When SharePoint 2003 was released, the biggest gripe of its champions was the the near-total lack of documentation. With MOSS 2007 we're just on Beta 2 and Microsoft already has a wealth of developer documentation , online training, and Virtual Labs . I completely recommend the Virtual Labs ; these...

When SharePoint 2003 was released, the biggest gripe of its champions was the the near-total lack of documentation. With MOSS 2007 we're just on Beta 2 and Microsoft already has a wealth of developer documentation , online training, and Virtual Labs . I completely recommend the Virtual Labs ; these...

or, "Everything you know about Word is wrong." With all the talk about the SharePoint 2007 beta , it would be easy to miss the fact that SharePoint and Office are now really two sides of the same product. Both were released for public trial yesterday with Beta 2. So what's different? Everything! All...

In this fascinating series , a dozen people talk about how they organize their work. For Bill Gates , it's Three monitors to organize the desktop, Outlook and SharePoint, a Tablet PC with OneNote, and a whiteboard. More in the series (click on a name to bring up the gallery, then use the navigation to...

While the source of my Amazon Link Generator has been XHTML since the beginning, I somehow didn't do the same for the code it generated (specifically the unary tag closing and alt attribute for images). Should be fixed now, if anyone sees further nits just let me know!

As noted by good friend Blake (sans blog): _well if yer workin the graveyard this week you'll be in for some sort of historical triva. at 2 min, 3 sec after 1am wed the time n date will be: 01:02:03 04/05/06 that one won't happen again till the emperor decides to change the calendar on us. Update: Yes...

Shane Young had a great post a few days ago on adding a preconfigured XML Web Part into a Site Definition . The pain is that all the examples in ONET.XML use the Image Viewer WP, so how do you figure out how to write the CAML for your own? And while Todd has posted about exporting his tricked out Content...

The drive on my Toshiba Portege died last Friday. The good news is that I recently picked up a 400Gb external and most everything was backed up. As a replacement I bought the 7200RPM 80Gb Hitachi ; the 60Gb version reviewed well and so far it's definitely a fast quiet unit. While most everything on the...

[If you landed here from a search, the short answer is "you need to turn on developer tools." Do this through File, Word Options, Views, and check the box next to Developer Tools . Now you'll have a Developer ribbon with an option to insert Word, ActiveX, or Web controls (aka "Content Controls"). The...

Since this presentation, there's been an update to Web Deployment Projects , read about it on ScottGu's blog . Target ASP.NET Dev, Staging and Production Environments with Web Deployment Projects in ASP .NET 2.0 Eli Robillard, Eidenai Innovations With ASP.NET v2 comes a fully automated build solution...