I came from portal background ...I mean share point portal 2003 and got some free time to do R&D on Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server(MOSS) 2007 from my vista personal laptop but question is how you will work Microsoft SharePoint Server on vista OS.Here is the simple trick.Download  the virtual...

A nice comparisons between asp.net 2.0 custom webpart and sharepoint based web part. ASP.NET 2.0 Web Part SharePoint-based Web Part For most business needs. To distribute your Web Part to sites that run ASP.NET 2.0 or SharePoint sites. When you want to reuse one or more Web Parts created for ASP.NET...

So in a recent SharePoint implementation, I was required to allow users to create links in web parts that performed server side functions. Most of the functions were known quantities but they were almost all external systems. Most of the requirements were to just display security trimmed links to Oracle...

So in the farm I'm trying to deploy to, the tracing service starting logging some "failed to write template" messages. Thousands of them. Nobody was on the machine at the time. It wasn't available to anyone so it was internal to SharePoint, whatever it was. Then it suddenly turned into the "Tracing Service...

I was recently looking for the easiest way to modify the links list in SharePoint 2007 to open the links in a new window. In my case, every link in a links list points to an external site, so they should all be opening a new browser window. There were a couple custom features I found, but most required...

There are lots of articles on the net about doing this but there were some things that I found really problematic in my efforts to get an update out. My Business Problem My company uses Scrum (generally) for project management. Therefore, we have planned "Sprints" that break down into tasks. These sprints...

Note to self, you'll need this later... So one of the issues with SharePoint is the fact that the tasks you need to complete anything are pretty straight forward as long as nothing goes wrong. Case in point: I tried to deploy one of the "Fab 40" templates on a VPC and forgot that I had not previously...

So here's my current plan for firing up these new technologies. As background, I gave a 15 minute presentation at a user group last night on the generalities of data abstraction and although I think I did ok, I also think that there are a lot more questions than answers in the developer community right...

I've posted on a couple of forums for SharePoint development and haven't received a response yet. The bottom line appears to be that regardless of whether or not you have WSS or MOSS loaded onto your machine, you will not get project or item templates for web parts. If someone knows what I'm missing...

So no matter what you do, you are going to need to drop and modify things in the "12 hive" in SharePoint. I navigated to it exactly 3 times before I decided my best move would be to just create a shortcut. I made the shortcut to this folder: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions...