part.

#imgLoading{display:none;}

</style>

8. Now add item to the SharePoint list.

9. Once you click on Save button it will showing process image as below.

In this example we are catching the PreSaveItem() event of the SharePoint list using JavaScript and we have written the business logic in this event.
This event is fired when we click on save button in SharePoint NewForm.aspx So the process image will be shown until the item is added to the SharePoint list.

Enjoy.....

Configure the Form Based Authentication (FBA) In SharePoint 2010

2012-10-02T02:39:00.000-07:00

1) Today we are going to configure the Form Based Authentication in SharePoint Site.

2) First open the SQL Server management studio.

3) Create your new database named it as "TMP_FBA".

4) Now locate the below path to create a new sql membership tables.

("C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727")

5) Find the aspnet_regsql.exe and run it to create new tables to store the FBA Users.

6) So when this exe will run the number of tables will created as shown in screen shots.

7) Now to insert the users into the table , first create a new asp.net website using visual studio.

8) Open the web.config file for the new asp.net website.

9) Find the "connectionStrings" tag and replace it with the below line of tags.It will add the connection string path and the configuration of the Membership provider and role provider as shown in Screen Shot.

10) I have added my customized tag inside the


My Customiztion....


So new tags in asp.net websites are


<connectionStrings>
<add name="SQLConnectionString_TMP_FBA" connectionString="SERVER=YourServer\SharePoint; database=TMP_FBA; Integrated Security=SSPI;" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
</connectionStrings>
<system.web>
<authentication mode="Forms" />
<membership defaultProvider="TMP_FBAMembershipProvider">
<providers>
<add connectionStringName="SQLConnectionString_TMP_FBA" passwordAttemptWindow="5"
enablePasswordRetrieval="false" enablePasswordReset="false"
requiresQuestionAndAnswer="true" applicationName="/" requiresUniqueEmail="true"
passwordFormat="Hashed" description="Stores and Retrieves membership data from SQL Server"
name="TMP_FBAMembershipProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.3600.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" />
</providers>
</membership>
<roleManager defaultProvider="TMP_FBARoleManager">
<providers>
<add connectionStringName="SQLConnectionString_TMP_FBA" applicationName="/"
description="Stores and retrieves roles from SQL Server" name="TMP_FBARoleManager"
type="System.Web.Security.SqlRoleProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.3600.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" />
</providers>
</roleManager>


11) Check the duplicate tag entries should not be exist.

12) Now open the Asp.net Administration site by click from the solution explorer for configure the membership provider and role provider as shown in screen shot.

13) Go to the Provider tag and Select the membership provider configured by the above config entry modification and select the second link named "Select a different provider for each feature (advanced)" for the Provider settings as shown in screen shot.

14) So select the membership provider as "TMP_FBAMembershipProvider" and role provider as "TMP_FBARoleManager".

15) Now go to the security tab of the asp.net administration site.Click on Create User link.

16) Create one user named fbatest1 and fillup the other details and Click the Button Create User.

17) Now check the user is added inside the newly created database by go to the sqlserver and select the Database "TMP_FBA" and select the table "dbo.aspnet_Users".

18) Once the User is added then create a new webapplication from the Central Admininstation site.

Go to the Appllication Management -> select Manage Web Appplication -> From the Ribbon click New.

19) Now One popup window will open then select the "Claim Based Authentication".

20) Now Enabled the FBA by check the box and add the provider details and click OK to create web new application

21) Now we need to change total three web.config files To enable the Form Bases Authentication,

a) In the the newly created web applications ,

b) In the Central Administration and

c) In the Security token site located at "%programfiles%\common files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\WebServices\SecurityToken"

22) First we will modify the web application web.config file

Open the web.config file of the Web Application and add the connection string as after the </SharePoint> tag as Shown in screen shot.

</connectionStrings>

23) Now we will add the Membership and Role Provider tag in web.config file as shown in the screen shot

<add connectionStringName="SQLConnectionString_TMP_FBA" passwordAttemptWindow="5"

enablePasswordRetrieval="false" enablePasswordReset="false"

requiresQuestionAndAnswer="true" applicationName="/" requiresUniqueEmail="true"

passwordFormat="Hashed" description="Stores and Retrieves membership data from SQL Server"

name="TMP_FBAMembershipProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.3600.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" />

</providers>

</membership>

<add connectionStringName="SQLConnectionString_TMP_FBA" applicationName="/"

description="Stores and retrieves roles from SQL Server" name="TMP_FBARoleManager"

type="System.Web.Security.SqlRoleProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.3600.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" />

</providers>

</roleManager>

24) Second we will modify the Central Administration web.config file

Open the web.config file of the Central Administration and add the connection string as after the </SharePoint> tag as Shown in screen shot.

</connectionStrings>

25) Now we will add the Membership and Role Provider tag in web.config file as shown in the screen shot

<add connectionStringName="SQLConnectionString_TMP_FBA" passwordAttemptWindow="5"

enablePasswordRetrieval="false" enablePasswordReset="false"

requiresQuestionAndAnswer="true" applicationName="/" requiresUniqueEmail="true"

passwordFormat="Hashed" description="Stores and Retrieves membership data from SQL Server"

name="SQLConnectionString_TMP_FBA" type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.3600.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" />

</providers>

</membership>

<add connectionStringName="SQLConnectionString_TMP_FBA" applicationName="/"

description="Stores and retrieves roles from SQL Server" name="TMP_FBARoleManager"

type="System.Web.Security.SqlRoleProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.3600.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" />

</providers>

</roleManager>

26) Third we will modify the Security Token web.config file from "%programfiles%\common files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\WebServices\SecurityToken" location

Open the web.config file of the Central Administration and add the connection string as after the </system.net> tag as Shown in screen shot.

</connectionStrings>

27) Now we will add the Membership and Role Provider tag in web.config file as shown in the screen shot

<system.web>

<add connectionStringName="SQLConnectionString_TMP_FBA" passwordAttemptWindow="5"

enablePasswordRetrieval="false" enablePasswordReset="false"

requiresQuestionAndAnswer="true" applicationName="/" requiresUniqueEmail="true"

passwordFormat="Hashed" description="Stores and Retrieves membership data from SQL Server"

name="TMP_FBAMembershipProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.3600.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" />

</providers>

</membership>

<add connectionStringName="SQLConnectionString_TMP_FBA" applicationName="/"

description="Stores and retrieves roles from SQL Server" name="TMP_FBARoleManager"

type="System.Web.Security.SqlRoleProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.3600.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" />

</providers>

</roleManager>

</system.web>

28) Now once the modification in all the web.config file , Create one site collection

Open the newly created Site Collection then the below screen will appear

29) Now select the window Authentication , logged in with window credential to Add the FBA user to the Site Collection.

30) Now from the "Site Permissions" select the appropriate site collection group and add the FBA user.

31) Once the FBA user is added , sign out as a window authentication and from the sign in page select the "Form Authentication" from the dropdown and add the FBA user's credential.

32) That's it , You have configured the Form based authentication...

Save the value in sharepoint property bags

2012-07-06T00:02:00.000-07:00

Hello,
In this article we will see the sharepoint property bag CRUD operation at different access level( farm level , Web application level , Site Collection level and web level )

Add the property farm level
---------------------------------
SPFarm farmObject = SPFarm.Local;
farmObject .Properties.Add("PropertyKey", "PropertyValue");
farmObject .Update();

Get the property farm level
------------------------------------
SSPFarm farmObject = SPFarm.Local;
if (farmObject.Properties != null && farmObject.Properties.Count > 0)
{
if (farmObject.Properties.ContainsKey("PropertyKey"))
{
String propertyValue = myWebApplication.Properties["PropertyKey"].ToString();
}
}

Change the property farm level
------------------------------------
SPFarm farmObject = SPFarm.Local;
if (farmObject.Properties != null && farmObject.Properties.Count > 0)
{
if (farmObject.Properties.ContainsKey("PropertyKey"))
{
farmObject.Properties["PropertyKey"] = "New Property Value";
farmObject.Update();
}
}

Remove the property farm level
-------------------------------
SPFarm farmObject = SPFarm.Local;
if (farmObject.Properties != null && farmObject.Properties.Count > 0)
{
if (farmObject.Properties.ContainsKey("PropertyKey"))
{
farmObject.Properties["PropertyKey"] = null;
farmObject.Properties.Remove("PropertyKey");
farmObject.Update();
}
}

Add the property web application level
--------------------------------------
SPWebApplication webApplicationObject = SPWebApplication.Lookup(new Uri("http://YourWebApplicationURL"));
webApplicationObject.Properties.Add("PropertyKey", "PropertyValue");
webApplicationObject.Update();

Get the property web application level
--------------------------------------
SPWebApplication webApplicationObject = SPWebApplication.Lookup(new Uri("http://YourWebApplicationURL"));
if (webApplicationObject.Properties != null && webApplicationObject.Properties.Count > 0)
{
if (webApplicationObject.Properties.ContainsKey("PropertyKey"))
{
String propertyValue = webApplicationObject.Properties["PropertyKey"].ToString();
}
}

Change the property web application level
-------------------------------------------
SPWebApplication webApplicationObject = SPWebApplication.Lookup(new Uri("http://YourWebApplicationURL"));
if (webApplicationObject.Properties != null && webApplicationObject.Properties.Count > 0)
{
if (webApplicationObject.Properties.ContainsKey("PropertyKey"))
{
webApplicationObject.Properties["PropertyKey"] = "New Property Value";
webApplicationObject.Update();
}
}

Remove the property web application level
-----------------------------------------
SPWebApplication webApplicationObject = SPWebApplication.Lookup(new Uri("http://YourWebApplicationURL"));
if (webApplicationObject.Properties != null && webApplicationObject.Properties.Count > 0)
{
if (webApplicationObject.Properties.ContainsKey("PropertyKey"))
{
webApplicationObject.Properties["PropertyKey"] = null;
webApplicationObject.Properties.Remove("PropertyKey");
webApplicationObject.Update();
}
}

Add the property site level
----------------------------
using(SPSite site = new SPSite("http://server:port"))
{
SPWeb rootWeb = site.RootWeb;
rootWeb.Properties.Add("PropertyKey", "PropertyValue");//In sharepoint there is no any provision to store the property value in SPSite object so we can use the RootWeb object
rootWeb.Properties.Update();
}

Get the property site level
--------------------------------------
using(SPSite site = new SPSite("http://server:port"))
{
SPWeb rootWeb = site.RootWeb;
if (rootWeb.Properties != null && rootWeb.Properties.Count > 0)
{
if (rootWeb.Properties.ContainsKey("PropertyKey"))
{
String propertyValue = rootWeb.Properties["PropertyKey"].ToString();
}
}
}

Change the property site level
--------------------------------------
using(SPSite site = new SPSite("http://server:port"))
{
SPWeb rootWeb = site.RootWeb;
if (rootWeb.Properties != null && rootWeb.Properties.Count > 0)
{
if (rootWeb.Properties.ContainsKey("PropertyKey"))
{
rootWeb.Properties["PropertyKey"] = "New Property Value";
rootWeb.Update();
}
}
}

Remove the property site level
-----------------------------------------
using(SPSite site = new SPSite("http://server:port"))
{
SPWeb rootWeb = site.RootWeb;
if (rootWeb.Properties != null && rootWeb.Properties.Count > 0)
{
if (rootWeb.Properties.ContainsKey("PropertyKey"))
{
rootWeb.Properties["PropertyKey"] = null;
rootWeb.Properties.Remove("PropertyKey");
rootWeb.Update();
}
}
}

Add the property web level
----------------------------
using(SPSite site = new SPSite("http://server:port"))
{
using(SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())
{
web.Properties.Add("PropertyKey", "PropertyValue");
web.Properties.Update();
}
}

Get the property web level
--------------------------------------
using(SPSite site = new SPSite("http://server:port"))
{
using(SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())
{
if (web.Properties != null && web.Properties.Count > 0)
{
if (web.Properties.ContainsKey("PropertyKey"))
{
String propertyValue = web.Properties["PropertyKey"].ToString();
}
}
}
}

Change the property web level
--------------------------------------
using(SPSite site = new SPSite("http://server:port"))
{
using(SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())
{
if (web.Properties != null && web.Properties.Count > 0)
{
if (web.Properties.ContainsKey("PropertyKey"))
{
web.Properties["PropertyKey"] = "New Property Value";
web.Update();
}
}
}
}

Remove the property web level
-----------------------------------------
using(SPSite site = new SPSite("http://server:port"))
{
using(SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())
{
if (web.Properties != null && web.Properties.Count > 0)
{
if (web.Properties.ContainsKey("PropertyKey"))
{
web.Properties["PropertyKey"] = null;
web.Properties.Remove("PropertyKey");
web.Update();
}
}
}
}

Regards
Hiren Patel

Custom application page for the sharepoint RSS feeds.

2012-07-05T06:30:00.001-07:00

Hello in this topic we will develope the custom application page for the sharepoint rss feeds.

- Here the different news(with different content type(1. Sharepoint News Page and 2.Sharepoint Article Page)) is associated with the Sharepoint Pages library.
And we have created the page library inside the "NewsSite" site.so my news site url will like "http://YourServer:Port/NewsSite/"

- Published date for the "Sharepoint News Page" content type is stored in "PressReleasePublihshedDate" field and
Published date for the "Sharepoint Article Page" content type is stored in the "PublihshedDate" field.

So above two types of news are stored in the SharePoint pages library.

- We have enabled the "Allow RSS for this list" settings for the Pages library.

- You can enabled it by go to the list settings - > go to the Communications section and click on the Rss Settings - >
set the "Allow RSS for this list? " is true and press OK.

- We will display the news of both the content type together for the rss feeds.

- We will use the custom application page for that and stored it in the "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS" location.

- We will use the application page name as "SharepointCustomRSSFeeds.aspx"

- Now add the following line of code inside the aspx page.

- So SharepointCustomRSSFeeds.aspx application page will look like below

/*******************************************************************************************************************************/
<%@ Page Language="C#" %>

<%@ Import Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.Text" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.Data" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.Globalization" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities" %>
<script runat="server">
public void Page_Load()
{
Response.Clear();
Response.ContentType = "text/xml";

try
{
Response.Write(
GetRSSFromListView(
Request.QueryString["List"],
Request.QueryString["View"])
);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Response.Write("<pre>");
Response.Write(ex.ToString());
Response.Write("</pre>");
}
}

private static string GetRSSFromListView(string strListGUID, string strViewGUID)
{
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.Append("<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>");
sb.Append("<rss version=\"2.0\">");
Guid listGuid = new Guid(
HttpContext.Current.Server.UrlDecode(strListGUID));
string siteUrl = SPContext.Current.Web.Url;
using (SPSite site = new SPSite(siteUrl))
{
using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())
{
SPList list = null;
try
{ list = web.Lists[listGuid]; }
catch { list = null; }
if (list != null)
{
SPView view = null;
if (strViewGUID != null)
{
Guid viewGuid = new Guid(
HttpContext.Current.Server.UrlDecode(strViewGUID));
view = list.Views[viewGuid];
}
else
{
view = list.DefaultView;
}
sb.Append("<channel>");
AddTag("title", list.Title, sb);
AddTag("description", list.Description, sb);
SPListItemCollection items = GetTheRssRecords(list);
DataTable FianlResults1 = MergedNewsRecords(items);
DataTable FianlResults = RecordsWithRFCDateFormat(FianlResults1);
string str="";
string str1="";
if (FianlResults.Rows.Count > 0)
{
foreach (DataRow row in FianlResults.Rows)
{
sb.Append("<item>");
AddTag("link", Convert.ToString(row["FileRef"]), sb);
AddTag("title", Convert.ToString(row["Title"]), sb);
IFormatProvider culture = new CultureInfo(SPContext.Current.Web.UICulture.ToString(), true);

str="<pubDate>";
str+=Convert.ToString(row["PublishedDate"]);
str+="</pubDate>";

sb.Append(str);

AddTag("description",Convert.ToString("<b style='font-size:12px'>"+row["PublishedDate"]+"</b>"), sb);

sb.Append("</item>");
}
}
sb.Append("</channel>");
sb.Append("</rss>");
}
}
}
return sb.ToString();
}
private static void AddTag(string tagText, string tagValue, StringBuilder sb)
{
sb.Append("<");
sb.Append(tagText.Replace(" ", "_"));
sb.Append(">");
sb.Append(HttpContext.Current.Server.HtmlEncode(tagValue));
sb.Append("</");
sb.Append(tagText.Replace(" ", "_"));
sb.Append(">");

}

public static DataTable MergedNewsRecords(SPListItemCollection items)
{
DataTable dtFinalRecords = new DataTable();
DataColumn Title = new DataColumn("Title", typeof(string));
DataColumn FileRef = new DataColumn("FileRef", typeof(string));
DataColumn PublishedDate = new DataColumn("PublishedDate", typeof(DateTime));
dtFinalRecords.Columns.Add(Title);
dtFinalRecords.Columns.Add(FileRef);
dtFinalRecords.Columns.Add(PublishedDate);
try
{
foreach (SPListItem item in items)
{
if (item.File.Item.ContentType.Name == "Sharepoint News Page" && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(Convert.ToString(item.Properties["PressReleasePublihshedDate"])))
{
DataRow rowFinal = dtFinalRecords.NewRow();
rowFinal["Title"] = item.File.Title;
rowFinal["FileRef"] = item.File.ServerRelativeUrl;
rowFinal["PublishedDate"] = Convert.ToDateTime(SPUtility.CreateDateTimeFromISO8601DateTimeString(item.Properties["PressReleasePublihshedDate"].ToString()));
dtFinalRecords.Rows.Add(rowFinal);
}
else if (item.File.Item.ContentType.Name == "Sharepoint Article Page" && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(Convert.ToString(item.Properties["PublihshedDate"])))
{
DataRow rowFinal = dtFinalRecords.NewRow();
rowFinal["Title"] = item.File.Title;
rowFinal["FileRef"] = item.File.ServerRelativeUrl;
rowFinal["PublishedDate"] = Convert.ToDateTime(SPUtility.CreateDateTimeFromISO8601DateTimeString(item.Properties["PublihshedDate"].ToString()));
dtFinalRecords.Rows.Add(rowFinal);
}
}
if (dtFinalRecords.Rows.Count > 0)
{
DataView viewResults = new DataView(dtFinalRecords);
viewResults.Sort = "PublishedDate DESC";
dtFinalRecords = viewResults.ToTable();
}
}
catch { }
return dtFinalRecords;
}

public static DataTable RecordsWithRFCDateFormat(DataTable items)
{
DataTable dtFinalRecords = new DataTable();
DataColumn Title = new DataColumn("Title", typeof(string));
DataColumn FileRef = new DataColumn("FileRef", typeof(string));
DataColumn PublishedDate = new DataColumn("PublishedDate", typeof(string));
dtFinalRecords.Columns.Add(Title);
dtFinalRecords.Columns.Add(FileRef);
dtFinalRecords.Columns.Add(PublishedDate);
try
{
if (items != null && items.Rows.Count > 0)
{
foreach (DataRow row in items.Rows)
{
DataRow rowFinal = dtFinalRecords.NewRow();
rowFinal["Title"] = row["Title"];
rowFinal["FileRef"] = row["FileRef"];
rowFinal["PublishedDate"] = Convert.ToDateTime(row["PublishedDate"]).ToString("dddd, d MMM yyyy hh:mm:ss");
dtFinalRecords.Rows.Add(rowFinal);
}
}
}
catch { }
return dtFinalRecords;
}

public static SPListItemCollection GetTheRssRecords(SPList list)
{
SPQuery query = new SPQuery();
SPListItemCollection results = null;
string strQuery = string.Empty;
strQuery = @"
<Where>
<Or>
<Eq>
<FieldRef Name='ContentType' />
<Value Type='Text'>Sharepoint News Page</Value>
</Eq>
<Eq>
<FieldRef Name='ContentType' />
<Value Type='Text'>Sharepoint Article Page</Value>
</Eq>
</Or>
</Where>
";
}
query.Query = strQuery;
results = list.GetItems(query);
return results;
}
</script>
/*******************************************************************************************************************************/

- Now put this aspx page to "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS"

- Now use our custom application page to rendered the RSS feeds.
i.e. http://YourServer:Port/NewsSite/_layouts/SharepointCustomRSSFeeds.aspx?List=%7BA5EEB0B7%2DA64E%2D40F6%2D9F8D%2D319B3A86A337%7D

- You can get the list id from the address bar by go to the list settings page.
Here we have not created any list view therefore the Query string parameter "View" will be null.

- Now paste the http://YourServer:Port/NewsSite/_layouts/SharepointCustomRSSFeeds.aspx?List=%7BA5EEB0B7%2DA64E%2D40F6%2D9F8D%2D319B3A86A337%7D url to the address bar,
Our custom application page will render the rss feed.

Regards
Hiren Patel

Upgrade the SharePoint solution using PowerShell.

2012-07-05T02:07:00.002-07:00

Hello today we will write the powershell script to upgrade the existing wsp to the sharepoint solution store.

1. Open any text editor.

2. Copy the below lines of script code inside it and save the file as like "Upgrade.ps1".

#************************************************************************************************************************
Write-Host ''
Write-Host 'Legal Intelligence deployment upgradation started.....' -foregroundcolor Cyan

# Ensure SharePoint cmdlets are loaded :
$snapin = Get-PSSnapin | Where-Object {$_.Name -eq 'Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell'}
if ($snapin -eq $null) {
Add-PsSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell
}

# Variables
$solutionNameCollection = @("Sharepointcustom.wsp")
$CurrentDir="D:\Solution Package"

# Upgrading the solution one by one
foreach ($solutionName in $solutionNameCollection)
{
Write-Host ''
Write-Host 'Starting upgradation of' $solutionName 'solution......' -foregroundcolor Cyan
$SolutionPath=$CurrentDir + "\" + $solutionName
Write-Host ''
Update-SPSolution -Identity $solutionName -LiteralPath $SolutionPath -GACDeployment -Local
Write-Host 'Completed upgradation of' $solutionName 'solution......' -foregroundcolor Cyan
Write-Host ''
}

Write-Host 'Upgradation completed.......' -foregroundcolor Cyan
Write-Host ''
Write-Host "Resetting IIS to clear application pools" -foregroundcolor Cyan
IISRESET
#************************************************************************************************************************

3. You need to change the current directory path of the wsp inside the script .For that find the "$CurrentDir" and replace it with your existing wsp path.
i.e. if you existing wsp is located to "D:\Solution Package" then value of the $CurrentDir is
$CurrentDir="D:\Solution Package"

4. Once the solution path will modified then change name of your wsp package.For that find the $solutionNameCollection value and replace it with your existing wsp name.
i.e.if your wsp name is like "Sharepointcustom.wsp" then the value of $solutionNameCollection is
$solutionNameCollection = @("Sharepointcustom.wsp")
Note: if tou want to install the multiple wsp to the sharepoint solution store then seperate the wsp with comaa(,)
i.e. $solutionNameCollection = @("Sharepointcustom1.wsp","Sharepointcustom2.wsp","Sharepointcustom3.wsp")

5. Save all the changes and open the "SharePoint Management Shell" as an administrator mode from
All Program -> Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 Products -> SharePoint Management Shell

6. Change the direcory path with the existing wsp path that you have already set the value of $CurrentDir="D:\Solution Package" in the script.
From the powershell command propmt type the following command and press enter button.
cd "D:\Solution Package"

7. Now type the following command and press enter.
.\Upgrade.ps1

8. Likewise powershell script is used to upgrade the single or multiple wsp packages to the sharepoint solution store

Regards
Hiren Patel

Install the SharePoint solution using PowerShell.

2012-07-05T01:54:00.001-07:00

Hello today we will write the powershell script to install the wsp to the sharepoint solution store.

1. Open any text editor.

2. Copy the below lines of script code inside it and save the file as like "Install.ps1".

#********************************************************************************
Write-Host ''
Write-Host 'Checking whether the required services are running...' -foregroundcolor Yellow
#Start necessary services
#Start service of World Wide Web
$WorldWideWebService = Get-Service -Name W3SVC
if ($WorldWideWebService.Status -ne "Running")
{
#Start-SPAdminJob
Write-Host ''
Write-Host 'Starting World Wide Web Service ....' -foregroundcolor Cyan
Start-Service W3SVC
}

#Start service of Sharepoint admin
$adminService = Get-Service -Name SPAdminV4
if ($adminService.Status -ne "Running")
{
#Start-SPAdminJob
Write-Host ''
Write-Host 'Starting SharePoint 2010 Administration Service ....' -foregroundcolor Cyan
Start-Service SPAdminV4
}

#Start service of Sharepoint Timer
$timerService = Get-Service -Name SPTimerV4
if ($timerService.Status -ne "Running")
{
#Start-SPTimerV4
Write-Host ''
Write-Host 'Starting SharePoint 2010 Timer Service ....' -foregroundcolor Cyan
Start-Service SPTimerV4
}

# Ensure SharePoint cmdlets are loaded :
$snapin = Get-PSSnapin | Where-Object {$_.Name -eq 'Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell'}
if ($snapin -eq $null) {
Add-PsSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell
}

# Variables
$CurrentDir= "D:\Solution Package"
$solutionNameCollection = @("Sharepointcustom.wsp")
$SiteUrl="http://server:port"

# Foreach loop to add and deploy the multiple solution to the solution store.
foreach ($solutionName in $solutionNameCollection)
{
$SolutionPath=$CurrentDir + "\"+$solutionName

function WaitForJobToFinish([string]$SolutionFileName)
{
$JobName = "*solution-deployment*$SolutionFileName*"
$job = Get-SPTimerJob | ?{ $_.Name -like $JobName }
if ($job -eq $null)
{
Write-Host 'Timer job not found' -foregroundcolor Red
}
else
{
$JobFullName = $job.Name
Write-Host ''
Write-Host -NoNewLine 'Waiting to finish "'
Write-Host -NoNewLine $JobFullName -foregroundcolor Green
Write-Host -NoNewLine '" job ' -foregroundcolor DarkGray

while ((Get-SPTimerJob $JobFullName) -ne $null)
{
Write-Host -NoNewLine . -foregroundcolor DarkGray
Start-Sleep -Seconds 2
}

Write-Host -NoNewLine ' Done' -foregroundcolor Green
Write-Host ''
}
}

Write-Host ''
Write-Host 'Checking whether the solution exists in the Solutions Store.' -foregroundcolor Yellow
$solution = Get-SPSolution $solutionName -ErrorAction:SilentlyContinue

if ($solution -ne $null)
{
Write-Host $solutionName 'Already exists'
Write-Host ''

Write-Host 'Checking if' $solutionName 'is already deployed' -foregroundcolor Yellow

# Check whether the solution is already deployed.
if ($solution.Deployed)
{
Write-Host $solutionName "is already deployed"
Write-Host ''

Write-Host "Uninstalling " $solutionName -foregroundcolor Cyan

if ($solution.ContainsWebApplicationResource)
{
Write-Host "Retracting" $solutionName " from all web applications" -foregroundcolor Cyan
Uninstall-SPSolution -identity $solutionName -allwebapplication -confirm:$false
}
else {
Write-Host "Retracting" $solutionName -foregroundcolor Cyan
Uninstall-SPSolution -identity $solutionName -confirm:$false
}

#Write-Host 'Waiting for job to finish' -foregroundcolor DarkGray
WaitForJobToFinish $solutionName

Write-Host ''
}

# Remove solution from store.
Write-Host 'Removing ' $solutionName -foregroundcolor Cyan
Remove-SPSolution -identity $solutionName -confirm:$false -Force:$true
Write-Host ''
}

# Add solution to Solutions Store. :
Write-Host "Adding" $solutionName " to the Solutions Store" -foregroundcolor Cyan
Add-SPSolution -LiteralPath $solutionPath
#Add-SPSolution $SolutionPath
Write-Host ''

Write-Host "Deploying" $solutionName -foregroundcolor Cyan
# Can use -CASPolicies also here
# Not to use -AllWebApplications option.
# If the solution contains Web Application Resource, use this command.

Install-SPSolution –Identity $solutionName -WebApplication $SiteUrl –GACDeployment -Force:$true

#Note: If you want to install the wsp globally then replace the above line with below
#Install-SPSolution –Identity $solutionName –GACDeployment -Force:$true
}
Write-Host ''

WaitForJobToFinish $solutionName
Write-Host ''
Write-Host 'Done Deploying Solutions' -foregroundcolor Green

Write-Host ''
Write-Host "Resetting IIS to clear application pools" -foregroundcolor Cyan
iisreset /noforce
#********************************************************************************

3. You need to change the current directory path of the wsp inside the script .For that find the "$CurrentDir" and replace it with your existing wsp path.
i.e. if you existing wsp is located to "D:\Solution Package" then value of the $CurrentDir is
$CurrentDir="D:\Solution Package"

4. Once the solution path will modified then change name of your wsp package.For that find the $solutionNameCollection value and replace it with your existing wsp name.
i.e.if your wsp name is like "Sharepointcustom.wsp" then the value of $solutionNameCollection is
$solutionNameCollection = @("Sharepointcustom.wsp")
Note: if tou want to install the multiple wsp to the sharepoint solution store then seperate the wsp with comaa(,)
i.e. $solutionNameCollection = @("Sharepointcustom1.wsp","Sharepointcustom2.wsp","Sharepointcustom3.wsp")

5. Now the time is to change your sharepoint WebApplication url on which you want to install the wsp.For that
find the $SiteUrl and replace its value with your webapplication url.
$SiteUrl="http://server:port"

6. Install-SPSolution –Identity $solutionName -WebApplication $SiteUrl –GACDeployment -Force:$true
This line will deploy the wsp on specific web application.If you want to deploy the wsp Globally then folowing command will use.
Install-SPSolution –Identity $solutionName –GACDeployment -Force:$true

7. Save all the changes and open the "SharePoint Management Shell" as an administrator mode from
All Program -> Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 Products -> SharePoint Management Shell

8. Change the direcory path with the existing wsp path that you have already set the value of $CurrentDir="D:\Solution Package" in the script.
From the powershell command propmt type the following command and press enter.
cd "D:\Solution Package"

9. Now type the following command and press enter.
.\Install.ps1

10.Likewise powershell script is used to install the single or multiple wsp packages to the sharepoint solution store

Regards
Hiren Patel

Rendered SharePoint search result in xml format

2012-07-05T01:00:00.000-07:00

Hello ,
using below xslt we get the sharepoint 2010 search result in xml format.
For that ,
1. Go to the search result page
2. Edit the page and Edit the core search result webpart property.
3. Go to the xslt section and first create the backup of the existing xslt for the search result and replace it wil below xslt
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xmp><xsl:copy-of select="*"/></xmp>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
4. Click ok and save and publish the page
5. Perform search again it will rendered the search result in xml format.

Regards
Hiren Patel

Create pages programatically in SharePoint 2010

2012-07-04T23:52:00.002-07:00

Hello,
- In this post we will get specified the content types in the sites and using that content type we will create the page programatically
- Using window application we will do this stuff.
- So first create the window application and add the Microsoft.Sharepoint.dll reference from the 14 hives directory.
( C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\isapi )
-Now put some control as shown below and also give the appropriate name already mention below.

Now add the following lines of code insite the button click event and also add the custon methods.

//This function will use to get the specified content type and add those to the combo box
private void btnContentType_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
using (SPSite site = new SPSite(txtURL.Text))
{
using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())
{
PublishingSite pSite = new PublishingSite(site);
SPContentType ctype = pSite.ContentTypes[comboBoxContentType.SelectedText];
foreach (PageLayout p in pSite.PageLayouts)
{
if (p.AssociatedContentType.ResourceFolder.Name.ToLower() == "Custom content type 1".Trim().ToLower() && p.Name.ToLower() == "CustomPageLayouts1.aspx".ToLower())
{
comboBoxContentType.Items.Add(p.AssociatedContentType.ResourceFolder.Name);
}
else if (p.AssociatedContentType.ResourceFolder.Name.ToLower() == "Custom content type 2".Trim().ToLower() && p.Name.ToLower() == "CustomPageLayouts2.aspx".ToLower())
{
comboBoxContentType.Items.Add(p.AssociatedContentType.ResourceFolder.Name);
}
}
}
}
}
//Add the following line of code to the selected index change event of the combo box
private void comboBoxContentType_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (pageLayoutForCreatingThePage != null)
{
lblPageLayouts.Text = pageLayoutForCreatingThePage.Name;
}
}
//Add following line of code to the button click event of the Create button , this code will useful to create the pages
private void btnCreate_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
try
{
using (SPSite site = new SPSite(txtURL.Text))
{
using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())
{
PublishingSite pSite = new PublishingSite(site);
PageLayout pageLayout = null;
foreach (PageLayout p in pSite.PageLayouts)
{
if (comboBoxContentType.SelectedItem.ToString().ToLower() == "Custom content type 1".Trim().ToLower() && p.AssociatedContentType.ResourceFolder.Name.ToLower() == "Custom content type 1".Trim().ToLower() && p.Name.ToLower() == "CustomPageLayouts1.aspx".ToLower())
{
pageLayout = p;
break;
}
else if (comboBoxContentType.SelectedItem.ToString().ToLower() == "Custom content type 2".Trim().ToLower() && p.AssociatedContentType.ResourceFolder.Name.ToLower() == "Custom content type 2".Trim().ToLower() && p.Name.ToLower() == "CustomPageLayouts2.aspx".ToLower())
{
pageLayout = p;
break;
}
}
pageLayoutForCreatingThePage = pageLayout;
PublishingWeb pWeb = PublishingWeb.GetPublishingWeb(web);
PublishingPageCollection pPages = pWeb.GetPublishingPages();
SPList list = pPages.PubWeb.PagesList;
SPQuery query = null;
string pageName = string.Empty;
string strQuery = string.Empty;
Hashtable hs = new Hashtable();

strQuery = @"<FieldRef Name='Title' />";
strQuery = string.Format(strQuery, pageName);
query = new SPQuery();
query.Query = strQuery;
if (list.GetItems(query).Count > 0)
{
DataTable dt = list.GetItems(query).GetDataTable();
foreach (DataRow row in dt.Rows)
{
hs.Add(row["Title"].ToString().ToLower(), row["Title"].ToString().ToLower());
}
}
for (int i = 0; i < Convert.ToInt32(textBoxPagesToCreate.Text); i++)
{

pageName = comboBoxContentType.SelectedItem.ToString().Trim().Replace(" ", "-") + "-" + System.DateTime.Now.AddDays(i + 1).AddHours(i + 1).ToShortDateString().Replace("/", "_").ToString();
if (!hs.ContainsKey(pageName.ToLower()))
{
string filename = comboBoxContentType.SelectedItem.ToString().Trim().Replace(" ", "-") + "-" + System.DateTime.Now.AddDays(i + 1).AddHours(i + 1).ToShortDateString().Replace("/", "_").ToString() + ".aspx";
PublishingPage pPage = pPages.Add(filename, pageLayout);
SPListItem newpage = pPage.ListItem;
//Here we are setting the "Title" field property of the page
newpage["Title"] = comboBoxContentType.SelectedItem.ToString().Trim().Replace(" ", "-") + "-" + System.DateTime.Now.AddDays(i + 1).AddHours(i + 1).ToShortDateString().Replace("/", "_").ToString();
if (pageLayout.AssociatedContentType.ResourceFolder.Name.ToLower() == "Custom content type 1".Trim().ToLower())
{
//Here we are setting the "PublishStartDate" field property of the page
newpage["PublishStartDate"] = System.DateTime.Now.AddDays(i + 1).AddHours(i + 1);
}
else if (pageLayout.AssociatedContentType.ResourceFolder.Name.ToLower() == "Custom content type 2".Trim().ToLower())
{
//Here we are setting the "ReleasePublihshedDate" field property of the page
newpage["ReleasePublihshedDate"] = System.DateTime.Now.AddDays(i + 1).AddHours(i + 1);
}
newpage.Update();
newpage.File.CheckIn("Checked in");
newpage.File.Publish("published");
}
}
}
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
throw ex;
}

MessageBox.Show("Operation Completed......");
}

1. Once the code is added , run the window application ,
2. First add the Site Url of you Site , second click on get content type button ( This will fetch the specified content type form the site)
3. Second select the desired content type from the combo box and insert the number of amount of page to create.
4. Third click on the Create button.
5. So it will create the number of pages that you specified using the selected content type.

Regards
Hiren Patel

Add Sitetemplate progrmatically in SharePoint 2010

2012-07-04T23:04:00.001-07:00

Hello,
Today we will add the site template programatically in sharepoint site to each and every subsites.
We will create the window application for that.
Next steps is to add the Microsoft.SharePoint.dll form the 14 hives
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\isapi.
Now put one lable from the toolbox section and set the text property as "Site Url".
Now put one text box beside of label and name it as txtSiteUrl.
Now add one button and named it as btnStart and set the text property as "Start".
so Final look of the window form is like

now add following lines of code to the button click event

private void btnStart_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
try
{
using(SPSite site = new SPSite(txtSiteUrl.Text))
{
SPWeb rootWeb = site.RootWeb;
ConfigureSiteTemplate(site, rootWeb);
MessageBox.Show("Operation Completed Successfully........");
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
throw ex;
}
}

Below are the custom functions

private void ConfigureSiteTemplate(SPSite site, SPWeb web)
{
try
{
using (SPSite CurrentSite = new SPSite(web.Url))
{
using (SPWeb CurrentWeb = CurrentSite.OpenWeb())
{
SetSiteTemplate(CurrentWeb);
foreach (SPWeb currentWebSite in CurrentWeb.Webs)
{
ConfigureSiteTemplate(site, currentWebSite);//we are calling recursive function for each and every sub site
}
}
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
throw ex;
}
}
public void SetSiteTemplate(SPWeb currentWeb)
{
bool SharePointCutomTemplateAvailable = false;
Collection<SPWebTemplate> Collection = new Collection<SPWebTemplate>();
try
{
using (SPWeb curWeb = currentWeb)
{
using (SPSite curSite = curWeb.Site)
{
SPWebTemplateCollection TemplateCollection = curWeb.GetAvailableWebTemplates(curWeb.Language);
foreach (SPWebTemplate Template in TemplateCollection)
{
if (Template.Title == "Custom Sharepoint Template")//This is custom sharepoint template
{
SharePointCutomTemplateAvailable = true;//Here we are checking that the custom template with name "Custom Sharepoint Template" is already added or not
}
if (Template.Name != "ENTERWIKI#0")//we are adding wiki template
{
Collection.Add(Template);
}

}
foreach (SPWebTemplate template in curSite.GetWebTemplates(curWeb.Language))
{
if (!SharePointCutomTemplateAvailable && template.Title == "Custom Sharepoint Template")//If the custom template is not available we will add it
{
Collection.Add(template);//Here custom template is added
}
}
curWeb.SetAvailableCrossLanguageWebTemplates(Collection);
curWeb.Update();
}
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
throw ex;
}
}

Now run the application , and give the site url ( http://server:port ) of you sharepoint site and click on the button , it will add the given site template to your sharepoint sites and subsites.

Regards
Hiren Patel

Site template not found in sharepoint 2010

2012-07-04T06:36:00.005-07:00

Hello,
When we are creating site using custom template using webtemp.xml file you will get the error like
Site template not found.
This is because of the same template id in the different webtemp.xml file under the specified culture folder.

e.g. for english "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\1033\XML"

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Templates xmlns:ows="Microsoft SharePoint">

<Template Name="SharepointCustomGlobal" ID="10051">
<Configuration ID="0" Title="SharepointCustom content management host site"
Hidden="FALSE" ImageUrl="/_layouts/1033/images/IPPT.gif"
Description="A SharepointCustom site."
ProvisionAssembly="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c"
ProvisionClass="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PortalProvisioningProvider"
ProvisionData="xml\\SharepointCustomGlobalPortal.xml"
RootWebOnly="TRUE" DisplayCategory="SharepointCustom" VisibilityFeatureDependency="97A2485F-EF4B-401f-9167-FA4FE177C6F6">
</Configuration>
</Template>
</Templates>

So to resolve this error you need to change the Template ID of your existing webtemp.xml file
So suppose previously it was like 10051 so change it some what else not used by any one like 20050 something..
so modified webtemp.xml with new id id like

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Templates xmlns:ows="Microsoft SharePoint">

<Template Name="SharepointCustomGlobal" ID="10051">
<Configuration ID="0" Title="SharepointCustom content management host site"
Hidden="FALSE" ImageUrl="/_layouts/1033/images/IPPT.gif"
Description="A SharepointCustom site."
ProvisionAssembly="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c"
ProvisionClass="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PortalProvisioningProvider"
ProvisionData="xml\\SharepointCustomGlobalPortal.xml"
RootWebOnly="TRUE" DisplayCategory="SharepointCustom" VisibilityFeatureDependency="97A2485F-EF4B-401f-9167-FA4FE177C6F6">
</Configuration>
</Template>
</Templates>

Regards
Hiren Patel

Attached SharePoint 2010 Master Page using feature receiver

2012-07-04T04:58:00.000-07:00

Hello,

In this post i will explain , how to deploy the master page to the SharePoint Master page gallery and melodramatically using feature receiver apply the master page to the Site Collection.

First create the empty SharePoint project using the visual studio 2010 named it as SharePointCustom

Now add Sharepoint Module element by right click on the Project - > click Add - > New Item -> Select SharePoint 2010 Section - > Select Module element - > Give Proper Name - >Click on Add button

I have specified the name like "SharepointCustom.MasterPages"

Now add the existing master page ( v4.Master ) to the Module element from the Sharepoint 14 hives Layouts folder

"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\"

Rename the master page as "SharepointCustom.master"

Add the same master page to set it as a System master and renamed it as "SharepointCustomsSystem.master"

Now open the element.xml file of the master page it will be looked as shown below

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
<Module Name="SharepointCustom.MasterPages" Url="_catalogs/masterpage">
<File Path="SharepointCustom.MasterPages\SharepointCustom.master" Url="SharepointCustom.MasterPages/SharepointCustom.master" Type="GhostableInLibrary" IgnoreIfAlreadyExists="True" />
<File Path="SharepointCustom.MasterPages\SharepointCustomSystem.master" Url="SharepointCustom.MasterPages/SharepointCustomSystem.master" Type="GhostableInLibrary" IgnoreIfAlreadyExists="True" />
</Module>
</Elements>

and .spdata file for the master page (by default this file is hidden you can view this file by click on the Show All File option from the solution explorer)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ProjectItem Type="Microsoft.VisualStudio.SharePoint.Module" DefaultFile="Elements.xml" SupportedTrustLevels="All" SupportedDeploymentScopes="Web, Site" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2010/SharePointTools/SharePointProjectItemModel">
<Files>
<ProjectItemFile Source="Elements.xml" Target="SharepointCustom.MasterPages\" Type="ElementManifest" />
<ProjectItemFile Source="SharepointCustom.master" Target="SharepointCustom.MasterPages\" Type="ElementFile" />
<ProjectItemFile Source="SharepointCustomSystem.master" Target="SharepointCustom.MasterPages\" Type="ElementFile" />
</Files>
</ProjectItem>

Above changes will add the Master Pages to the Master Page Gallery.

Now add Site level feature to attached master page with the Site.

Named it as "SharepointCustom.MasterPages" and add event receiver by right click on the feature - > click on the "Add Event Receiver".

Now we set Activate On Default property is true by double click on the feature , click any where on the feature surface and click on F4 key.

So final structure of the solution is looked like as below

Now open the code behind file for the feature and uncomment the "FeatureActivated" method.

Add the following lines of code to the method

public override void FeatureActivated(SPFeatureReceiverProperties properties)
{
SPSite currentSite = (SPSite)properties.Feature.Parent;
if (currentSite != null)
{
SPWeb currentWeb = currentSite.RootWeb;
Uri systemMasterUri = new Uri(currentWeb.Url + "/_catalogs/masterpage/SharepointCustom.MasterPages/SharepointCustomSystem.master");
Uri customMasterUri = new Uri(currentWeb.Url + "/_catalogs/masterpage/SharepointCustom.MasterPages/SharepointCustom.master");
currentWeb.MasterUrl = customMasterUri.AbsolutePath;
currentWeb.CustomMasterUrl = systemMasterUri.AbsolutePath;
currentWeb.Update();
}
}

So when feature get activated at site level our custom master pages will be attached with the site.

Now add following lines of code to reset the origional master pages when feature will get deactivated

public override void FeatureDeactivating(SPFeatureReceiverProperties properties)
{
SPSite currentSite = (SPSite)properties.Feature.Parent;
if (currentSite != null)
{
SPWeb currentWeb = currentSite.RootWeb;
Uri masterUri = new Uri(currentWeb.Url + "/_catalogs/masterpage/v4.master");
currentWeb.MasterUrl = masterUri.AbsolutePath;
currentWeb.CustomMasterUrl = masterUri.AbsolutePath;
currentWeb.Update();
}
}

Now deploy the solutions.Our custom feature will activated because we have set "Activate On Default" property is true.

Regards
Hiren Patel

Hide the ribbon control for the anonymous user

2012-07-04T03:36:00.002-07:00

Hello ,

Today we will hide the ribbon control for the anonymous users.Generally when we configured the anonymous access in the SharePoint site , the ribbon control is also visible but we do not want to show the same for the anonymous user.so we will use some JavaScript trick and SharePoint permission feature.
so lets we start.

First open your master page.
we will by default hide the ribbon control division tag , so for that find the ribbon control division id "s4-ribbonrow" and make the division to display none by applying the style and add the following tag after completion of the ribbon division element.

<Sharepoint:SPSecurityTrimmedControl ID="SPSecurityTrimmedControlAnonymousUser" runat="server" PermissionsString="AddAndCustomizePages">
<script type="text/javascript">
document.getElementById("s4-ribbonrow").style.display = "block";
</script>
</Sharepoint:SPSecurityTrimmedControl>

The final tag will be look like as shown below

<div id="s4-ribbonrow" class="s4-pr s4-ribbonrowhidetitle"style="display:none">
Ribbon control content.
</div>
<Sharepoint:SPSecurityTrimmedControl ID="SPSecurityTrimmedControlAnonymousUser" runat="server" PermissionsString="AddAndCustomizePages">
<script type="text/javascript">
document.getElementById("s4-ribbonrow").style.display = "block";
</script>
</Sharepoint:SPSecurityTrimmedControl>

Here , the user who is having the permission of adding the page and customized the page can only view the ribbon.

Next save the masterpage and published it.so the ribbon will be hide for the anonymous user.
If you want to display the sign in button for the anonymous user you need to remove the
welcome control from the ribbon division to some where else as per your UI requirement.

Find the below tag from the ribbon division element and place it to some other location as per your requirement.
<wssuc:Welcome id="IdWelcome" runat="server" EnableViewState="false"></wssuc:Welcome>

Regards
Hiren Patel

Create the SharePoint site in different languages using variation

2012-07-04T02:26:00.000-07:00

Hello,
Today we will learn how to create the sharepoint site in different languages.
Using variation concept in sharepoint we can create sites in different languages without installation of different Sharepoint versions.
Variation concept is best suitable for the publishing sites and pages.

So first downloads the desired languages packs from the microsoft sites.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3411

To check how many language pack is installed at your server have the differnt ways.
One way is to check the language options by go to your site
Site Action - >Site Settings -> Go to the Site Collection Administration section ->click on Create Variaion Label

And find the language section as shown below here i have installed total two Finnish and Swedish.

when there is no sharepoint language pack installed in the server you cant find the to select the language option inside the SharePoint.

Now we are going to install the language packs.

Once the language pack is being installed run the Sharepoint 2010 Products Configuration wizards.

Perform the necessary steps from Sharepoint 2010 Products Configuration wizards.

Here I assumed that you have already having the publishing website available.

Now we are creating the variation sites.

so for that go to the Site Action - >Site Settings -> Go to the Site Collection Administration section ->click on Variations link as shown first screen shot.

Apply the changes as shown below and then click OK.

So we have done the settings of the top-level Web site of the site collection, by type a slash (/).Now the next task is to create the variation label of different sites.so for that go to the Site Action -> Site Settings ->Go to the Site Collection Administration section - > click on Create Variation Label->You can give give the appropriate label for the language as seen below

Language Name	Culture Name	Locale ID
Arabic	ar-sa	1025
Bulgarian	bg-bg	1026
Catalan	ca-es	1027
Chinese (Simplified)	zh-cn	2052
Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)	zh-tw	1028
Croatian	hr-hr	1050
Czech	cs-cz	1029
Danish	da-dk	1030
Dutch	nl-nl	1043
English	en-us	1033
Estonian	et-ee	1061
Finnish	fi-fi	1035
French	fr-fr	1036
German	de-de	1031
Greek	el-gr	1032
Hebrew	he-il	1037
Hindi	hi-in	1081
Hungarian	hu-hu	1038
Italian	it-it	1040
Japanese	ja-jp	1041
Kazakh	kk-kz	1087
Korean	ko-kr	1042
Latvian	lv-lv	1062
Lithuanian	lt-lt	1063
Norwegian (Bokmål)	nb-no	1044
Polish	pl-pl	1045
Portuguese (Brazil)	pt-br	1046
Portuguese (Portugal)	pt-pt	2070
Romanian	ro-ro	1048
Russian	ru-ru	1049
Serbian (Latin)	sr-latn-cs	2074
Slovak	sk-sk	1051
Slovenian	sl-si	1060
Spanish	es-es	3082
Swedish	sv-se	1053
Thai	th-th	1054
Turkish	tr-tr	1055
Ukrainian	uk-ua	1058

First we are taking english site as a source variation site and creating first label for the english.
Now give the appropraite name for the label and apply required settings as shown below.

Click ok , Same way i am creating another label of finnish language.

Now we have created two variation label.
Now we are creating the variaiton hierarchies so for that go to the Site Action - >Site Settings -> Go to the Site Collection Administration section ->click on Create Variaion Label ->then click on create variation Hierarchy.

So after that the Timer Job will execute to create the hierarchies it will take some times if you want the quicker result then you need to manually execute the timer job.

For that Go to the central administration site , Select Monitoring from the left panel -> Now select the Review job definitions.You will find the below screen.Now select your web application and click on the below links and run it as now for all the five links.So timer job will execute and it will create the hierarchy.

You can check the whether the variation is successfully created or not using the varation log by go to the
Site Action - >Site Settings -> Go to the Site Collection Administration section -> Click on the Variation Log

Once the staus is successfully created the hierarchy you can find the both the variation sites en-us and fi-fi

Regards

Hiren Patel

Modify the table of content webpart property programatically in sharepoint

2012-07-03T03:16:00.000-07:00

In this post i mentioned how to access the Table of content webpart progrmatically and how to modify its property.

So for that first open the visual studio 2010.
Then create one Empty sharepoint project.
specify your site url on which the solution need to deploy.
Then add sharepoint map folder by right click on the project and click on Add -> Sharepoint Mapped Folder - > Select Template - > ControlTemplate - Click OK .
Add one empty folder and named it as TOCWebpart inside the ControlTemplate folder.
Add user control inside the TOCWebpart folder.

Below is my user control code.

using System;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using Microsoft.SharePoint;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.WebControls;
using SharePoint.CMS.Common;

namespace SharePoint.CMS.SP.UserControls
{
public partial class TOCWebpartModification : UserControl
{
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
try
{
if (SPContext.Current.ListItem != null && SPContext.Current.ListItem.File != null)
{
SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate()
{
SPFile page = SPContext.Current.ListItem.File;
if (page.Level == SPFileLevel.Checkout && (page.Item.ContentType.Name == "SharePoint News Page"))
{
bool allowUnSafeUpdates = SPContext.Current.Web.AllowUnsafeUpdates;
SPContext.Current.Web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true;
using (SPLimitedWebPartManager wpm = page.GetLimitedWebPartManager(PersonalizationScope.Shared))
{
try
{
string webpartZoneID = "TOCWebpartZoneID";
for (int i = 0; i < wpm.WebParts.Count; i++)
{
if (wpm.GetZoneID(wpm.WebParts[i]) == webpartZoneID)
{
TableOfContentsWebPart tocWP = wpm.WebParts[i].WebBrowsableObject as TableOfContentsWebPart;
string tocTitle = Convert.ToString(tocWP.Title).ToLower();
tocWP.LevelsToShow = 2;
tocWP.IncludeContentFromStartingLocation = true;
tocWP.AnchorLocation = Convert.ToString(Helper.GetResourceStringForCulture(SPContext.Current.Web.Locale, "AboutSharePoint_Site__RelativeURL"));
wpm.MoveWebPart(tocWP, webpartZoneID, 0);//This line will change the webpart zone index to zero
wpm.SaveChanges(wpm.WebParts[i]);
}
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate()
{
Logger.Log(ex);
});
}
finally
{
wpm.Web.Dispose();
}
}
SPContext.Current.Web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = allowUnSafeUpdates;
}
});
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate()
{
Logger.Log(ex);
});
}
}
}
}

Deploy the solution.

Now we are going to add this user control reference to the page to use this webpart.

<%@ Register TagPrefix="TOC" TagName="SharepointTOC" Src="~/_controltemplates/TOCWebpart/TOCWebpartModification.ascx" %>

Now put this usercontrol reference to the page by using

<TOC:SharepointTOC ID="ucSharepointTOC" runat="server" ></TOC:SharepointTOC>

Regards
Hiren Patel

Access the sharepoint master page gallery programatically

2012-07-03T02:34:00.002-07:00

Today we will access the Sharepoint Masterpage Gallery and delete the existing sub-folder.

So first create one window console application using visual studio 2010.

Then add the Microsoft.Sharepoint.dll reference from the ISAPI folder from 14 hive directory( "C:\Program

Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\ISAPI").

So below are my source code

namespace DeleteFolderFromMasterPageGallery
{
class Program
{

static void Main(string[] args)
{
Program obj = new Program();
obj.GetMasterPageGallery();
}

public void GetMasterPageGallery()
{
string siteURL = "http://server:port/";
using (SPSite site = new SPSite(siteURL))
{
SPWeb web = site.RootWeb;
SPList list = site.GetCatalog(SPListTemplateType.MasterPageCatalog);
web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true;
SPFolder fol;
try
{
fol = list.RootFolder.SubFolders["Target Folder"];//This subfolder we will going to delete
}
catch
{ fol = null; }
if (fol != null)
fol.Delete();
web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = false;
}
}
}
}

Now run the console application so it will delete the existing sub folder named "Target Folder".

Regards
Hiren Patel

Add the content editor web-part to the page layout progrmatically

2012-07-03T02:00:00.000-07:00

Hello All,

Today we will add the content editor web-part to the page layout with the specified the webpart zone and also add some HTML content to the web-part.For that we will use the console application using visual studio 2010.

So first create one window console application using visual studio 2010.

Then add the Microsoft.Sharepoint.dll refence form the ISAPI folder from 14 hive directory( "C:\Program

Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\ISAPI").

So below are my source code

namespace AddSampleData
{
class Program
{

static void Main(string[] args)
{
string pageURL = args[0]; //"http://server:port/pages/default.aspx";
string strHTML = "<div>This is my first blog posting</div>"

using (SPSite site = new SPSite(pageURL))
{
using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())
{
AddContentEditorToWebPartZone(web, pageURL, "Zone_ID", strHTML);
}
}
}

#region To Add webparts with data to page zones
public static void AddContentEditorToWebPartZone(SPWeb web, string url, string zoneId, string content)
{
SPLimitedWebPartManager webpartmanager = web.GetLimitedWebPartManager(url, PersonalizationScope.Shared);
ContentEditorWebPart cewp = new ContentEditorWebPart();
cewp.ChromeType = System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.PartChromeType.None;

XmlDocument docXml = new System.Xml.XmlDocument();
XmlElement contentXml = docXml.CreateElement("Content");
contentXml.InnerText = content;
cewp.Content = contentXml;
webpartmanager.AddWebPart(cewp, zoneId, 0);
}
}
}

Now run the console application it will take 1 argument the page url in which we are going to add the content editor webpart.

Regards
Hiren Patel