Adding the taxonomy control to a custom page

In my current project I’m dealing with different custom forms for my lists. The list contains a colum of type “managed metadata”.
In one of my custom display forms I wanted to add the taxonomy feature and the relevant properties from the column settings. To archieve that I did the following:
Adding a reference to the control:
<%@ [...]

Visual Studio 2010: Deploying Content Types and Site Columns

When deploying a SharePoint 2010 solution, sometimes the automatic deployment with Visual Studio 2010 works and sometimes the following error message occurs:
“Error occurred in deployment step Activate Features” The content type with Id ‘xx’ defined in feature ‘yy’ was found in the current site collection or in a subsite.
I would expect, that the Retract action [...]

Nintex Workflow 2010

Nintex Workflow 2010 offers functional and feature rich SharePoint workflow to your organization. It takes the powerful-yet-easy design, deployment, management, and integration features of Nintex Workflow 2007 to the SharePoint 2010 platform, with improved process monitoring, extensibility, and designer productivity.

Any SharePoint user can create and maintain elaborate workflows using a browser-based graphical web browser interface
Monitor [...]

NHibernate was blocked (starting my unit test project)

When trying to start my unit test projekt today (in Visual Studio 2008), I ran across an interesting problem. My project which I’d liked to test referenced the NHibernate assembly. The test manager aborted with the following error:

This error seemed pretty strange to me because the assembly wasn’t located on a network share but simply on [...]

DevCamp: Komplexe Dateneingabe in Sharepoint für Inhaltstypen

Leider kam SharePoint am diesjährigen DevCamp meiner Meinung nach etwas zu kurz. Das liegt wahrscheinlich auch daran, dass eine Woche nach dem DevCamp die SharePoint Konferenz in Las Vegas begann und somit vorab keine Infos zu SharePoint 2010 gezeigt werden durften.
Am DevCamp gab es lediglich einen Vortrag von Stephan Kitzler-Walli, der sich mit komplexen Dateneingabemasken [...]

Creating workflows for SharePoint 2010 with Office Visio 2010

Microsoft has improved the new version of Visio. With the new version of Visio you can create workflows for SharePoint 2010. In my opinion it’s a great feature, because it’s now possible to split the process of creating workflows. People of speciality departments with no technical background can model their business processes with Visio. Workfows [...]

Filter in custom sharepoint lists for current user [Me]

I’m creating a custom view for a list. The view filters the list to show only the documents that are edited by the current user. I’m trying the following caml-query in my schema.xml
<Query>
<Where>
<Eq>
<FieldRef Name=”hsg_ApproverList”></FieldRef>
<Value Type=”User”>$Resources:hsg_Resources,Me;</Value>
[...]

DateTime Manipulation with XPathNavigator

In my infopath form I had to set the value of a datetime field by C#. Although the implementation of the XPathNavigator object in InfoPath 2007 exposes the SetTypedValue method — which is used to set a node using a value of a specific type — InfoPath does not implement that method. You must use [...]