In the first two parts in this series we've seen how to create a custom provider, do claims augmentation and register the provider, as well as how to add a hierarchy to the people picker. In this post we'll talk about how to implement searching for our claims in the people picker with our custom…
Year: 2010
Writing a Custom Claims Provider for SharePoint 2010 – Part 2: Adding Support for Hierarchy Nodes
In Part 1 of this series we showed how to create a custom claims provider, and how to do claims augmentation. In part 2 were going to show a simple way to add a hierarchy to the people picker control. In and of itself this isn't necessarily interesting, but when we get to part 3…
Writing a Custom Claims Provider for SharePoint 2010 – Part 1: Claims Augmentation and Registering Your Provider
This is the first in a series of blogs in which I'll talk about writing a custom claims provider. First, it's probably worth understanding a little background on what a claims provider is and why we might want to use one. A claims provider in SharePoint 2010 is primarily used for two reasons – 1)…
Unexpected Error When Adding a Search Connector Link from SharePoint 2010 to Windows 7
Search connector links are a really slick feature that integrates SharePoint 2010 search with Windows 7. When you search in a SharePoint 2010 site from a Windows 7 machine, you will see a little icon in the search results on the top left part of the results pane. It looks like a folder with a…
"No User Profile Application Available" Mystery in SharePoint 2010
Here's another in what seems like a growing list of permissions gotchas in SharePoint 2010. Assume if you will, you are a crack developer and building a custom application for SharePoint 2010. You're writing code on your development server, which has a FULLY functioning installation of SharePoint 2010. You want to work with some user…
Why Do I Get an Access Denied Error When Managing User Contexts in SharePoint 2010
User Context is a feature of FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 that is analagous to using audiences with search results. As you start to test this out you may find that within the site collection you can create FAST keywords and document promotions and demotions, but when you try and manage the User Contexts for…
Why Can’t I Save My Changes to the Refiner Web Part in SharePoint 2010
Hey folks, here's a problem that keeps coming up over and over again, and I'll admit it confused me for some time as well. The refiner web part, for those of you who aren't familiar with it, is used on the search results page in SharePoint 2010. It's designed to give you a faceted search…
Getting Search Service Applications and Proxies in SharePoint 2010 Object Model
I've been doing a lot of digging around this topic this morning for my Search Explorer for Developers application (more on that in a future post). In general it can be kind of tough to get search service applications and proxies when working without an HttpContext (like in a winforms app). Even with context, it's…
Manually Adding Query Suggestions in SharePoint 2010
One of the great new features around Search in SharePoint 2010 is the concept of query suggestions. There are pre-query and post-query suggestions. A pre-query suggestion is a type-ahead feature that appears in the search box on the search page. As you start typing in your query, SharePoint will go find other queries that have…
Planning Considerations for Claims Based Authentication in SharePoint 2010
As part of some claims based authentication work I've been doing recently, I've come across two very important constraints. They are manageable constraints, but they are things that you need to know about in advance of setting up and configuring your claims infrastructure in SharePoint 2010. The big items to be aware of: Certificate Uniqueness…