April 2008 - Posts

Microsoft Office Labs
28 April 08 10:36 PM

officelabs.com is now live . officelabs.com is Microsoft’s new website for customers to test and provide feedback on productivity concepts. Check out officelabs.com and test drive the prototypes today : Community clips : Find "how-to" Read More...

Postedby Jon Løken | 0 Comments    

Trouble with ossearchresult, droppdown box and scopes?
24 April 08 09:43 PM

Have you tried to create custom scopes in a SSP ? Guess you expected them to show up in your newly created sites as well, right? Unfortunately, they don't. And you might even run into some more trouble along the way. But let's explore in an ordered fashion: Read More...

Postedby Stian Kirkeberg | 3 Comments    

How to customize application pages in the Layouts folder in SharePoint Server 2007 and in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
15 April 08 09:41 PM

I am posting the whole KB944105 because we need some more attention on the subject: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944105 INTRODUCTION This article describes two methods to customize the appearance and the behavior of your site collections in Microsoft Read More...

Postedby Stian Kirkeberg | 1 Comments    

Search features, web parts and delegate controls
15 April 08 09:34 PM

SharePoint has got great power with it's delagate controls. With the default.master the following delegate controls are available: AdditionalPageHead GlobalSiteLink0 GlobalSiteLink1 GlobalSiteLink2 SmallSearchInputBox TopNavigationDataSource PublishingConsole Read More...

Postedby Stian Kirkeberg | 1 Comments    

Tried LINQPad?
15 April 08 09:01 PM

A cool little program for using Linq: LINQPad supports everything in C# 3.0 and Framework 3.5: LINQ to SQL LINQ to Objects LINQ to XML     http://www.linqpad.net/   Thanks for the tip, Frode! :) Read More...

Postedby Stian Kirkeberg | 2 Comments    

Content Types in SharePoint
11 April 08 10:35 AM

Content types enable you to manage the metadata and behaviors of a document or item type in a centralized, reusable way. The following links are a good starting point to get more information about how Content Types works in SharePoint. Introduction: " Read More...

Postedby Thomas Læhren | 0 Comments    

Filed under: developer, Sharepoint

Visual How To's
02 April 08 03:05 PM

There are 30 (and counting) Visual How To articles available on MSDN. These articles include, among others: guidelines and tips on how to generate unique ID's, how to build custom content types, how to write custom entries to audit log, inheriting default Read More...

Postedby Thomas Læhren | 0 Comments    

Filed under: developer, SharePoint development

SharePoint deployment: DBA created databases and named instances
01 April 08 09:29 PM

The SharePoint configuration wizard normally creates the databases for you. That's easy, but requires the sysadmin role in the database server. In some cases the DBA requires to create the database. The documentation at technet is very useful, but miss Read More...

Postedby Jon Løken | 2 Comments