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An action is simply an operation upon a selected item. The operation can retrieve information about the selected item, or it can launch a program or Web page with the selected item as a parameter.

This series of articles provide an overview of how to plan, build and configure the common SharePoint farm across your organization.

Starting from February 23rd 2009, SharePoint Magazine will hold a user experience week, where all the articles released will focus around the user experience of SharePoint.
Every workday, Monday through Friday, Bjørn Furuknap, our resident user experience expert, will release a new article in the Customizing SharePoint User Experience series. These articles are based on his [...]

Learn how to incorporate a master page into the SharePoint site definition. Also learn how to utilize tools such as WSPBuilder to deploy your SharePoint code through Visual Studio extensions.

This is the fith article in a six-part series on ASP.NET Master Pages and SharePoint. In this series we have discussed master pages and we have shown how to customize a master page.

Have you ever wondered how the built in interface actually works? Why is a list item shown the way it is? How are the input forms built and how can you change how they work and look? This series will introduce you to a wide variety of customization options not usually covered in books or online articles.

This is the third article in a six-part series on ASP.NET Master Pages and SharePoint. In the previous two articles of this series we discussed master pages and how SharePoint uses them to create it’s out of the box pages. Now that we have an understanding of how master pages work and how SharePoint uses them, we can start showing how to develop custom master pages. In this article we are going to concentrate on editing master pages in SharePoint Designer.

This is the first article in a six-part series on ASP.NET Master Pages and SharePoint. In this article we will discuss the structure and architecture of an ASP.NET Master Page. We will show ASP.NET Master Page’s basic concepts in order to gain an understanding of how the pages work. This article will lay the groundwork for the subsequent articles in this series on customizing SharePoint Master Pages.