Westin's Technical Log

There are some situations where you prefer to allow users to directly interact with list items directly within the row of the list view. Normally interaction occurs through the edit control block (ECB), the ribbon, or one of the list item forms. However, sometimes the action is a simple toggle activity that the user should simply be able to directly initiate directly from the list view UI.

A lot of folks have to geocode data that they get from various folks in their organization, and it often makes its way in to Excel.  Of course, you can batch geocode using Bing Maps Services, but in some scenarios it is a lot more convenient or reasonable to use Excel.

Here is a neat trick for getting graphs in PowerPoint to automatically update from SQL Reporting Services.

Inspired by this post: http://on10.net/blogs/sarahintampa/Is-it-NET-Net-or-net/

This is one of my favorite stupid SharePoint tricks.

Here are possible AJAX animation alternatives in http://<myMOSSServer>/<anysiteurl>/_layouts/images/

Ever want the “Incoming Links” page to show up on the wiki page rather than be a separate page?  Well, here is a handy web part you can add to a wiki page.

Here is a handy macro that allows me to set the task priorities in Microsoft Project 2007 based on tasks that I have imported/synchronized to Visual Studio Team System.