Jan Tielens' Bloggings
Joy, frustration, excitement, madness, aha's, headaches, ... codito ergo sum!
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Happy Holidays!
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Tip: Right Click => Add DLL to GAC
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Getting in the Christmas Mood with SharePoint
I know my pal Patrick loves the Christmas season (trust me; last week we were in Redmond, so I spent lots of time with him), so he'll love the following web part! Todd embedded a JavaScript in a content editor web part that will draw snow flakes on your SharePoint sites. Just import the DWP (no need to deploy a dll) and you'll be in the Christmas mood immediately! Get it here
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Windows Live Messenger Beta Released
Man, I wish I was on the beta for this one: Windows Live Messenger Beta. Just look at all the new features! Let's hope they have a public beta soon (or add me as a beta tester! ;-).
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Deploying SharePoint Web Parts Build with .NET 2.0
[Via Stramit] For detailed info about WSS and SPS SP2 check out this whitepaper: Service Pack 2 for Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2003.
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Another Son of SmartPart QuickStart
I haven't blogged this week, because I'm (again) in Denmark to work with some SharePoint enthusiastics. But there seem to be other people who are using the Son of SmartPart, and write about it. Here's a nice QuickStart written by Hal Angseesing. Also Denis, seems to be having a lot of fun with the SmartPart! :-) Keep up the good work guys.
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SNARF: the Social Network and Relationship Finder (Microsoft Research)
Something cool to check out: SNARF.
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Creating Connectable Web Part with the SmartPart
Lately I got quite some questions about how you can create connectable web parts with the SmartPart for SharePoint. Because I’m a little bit lazy I’ve recorded a screencast that’s going to show you the basics for creating connectable web user controls that can by hosted in the SmartPart for SharePoint. I’m using SmartPart version 1.1 and ASP.NET 1.1/Visual Studio.NET 2003/SharePoint 2003. If there are some people who want to do the same using the Son of SmartPart and ASP.NET 2.0/Visual Studio 2005/SharePoint 2003, it’s almost exactly the same (same interfaces etc.). In the screencast I’m showing two web parts that retrieve data from the Northwind database: a list of employees and a list of orders. When an employee is selected, the corresponding orders are displayed in the order list. After that I’m showing a test provider and consumer, built from scratch.
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Son of SmartPart Spotted in the Wild
(... in the World Wild Web that is :-) Ian Morrish has deployed the Son of Smart Part on his SharePoint server, and he has a demo page! So if you are still in the denial phase, check it out: ASP.NET 2.0 Web User Controls can run in the current version of SharePoint. :-) In the meanwhile I'm still looking for cheap SharePoint hosting (including .NET 2.0 and WSS SP2), but so far my current hosting provider (WebHost4Life) seems to have the best deal. Unfortunately they are not yet running WSS SP2.
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Code Snippets on Steroids
One of the features that developers appreciate the most in Visual Studio 2005 is Code Snippets. Creating your own code snippets is quite easy, there’s even a code snippet for doing that. Now some code snippets have some kind of logic built-in, for example the constructor code snippet: it knows the name of the class for which you’d like to generate a constructor. If you would like to create your own code snippets with more advanced functionality you have to take a look at the Function element in the Literal element of the code snippet. Btw, here’s a nice gallery of free code snippets: http://www.gotcodesnippets.com/!