I discovered a great tool for time tracking: 1DayLater. So far I am very pleased. You can add activities, write hash tagged descriptions, get an overview over you consultant hours and much more

When you code, you can save a lot of time and nerves if you have good tools. Here are my favorites: Programmer’s notepad ULS Log Viewer Resharper t4toolbox HTML5 and CSS3 standards

In my previous post I wrote about using IgnoreIfAlreadyExists=“True” for preventing of adding webparts multiple times. It works fine until you redeploy your project. Another approach is to use a user control with you webpart. Add mapped folder CONTROLTEMPLATES. Create a new user control, add you assembly and your webpart. Then you can add this user control wherever you need it.

<%@ Register 
    tagprefix="SPSWC" 
    Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls" 
    Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal, Version=14.0.0.0, 
    Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>

<SPSWC:SocialCommentWebPart runat="server" 
AllowEdit="True" 
AllowConnect="True" 
ConnectionID="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000" 
Title="Note Board" 
IsIncluded="True" 
Dir="Default" 
PartImageLarge="" 
IsVisible="True" 
AllowMinimize="True" 
ZoneID="" 
ID="g\_5937b022\_83bb\_40cb\_b68f\_bd565bf96885" 
FrameState="Normal" 
ExportMode="All" 
TitleLocIdNum="0" 
AllowHide="True" 
SuppressWebPartChrome="False"
 DetailLink="" 
 ChromeType="None" 
 DescriptionLocId="Null" 
 TitleLocId="Null" 
 MissingAssembly="Cannot import this Web Part." 
 PartImageSmall="" 
 AllowRemove="True" 
 HelpMode="Modeless" 
 FrameType="None" 
 AllowZoneChange="True" 
 PartOrder="1" 
 Description="Enable users to leave short, publicly-viewable notes about this page." 
 HelpLink="" 
 DescriptionLocIdNum="0" 
 ExportControlledProperties="True" 
 IsIncludedFilter="" 
 \_\_MarkupType="vsattributemarkup" 
 \_\_WebPartId="{5937b022-83bb-40cb-b68f-bd565bf96885}" 
 WebPart="true" 
 Height="" 
 Width="">
 </SPSWC:SocialCommentWebPart>
```Then add your user control into page layout like this:

<%@ Register     Tagprefix=“CONTOSO”     TagName=“SocialComment”     Src="~/_CONTROLTEMPLATES/CONTOSO/SocialCommentUserControl.ascx" %> <CONTOSO:SocialComment id=“SocialComment” runat=“server” />

You may think all interesting open source Sharepoint projects on codeplex. Well it is true, but there are some interesting projects on github as well. There are 17 projects for now. From a matrix to RichControls.

It is pretty easy to add webparts to a layout page. Just define the webparts in the corresponding Elements.xml file. Like you do in onet.xml. It works fine if you provision just a single page with this layout on a web. If you have multiple pages that use the same page layout (e.g. in WCM). The trick is to use the attribute IgnoreIfAlreadyExists in the File tag:

IgnoreIfAlreadyExists="True"

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Webpart in a reusable user control « Sharepoint. Kunskap. Upptäckter på resan. — 2011-09-01

How do we get a list? Perhaps like that:

var list = web.Lists\[listname"\];
```But we must be aware of exceptions that can appear and we must handle them. A better way to get a list is to use [TryGetList](http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/18035/custom-webpart-being-rendered-twice-on-layout-page):

var list = web.Lists.TryGetList(listname);

Jonas Nilsson shows an interesting approach for working with SPSite and SPWeb which must be disposed. Create a helper method WithWeb and send an Action parameter:

public void WithWeb(string uri, Action<SPWeb> action)
{
    using (SPSite site = new SPSite(uri))
    {
        using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())
        {
            action(web);
        }
    }
}

Here is my implementation of this pattern:

What to do if you want to change the title in the built-in webpart like Tasks or so. Your own title or just to avoid tasks (1) and tasks (2) if you add two views of them to a page. In onet.xml you add them as view:

<View 
  List="$Resources:core,lists\_Folder;/$Resources:core,tasks\_Folder;" 
  BaseViewID="7" WebPartZoneID="Middle" 
  WebPartOrder="6"/>

The solution is to add cdata element and webpart tag within it. So now replace this with:

var TimeToIgnore = new TimeSpan(0, 0, 0, 60); var created = (DateTime)properties.ListItem[SPBuiltInFieldId.Created]; var now = DateTime.Now; var span = now.Subtract(created); return span.CompareTo(this.TimeToIgnore) < 0;

The easiest way to get the server relative url of an SPListItem is to retrieve the property “ServerUrl”.

SPListItem item...
var url = item\["ServerUrl"\];