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“New” item image in SharePoint 2010

Saturday, February 20th, 2010 in SharePoint 2010.
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In SharePoint 2007 the only way to hide or change the “New” item image was to change this image on the SharePoint server or use a Data View to show your data without this image. In SharePoint 2010 we have much more options. Now the “New” image tag (img) has a class named “ms-newgif”. So now we have the ability to hide this image on the site level. I’ve included the previous ways to change this image but you can choose to use just the third option.

  1. Change image on the SharePoint server level – will work for all Site Collections on this server.
  2. Hide image on the SharePoint server level – will work for all Site Collections on this server.
  3. Hide image on the site level


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Site Themes in SharePoint 2010

Saturday, February 13th, 2010 in SharePoint 2010.
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In SharePoint Server 2010 (SharePoint Foundation 2010 doesn’t support this option) we have a very nice feature to create our own site theme very quickly using the “Site theme” settings page.

But we have a little problem with these settings: we can change the “Text/Background – Dark 1″ or “Accent 5″ but we don’t really know what “Accent 5″ is…

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Working with Data Sources and Web Services connections in SharePoint Designer 2010

Sunday, February 7th, 2010 in SharePoint Designer 2010.
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SharePoint Designer 2010 has a new design. The familiar toolbar is replaced with the ribbon, which was introduced with Office 2007, and sometimes the usual options can be found at unusual places…

Data Connection Types

Linked Data Source-allows you to connect data sources from different locations and show it in one Data View.

Database Connection – allows you to connect to databases.

SOAP Service Connection – allows you to connect to SOAP service connections (e.g. Web Service).

REST Service Connection – allows you to connect to REST service connections (e.g. RSS).

XML File connection- allows you to connect to any XML file of your choosing.

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