May 2004 - Posts

31 May 2004
TechEd Europe 2004 I'll be there
Then I finally got to go. And this time I actually have a valid ticket for the sessions! Thanks to Patrice for the logo :-) I am also attending the BizTalk pre-conference session, which sounds cool. Also, I have no idea where I am going to book a hotelroom. Any dutch people reading this with recommendations... Read More...
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27 May 2004
PageViewer WebPart and QueryString parameters
There has been dicussion (and people have noticed ) about a Connected Page Viewer Webpart. There are several viable approaches to this scenario. One is to use cross-page connected webparts , but those require FrontPage interaction. There has been suggested that inheritance can be used from the PageViewerWebPart... Read More...
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26 May 2004
Setting WebPart Properties through the WSS Web Services API
UPDATE: This is wrong. Read this . I think we just found a small void in the Windows Sharepoint Services API. We're creating functionality to generate sites on the fly and we'd like to do this using the WSS Web services to avoid the dependency to Microsoft.Sharepoint.dll. The problem is that the web... Read More...
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24 May 2004
Managing Outlook / Exchange content in Sharepoint
There are several available options for managing emails in Sharepoint Portal Server or Windows Sharepoint Services. I've researched a couple and found some pro's and con's: Configuring Email enabled Document Libraries This is the WSS supported way of doing things. Described by MS here . Basically you... Read More...
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22 May 2004
Navigating Sharepoint site structure from Office 2003
After using Sharepoint for our internal intranet for quite a while, one major problem has become apparent: How to easily open and save items to the different document libraries located on WSS sites in the portal. Customers are also pointing this out as a major disadvantage compared to the old-school... Read More...
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22 May 2004
Sharepoint Configuration Analyzer
This small handy tool from MS gives you a detailed insight in your SPS server. I found stuff I never knew existed and now I have another source of information when working with sharepoint. SharePoint Configuration Analyzer is a diagnostic tool that verifies settings on your server that are critical to... Read More...
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22 May 2004
Get updated on the MSCMS2002SCSPST!
Phui! That's one mean abbreviation:-) We're currently getting into a couple of projects with MS Content Management Server and Sharepoint Portal server. A couple of months ago Microsoft released the Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 Connector for SharePoint Technologies and I've compiled some links... Read More...
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22 May 2004
Creating WebPart distributables with NAnt
In my previous posting I described how to use NAnt to auto deploy webparts to Sharepoint. I just ran across the WPPackager tool from Microsoft which enables you to create MSI installers for the WebParts. What is really cool about this tool is that the MSI sets Code Access Security policies for the webparts... Read More...
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20 May 2004
Setting custom WebPart Properties in the dwp file
I've been developing webparts that use regular ASP.NET Usercontrols as content for a while. Up until now we've simply hardcoded the url to the usercontrol location in the webpart class. Moving towards a more standardized product that must support differentiated deployment envrironments I wanted to place... Read More...
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18 May 2004
Building and deploying Sharepoint cab files with NAnt
Automatically building and deploying cab files for sharepoint is a great efficiency booster. I have previously blogged about my simple, yet effective, autodeployer for sharepoint cabs. This time around I wanted to automate the construction of the cabfile itself and deploying it to the sharepoint testserver... Read More...
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