Email Configuration within a SharePoint 2010 Development Environment
There have been countless blogs written on this topic, yet I always seem to be spending way too much time configuring Incoming and Outgoing mail in my SharePoint 2010 development environment.I often...
View ArticleEmail Received Event Receiver Requires a SharePoint Timer Reset
While working with a couple different types of event receivers in Visual Studio 2010, I noticed an inconsistency between the ‘item added/adding events’ and the ‘email received’ event receiver in terms...
View ArticleHow to Create an Outlook Appointment using Nintex Workflow 2010
Nintex Workflows 2010 is a great alternative to manually create workflows using Visual Studio or SharePoint Designer.Business users now have the ability to create some pretty intricate workflows...
View ArticleSpeed up Development with Exchange Web Services Managed API
We’ve all experienced it before, those “Wow, I can’t believe it’s that easy” moments. Exchange Web Services Managed API makes sending emails, creating appointments, querying folders/calendars, and...
View ArticleLimitation of programming vCalendar Meeting Requests using System.Net.Mail
Programmatically creating Outlook meeting request has been a hot topic for me over the past few weeks. I found myself in a scenario that required me to send a meeting request from a user and was using...
View ArticleContent Query Web Part – Sort Order from a Calculated Column
Here’s a quick way to implement custom sort functionality in a Content Query web part. Since the out-of-the-box options only offer ascending or descending alphanumeric sorting, you can use a...
View ArticleHow to Create Visual Studio 2012 Custom Templates
Lately, I’ve been thinking about ways to manage and re-use existing code. Right away I thought of code snippets. Snippets are handy for methods or small segments of code, but what I was really looking...
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