At appharbor there is a simple .gitignore file for .net applications. If you use Resharper, you may find the extended version of .gitignore useful. A most comprehensive .gitignore can be found on gitextensions website. (Thanks to Vasiliy Aksyonov for the comment): #ignore thumbnails created by windows Thumbs.db #Ignore files build by Visual Studio \*.obj \*.exe \*.pdb \*.user \*.aps \*.pch \*.vspscc \*\_i.c \*\_p.c \*.ncb \*.suo \*.tlb \*.tlh \*.bak \*.cache \*.ilk \*.log \[Bb\]in \[Dd\]ebug\*/ \*.

A funny powershell command I came upon today together with my colleague. Remove all your custom features (which start with something, say contoso): Get-SPFeature | Where { $\_.DisplayName.StartsWith("Contoso.") } | ForEach { Uninstall-SPFeature $\_.Id -confirm:0 -force } Have fun!

Today I have struggled with User Profile Service Application. I should have followed this awesome tutorial by ShareponitGeorge. And many thanks to my friend David for the great assistance! One important thing to beware about: Forefront Identity Manager Service must be running. Otherwise you don’t see the existing synchronization connections and you can’t add new connections. You can ensure that this service is running by running services.msc (just press Windows button and write services).

Sometimes one must have much sense of humour. Take a look at this: <Field ID="{0F0BC0C4-2478-4CB5-85B0-A01B79956061}" Name="TargetUrl" DisplayName="MyUrl" StaticName="TargetUrl" Type="URL" Sealed="TRUE"/> ```How many erros can arise in this custom field? Hmpf, everything is clear. But when I tried this (with Type="Url") many unexpected errors occured. Sometimes it is a tumbleweed with case-sensitive stuff in the case-insensitive Windows environment.

If you have a master page with fixed size (perhaps in a centered layout). Here is a simplistic js-script to auto-resize: $(window).load(function(){ $wider = false; $pagecontainer = $("#pagecontainer"); $elementsToCareAbout = $("#ctl00\_MSO\_ContentDiv > \*, #ctl00\_MSO\_ContentDiv table") $elementsToCareAbout.each(function(){ if($(this).width() > $pagecontainer.width()) { $wider = true; } }); if ($wider) $pagecontainer.width(1200); }); Any improvement ideas and suggestions are more than welcome.

Well, sometimes we need to calculate width and so on. In my next post I will write about how to fix auto-resize on fixed sized master pages. But now: a very nice stuff: how to check if an element is hidden or not: $("#s4-leftpanel").is(":visible") ```It is a pure poetry. It reminds me of the beauty of [symbols in Ruby](http://rubylearning.com/satishtalim/ruby_symbols.html).

If you work with Sharepoint Designer, use your own page layouts and want to have them for a page in a publishing site, you have to put in some controls in order to see th page content in you custom page layout. Put in a appropriate place in you page layout ( taken from ArticleLeft.aspx): <div> <PublishingWebControls:EditModePanel runat="server" CssClass="edit-mode-panel"> <SharePoint:TextField runat="server" FieldName="Title"/> </PublishingWebControls:EditModePanel> <div class="captioned-image"> <div class="image"> <PublishingWebControls:RichImageField FieldName="PublishingPageImage" runat="server"/> </div> <div class="caption"> <PublishingWebControls:RichHtmlField FieldName="PublishingImageCaption" AllowTextMarkup="false" AllowTables="false" AllowLists="false" AllowHeadings="false" AllowStyles="false" AllowFontColorsMenu="false" AllowParagraphFormatting="false" AllowFonts="false" PreviewValueSize="Small" AllowInsert="false" runat="server"/> </div> </div> <div class="article-header"> <div class="date-line"> <SharePoint:DateTimeField FieldName="ArticleStartDate" runat="server"/> </div> <div class="by-line"> <SharePoint:TextField FieldName="ArticleByLine" runat="server"/> </div> </div> <div class="article-content"> <PublishingWebControls:RichHtmlField FieldName="PublishingPageContent" HasInitialFocus="True" MinimumEditHeight="400px" runat="server"/> </div> <PublishingWebControls:EditModePanel runat="server" CssClass="edit-mode-panel roll-up"> <PublishingWebControls:RichImageField FieldName="PublishingRollupImage" AllowHyperLinks="false" runat="server" /> <asp:Label text="<%$Resources:cms,Article\_rollup\_image\_text%>" runat="server" /> </PublishingWebControls:EditModePanel> </div> Comments from Wordpress.

For all of who use Randy Drisgill’s starter masters, it won’t help if you go to Site Actions TreView and just enable it, because the DelegateControl is in a hidden panel. To really restore the original treeview you have to copy this xml from v4.master: <Sharepoint:UIVersionedContent runat="server" UIVersion="4"> <ContentTemplate> <Sharepoint:SPNavigationManager id="TreeViewNavigationManagerV4" runat="server" ContainedControl="TreeView" CssClass="s4-treeView" > <SharePoint:SPLinkButton runat="server" NavigateUrl="~site/\_layouts/viewlsts.aspx" id="idNavLinkSiteHierarchyV4" Text="<%$Resources:wss,treeview\_header%>" accesskey="<%$Resources:wss,quiklnch\_allcontent\_AK%>" CssClass="s4-qlheader" /> <div class="ms-treeviewouter"> <SharePoint:DelegateControl runat="server" ControlId="TreeViewAndDataSource"> <Template\_Controls> <SharePoint:SPHierarchyDataSourceControl runat="server" id="TreeViewDataSourceV4" RootContextObject="Web" IncludeDiscussionFolders="true" /> <SharePoint:SPRememberScroll runat="server" id="TreeViewRememberScrollV4" onscroll="javascript:_spRecordScrollPositions(this);" style="overflow: auto;height: 400px;width: 155px; "> <Sharepoint:SPTreeView id="WebTreeViewV4" runat="server" ShowLines="false" DataSourceId="TreeViewDataSourceV4" ExpandDepth="0" SelectedNodeStyle-CssClass="ms-tvselected" NodeStyle-CssClass="ms-navitem" SkipLinkText="" NodeIndent="12" ExpandImageUrl="/_layouts/images/tvclosed.

Are you also curious about NoSQL databases. Well, MongoDB is one of the most known ones. MongoDB has a javascript syntax (json), I like it. Try out the interactive shell at the mongodb site. Quickstart on Ubuntu To test it on Ubuntu, just install an existing apt-package: sudo apt-get install mongodb Create the default folder and change permissions: sudo mkdir -p /data/db/ sudo chown \`id -u\` /data/db ```Then jump directly into mongo db shell: mongo

Here are some links to start creating a custom my site template: intro branding Sharepoint Designer and my site customizations If you want to take the default templates take a look at **{SharepointRoot}\TEMPLATE\SiteTempates\SPMSITE **(the site template for “my content” - an individual site collection rootweb template, and first of all {SharepointRoot}\TEMPLATE\SiteTempates\SPMSITEHOST, the host site template for my sites. They include pages and onet.xml. Both use mysite.master which can be found at: