I was inspired by the IE 8 webslices feature demonstrated in the opening keynote of the South African MIX conference held in Johannesburg this week. So I decided it would be a good test to see how hard it would be to add webslice functionality to www...

FAST has released a set of installable Web parts (Web parts are reusable UI components for building SharePoint sites) for quickly integrating FAST ESP with SharePoint Server 2007. These Web parts allow SharePoint administrators to build ESP-based search...

On Wednesday we held the first IW Community meeting, which was a great success. In fact in some cases even emotional, a couple of the community members even shed tears!! In this post I am jotting down and pointing you some of things you missed if you...

If you are a web developer be sure not to miss this free event, with great international and local speakers. This is happening next week, so book now as time is running out! "Join the conversation and explore how you can create the next-generation...

Hi All, This is a just a reminder that the South African IW Community meets today at Microsoft's offices in Bryanston, Johannesburg. To register for attendance and to see the planned agenda, follow the following registration link . Hope to see you there...

In case you didn't hear. Windows Desktop Search (WDS) 4.0 has been released, and is now available to download. This is an update to both the existing Windows XP and Windows Vista desktop search solutions. You can find more detailed information and links...

The Podcasting Kit for SharePoint has been released on CodePlex. All the code is freely available, so download it and evaluate today! "If you or your organizations are interested in podcasting, have SharePoint Server 2007 deployed and about to develop...

Are you an ASP .Net developer, who is interested in developing on SharePoint (WSS or MOSS), but not sure where to start? Microsoft has just released materials targeted at you, which can be found on the new Developer Portal for SharePoint . It focuses...