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SnippetMar 4, 2013
Visual Studio 2012 - Change themes
Install the Color Theme editor extension to get the blue theme back in Visual Studio 2012, and turn off the upper case menu.
1 min read#Tools#Visual Studio
SnippetMar 1, 2013
C# - Regular expression to replace HTML tags
Replace all b tags with strong tags in C# using a lazy regular expression that also works across line breaks.
```
This is a bold text Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text
some more bold text
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text again bold text 
```
1 min read#.NET#C#
SnippetFeb 26, 2013
Windows 8 - Save and retrieve application settings
Windows Store apps have no config file. Use ApplicationData.Current.LocalSettings to save and read app settings in C#.
```
using Windows.Storage;

bool SaveSettings(string key, string value)
{
    try
    {
```
1 min read#.NET#C##Windows
SnippetFeb 26, 2013
PowerShell - Delete all files and folders from a SharePoint library
A PowerShell script that empties a SharePoint 2010 document library by deleting its files and then its folders.
```
Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell

# Replace siteurl with actual web url
$web = Get-SPWeb -Identity "siteurl"
# Replace docurl with document library url
$list = $web.GetList("docurl")
```
1 min read#PowerShell#SharePoint#SharePoint 2010

SnippetFeb 13, 2013

SharePoint - Change a workflow task owner using C#

Reassign an existing SharePoint 2010 workflow task to a different user with SPWorkflowTask.AlterTask.

using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://myteamsite:2012/"))
{
    using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())
    {
        SPUser user = web.SiteUsers["myad\\administrator"];
        SPListItem taskItem = web.Lists["Shared Documents"].Items[0];

1 min read#C##SharePoint#SharePoint 2010

SnippetFeb 7, 2013
JavaScript: invoke a function by name from a string variable
Look the function up on window using its name, check it is a function, then call it with apply.
```
var functiontocall = "HelloWorld";
var fn = window[functiontocall];
if (typeof fn !== 'function')
    return;
var retvalue = fn.apply(window, ["Amal Hashim"]);
```
1 min read#JavaScript#jQuery
SnippetJan 30, 2013
SharePoint XSLT: ends with
XSLT 1.0 has no ends-with function, so compare the last characters of the string with substring.
```
<xsl:when test="substring($url, string-length($url) - 3) = '.pdf'">
```
1 min read#SharePoint#SharePoint 2010
SnippetJan 29, 2013
SharePoint: exclude a document library from search
Use one advanced setting on the document library to keep its items out of search results.
1 min read#SharePoint#SharePoint 2010

SnippetJan 29, 2013

SharePoint: display search results as raw XML

Replace the XSL of the Search Core Results web part to see the raw XML, so you can tell search problems from XSLT problems.

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes" />
<xsl:template match="/">
<xmp><xsl:copy-of select="*"/></xmp>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

1 min read#SharePoint#SharePoint 2010

SnippetJan 28, 2013
SharePoint: the administration service is running so all administration jobs will be run in the timer service
Fix a SharePoint 2010 solution deployment stuck on Deploying by restarting the admin service and running the pending admin jobs.
```
stsadm -o execadmsvcjobs
```
1 min read#PowerShell#SharePoint 2010
SnippetNov 20, 2012
JavaScript error handling
Handle exceptions in JavaScript with try, catch and finally, and catch everything else with window.onerror.
```
try {
    // Code block
}
catch (e) {
    // Handle exception
}
```
1 min read#JavaScript
SnippetOct 19, 2012
jQuery HTML encode and decode
Two small functions that encode and decode HTML characters by letting jQuery and the browser do the work.
1 min read#JavaScript#jQuery

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