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Entries for June, 2009

Feature for adding a Icon to your SharePoint farm

On the internet you can find several articles about how to add an icon to the SharePoint farm.. Microsoft also has a KB article that describes how you can accomplish it. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/837849 The steps that have to be taken to add the a icon are (example with a pdf icon): Copy the .gif file that [...]

Adding profile properties through code

It can occur that you want to add a property to the property collection of the user profile store by using a feature. If you want to use a feature you would have to create a feature with a FeatureReceiver. In the FeatureReceiver you would have to implement the FeatureActivated and FeatureDeactivating. The feature.xml file [...]

Starting a workflow through code

Within SharePoint there can be situation in which you would like to start a workflow through code, like in an event receiver. But how do you start a workflow trough code? In the following minutes I will explain how you can accomplish this. Before you can start a workflow you will have to have a [...]