How to Configure Claims Based Authentication for Use with an LDAP Provider in SharePoint 2010
Using an LDAP provider with form authentication means that users will user their Windows or AD account to login. However, because form based authentication will be used they don’t get the usual popup, but they will use a sign-in page to login in. The following steps will help you set it up: First, create users […]
Does your SharePoint have user-friendly URLs
At last, you finished your SharePoint application. It is time to take a last look at your work and celebrate. Opening you app, you see everything is working like a charm. Congrats, dude. But wait what the heck is that long ugly URL doing? As a brilliant developer, you always believe it is not acceptable […]
SharePoint Enterprise Wiki
What’s the SharePoint Enterprise Wiki? According to the MSDN document, SharePoint Enterprise Wiki is a publishing site for sharing and updating large volumes of information across an enterprise. There are three points for this description we need to note: SharePoint Enterprise Wiki can be used to address a specific business problem or share knowledge about […]
Understand and Configure Metadata Navigation and Filtering
SharePoint 2010 Metadata Navigation is one new feature that enables users to navigation through lists and libraries based on the configuration of the metadata. This feature improves navigation and filtering of the items or documents by means of metadata tree view hierarchies and filter controls. The figure is an example of the metadata navigation in […]
Setting up SharePoint 2010 Incoming Mail
This post describes a step by step process on how to configure incoming e-mail for SharePoint 2010. SharePoint sites can receive and store e-mail messages and attachments in lists and libraries when incoming e-mail is enabled. Enviroment: Server 1: * Windows 2008 R2 server running Active Directory Domain Services * Windows 2008 R2 server running […]
Extend SharePoint Object Model with C# 3.0 Extension Methods
C# 3.0 and .Net Framework 3.5 in introduce several new features. One of them is extension methods. Extension methods enable you to “add” new methods to the existing types. Extension methods are a special kind of static methods, but they are called as same as the instance methods. In this blog I will show you […]