Learning SharePoint

Step 1: Create a source site collection First you will need a site to serve as the source for the content deployment job. So let’s create the source site collection first. 1. On the SharePoint Central Administration Web site, in the Application Management section, click Create site collections. Step 2: Create a new Web application   As I have explained in my previous post that you cannot copy your source site into a destination site, which resides in the same content database as source, you must first either create a new Web application to hold the destination site or create a new content database in the current web application. To create a new web application see the steps below. 1. On the Central Administration Web site, in the Application Management section, click Manage web applications. 2. On the Web Applications Management page, click New. 3. In the IIS Web Site section, in the Port box, type 8888. 4. In the Application Pool section, in the Application po...

We normally use asp.net gridview control as substitute to SharePoint gridview Control. Compare to asp.net gridview control SharePoint gridview provides rich functionality. Below two are the reasons that I feel to use SPGridView control instead of asp.net gridview control. 1.        SPGridView is inherit from GridView, so it will have features of GridView and also some special features that suite for SharePoint environment, so for a SharePoint web part, I suggest to use SPGridView. 2.        Also SPGridview control supports built-in SharePoint cascading style sheets, menus, sorting in SharePoint manner. In this blog I will try to show, 1.        Create SPGridView. 2.        Bind data source to SPGridView. 3.        Apply paging to SPGridView. 4.        Allow Filtering. ...