Peter Seale's weblog

Monday, June 30, 2008 11:27:04 PM UTC 

Quick link: http://www.codeplex.com/SharePointPdfIcon

This is possibly the most important customization you can make to SharePoint. OF ALL TIME.

By default, SharePoint does not include a PDF icon. When you upload a PDF to SharePoint, you see:

This is unacceptable!

Manually adding the PDF icon

I'm not here to tell you how to manually add the PDF icon to your SharePoint farm. Steven Van de Craen already does an excellent job, so I'll just link to him.

But manually adding a PDF icon? So 2006-2007. We're in 2008 people, let's get with the times.

Programmatically adding the PDF icon

Recently Steve Goodyear from Microsoft posted step-by-step details of how to programmatically add a PDF icon to your farm. Which is great.

What Steve did not do, however, was go the extra step and provide a working .WSP file.

Ok. At this point you're asking yourself: "Well Peter, since you're not bothering to tell me how to manually add a PDF icon, and you're not going to tell me how to do it programmatically, then why are we here?"

Introducing the most awesome SharePoint Solution package ever

Introducing: the PDF Icon installer!

I've developed a Solution package to change the dreary, dull, blank icon, to a dynamic, Web 2.0, hot hot hot PDF icon!

Feedback

If something is terrible, let me know and I'll fix it. Issues/Discussion page on the CodePlex project page. Or if it's really terrible, email me direct :)

Where to get it

http://www.codeplex.com/SharePointPdfIcon