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Month: June 2013

SharePoint 2010 compatibility in IE9

SharePoint 2010 compatibility in IE9

SharePoint 2010 is not fully compatible with IE9. To the best of my knowledge this is due to SharePoint’s heavy dependency upon DOM expandos and other features which were available through IE8, but are all removed from IE9. Controls like the Rich TextBox and People Picker tend to render improperly, throw errors on postback, etc. Fortunately, M_Olson posted a JavaScript mod that worked perfectly for me! It looks like this: function ConvertEntityToSpan(ctx, entity) {ULSGjk:; if(matches[ctx]==null) matches[ctx]=new Array(); var key=entity.getAttribute(“Key”); var…

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Connecting a SharePoint 2010 List to external database table

Connecting a SharePoint 2010 List to external database table

I’ve done this plenty of times and never documented it, and one of these times I’m going to be working on something else, have to build one real quick, and forget how I did it, so i’m writing it down. You can have a SharePoint 2010 List that connects to an external database table and perform CRUD operations on it, and it’s not that difficult to do. There’s generally speaking 3 specific steps required. First, decide if you want to…

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