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Office System Developer Conference 2008

If you haven't heard, Microsoft is holding an event specifically geared towards Office and SharePoint developers. It is being held February 10-13th in San Jose, California. There are six different tracks and tons of excellent sessions lined...

Published 01-23-2008 10:41 AM by Raymond Mitchell

Filed under: SharePoint Products and Technologies, General, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Events

Out of the Box Composite Apps - Connected Web Parts

Now that we have two related lists, it would be nice to filter our list of Products by Vendor. We can easily accomplish this using out of the box List View Web Parts (LVWP). First we’ll create a new page to host our Web Parts by going to our Pages library...

Published 11-12-2007 7:15 PM by Raymond Mitchell

Filed under: SharePoint Products and Technologies, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Composite Applications

Out of the Box Composite Apps - Lookup Columns and Related Lists

One of the powerful features in SharePoint is that it allows you to lookup data from another list giving you the ability to create relationships between your Lists and Libraries. To show how this works, let’s create a Company list and relate it to our...

Published 11-12-2007 7:27 AM by Raymond Mitchell

Filed under: SharePoint Products and Technologies, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Composite Applications

Out of the Box Composite Apps - Custom Web Part Pages

By creating custom views using the List View Web Part, you’re able to display lots of data in lots of different ways. Up until now though, we’ve been putting those views on the homepage of our site (default.aspx). In some scenarios that is just fine but...

Published 11-05-2007 7:20 AM by Raymond Mitchell

Filed under: SharePoint Products and Technologies, IW Consulting, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Composite Applications

Use PowerShell to list your Views

In case you want to see what’s happening behind the scenes when you add a List View Web Part to your page, jump out to PowerShell (on the SharePoint server) and take a look: So what’s happening here? PS C:\> [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName...

Published 11-01-2007 8:22 AM by Raymond Mitchell

Filed under: SharePoint Products and Technologies, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, PowerShell, Advanced Composite Applications

Out of the Box Composite Apps - The List View Web Part (LVWP)

There’s another place you can customize how your list displays. From any Web Part Page you can add a List View Web Part for a list that exists on the current site. · Open the page in Edit mode · Click on a Web Part Zone’s “Add a Web Part” button · Select...

Published 11-01-2007 8:19 AM by Raymond Mitchell

Filed under: SharePoint Products and Technologies, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Composite Applications

Out of the Box Composite Apps - List Views

Once you have created your custom list you’ll want to choose how to display your list items. One view is already created for you and lives on the AllItems.aspx page. To create a new view, hit the View dropdown and select Create View: On the Create View...

Published 11-01-2007 7:40 AM by Raymond Mitchell

Filed under: SharePoint Products and Technologies, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Composite Applications

Out of the Box Composite Apps - Custom Lists

Most people that are familiar with SharePoint have seen the default lists and libraries that are available but there is one that is often overlooked. SharePoint allows you to create a custom list that is essentially a blank canvas. To create a custom...

Published 10-31-2007 9:08 AM by Raymond Mitchell

Filed under: SharePoint Products and Technologies, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Composite Applications

What are Composite Applications?

For those of you that couldn’t make it to the SPUGs I thought I would start out with a quick post on what I mean by Composite Applications. There were two pretty good quotes I mentioned at the SPUGs: “A Composite Application consists of functionality...

Published 10-11-2007 7:43 AM by Raymond Mitchell

Filed under: SharePoint Products and Technologies, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Composite Applications

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It sounds so simple but I ask myself all the time: "How do you add a space in a Data View Web Part?" <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes" ddwrt:nbsp-preserve="yes">&nbsp;</xsl:text>

Published 08-29-2007 3:11 PM by Raymond Mitchell

Filed under: SharePoint Products and Technologies, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Composite Applications

Custom STSADM Command – Deploy as a Solution

To simplify deploying customizations, SharePoint 2007 introduced a concept called Solutions. Solutions allow you to package your customizations along with a manifest file that outlines how your customizations should be deployed. They allow you to deploy...

Published 05-11-2007 7:14 AM by Raymond Mitchell

Filed under: SharePoint Products and Technologies, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Custom STSADM Command - reghost

In my previous post I talked about listing unghosted files on a page but wouldn't it be nice to also reset those ghosted files right from STSADM? It turns out it is pretty easy to create that custom STSADM command as well: The magic is in the RevertContentStream...

Published 05-10-2007 8:41 AM by Raymond Mitchell

Filed under: SharePoint Products and Technologies, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Custom STSADM Command - enumunghostedfiles

A while back I came across Tony's post about creating custom STSADM commands and I thought it would be cool to be able to see what files in a web had been unghosted. I followed Tony's instructions and added a simple recursive function to check the page...

Published 05-10-2007 8:21 AM by Raymond Mitchell

Filed under: SharePoint Products and Technologies, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

May MNSPUG Recap - Site Templates and Definitions

Wow! We had a record turnout for the Minnesota SharePoint User Group's three year anniversary! Thank you to everyone that attended and to everyone that has helped make the MNSPUG a success! The slide deck is available out on http://www.sharepointmn.com...

Published 05-10-2007 7:43 AM by Raymond Mitchell

Filed under: SharePoint Products and Technologies, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

SharePoint 2007 Developer Certifications

I just got word that I passed the two SharePoint 2007 Developer exams I took back in February! Now the logo looks like this: The non-beta versions of the developer exams are now available for $125 each: 070-541 - TS: Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services...

Published 04-12-2007 6:59 AM by Raymond Mitchell

Filed under: SharePoint Products and Technologies, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

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Office System Developer Conference 2008

Out of the Box Composite Apps - Connected Web Parts

Out of the Box Composite Apps - Lookup Columns and Related Lists

Out of the Box Composite Apps - Custom Web Part Pages

Use PowerShell to list your Views

Out of the Box Composite Apps - The List View Web Part (LVWP)

Out of the Box Composite Apps - List Views

Out of the Box Composite Apps - Custom Lists

What are Composite Applications?

in a Data View Web Part

Custom STSADM Command – Deploy as a Solution

Custom STSADM Command - reghost

Custom STSADM Command - enumunghostedfiles

May MNSPUG Recap - Site Templates and Definitions

SharePoint 2007 Developer Certifications