Entries for 'William Mortl'

Recently as I was creating a SharePoint web part for a DMC client I ran across a problem which really stumped me. At first, I thought what I had was an easy problem to solve: how does one open a popup window from C# in a web part?...

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Creating custom web parts for SharePoint 2010 is relatively simple, as is creating basic configuration options which can be edited in the properties panel. However, as you advance in your understanding of SharePoint and custom web part creation, you inexorably run in to the problem of creating rich, custom configuration capabilities for your web part which go far beyond the basic configuration cap... [Read the rest of this blog...]

Recently, I was working on a suite of web parts for a client. Everything was proceeding fantastically until I needed to deploy my farm solution (containing many web parts) from my development server to another SharePoint server for demonstration purposes. Visual Studio 2010 provides outstanding functionality for creating Web Parts for SharePoint, and can deploy them locally (provided that SharePoi... [Read the rest of this blog...]

This article presents the basics of Web Part development (with and without Silverlight) along with solutions for 2 common "gotcha's" for new developers.

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