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Show Title on Page

If you want to show the page title in another part than defined in your master page just add this tag to your page layout.

<SharePoint:ProjectProperty
    Property="Title"
    runat="server" />

It must be within <asp:Content> tag

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Show a presence bubble

There is no built-in sharepoint control for the presence bubble. If you want to add this functionality on your pages you have to add it as html. Here is a sample:

private static int \_COUNTER = 0;
private const string PresenceBubble =
    "<a class='ms-imnlink' href='javascript:;'>" +
    "<img width='12' height='12' id='imn\_pawn\_{0}' onload=\\"IMNRC('{1}')\\" alt='My SID' " +
    "src='/\_layouts/images/imnoff.png' border='0' " +
    "showofflinepawn='1' sip='{2}'></a> {3}";

private static string FormatUser(SPUser user)
{
    \_COUNTER++;
    return string.Format(PresenceBubble, \_COUNTER, user.Email, user.GetSipAddress(SPContext.Current.Web), user.Name);
}
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Get role assignments of a web or a list

In Powershell you can easily get the permissions in a web or in a list:

$web = get-spweb http://contoso.com
$web.Groups | select Name, Roles > .\\Desktop\\webgroups.txt
$list = $web.Lists.TryGetList("Assets");
$list.RoleAssignments | select Member, RoleDefinitionBindings > .\\Desktop\\assets-roleassignements.txt
```To get all users in all groups run:

$web.Groups | Foreach { Write $_.Name; Write “————-”; $_.Users | Select Name; Write “”; Write "" }

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Windows 8 preview

windows 8I have tested the Windows 8 developer preview. VMWare player 3 didn’t manage it, so I installed VirtualBox and it ran very well. One thing I did was to enable full screen on VirtualBox. Here is the list of features you get if you install the developer preview:

  • Windows SDK for Metro style apps
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express for Windows Developer Preview
  • Microsoft Expression Blend 5 Developer Preview
  • 28 Metro style apps including the BUILD Conference app
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1DayLater.com - the best time tracking

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

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My favorite tools

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

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Webpart in a reusable user control

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” />

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Sharepoint repos on github

githubYou 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.

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Webparts on a layoutpage which is provisioned several times

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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TryGetList

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);

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