Contents tagged with SharePoint
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Visual Studio Template for SharePoint Solution Packages (WSP)
[Via Mark] Every SharePoint developer knows that creating SharePoint Solution Packages (WSP files) for deploying your web parts, event handlers, features, ... is the way to go: it allows the SharePoint administrators to easily deploy the customizations, even scheduled deployments and multi front-end-webserver deployments are supported. But every SharePoint developer also knows that creating Sharepoint Solutions Packages is ... wel, let's put it nicely: not a lot of fun to do. :-)
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External Data & InfoPath: Server Upgrade and Migration Tool
Getting external data into an InfoPath form is extremely easy and creating rich electronic forms is easy as well, so lots of power users and developers are using InfoPath to capture structured data. Publishing those forms is also very easy: in the InfoPath client, just click the Publish menu item and go through the wizard. Et voila, the form is ready to be filled out in a SharePoint document library by the end users. The fun starts when those power users or developers are not allowed to deploy directly to the production SharePoint servers: probably the locations of the external data is different on your development/test server than on the production machine (especially if you automatically submit data). In InfoPath 2007 and Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 (MOSS 2007) this can be solved by using Universal Data Connection (UDC) files. The InfoPath knows where to find the UDC file (relatively to the location of the form) and the UDC file tells InfoPath where to data is located. So the location of the data is not stored anymore in InfoPath, but it's stored in the UDC file. The result: you can change the location without having to change the InfoPath form.
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Cool SharePoint Tool: SharePoint Inspector
[Via Renaud Comte, aka CAML Boy] I haven't tried this tool myself but it looks like a potential must-have-tool for every SharePoint developer's/administrator's toolbox: SharePoint Inspector [download here].
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SmartPart Featured on CMS Wire
Brice Dunwoodie has written a nice article on CMS Wire about the latest release of the SmartPart (aka the Return of the SmartPart).
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Announcing the Return of the SmartPart
Finally the latest version of the SmartPart is here: the Return of the SmartPart, also know as SmartPart v3, also know as SmartPart for SharePoint 2007. For those of you who are new to the SmartPart: the SmartPart is an open source web part that can host any ASP.NET Web User Control. What is the advantage of creating web parts by making use of the SmartPart? Well if you are familiar with the "traditional" web part development technique you probably know that you have to write lots of code, there is no designer support in Visual Studio. The SmartPart allows you to create a Web User Control (ASCX) in Visual Studio by making use of the designer, and deploy it to a SharePoint site. This release of the SmartPart is targetted for SharePoint 2007, both Windows SharePoint Services v3 (WSSv3) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS). Since the initial release almost 40.000 SharePoint developers have downloaded the SmartPart, get your copy today (for free of course) from the GotDotNet Workspace (in the releases section)! For those of you who have attended my session about web part development on TechEd: Developers in Barcelona, this is the version that I showed over there.
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Deploying the Return of the SmartPart
To deploy the Return of the SmartPart to your SharePoint 2007 environment, you have two possibilities:
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U2U Goes/Went Africa!
Due to a funny coincidence Patrick and I were both in Africa last week! Patrick did a SharePoint course in South Africa and I was in Tanzania, also for a SharePoint course. Btw, did you know that the photo on top of my blog was taken in the famous Kruger National Park last year (original picture can be seen here)?
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Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Ready to Download!
Thursday, November 16, 2006. Remember this day as the day that SharePoint 2007 was released! You can download Windows SharePoint Service 3.0 (WSSv3) from the Microsoft Download site (for free of course).
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Seriously Cool Stuff: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for WSS v3
I just got back from a really cool Tech Ed session: OFF205 Office Developer 101: How to get started building Office 2007 solutions. Although the name doesn’t give it away, it also covered some SharePoint stuff. The first part of the session discussed some basic Office client development topics (Hello World ribbon buttons and custom Task Panes) but the interesting stuff was in the second part: Alexander Malek talked about the Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services v3. It was released earlier today, see Alexanders post, and Joris’ (aka Jopx) post (he was sitting next to me in this session and told me it works for B2TR). (download link).
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TechEd 2006 Live Coverage: Patrick and Ted on Stage
I’m sitting here in room 119 were Patrick and Ted are doing the first part of their WSS Pre Conference session. So far Ted has been doing the speaking and Patrick has played the demo monkey (he’s really good at it!). Here are some pictures and a small movie of their performance.