Jan Tielens' Bloggings

Do you know the difference between VSTO and VSTA? Did you already hear about MAF? Check out Andrew's latest post! Synopsis:

This week one of my students asked how he could remove the VSTO extensions of a specific Word document. I never thought about it, but if you give it a little thought, it's quite useful. Just imagine that you have a VSTO Word template solution that allows you to create a document very easily (for example with some custom task panes). Once you're done building the document you may want to save it, and give users that don't have VSTO runtime installed (or don't have access to the extenions) the possibility to open the document (without any warnings). It turns out that's not that difficult, it's even documented on the MSDN site:

Last week Patrick already pointed to a nice web part: Site Collection Search for Son of SmartPart. Basically this web part allows you to search through all the sites of a site collection in SharePoint. Typically this feature is only available in SharePoint Portal Server search. 

Almost two years ago (wow, time flies when you're having fun!) I wrote a small article about how you could reproduce contents from a SharePoint list or document library on a site, when the actual list is stored on another site. The trick that I explained was to use FrontPage to handle all the dirty work, but of course the consequence is that you end up with an unghosted page. Now Robert te Kaat, has written a nice web part that can do the same thing: FlexListViewer-webpart is able to display any type of list and can be easily configured, just by configuring the address of a view of the list.

Web parts are everywhere today! You can use them today on diverse platforms and you can create them with various tools. The goal of this post is to give a clear overview of the different platforms and development techniques that are available.

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