SharePoint Wrappers, a new tool for you, and more on TechEd that I didn't go to

No SharePointy stuff today as I'm just spending most of my day re-configuring our VMs so calls to SPUtility.GuessLoginNameFromEmail will work. I do have some goodies coming up this weekend as a server move is going to keep me away from the office so I'm going to be VPCing at home on non-project work and have a few things to post on my SharePoint Wrappers project which provide an OO way to access SharePoint services from remote locations (like desktops). I'll be posting a blog and source update to a new tool called Remote SharePoint Explorer (for lack of a better name) which mimics what SharePoint Explorer from Navigo does, but you can run it from your desktop (doesn't have as much functionality as SharePoint Explorer does, but gets you as close as you can via Web Services). So keep an eye out for that this weekend.

Fitz resurfaced from drinking and carrying on at TechEd, an event that I was unable to make it to (grumble, grumble, grumble, gripe, gripe, grip) and posted a few notes from the event. He's got a nice little block on Navigo Systems that have a solution for boolean type searches and, as Fitz puts it, is a much more powerful and flexible search option that can be a drop-in replacement for the standard search. Also check out SharePad and the FrontPage RPC stuff that the Interlink Group put together. It's an excellent toolkit and for those that want to build custom file handlers in their portals, it's the way to go. I took a look at it a couple of weeks ago and am just trying to see how to leverage it to do some SharePoint wizardry that we can't get out of the box. Great stuff.