Do you like Highslide ? It’s a pretty neat JavaScript library that allows you to create AJAX thumbnail viewers and pop-up image galleries. It’s a really easy way to add some Web 2.0 flair to your site instead of displaying boring thumbnails. Now, SharePoint has an embedded “This week in pictures” Web...

The recently released Beta2 of Silverlight 2 has unfortunately broken the Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint . The team has announced on their CodePlex site that they will release a new version for Beta2, but in the meantime, here's a summary of what I changed to make the Blueprints run on Beta2....

I realized that it may not be immediately obvious to everybody how you can customize the MOSS Search Center to add the Live Search Web Part I blogged about. It is really very simple. The Theory: all you need to do is to create new "Live" tabs on the Search Center (one for Search and one for Results...

I have pre-configured a Web Part for MOSS that you can just drop on to a Search Center results page. It will run the current query on Live Search and display the results. It is built using SharePoint Designer, the Data Form Web Part, and the Live Search SOAP API . It automatically retrieves the current...

I have recently been asked to batch load a bunch of InfoPath Forms into a SharePoint Server for access via Forms Server. The customer had a database extract, in the form of a CSV file, and they wanted to convert this data into pre-filled forms, and then load the forms into SharePoint Server. They also...

Deux articles indispensables pour le développeur SharePoint viennent d'être publiés sur MSDN. En résumé, vous trouverez dans les première partie des informations sur les différences par rapport au développement pur ASP.NET, l'organisation de l'environnement de développement, et l'utilisation des Extensions...

I have recently had to implement custom authentication providers for MOSS 2007 ( MembershipProvider & RoleProvider ). While I found a lot of excellent information on the Web to help me with this task, I learned a couple of interesting snippets of information that I wanted to share here. First...

Microsoft est l'un des lauréats du prix du meilleur intranet de l'année 2007 décerné par Jakob Nielsen , grand gourou de l'utilisabilité . Le rapport complet est payant, mais semble très riche en détails sur les fonctionnalités de ces différents intranets. Ce classement illustre évidemment la qualité...

I have recently had to come up with a way to programmatically add a Web Part to a large number of existing publishing pages. It took me a little while to find the exact way to do it, so I thought I would post the source code here. Attached is the C# code that will iterate over a bunch of pages in...

A couple weeks ago, the SharePoint product team announced the SharePoint Test Data Load Tool. You can find a brief article on TechNet and download the tool from CodePlex (as well as the full source code!) I have used a preliminary release of this tool on a recent project, and it's absolutely invaluable...

Office SharePoint Server 2007 (aka MOSS2007), like SharePoint Portal Server 2003 before it, offers a built-in Web Part for integration with Outlook Web Access (aka OWA). Unfortunately, this Web Part has a number of limitations: It needs to be configured manually by the user in order to specify...