Archives
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GuiSmigrate:the Interface for the Smigrate.exe
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SharePoint Customization & Development TechNet Evening (March 3rd, 2004)
There will be a TechNet Evening session organized by Microsoft, on the 3rd of March in the NH Hotel (Diegem, Belgium) about SharePoint Customization & Development. Patrick, Yves and myself will show some really cool stuff you can do with SharePoint, so if you're interested in SharePoint, please join us (register here)!
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RSS Reader Webpart for SharePoint
UPDATE: http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2004/03/11/88118.aspx
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InfoPath 2003: Service Pack 1 (SP-1) & Toolkit for Visual Studio .NET Preview
Patrick was right: InfoPath 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP-1) Preview can now be downloaded.
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Infopath Update is Coming
Normally I don't re-post messages especially if another Belgian blogger has posted it already. But his time I've got to make an exception: Patrick has a scoop: there is an update coming for InfoPath!
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BizTalk 2004 Trick: Macros for Constructing Filenames in Files Send Handler
Update: updated list here.
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Another great idea (NOT!!) by SPA-Spirit (Belgian political party): Free Software
Normally I don't react if some political party evangilises a stupid idea, but this time they've made me angry. It started with the following article on ZDNet.be: Sp.a heeft kritiek op Microsoft-aankoop door dienst Financiën. It turns out the Belgian government will buy 8.000 pc's equipped with Microsoft software. No big deal, but there is a political party that doesn't like this. No problem, everybody has the right to have an opinion (even if I don't like it). But the SP-A (= the political party) uses some arguments in their statement that are completely wrong (I only mention two of them):
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Upgrading a Web Part Assembly & Great SharePoint Resources
It seems that I'm not the only one thinking about scenarios where you have to upgrade Web Parts that are in use. Ian Morrish points in Tariq's post to a MSDN article that covers this topic:
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Looking back at the Dev&IT-Pro Days: Day Two & Conclusion
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Looking back at the Dev&IT-Pro Days: Day One
I know it's a little bit late, it's already a week ago: Microsoft Developer & IT Pro Days 2004. It seems that everybody has already blogged the cool stuff (thanks Tom for the list), the Belgian .NET world is really starting to blog, I like that:
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Update for SharePoint.Essentials Webparts
Update: there's another update for these web parts: http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2004/03/04/84011.aspx
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Adding some essential functionality to SharePoint: Breadcrumbs, Navigation & MyAlerts
Update2: http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2004/03/11/88118.aspx
Update: I've added a What's New web part to this library, for more details: http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2004/03/04/84011.aspx -
Off we go... cu@devdays!
I'm leaving for the Belgian Dev&IT-Pro Days, so the comming two days I probably won't be able to read my email. Cu there!
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New "kids" on the block
I'd like to introduce to you two rather young people who started a .NET related blog lately. The first one is Tom van de Kerkhof, he's not only a new co-worker of me, but he's also my nephew (so if you're looking for a couple of compromising photos of him, just drop me a line). The last few months Tom's focus was Office integration, he gave a nice presentation about Visual Studio Tools for Office at our company headquarters. I think Tom is also starting his own Pizza restaurant: this afternoon I've seen the first demo of the website using the Speech Application SDK! I hope he's going to blog about his experiences with this stuff.
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Developer & IT Pro Days 2004 are comming!
If everything goes well (let's hope so), I'll be on the Microsoft Developer & IT Pro Days 2004 next week. This event not only has some very intresting sessions, but it's also great to get to talk with a lot of intresting people (including YOU! Drop me a line if you want to meet!). If you haven't subscribed yet: no problem. The online registration is closed but it is possible to register at the event itself. To register at the event, please come on Tuesday February 10 between 7.45am and 8.30am to the ICC and bring following information with you: Invoicing details (company name, address, VAT number, ...).
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Some SharePoint Requests ...
Don't get me wrong: I like SharePoint a lot, but there are some small details that could be improved (in my humble opinion).
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Article: Microsoft to preview Whidbey toolset next month
Are they talking about the PDC bits, or is there a new version comming?
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Hippo.NET 1.5.0 Released (Build Tool)
There's a new release for the Hippo.NET project; version 1.5.0. This version improves dramatically the performance of the build process (some builds are 10 times faster!). When a build is requested, the Hippo.NET Server engine creates a tag for each file in the SourceSafe database. Thanks to Dave Ehrlich, a new mechanism to add the tag to each file is implemented. You can download the source and binaries over here.
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Using SharePoint Web Services: SharePoint Explorer Example Tool
One of the nice things about SharePoint is that there are many ways of accessing the data. The most obvious is of course the web interface, but to accomplish thight integration with for example Office 2003, SharePoint offers a bunch of web services. These web services provide identically functionality as you get using the web interface; everything you can do in the web interface is possible using the web services! A nice example of the use of these web services is the integration with Office 2003. When you open a Office 2003 document that's stored in SharePoint, you'll get some extra information about the SharePoint site.
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How-to: Install Windows SharePoint Services without installing MSDE
This weekend I struggled a little but with an installation of Windows SharePoint Services. I had a test server installed with ASP.NET and a SQL Server running on it; the goal was to install SharePoint that should be using the SQL Server instance instead of installing Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE). By default, the Setup installs an new instance of MSDE to use as database, even if there's a SQL Server available on the same machine. The trick is to use the remotesql command-line option with the setupsts.exe application. The only nasty thing is that first you have to run the STSV2.exe package, so the installation files are decompressed, and then abort the STSV2.exe package: