I recently built a prototype to show how SharePoint and SharePoint Designer workflows can be used to automate an HR performance review process. I had to use a secondary workflow as described in SharePoint Designer: Create a secondary workflow , but had...

I recently got deeper into using the Content Query Web Part (CQWP) than I had in a while and learned a few things. The first thing you should do to learn about the CQWP is read this article from Heather Solomon ’s blog: Customizing the Content Query Web...

I was recently asked how to programmatically retrieve custom fields from the User Information List via a Web service. It turns out that the GetUserInfo web method does not return any custom fields that you might add to the User Information List (aka People...

Yesterday http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint converted over to SharePoint and Silverlight. It’s nice to have a microsoft.com example to add to the list of public facing sites running SharePoint. There’s an upcoming SharePoint team blog posting on how...