Jan Tielens' Bloggings

During my holidays my colleagues at U2U have released several pretty cool SharePoint tools/extensions. I’m just going to list them, if you want to learn more about them, check out Karine’s blog.

I've just uploaded a new extensions to the SmartTools for SharePoint project on CodePlex. This extension adds Copy and Paste functionality to SharePoint Document Libraries. You can download the extension from the Releases section. For more info and screenshots see the CopyPaste Wiki page on CodePlex.

Weblogs are a great way to keep up with the latest SharePoint Buzz and I get quite a lot of questions from people who are just dipping their toes in the SharePoint pool for some good reading material. Well if you don't want to go after every interesting SharePoint blog individually or if you want to add blogs to your list that you didn't know yet, check out following links:

My colleague Karine has released a new version of her Caml Query Builder Tool! Version 3.1.0.0 has some great new features:

Pfew, the DevDays 2008 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands are over! I think both of my sessions (Getting your SharePoint Code Deployed & Advanced Web Part Development) went pretty well; no crashes or failing demos. Let's hope the audience thinks the same. :-) I already got quite some requests to get my presentations and demo code. So instead of sending a copy to everybody's email, I've uploaded them to my SkyDrive account.

For the third year in a row I'll be speaking at the Dutch Developer Days in Amsterdam. The event starts tomorrow and I've got two sessions on Friday (Getting your SharePoint Code Deployed and Advanced Web Part Development). Speaking in Amsterdam is always lots of fun, so I hope to meet you there!

Micromiel is organizing a cool photo event in Amsterdam this weekend, I whish I could attend it!

It’s a fairly known technique to make use of CustomActions to add elements to the out-of-the-box user interface of SharePoint: you can add menu items to the Site Actions menu, you can add links on the Site Settings page, etc. The following piece of XML is the manifest of a feature that will add a new menu item to the Site Actions menu: