Update: If you use Microsoft Office 2010, you have to use other fix:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/841215

There are going to be a lot of MVPs and very good presenters under the same roof, so lectures will be very good. Trust me, I have the privilege of knowing lots of them and I have been to their presentations.

This year I’m also attending as a presenter. I believe with a very interesting topic – SharePoint and Silverlight, which are a very powerful combination.

I will also take the opportunity to launch my new open source project on Codeplex.

Not convinced? You will miss out an opportunity for attending great lectures from great presenters in an absolutely beautiful surroundings – Bled, Slovenija.

When? 24th and 25th October 2011.

Being on the other side of the globe is not an excuse. Some guys, like Joel Oleson and Michael Noel are flying in to present.

Lots of interesting topics to attend to along with proimisin culinary experience

See the agenda, read about it and register here.

Staying loyal to JavaScript and CEWP I’ve published a new part in the Power of Content Editor Webpart series.

This time we use calculated field and filtering list view via URL to create a simple alphabetical filter positioned above or below list view:

After that taking this one step further we expand this example to make a configurable script with some (configurable) styling and displaying the selected filter value:

And with configurable styling we could even simply manipulate the look and feel of the filter.

The same script can be used on multiple lists and views without rewriting the code. All because using the linked content file approach (tip 3 on this page). If you’re eager to use the script and not go through the entire article, there is full script almost at the end of the article.

Click here to read the article.

(Below also message in Slovene for my Slovene-SharePoint-using-friends)

Then you’re missing something. The same as me. The support article from Microsoft (located here) explains that we need to do one of the following:

1. Don’t use 64-bit Office 2010 or
2. if you have to use the 64-bit version, download and install the 2007 Office System Driver: Data Connectivity Components

This goes for SharePoint 3.0/2007 and 4.0/2010

Click here to read the article.

BTW: Thanks to MJM who commented the previous article about GetElementsByClassName function. I took this into consideration and made slight modifications to this function (now it considers also DOM elements that have multiple CSS classes) in this article and also in my JavaScript library.

Yes, demo is still made for SharePoint 2007. This is in one way keeping the theme of the article series together and also in SharePoint 2010 it’s much easier to create this functionality because of XSLT views.

If you are in no mood to read through entire article, the complete code can be found at the end.

Click here to read the article.

Reasons (besides Windows7 and Vista):

1. WebClient service not started
2. SharePoint domain has dots (.) in the name
3. Your IE is trying to resolve LAN/Proxy settings

Solution

Important! Part of solution is also modifying your registry. Please if you’re not sure how to modify registry, get help from an expert. I will not assume any responsibility for possible errors that may result from editing your registry. This solution is not done on server, but on every client that has this kind of trouble.

1. Tell your WebClient Service to where to provide your credentials. By default the WebClient service provides credentials only to sites that don’t have dots in url – presuming they’re in your intranet. Any SharePoint site that has dots in url is presumed in Internet for WebClient. Here’s how:

1. Using registry editor, open the following registry subkey:
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesWebClientParameters
2. Next create new Multi-String Value (menu Edit –> New –> Multi-String Value)
3. Name the value AuthForwardServerList
4. After the key has been created, modify its value (Right click it and select Modify).
5. Enter full URLs of your SharePoint sites (one per line).
6. Save and exit registry editor.
7. If you use Windows Vista, you have to request a special hotfix for this resolution to work.

Detailed instructions and hotfix request available on Microsoft Support site.

2. Start / Restart WebClient Service

1. Open the "Run" prompt (key combination Start+R)
2. Type services.msc and press Enter.
3. Locate WebClient service
4. Make sure your service startup mode is set to automatic (right click it, select "Properties", and under "General" tab select "Automatic" from the "Startup Type" dropdown"
5. Start the service or restart it if it’s already running. (restart in any case for step 1 to take effect).

This part is summed from this link (at the end)

UPDATE: Another reason could be auto-detection of proxy if there is none present.

The way to turn this off is in Internet Explorer:

1. In Tools select Internet options.
2. Select Connections tab
3. click Lan settings button
4. under Automatic configuration clear the Automatically detect settings checkbox.

With this part I’ve also improved the navigation between articles of series a bit:

and I’ve used my new gadget toy for adding my handwriting to screenshots. If you find my handwriting too unreadable, please let me know so I’ll stick to typed handwriting.

You’re welcome to read the article here, and comments or questions are available with this post.