How to enable anonymous access in SharePoint 2010

1- Open Central Administration
2 - From the left menu select "Security"
3 - Under "General Security" select "Specify authentication providers"
4- Make sure that your site is selected and click on "Default" link
5- Under "Anonymous Access" select "Enable anonymous access" checkbox
6- Open your site
7- From site actions menu select "Site Settings"
8- Under "Users and Permissions" select "Site permissions"
9- Click on "Anonymous Access" from the ribbon
10 - Select "Entire web site" Or "Lists and libraries"
11 - Click "Ok"
12- Enjoy

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How to hide ribbon row when enabling anonymous access in SharePoint 2010

When you enable anonymous access to your site the ribbon row will appear for anonymous users but without "site actions" menu and it will be "Login" link but if you need to hide all this row you have to do the following:

1- Open your masterpage with SharePoint designer
2- Find the ribbon row Search on "ribbonrow"
3- before the div that holds the ribbon add this tag

<sharepoint:spsecuritytrimmedcontrol id="SPSecurityTrimmedControl2" runat="server" permissionsstring="ManageSubwebs">

4- after the end of the ribbon div close the security tag

</sharepoint:spsecuritytrimmedcontrol>
5- Enjoy

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How to add webpart gallery group?

Adding a Webpart gallery grouping using WSP package is easy. Switch to WSP view in Visual Studio 2008 and modify the "your webpart.xml" file.

WSP view is new feature in VseWSS 1.3 (VseWSS - Visual Studio Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services).

Example Xml file:

Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, v1.3 - Mar 2009 CTP

This is cool! here CTP but you can do of stuff already.

New features in version 1.3 include:

• Can be installed on x64 Server OS machines running SharePoint x64. Previously only x86 Server OS could be used
• Separate build commands for package, deploy and retract are added as Visual Studio menu items
• WSP View improvements for consistency of deleting feature elements, merging features and adding event receivers to features
• Command line build, package and retract commands are included enabling continuous integration and build servers. Previously command line build of SharePoint projects was very difficult
• Refactoring support for renaming of Web Parts. Previously renaming a web part required changes in several files in the project
• Solution Generator can now generate solutions from publishing sites. Previously only regular sites could be generated
• Allowing partial trust BIN deployments of web parts
• New project item template for SharePoint RootFiles items
• Deployment will now optionally remove conflicting existing features on the development server prior to redeployment. Previously any feature name conflicts would result in an error
• Ancillary assemblies such as for business logic can now be added to the SharePoint Solution WSP Hidden features related to Site Definition projects are now shown in WSP View. They are no longer hidden
• For advanced users a fast deploy is included to update only the compiled assembly on the SharePoint development installation
• Deployment step logging is included
• The List Definition from Content Type template now allows for the creation of a List Definition Event Receiver
• The User Guide is now installed with the extensions instead of being a separate download

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