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How to get a featured form ID in InfoPath Form

Saturday, July 23rd, 2011 in InfoPath Forms, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010.
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The scenario is very common: You create a new form template and want to use the ID of the form as part of the form name.

But there is a catch here – the ID doesn’t exist until you will submit the form to the SharePoint library…

Here is a very simple way to calculate the feature ID of your form in the SharePoint Library.

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Slideshow from Picture library anywhere

Wednesday, June 29th, 2011 in SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010.
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A couple of days ago I was asked to prepare a small slideshow of the company pictures. I’m really not a big fan of the “This week in pictures” web part but I had no choice because of the last minute request (as usuallyJ).

So I checked out the original Slideshow page that comes out of the box with Picture library.

And it was pretty nice, I have to say. And guess what? You can actually change the slideshow that appears when you click the “This week in pictures” slideshow button!

Here are a couple of tips how to improve the default slideshow and redesign this page:

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Package Designer – update safe controls.

Sunday, June 26th, 2011 in Development, SharePoint 2010.
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Today I polished my solution after a couple of months of development. After all the design changes and new requests I wanted to reorganize my solution. One of my tasks was to reorganize all the namespaces for the web parts. When each web part in the solution is developed by a different person sometimes namespaces are different as well. I started to change namespaces for all the web parts when I found out that my changes do not appear in the package manifest file. The safe controls list in the manifest file hadn’t change.

Theoretically it can be changed manually but the maintaining of the manually manifest is too hard.

So after a couple of experiments I figured it out.

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