Part 3: Extending your web part to include toolbars SharePoint toolbars use user controls (.ascx files) to control HTML rendering and layout. This is great if you have an ASPX page to use them on (in fact, you can base your efforts off one of the built...

Great news everyone \o/ - a solution to setting an SPGridView filter has been researched and documented in this post over at Bob's SharePoint Bonanza - well done that man! This should give you pretty much everything you need to build an SPGridView control...

In 'Part 1: Using SPGridview, adding menus, grouping and sorting' I looked at how to use an SPGridView from the ground up to bind to a custom DataSet. One of the features I omitted at the time was paging, and this post shows you how to add paging support to your grid....

Step-by-step guide to using SPGridView and SPMenuField to build a Web Part which uses the standard SharePoint UI controls to render non-SharePoint data, in this case from a classic .NET DataSet....

Hello everybody \o/ - a few bits and pieces you might find useful when designing and deploying Enterprise Search based on Office SharePoint Server 2007 - most of these tips can be credited to some Partner training delivered by Morten Schioldan. Really...

When it comes to deploying and debugging your Web Part, you're spoilt for choice. My preference is to package the web part into a cab file, creating and including a manifest XML and DWP file. This should be familiar ground to seasoned web part developers...

A friend of mine, Chris Fenly from Waterstons, got in touch today about a weird problem he was having with two Windows XP SP 2 machines running Office 2003. Opening Word or Outlook generated the error "Outlook could not create the work file. Check the...