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Inherit Site Theme programmatically

By On July 20, 2010 · 5 Comments

The Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities namespace contains a class called ThmxTheme which gives us some nice utility methods to interact with site themes in SharePoint 2010. Here is an example of how to automatically set the theme for a newly created SPWeb to be the same as the root web-

ThmxTheme.SetThemeUrlForWeb(newWeb, ThmxTheme.GetThemeUrlForWeb(newWeb.Site.RootWeb));

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Cannot modify Title field in Content Type declaration

By On July 12, 2010 · 3 Comments

Problem
Unable to make changes to the title field when declaring a content type in SharePoint 2010. For example, the following declaration has NO EFFECT on the title field being required-

<ContentType ID="0x010092E61E2438E84353B7211741448DE18A" Name="Example" Inherits="TRUE" Version="0"> <FieldRefs> <RemoveFieldRef ID="{fa564e0f-0c70-4ab9-b863-0177e6ddd247}" Name="Title" /> <FieldRef ID="{fa564e0f-0c70-4ab9-b863-0177e6ddd247}" Name="Title" Required="FALSE" /> .csharpcode, .csharpcode pre { font-size: small; color: black; [...]

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Error occurred in deployment step ‘Activate Features’

By On May 26, 2010 · 1 Comment

Problem
An error related to feature activation is generated when deploying a sharepoint wsp package using visual studio 2010’s default deployment configuration -

Error occurred in deployment step ‘Activate Features’

Workaround 1
Use the “No Activation” deployment configuration and use Post-deployment command-line operations to manually activate your features since the retraction process will [...]

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SharePoint 2010 Site Themes are not exact

By On May 3, 2010 · Leave a Comment

SharePoint 2010 doesn’t directly apply a site theme but instead generates its own colors based upon the theme. Let me explain by example-

The default top navigation bar in SharePoint 2010 uses ‘Accent 1’ from the site theme to determine the background color for each one of the navigation items. However, SharePoint doesn’t directly use [...]

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