Create List Definition for Picture Library - C#

If you want to do it in Visual Studio, you're unable to see this definition in the drop down list. However it is very easy to do it:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using Microsoft.SharePoint; 

namespace Console
{
    class Program
    {
        string listName = "Picture Library";
        string description = "My  Picture Library "; 

        public static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            using (SPSite oSite = new SPSite("http://contoso.com"))
            {
                using (SPWeb oWeb = oSite.OpenWeb())
                {
                    if (oWeb.Lists.TryGetList(listName) != null)
                    {
                        // SPListTemplate class - Used to represent the list definition or a list template 
                        // oWeb.ListTemplates - Used to get the "Picture Library" list template
      
                        SPListTemplate oTemplate = oWeb.ListTemplates["PictureLibrary"];

                        //Creates a new list with Title, Descrription and List Template "Picture Library" type

                        oWeb.Lists.Add(listName, description, oTemplate);
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        System.Console.WriteLine(listName + " already exists in the " + oWeb.Title + " site");
                        System.Console.ReadLine();
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Add Title to Social Comments - jQuery

To insert some title or another text to social comments on a page:

You can resolve it by jQuery code:

  $(document).ready(function () {

            var socomHolders = $('div [id*="_socomHolder_"]');
            if (socomHolders.length) {

                socomHolders.each(function () {

                    var phName = $(this).attr('id');
                    var index = phName.substring(phName.lastIndexOf('socomHolder') + 
                        12, phName.length);

                    var socomContent = $('div [id*="_socomContents_' + index +'"]');
                    var newRow = $("Example : "+ index +"");
                    $(".ms-socialCommentItem", socomContent).prepend(newRow);
                });
            }
        });

How to know if the Page is in Edit Mode - C#

For a page we need to use:

if (Microsoft.SharePoint.SPContext.Current.FormContext.FormMode == SPControlMode.Display)
  {
   //  display mode
  }
  else // Microsoft.SharePoint.SPContext.Current.FormContext.FormMode = SPControlMode.Edit
  {
   //  edit mode
  }

and for webpart pages:

   WebPartManager mgr = this.WebPartManager;
 if (mgr.DisplayMode == WebPartManager.EditDisplayMode)
     {
        // edit mode
     }
  else
     {
  //  display mode
     }

How to know if the Page is in Edit Mode - JavaScript ?

For a page we need to use:

var pageMode = document.forms[MSOWebPartPageFormName].MSOLayout_InDesignMode.value;

if (pageMode == 1)
{
    // page is in edit mode
}
else
{
    // page is in browse mode
}

and for wiki pages:

var pageMode = document.forms[MSOWebPartPageFormName]._wikiPageMode.value;

if (pageMode == "Edit")
{
    // page is in edit mode
}
else
{
    // page is in browse mode
}

This will refer to a value of the following html input control, which is rendering on the page when it is in edit mode:

Page Layout issue - Show/Hide fields in Display/Edit Mode

If you want to hide/display fields in edit/display mode on your page layout , you can do it by adding publishingwebcontrols:editmodepanel tag.

Put your fields here

or

Put your fields here

The same client browser session has made '6' requests in the last '11' seconds.

After the configuration of ADFS v2 to SharePoint 2010 and

when I tried to login, I found at myself that after I authenticate to ADFS, get caught up in this endless loop where go back and forth between SharePoint and ADFS.

In Fiddler it turns out that I are authenticating successfully to ADFS, I am coming back to SharePoint and it is successfully issuing the FedAuth cookie,

it redirects you to /_layouts/authenticate.aspx on the SharePoint site which clears out the FedAuth cookie and redirects me back to the ADFS site.

I basically ping pong back and forth until ADFS stops it .

In Event Viewer of ADFS Server :

I saw the exception:

Exception details: 
Microsoft.IdentityServer.Web.InvalidRequestException: MSIS7042: The same client browser session has made '6' requests in the last '11' seconds. Contact your administrator for details.
   at Microsoft.IdentityServer.Web.FederationPassiveAuthentication.UpdateLoopDetectionCookie()
   at Microsoft.IdentityServer.Web.FederationPassiveAuthentication.SendSignInResponse(MSISSignInResponse response)

That’s because the default LogonTokenCacheExpirationWindow for the SharePoint STS is 10 minutes. In this case when I created my relying party by default it sets the token lifetime in ADFS to be 2 minutes, so as soon as it authenticated it knew the cookie was good for less time than the LogonTokenCacheExpirationWindow value. Therefore it went back to ADFS to authenticate again. And so it went, back and forth. So I needed to change the LogonTokenCacheExpirationWindow to be less than the SAML TokenLifetime.

The solution is PowerShell Script:

$sts = Get-SPSecurityTokenServiceConfig
$sts.LogonTokenCacheExpirationWindow = (New-TimeSpan –minutes 1)
$sts.Update()
iisreset

The workbook cannot be opened

This is error I received on any excel file, which I tried to open in browser by Office Web Apps.

The solution was granting permissions to the service account for Excel Services.

The PowerShell script, which invokes the SPWebApplication.GrantAccessToProcessIdentity method helps to solve it:

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -EA 0

$webApp = Get-SPWebApplication "http://contoso.com"

$webApp.GrantAccessToProcessIdentity("CONTOSO\spExcelServiceApp")