Programmatically Changing the UI Version in SP2010
In SharePoint 2010, there is the concept of a UI Version and it has a value of 3 or 4.  When you upgrade your existing site, it will leave you at Version 3 which looks just like WSS3.  However, you have the capability to upgrade to the new SharePoint 2010 visualizations which is version 4.  If the administrators have the options enabled, you can change your UI version using the UI itself.  It provides the capability to run on Version 3 but get a preview of 4 and then ultimately they can convert to version 4 completely.  However, you may want to do this programmatically or you may want to revert back to version 3 after you have turned off preview mode.  This

Deploying a Web Part with Code Access Security in Visual Studio 2010 (SP2010)
By now, you have heard about how the SharePoint 2010 development experience has been improved.  We can easily deploy web parts and other code without having to manually manipulate any XML files.  What about under partial trust though?  Many of you that know me know that I have pushed using Code Access Security quite a bit through a series of blog posts and talks.  So it would be irresponsible of me

Copy Source as Html in Visual Studio 2010
I was working on my first SharePoint 2010 post today since I actually installed some bits and quickly discovered that I did not have Copy Source As Html working with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2.  If you’re a blogger like me, you will find that you are quite addicted to this useful tool as it makes pasting good looking code segments quite easy.  Unfortunately, they haven’t released an installer that works with Visual Studio 2010 yet, so I decided to see if I could figure out how to get it to work.  Now, I’m not expert on Visual Studio Addins, so it took me some experimenting.  I installed the product as normal, bu

Configuring Federated Search to display results from your Corporate Web Site
Last weekend, I gave my introduction to Enterprise Search talk where I showed the basics of using search.  One of the topics I covered is how to use federated search to display results from an external web site.  I’ve seen this topic come up in the forums as well, so I thought I would write something up on it.  Typically when people do this is they have federated results from their public facing corporate web site display along side the results from a regular search on the SharePoint farm.  Everything we are doing today can be done without writing any code. For today’s demonstration, we will pretend DotNetMafia.com is a corporate web site and federate resu

How to: Programmatically set the target audience on a web part
I’ve been working with audiences again, so I recently wanted to set the target audience of a web part.  Sure anyone can set it in the UI, but I want to automate my deployment, so I wanted to do it programmatically using a feature receiver.  When I first started looking for more information on how to do this, I wasn’t finding exactly what I needed and I did find some conflicting information.  To be clear about what I am talking about today, I am discussing how to target a web part to an audience that in MOSS that was defined and compiled in the SSP.  Since I couldn’t find much info on the Internet, I posted something on twitter and I got a response from Randall I