Today I came across an Issue where every list I create based on a particular Custom Template was displayed as two in the SharePoint UI and while querying through Object Model.     It was strange because content, Name, URL etc of the list is exact same. There was no issue while working with this list Add/Edit/Delete & view items worked very fine. It affected while fetching Lists for creating a custom WebPart, because Tasks that was fetched from these list were displayed twice.       When I click on each of the list, each takes me to different view, this was my first...

Few weeks back I saw a question in the Stackoverflow. The question was How to start learning SharePoint. Well at first it seem simple, I couldn't get an answer straight away. I did a Google but no luck all links I landed up was about some SharePoint books. The user who posted the question specifically mentioned that he doesn't want go through books to get the hold of it. Well I am of the same kind I hate going through 500+ pages books. Finally I answer the question on how I learnt SharePoint. Below is my answer for the question....

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...