Browse by Tags
All Tags »
WSS (RSS)
As you might have seen on the SharePoint Team Blog we released the Community Technology Preview of Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint v1.3 . This is really designed to address a number of pressing needs our users have with v1.2. Namely: - x64
Read More...
Here are the code samples I demonstrated in my PDC Session last week as promised. You can watch the recorded session here: http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/BB13/ (Silverlight streaming Video & slides + demo side by side) Please read the “Contoso
Read More...
Big title for a big user guide! :) This is a great step forward for people starting out with SharePoint development, or for people looking at starting with the VS extensions for SharePoint. Anyone looking to build things like Webparts, Site templates,
Read More...
Something I take great interest in and spend a bunch of time thinking about are SharePoint Developers. I was one before I moved up here to Redmond and joined the SharePoint product team. Of course that means I hold a dear place in my heart for all you
Read More...
Microsoft Partners never fail to amaze me with some of the coolest product add-ons out there. Today I came across this one from Dark Blue Duck ... Scanning Enabler. Allows you to scan directly into a WSS/SPS document library. Very nice, simple but effective.
Read More...
This is a great new site definitions white paper by Patrick Tisseghem. This is the first thing people should read if they are looking at building a custom site definition. Creating Site Definitions for Windows SharePoint Services
Read More...
I recently had to make some changes/additions to a customers custom site definitions. As everyone should know, the way to go about this is to "hide" your V1 site definitions by using the Hidden="TRUE" attribute in the WebTemp.xml file, take a copy of
Read More...
A customer sent me a link to a page they found about using the Today field in calculated sharepoint fields. I don't know how you would fear with our support people ... but here is the note from Pete Blair on the workaround: It is possible to use "Today"
Read More...
One of the most frequent questions I get from customers is around a recycle bin for SharePoint. This is not functionality that you get Out of the Box (OOB). OOB you need to go back to a backup to retrieve a deleted document (this is being sorted out in
Read More...
WinApp Technlogy has a nice little free addon called the " Outlook Power Tool for SharePoint " that allows you to right click and email doucment(s) to people. I have implemented this a number of times for customers ... but it is nice to see this little
Read More...
A while back Fitz announced the availablity of the Site Definition KickStart project for developers working on sharepoint site definitions. This includes a sample site definition and nant and nunit bits for deployment and testing of your site definition.
Read More...
Finally it seems i am allowed to blog about this. I have had a customer on the Alpha of this for a while and it is a web part that i think many many many people are crying out for. The Telerik r.a.d editor web part for SharePoint provides the rich text
Read More...
One web part that i think is missing in the out of the box parts is one that allows you to show the sub-sites of a site. There are a couple out there already ... but i had the need to only show sub-sites that the user had access to. Anyway ... here is
Read More...
I am working on a project right now that has about 4 standalone WSS farms and a central SPS portal farm. The WSS farms are geographically spread out. I wanted to provide users the ability to create a new site on any farm as easy as they can using the
Read More...
There are many times when you need to so somethign to a WSS site just after it has been created ... and before the users have get their sticky little hands on it. Some of these might include setting up site groups, provisioning users into groups etc...
Read More...
