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Adding Properties to Timer Jobs

Adding properties to timer jobs could be handy if you want to set the reference to a particular site collection, or if you want to set some parameters that are needed to run the job. You could add these properties just like you would add properties to a SharePoint site. The following code can be...

Take your SharePoint social features to the next level with “I like it” and “Tags” counters: Part 4

My intention was to write three blog posts on this topic, but a commenter told me that a problem arises with blog post items. The counters always return zero. In this part I will show you why this is happening and what you could do to solve this. First of all the reason why it...

Take your SharePoint social features to the next level with “I like it” and “Tags” counters: Part 3

In the previous parts I showed you how to retrieve all tags for a specific page/item. In this part (the last one) I will show you how you can integrate these tags into your design. This will be the final result: User Control You have various possibilities to show these tag results on your page....

Take your SharePoint social features to the next level with “I like it” and “Tags” counters: Part 2

In the previous part I talked about retrieving the number of tags by code. The problem was that the GetTags method from the SocialTagManager class, could only retrieve tags from a specific user. In this part I show you a way to retrieve the all the tags for a specific location/page. Decompile My first step...

Take your SharePoint social features to the next level with “I like it” and “Tags” counters: Part 1

Social media is a trending topic these days, more and more companies start to use it. As you may know, SharePoint 2010 also got social features like for example: tagging, I like it, social comments, etc. But these social features are nothing compared to the social features like Facebook. When somebody “likes” a page or...

Quick Tip: VSTO Retrieve The SharePoint File Location

Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) can be used to develop add-ins (and more) for an Office application. In combination with the SharePoint Client Object Model, it could be used to retrieve additional information from a SharePoint site were the file is located. You always need to specify a site URL when using the SharePoint...