This is a topic that comes up often when I’m doing web site design and I figured I’d throw it up here for my own reference. The challenge is to design a footer that will float to the bottom of the page regardless of the size of the content above it. Ryan’s excellent article on [...]
Continue Reading →How to Use the PeopleEditor Control: Saving Data
The PeopleEditor control is a common control that you’ll find implemented throughout SharePoint. If you’re building any custom web parts or application pages, you may want users to enter people specific information. The PeopleEditor is a good choice, however, there isn’t much out there in terms of documenting it’s use. Hopefully the information below will [...]
Continue Reading →How to Create a HyperLink Column Within a TreeView Control
Let’s say you have an employee table and you want to be able to create a hyperlink on the employee name column with a custom url in the form of: “employee.aspx?ID=” Within an asp.net datagrid, you could achieve this by creating a hyperlinkcolumn and specifying the DataNavigateUrlField and the DataNavigateUrlFormatString as follows: 1 <asp:HyperLinkColumn DataNavigateUrlField="EmployeeID" [...]
Continue Reading →How to Use the PeopleEditor Control: Loading Data
This post was really planned as a Part 2 to the first post I made about saving data from the PeopleEditor control. My aim for this entry is to tackle the reverse scenario: reading data from a field of type Person or Group and loading it into a PeopleEditor control. If you have any troubles [...]
Continue Reading →ASP.NET Validators Do Not Fire in Firefox
I recently had to make some upgrades to an application that was built using the .NET 1.1 framework. Just to add a bit of background to this post, I am currently using Visual Studio 2008 on my laptop and was able to successfully perform a migration of the solution from .NET 1.1 to 2.0. When [...]
Continue Reading →How to Create ASP.NET Drop Down Control to Filter Data
So…(assuming you are using the dropdown to filter a view of some list based on the Title field) Within your site, create a new page using any standard page layout Open your site in SharePoint Designer Detach the page you created in step 1 from the page layout by right clicking on the page and [...]
Continue Reading →How to Add Telerik Ajax to SharePoint
The steps below outline how to get started using Telerik Ajax within a SharePoint custom application page. If you’re developing a web part or even just a custom asp.net application, the concepts are still the same. Add the RadAjax.Net2.dll file into the GAC. If you need to find the RadAjax.Net2.dll file, if you’ve installed the [...]
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