[Team System] Getting Rid of Default Document Folders in the Quick Launch Bar
I just recently blogged about how to display document folders in the Quick Launch area of the TFS Sharepoint portal. Here's a follow-up to that one on how to remove the default folders which are created when you set up a new Team System project. It's all about modifying the Sharepoint templ......
Building an ASP.NET 2.0 Web Part for Deployment to WSS V3.0 and MOSS 2007 - Part 2
In the conclusion of his article on how to create an ASP.NET 2.0 web part using Visual Studio 2005 and the C# language, Gayan Peiris shows how to add the web part to the Web Part Gallery and a SharePoint site.Visit our new .NET 2.0 section!...
My Sessions for next weeks SharePoint Connections in Vegas
Next week I'm presenting at SharePoint Connections, part of the DevConnections group of conferences going on in Vegas. This is a 4 day conference that includes SharePoint, ASP.NET, SQL, .NET Development, etc. Here are my sessions I'm doing:HDV206: The Main Event: What Wonderful Things We Ca......
The Wiki is good, the Wiki is wise
For the past few years, I've been using Sharepoint for my development portal. However, it doesn't seem to be the best tool for building out documentation on our development projects. A Wiki seems like a much better choice. I've started using ScrewTurn Wiki. ......
Great series on building a public website with MOSS 2007
Liam Cleary has a fantastic in-depth series running on rebuilding a corporate website with the new WCM features of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. We're talking deep practical dives into CSS, master pages, navigation, and content types. Highly recommended!Part I - Introduction and......
Please help us keep SharePointKicks alive!
Okay, I know I haven’t posted a lot of SharePoint content lately and I won’t go into the million and one excuses for it but I wanted to reach out and see if I could get a little help keeping our SharePointKicks site alive and, well, kicking.
While there have been articles pos......
MS SQL and Searching MCMS with SharePoint
Last week we discussed building our own search controls and other topics related to searching MCMS with SharePoint. This week we conclude our discussion. This article is excerpted from chapter five of the book em Advanced Microsoft Content Management Server Development em written by Lim Mei Y......
3 hours of SharePoint goodness
Or as someone in the audience called it, SorePoint (but then, they haven’t done it 2007 style yet).
Last nights presentation to the .NET Calgary User Group went well. We had about 40 or so people come out and get some free pizza and swag and spend 3 hours with me rambling on about Share......
Viewing new SharePoint 2007 sites with IE7
Just a little tip as I finally crossed over to the dark side and installed the latest version of IE7. When you’re viewing a SharePoint 2007 site (WSS or MOSS, doesn’t matter) you’ll get a warning message from IE saying that an ActiveX control is causing problems on the site. ......
Comparing the features Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint Portal Server 2003
On the official blog of the SharePoint product group a link to a spreadsheet containing a comparison of the features of MOSS 2007 to the features of SPS 2003 is provided. It provides a feature comparision between the following products: SharePoint portal Server 2003 Windows SharePoint Services 3.0......
Writing Custom Web Parts for SharePoint 2007
Sahil Malik recently published a nice article that covers how to write a custom web part using ASP.NET 2.0 and host it within SharePoint 2007. As I mentioned in an earlier blog post, SharePoint 2007 is built on top of ASP.NET 2.0, which means you can now use ASP.NET 2.0 features (Forms Authenticati......
Windows Workflow Foundation
Workflow is one of the new core capabilities (along with WPF aka Avalon and WCF aka Indigo) being added in the .NET Framework 3.0 release later this year. It provides an in-process workflow engine to process rules, a designer for VS 2005 to enable both developers and non-developers to define ......