Lately I was working on the SPGridView provided by SharePoint.One of the requirement I had was to have a column in SPGridView as a Menu one that is similar to ECB of the List items, it  was straight forward, refer to the Paul article for the example, though the example was targeted towards building Webpart and controls were created programmatically, converting it to work with UserControl is not a big deal, Visual Studio Intellisense will help you and Property names are pretty straight forward. While I was adding a SPMenuField there were couple of Properties of SPMenuField that drawn...

Well First Let me explain what does it mean by Promotion and Demotion Promotion    -    It means that you capture the value present in the document (*.xml or wordML or you can   write your own document parser) and expose it to the SharePoint document library as a Column. What you get out of it is that you have a synchronization of the Data between the document and Column of the doc library. (When you update the document it gets automatically reflected in the document library and vise versa.)  Demotion        -    It means...

A week back couple of my friends was asking is there a proper way to deploy the InfoPath forms to the server, Way other than File -> Publish - > SharePoint server with or without forms server. I did a quick search and was not lucky, came to a lackadaisical conclusion that there is no other way. But whenever I deploy workflows with InfoPath form I see a new solution that adds itself to the Solution Store. By this I know for sure there is some other way to deploy InfoPath forms. First thing want I wanted was to get...