How to redirect from one page to another in SharePoint Sandbox solutions (especially when they are deployed to SharePoint Online)

How to redirect from one page to another in SharePoint Sandbox solutions (especially when they are deployed to SharePoint Online)? Answer - There are lots of ways to achieve this but the following one works almost everywhere for the sandbox solutions. On a button click event (or accordingly) of your ".cs" file, just add following code: string pageURL = "www.yourpageurl.com";var jscript = "<script type='text/javascript' language='javascript'>window.location='" + pageURL +...

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Change 'Title' Column Display Name Using List Definition In SharePoint

Question: How to change "Title" column display name in default view of a list when creating list by list definition using Visual Studio in SharePoint? Answer: In Schema.xml file of your list definition project, search for "Fields" tag (i.e. <Fields>) and just before the closing tag of this "Fields" tag (i.e. </Fields> ), put below line of code (also see attached image): <Field ID="{fa564e0f-0c70-4ab9-b863-0177e6ddd247}" Type="Text" Name="LinkTitle" DisplayName="First...

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Cannot Connect To The SharePoint Site

Cannot Connect To The SharePoint Site While creating a SharePoint solution in Visual Studio, if you get an error shown in a screenshot below when you validate your SharePoint site URL, just provide user with a "DB_Owner" access to the "WSS_Content", "WSS_Logging" and "SharePoint_Config" database. This will resolve the issue. ...

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