Jan Tielens' Bloggings

I haven't experienced this problem myself, but there seem to be some people get this exception when they use Son of SmartPart to load ASP.NET 2.0 user controls in combination with the Web Deployment Projects add-in. Steve Hartzog blogged about the solution for this problem: add the WebResource.axd to the excluded paths in SharePoint Central Administration. If you want to know how and why, check one of my previous posts. If you just want to get it fixed, below is the summary. I'm going to include this step in the Installation Guide of the Son of SmartPart, once again thanks Steve for bringing this to my attention!

Get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2e85132b-7370-4137-a19a-15752ea83952&displaylang=en

[Via Martin] Do you want to increase the performance of your SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Server farm up to 59%? Just switch from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005! More information and test details over here: SQL Server Performance Test Results.

The SharePoint team blog keeps posting cool stuff: Rolling up information in SharePoint Sites. There will be two web parts to roll up information:

No more t-shirts today!! 

Oh I love to read this kind of stuff. :-) Check out Steve Hartzog's rave about the SmartPart (see his complete post for the 'nightmares' part):

I've been using the VS.NET 2003 version of this fantastic tool and now there's a VS 2005 version available! Great work by thinktecture. Get it for free: http://www.thinktecture.com/wscf.

If there are still some people who are looking for Windows Live Messenger invites, drop a comment at the bottom of this post. I've got 8 of them, so please don't ask for an invite if you are not one of the first 8 requestors (FIFO), better luck next time!