Software / Technology Tips

Often there is a requirement of creating Lists within a SharePoint website programmatically using API calls. Described below are 2 different methods of achieving the same using C#.Net as the programming language. In the first approach, a SharePoint List gets created using an existing custom List Template present within the List Template Gallery. This approach…

here are some applications where we need to display large sets of data. In order to display this large sets of data we usually follow the approach of Data paging. In asp.net there are data bound controls like Gridview, listview etc that can facilitate paging. The problem with this databound controls is that they perform…

This tip is about integrating a free tool’s capability by using wsh/vbscript as an interactor. VBScript as an Interactor with other free tools to automate any website or desktop application. I have been using this method to automate some of my testing tasks since a long time. What I usually do is I just create…

Background: When a website, which requires some one to login is opened in IE7 and when links from the website are opened in new tabs, the session from the original tab will carry forward to the new tab. The same feature, functionality, or bug, whatever you may call it is now carried forward to IE8…

When we create a “button” and see it in different browsers, what we observe is it looks different in different browser. This is just because every browser has its own default ‘user agent’ stylesheet, that it uses to make unstyled websites appear more appropriate and styled well.Near about all browsers by default make the links…

Elastic Design is a cool way of designing the layout of our websites so that the layout doesn’t change according to the size of the browser and user’s font preference. It uses ems for setting widths and a max-width style to ensure that the content is not too long. Since the size of an em…

Mozilla Firefox has been the favourite browser of geeks not just for its robustness and speed but for its flexibility as well. In this series we will discuss some of the tips and tweaks that can be applied to make Firefox an indispensible part of a Web developer’s kit. In this post we will look…

Generally if we change color change of a movieclip from one color to another there occurs a jumping effect between two colors. To avoid this effect we can use color tweening to switch between different colors. This is useful for adding tweening effect to the color change and to set alpha property of a component…

Google Custom Search is a service provided by Google using which we can add a customized search feature to our website . Steps to get this are pretty simple and are summarized below . 1.First task is to goto and login using google account . 2.On the right side you will get a link to…

First of all we need to know a little on SharePoint lookup fields before proceeding further. Lookup fields are the reference fields created in any SharePoint list or library which provides a mapping between columns from another list i.e. it is just like a foreign key which helps build relationship between lists. While developing custom…