Remove "View All Site Content" link for anonymous users in Sharepoint Foundation 2010

1.Go to "Site Actions" ==> "Site Settings"
2.Under Galleries, click on "Master Pages"
3.Select default.master and select “Edit in Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer”.
4.In “Design” view locate “View All Site Content” on the left-hand-site navigation bar and click on it.
5.Go to “Code” view. You will see the following code highlighted:

” AccessKey=”<%$Resources:wss,quiklnch_allcontent_AK%>”/>

6.Change the PermissionString attribute value of the Sharepoint:SPSecurityTrimmedControl XML element from ViewFormPages to BrowseDirectories.
7.Save the default.master. If you login as an anonymous user you will not see the “View All Site Content” link. However when authenticated you will see this option.

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 quick snippet of code is how you do it.

using (SPSite siteCollection = new SPSite("http://sp2010-server"))
{
SPWeb site = siteCollection.OpenWeb()
{
site.UIVersion = 3;
site.UIVersionConfigurationEnabled = true;
site.Update();
}
}

Sanjay Tiwari

Checking to see if a list exists in SharePoint 2010

The most common way to do this is by using a try/catch block when you try to use the indexer on SPListCollection. Well, I am pleased to tell you about a new method I discovered on SPListCollection that really made my day. The new TryGetList method takes the name of a list and will get this, return a null if the list doesn’t exist. Take a look at this code.

using (SPSite siteCollection = new SPSite("http://moss-server"))
{
SPList myCustomList = siteCollection.RootWeb.Lists.TryGetList("MyCustomList");
// doesn't throw exception!
if (myCustomList != null)
{
// do something

}
}

Quick overview of Master Pages in SharePoint 2010

The first master page we will talk about is v4.master. This is the default team site master page used with version 4 of the UI. This will be the master page you typically use. It provides the ribbon bar and all of the other new visual UI changes such as the site actions menu on the left side.

If you did an upgrade to SharePoint 2010 and haven’t transitioned to the new UI yet, the old master page is still in default.master. This looks just like the master page you use in SharePoint v3 today. It doesn’t have the ribbon bar and the site actions menu is still on the right side.

The search pages by default now use minimal.master. This is a really slimmed down master page with next to nothing on it. It doesn’t even have navigation. I’m not sure why they opted to use this page in Search Center, but I think it provides an issue with people trying to leave the search center. The Office Web Applications also use this master page but that makes a little more sense because it provides more screen real estate.

The last page I will mention is simple.master. This page is used for login and error pages. From what I understand, it can’t be customized (I have no idea why), but it can be replaced.


Thanks
Sanjay Tiwari
www.YashiTech.com

Adding a Link to My SharePoint Links Programmatically

Today, I am going to talk about how to work with the My Links functionality in SharePoint 2010 using the API. The first thing to know is that the API calls it a QuickLink. Knowing this makes it that much easier on finding information you need in the SDK to work with them. I figured this list worked like a regular SharePoint list, but in fact it is quite a bit different (which is why I am posting today).

using Microsoft.Office.Server;
using Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles;

The first step is to get a reference to the UserProfileManager. You’ll need to pass in a reference to the current SSP by using ServerContext.Current.

UserProfileManager userProfileManager = new UserProfileManager(ServerContext.Current);

After that you get the current user’s profile. Passing true, will create the user’s profile if it doesn’t exist.

UserProfile currentUser = userProfileManager.GetUserProfile(true);

The QuickLinkManager class provides what we need to add, remove, or iterate through the links the user currently has.

QuickLinkManager quickLinkManager = currentUser.QuickLinks;
quickLinkManager.Create("My Quick Link", "http://www.dotnetmafia.com", QuickLinkGroupType.General, null, Privacy.Private);


You can also iterate through the user’s QuickLinks pretty easily using the GetItems() method. For example:

foreach (QuickLink quickLink in quickLinkManager.GetItems())
{
Console.WriteLine(quickLink.Url);
}