Author Archives: ceej

Claims-based authentication and user profiles

Posted on 14 February, 2012 by ceej

Turns out it is relatively trivial to create a user profile for a claims authenticated user. You are probably familiar with the UserProfileManager.CreateUserProfile method. The overload of interest takes a string parameter that is the username of the profile to … Continue reading →

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Redirect relative to the SharePoint LAYOUTS directory

Posted on 8 February, 2012 by ceej

If you ever need to redirect to a page that resides in the /_layouts/ virtual directory, i.e. the physical directory found in the SharePoint root in {SharePoint Root}\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS it is possible to do so without hard coding the URL. Use … Continue reading →

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SharePoint 2010 SP1 Recycle Bin Oddity

Posted on 26 January, 2012 by ceej

A little gotcha here that is is good to be aware of. As we all know, SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1 added the long awaited functionality that enables self-service recovery of sites. Superb! So if a site owner ‘accidentally’ deletes … Continue reading →

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SharePoint Hidden Lists

Posted on 12 January, 2012 by ceej

This is purely for my own benefit as this information seems to refuse to stick in my head! SharePoint has a number of hidden lists used to store information that is vital to its operation. It can sometimes be useful … Continue reading →

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SharePoint Calculated Columns – Server and Client-Side Difference

Posted on 11 January, 2012 by ceej

I have just completed a task to improve performance of a Silverlight web part that queried a list and returned a large amount of fairly static data. To improve performance the client-side code that performed the query using the Silverlight … Continue reading →

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