Find out how you can have a completely horizontal top navigation.

In SharePoint 2010 a small number of pages still uses the application.master. Let's see how we can handle this little "nuisance" and have nice styling in these pages.

Kyle Schaeffer created a great looking HTML5 enabled masterpage for Sharepoint 2010. I was testing it around and since the deployment instructions where all manual uploads to SharePoint lists and whatnot I decided to automate this process. I created a Visual Studio solution with all the files and a feature that will activate the whole thing.

Ever wondered how to change the arrow image of the Site Actions menu and the Welcome menu?

The people picker field in SharePoint 2010 doesn't show any suggestions, even when it says it found matches to your query.

I've been using relative paths in SharePoint masterpages the wrong way. Let's see an example of how I used to do it, with a link to the homepage and an image for the logo.

<a href="http://www.broculos.net/en" class="logo">
	<img src="/Style Library/CustomStyle/Images/logo.png" alt="" />
</a>

This will work like a charm if your site collection's home URL is the same as the root of the URL, for example: http://www.example.sp2010.dev/.

An example of styling up the SharePoint 2010 search box without modifying the control.

There are several ways to backup and restore SharePoint content. SharePoint itself provides several tools. In this article I will discuss how to restore a backup from SQL Server of a SharePoint content database.

When the ribbon is expanded, by default, the entire title area disappears. Let's see how to override this behavior.

Integrate an external database in your SharePoint environment with a Business Data Catalog application. Use the free BDC Definition Editor from Microsoft to generate your Application Definition File.