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Ted Pattison has created a really nifty tool called STSDEV which makes some actions during SharePoint development incredible easy. As stated in the description on the download website: " STSDEV is a proof-of-concept utility application which demonstrates how to generate Visual Studio project files and solution files to facilitate the development and deployment of templates and components for the SharePoint 2007 platform including Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint...
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I just discovered some new functionality in Google Earth called Bird's Eye. Bird's Eye seems to be a mix of Google Earth with PhotoSynth and gives users the possibility to zoom in at photo level on the map. See for yourself. At first you enable the option Bird's Eye and that gives you rectangles pointing out which parts can be enhanced to an air photo. By selecting a rectangle area it shows the air photo inside google earth. Really nifty and cool stuff :)
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Begin march 2008 the SharePoint Conference 2008 is held in Seattle. We were to late to get any tickets so the event was completly sold out. But.....fortunally....there are two global SharePoint conferences which follows up very quickly. Both events are a two day conference giving the best sessions of the one given in Seattle. http://www.sharepointconferenceistanbul.com http://www.sharepointconferencedubai.com I'm now trying to go to one of them. :)
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Microsoft gives everybody the possibility to test Windows Vista without even installing it. According to their site Windows Vista Test Drive allow you to try this latest operating system from Microsoft without having to install it on your PC. They provide a simple login for a test drive environment using your web browser. You will experience all the things of Windows Vista. There are two options: explore the product on your own or follow along with guided exercises and videos. http://www.windowsvistatestdrive...
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The following code can retrieve a file from a SharePoint library by suing the WebClient class. You will need the credentials of the SharePoint site to create a connection. The file is retrieved as binary and stored into a local file. Eventually you get an FileStream object back pointing to the downloaded file. byte[] binFile = null; System.IO.FileStream fs = null; System.IO.BinaryReader rdr = null; string tempFileName = "C:\\tmp"; string url = http://portal.demo.nl/lists/doclib/mydoc.docx...
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During one of our projects we needed to create a new SiteGroup, add users to it and define some roles.The following code can be used for adding a SiteGroup to a site in WSS or MOSS. SPWeb currentWeb = SPContext.Current.Web; SPUser currentUser = currentWeb.CurrentUser; currentWeb.SiteGroups.Add("MyGroup", currentUser, currentUser, "My new group"); Then we need to get the group based on its name and add the roles to it based on the names of the roles. SPGroup group = currentWeb...
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The Limited Access permission level is designed to be combined with fine-grained permissions to give users access to a specific list, document library, item, or document, without giving them access to the entire site. However, to access a list or library, for example, a user must have permission to open the parent Web site and read shared data such as the theme and navigation bars of the Web site. The Limited Access permission level cannot be customized or deleted. You cannot assign this permission...
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Hi all, Jan Tielen has released his next release of the SmartPart. SmartPart is a generic wrapper Web Part for SharePoint 2007 which can be used for showing ASP.NET web user controls. According to his own blog post the new version contains: Setup wizard for easy installation Localization support for ASP.NET AJAX controls Some bugfixes There is also a 64bit version available. Download it here!
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One of my collegaes Bastiaan Turkenburg pointed out to me a really cool article. Tony at his SharePoint Reporter Blog has posted a month ago an article regarding the creation of a MOSS 2007 VPC Image. Its incredibly detailed and very usefull. Thanks Tony!! The following steps are described: Part 1: Getting Started, Installing IIS, and Installing .NET Framework 2.0 Part 2: Installing and Configuring POP3 Email Part 3: Installing and Configuring Outlook 2007 Part 4: Installing and Configuring the ...
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Joel Oleson has posted an article decribing the protocols, ports and firewall rules with regards to MOSS. This is a "must have" when it comes to setting up securit in a MOSS environment at your customers. All protocols seems to be HTTP based and are described per tooling. Have a look!! http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/02/13/protocols-ports-and-firewall-rules.aspx
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As mentioned on some blogs the Visual Studio 2005 Extensions User Guide is available for download. One of the biggest issues we always have is generating the basic building blocks for our projects. Currently i'm looking into the possibility to create some kind of Software Factory for the base of our SharePoint projects. This is because a lot of the projects are always setup in the same way. Maybe this can be used for that too but i'm afraid it is not complete yet. The following give a short...
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This is great news! I just read it on the blog of Joel Oleson. They have just released a Microsoft SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool. I'm certainly gonna have a look at it. This subject is always one of the biggest issues when we are at our customers. At some point you always get the question: What do we need for this Portal? How do we size it? Is there a tool on the market..... So you all interested in capacity planning....have a look at it! :) http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/02...
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If you want to create a Web Application which is by default accesible through anonymous access, but specific subsites should be secured the following steps have to be made to realise this situation. 1) Create a Web Application with an Site Collection based on a template like Collaboration Portal. Any other template will do. 2) Open "Central Administration" and open the tab "Application Management". Under the header "Application Security" you will find an option called...
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I found an impressive list of public websites hosted on SharePoint. Ian Morrish has gathered an incredible list of companies and blogs using Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2007 (MOSS). There were already some listings of public websites on the internet but this one contains more then 150 websites references. It also gives an description per SharePoint website. http://www.wssdemo.com/Pages/websites.aspx Thanks Ian :)
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Joe Oleson did a great job for some greate links to MOSS 2007 Whitepapers, tools and a lot more. The link is from last year but still very interesting. Just have a look at it! http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/pages/moss-2007-whitepapers-tools-trials-and-starter-kits.aspx