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SharePoint 2010 Master Page Inheritance

2012-02-14T10:38:00.001+05:30

Master page inheritance is useful in SharePoint sites where we need multiple master pages with the same global layout structure. For instance a SharePoint site with all sub-sites having a unique right column for each sib-site can use master page inheritance. Here one option is to copy the entire HTML into all the master pages, but it is not a good option if we want to modify something.

Bulk Insert to a SQL Server Table with SqlBulkCopy

2012-02-10T11:57:00.002+05:30

System.Data.SqlClient.SqlBulkCopy class lets us efficiently bulk load a SQL Server table with a significant performance advantage over other methods. Here we can use any data source as long as the data can be loaded to a DataTable instance or read with an IDataReader instance. How SqlBulkCopy works is it sends large batches of records to the database rather than sending one record at a time.

Customize Blog Posts in SharePoint 2010 Blog Site Template

2011-12-09T08:15:00.001+05:30

If you are using the out of the box SharePoint blog site and you want to customize the layout of the blog posts, this is how you do it. This requires you to create a new XSL template file and then connect that file to the blog post. This example shows how we remove “By” section of the blog post shown in the figure below. 1. Locate the blog.xsl file on your SharePoint server.

Find all References to a Master Page or Page Layout in SharePoint

2011-11-05T12:13:00.001+05:30

“This item cannot be deleted because it is still referenced by other pages” is a common error we get when we trying to delete a master page or page layout from the “Master pages and page layouts” gallery. One of the ways to find all the references to a file in SharePoint is to use the "Site Content and Structure" page from the Site Actions menu, which is used to manage both the

How to Embed Managed Metadata into Publishing Page Layout

2011-11-04T08:36:00.000+05:30

Managed metadata is a hierarchical collection of managed terms that we can define, and then use as attributes for items. This post details how to add these types of fields to a publishing page layout so that content authors can add metadata and keywords to webpages they create using these layouts.First we need to have a content type created which have added a site column of Managed

Specifying Return URL/ Source URL for SharePoint Forms

2011-10-01T10:10:00.000+05:30

SQL*Plus is a command line SQL and PL/SQL language interface and reporting tool that ships with the Oracle Database Client and Server.Connect to a Oracle (10g) Database using SQL*Plus From the Start menu find SQL*Plus in oracle home (If you are going to connect from a remote machine you need to have an oracle client installed on it). Give User Name,

Development on Oracle 10g Packages, Stored procedures, Functions

2007-11-22T11:46:00.000+05:30

An Oracle package is a schema object that groups logically related PL/SQL types, items and subprograms.Packages have two parts, the specification and the body. The specification is the interface into the package. It describes all the types, variables, procedures, etc within the package.The body has all the implementation. Inside the body you would actually write the procedures,