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Sometimes it’s nice to know which template was used for a website and which ID this template has. Here is how to get that information through Powershell: $web = Get-SPweb http://SiteUrlWrite-host “Web Template: ” $web.WebTemplate ” | Web Template ID: ” $web.WebTemplateId$web.Dispose()
When developing custom activities for SharePoint 2013 Workflows, you might run into the problem that SharePoint Designer prompts “Server-side activities have been updated. Please restart SharePoint designer” every time when you try to create a new workflow. If SPD keeps prompting the message after restarting it, close it, clean the following directories and then restartRead more about SharePoint Designer 2013: Server-side activities have been updated[…]
One of the last windows updates, specifically a .NET Framework 3.5.1 Update, led to XSL problems in web parts, e.g. when using conditional formatting. The malicious Windows Update is KB2844286 This error message might occur: But Microsoft already released a fix for the problem, which you can find here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2872441
Since ever, it is not possible to create site templates from sites with activated publishing feature. In SharePoint 2010, it was possible to deactivate the publishing feature and then create the site template. But in SharePoint 2013, also after deactivating the publishing feature, it is still not possible to create a site template. But thereRead more about Create site template after activating publishing feature[…]
Visual Web Parts are a quite simpler in SharePoint 2013 than they were in SharePoint 2010. In SharePoint 2013, Visual Web Parts don’t contain 2 classes, for the Web Part and the User Control like in SharePoint 2010, what made some solutions a little bit tricky like web part connections as described in myRead more about Visual Web Parts–SharePoint 2010 vs. 2013[…]