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Thursday, September 29, 2005 8:35 PM

a story of data and views

As I mentioned previously, my main area of focus on FrontPage is features that help users build applications for SharePoint. The cornerstone of our app creation experience in FP 2003 is a little thing we call the ‘Data View’ web part. You can think of
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Monday, September 26, 2005 9:54 PM

list editing gone wild

In my last post, I mentioned the neato ‘Datasheet’ view that comes with SharePoint. I'm sure this is old hat to many of you out there, but on the off chance you haven't played with it, the Datasheet is definitely worth checking out. In a nutshell, the
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Sunday, September 25, 2005 10:38 PM

The case of the missing 'Insert Hyperlink' button

Adding content through the SharePoint browser-UI is generally workable (especially if you use the super cool 'data sheet' view), but it lacks some of the richer formatting options that one finds in most modern browser-based content editors, such as the
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Saturday, September 24, 2005 11:33 PM

a few of my favorite things...

If you’re like me, you spend a lot of time in ‘code view’ getting your page to look just right. In FrontPage 2003 we added a whole bunch of neat features to help users be more productive when editing code. One of my favorites is the ‘Select tag’ feature
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Friday, September 23, 2005 10:58 PM

The Office

Today was our annual company meeting and all in all I had a great time. That despite my natural inclination to be cynical about rah-rah sis boom bah :^>. It was cool to see the wave of products nearing completion - I definitely have techolust for xbox360,
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Thursday, September 22, 2005 8:41 PM

I heart lists

During my time here on FrontPage (coming on 3.5 years!), I've spent most of my waking hours on features that help users build dynamic web applications for SharePoint. Now, it wouldn't surprise me if many of you haven't even heard of SharePoint - it's
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Wednesday, September 21, 2005 10:56 AM

ok go

Let’s get this thing rolling. My name is Alex Malek; I’m a Program Manager on the FrontPage team. I already know what your first question is - no, FrontPage doesn’t mess up your code anymore ;>. But seriously, I hope to use this blog to talk about
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