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SQL Server Reporting Services Webparts for SharePoint
Bryant Likes has published his solution to show SQL Server Reporting Services stuff in SharePoint. For the latest releases, you can visist the GotDotNet Workspace. Nice work Bryant!
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Doing Math in .NET: .Math
Steve Hebert has started an interesting GotDotNet Workspace: .Math.
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Visual Studio 2005 Team System: Finally!
A lot of bloggers have mentioned it today, so I'm going to say only one word about it: finally.
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Intresting Questions About the SharePoint Workflow Project
Serge van den Oever posted some interesting questions regarding my SharePoint Workflow project:
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First Belgian News Sites RSS Feeds
Finally RSS is finding it's way to Belgian News sites! The site of De Standaard has started a few weeks ago with a weblog called En nu even ernstig. Various authors post column-style texts, often quite funny. But the first news site that has RSS feeds of the actual news items, is Het Belang Van Limburg / Gazet Van Antwerpen. Look here and here for a list of feeds for each regional site. It's a great initiative and I hope the other news sites will follow soon.
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Searching in SharePoint: IFilter & Indexing PDF Documents
I always tell everyone that SharePoint is very extensible and customizable, and this is really true. For example, let's take a look at the search functionality in SharePoint. By default only Office documents (which are in a document library for example) are indexed by the Indexing Service so they can be found by using the search functionality of SharePoint. Of course in the real world there are a lot more document types that are used, for example a lot of companies have PDF documents. So I get quite a lot questions of people asking if PDF documents can be indexed too. The good news is that the Indexing Service can be extended by using the IFilter interface:
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Another SharePoint Workflow Engine + Workflow Lite Update
Yesterday Kaneboy created a GotDotNet Workspace for his SharePoint Workflow Engine. It's a pitty that all his documentation and installation guidelines are in Chinese. Although I do not speak Chinese, I've checked out this project and it resembles my Workflow Lite For SharePoint project a lot (bases on the screen shots). The only difference is that Kaneboy's approach is to create actions in code (C#) rather than having a set of predefined actions. Anyway I have to practise my Chinese a little bit more to keep an eye on this project! :-)
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I want to have one! (Warning: nostalgic mood)
It must be around 16 or 17 years ago that I got my first computer on which I actually wrote some code on: a Commodore 64 (previously I had a Sinclair ZX81, but I’ve never programmed on that little black box). I vividly remember the first computer code I ever saw, it was a demo program written in Basic that was shown in a welcome demo:
10 INPUT “Number”, number
20 FOR i = 1 TO number
30 PRINT i * number
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Solving "The underlying connection was closed" when using WSE
Some time ago I've posted a code snippet to solve following exception which in some cases can happen when you're calling a web service:
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Workflow Lite For SharePoint Installation Video & Config Docs
To install the Workflow Lite For SharePoint event handler, you need to complete following steps, which are described in more detail in the ReadMe.txt file that’s included in the beta release:
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Workflow Lite For SharePoint Beta Available
Generic configurable document library event handler that can be used to create simple workflow and approval scenarios in Windows SharePoint Services or SharePoint Portal Server 2003.
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Showing Presence Information In SharePoint Web Parts
If you’ve visited a SharePoint site, you’ve probably noticed the Messenger-style icons in front of people’s names corresponding the IM status. When you hover the mouse pointer over that icon a lot of additional Messenger and Outlook functionality becomes available: you can send an email to that person, plan a meeting, … Isn’t the SharePoint – Office integration great? A nice example is the Members web part:
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SharePoint Document Library Event Handlers & "Locked for Editing" Status
In my previous post I described a problem I was having while implementing a generic SharePoint Document Library Event Handler. When you save a document from Office 2003 (for example Word 2003) into a SharePoint Document Library, the document item in the library is “locked for editing” as long as the Office 2003 application stays open. This can be a problem, for example when you want the Event Handler to update a field of the document item when it’s submitted to the Document Library. There are no problems when using the web interface, but when a user does this by using Office 2003 you’ll end up with the following exception:
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: Document Locked
The document you are attempting to edit is locked and cannot be updated. It may be in use by another user or undergoing content indexing.