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SharePoint Wednesday CodePlex Roundup #4 by Bil Simser

When last we met the Swine Trek, that scientific genius Dr. Strangepork was trying to fix Captain Link Hearthrobs lighter. Oh wait, wrong show. Sorry about that. This is actually the last installment of the SharePoint Wednesday CodePlex Roundup series...
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Building a City – Part IV by Bil Simser

Welcome back to the Building a City Series , a series of blog entries on the open source release of SimCity (called Micropolis) and building up your own world with it. It’s been almost two years since the original release and a lot has happened in the...
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Installing PyGTK on Windows x64 by Bil Simser

If you’re doing any work with Python you might need a user interface as Python doesn't provide one. Once such interface is provided by the GIMP Toolkit (GTK) in the form of Python bindings called PyGTK . PyGTK is actually made up of three dependant libraries...
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SharePoint Wednesday CodePlex Roundup #3 by Bil Simser

Yee-haw! Here we are again for this weeks new SharePoint CodePlex projects. Sit back and relax as I form biased and bitter opinions about the new CodePlex projects from the last week that have some kind of weird but odd connection to that thing we know...
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SharePoint Wednesday CodePlex Roundup #2 by Bil Simser

Welcome back to what seems to be a successful launch of a new blog series. I got some great responses from people over my first posting including private notes from the project owners who enjoyed seeing their projects being discussed. Keep the email flowing...
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SharePoint Wednesday CodePlex Roundup #1 by Bil Simser

Welcome to a new blog series I thought might be useful. Each Wednesday I'll post a short review of new SharePoint related projects on CodePlex. These are new projects that a) have been added to CodePlex in the last week and b) have a public file release...
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Cloning The SharePoint Toolbar for Custom Web Parts by Bil Simser

Trying to match the “SharePoint look” is always a challenge for developers. Recently I had to build a web part that would live along side other “stock” SharePoint web parts. I also needed a functional toolbar for the web part and having it on the same...
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Name that WSP - SharePoint Developer Tricks with WSPBuilder by Bil Simser

One of my favorite tools that I highly recommend next to breathing is WSPBuilder . With this tool in your arsenal, no longer do you have to worry about hand crafting manifest files or running cryptic makecab.exe command line tools. Building solution packages...
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Resources for my SharePoint Services Talk by Bil Simser

As promised here are some resources for my recent talk on creating and consuming services in SharePoint that I delivered at TechDays . You’ll be able to get the full slide deck, video, and code later at http://my.techdays.ca but here are the links from...
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SharePoint 2010 Setup - Hurry up and Wait Edition by Bil Simser

By now, everyone and his brother are downloading and installing the SharePoint 2010 beta onto their Windows 7 and Vista boxes. Why not? I mean, for the longest time we were stuck with having to spin up a Windows 2003 or 2008 server so now accessibility...
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