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Using the AJAX Control Toolkit in SharePoint
To get started with the ASP.NET AJAX extensions in SharePoint 2007, check out my previous posts:
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New version of SmartPart, now with "AJAX Connections"
As you may know, last week I released a version (still in beta) of the SmartPart which supports the ASP.NET AJAX extensions. For more information about this version of the SmartPart, see my previous blog post.
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SmartPart for SharePoint - ASP.NET AJAX Support
There has been a lot of buzz around SharePoint support for ASP.NET AJAX the last couple of days, resulting in some nice posts, even from the Microsoft guys. If you are new to the topic; some required reading:
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More on SharePoint 2007 and ASP.NET AJAX
Mike Ammerlaan (PM for WSS) stepped up and posted a detailed article about the integration of ASP.NET AJAX and SharePoint.
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SQL Server 2005 SP2 RTM
Service Pack 2 for SQL Server 2005 has RTM-ed! Why do you read SQL related stuff on my blog? Well this service pack includes the long awaited Reporting Services web parts for SharePoint 2007 (WSS v3 and MOSS 2007). From the what's new page:
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Virtual PC 2007 RTM
I just noticed that Virtual PC 2007 is now available! Get it from the MS download site (free!).
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Create UDC Files with InfoPath
This is cool and funny, it's like a wizard to generate a wizard! Nick Dallet has posted an InfoPath form which can generate a UDC file. More details and download on the InfoPath team blog:
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Photowalking in Brussels (Belgium)
Robert Scoble and Thomas Hawk (famous photographer) introduced the concept of "photowalking". From Wikipedia's definition of photowalking:
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The U2U SharePoint Team in South Africa!
It's not the first time that both Patrick and myself are in Africa at the same time, but it's the first time that we are at the same time in the same country: South Africa! This week Patrick is in Cape Town for the MS EMEA SharePoint 2007 Tour and I'm doing the same thing in Johannesburg.
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Scott Guthrie: "ASP.NET AJAX support in SharePoint 2007 coming later this year"
Yesterday I attended one of the sessions Scott Guthrie presented at the VISUG event in Mechelen (Belgium). In this session Scott covered some of his ASP.NET 2.0 and ASP.NET AJAX tips and tricks: cool stuff. When started talking about ASP.NET AJAX the audience (+300 people!) started asking some questions, in my turn I asked Scott about using ASP.NET AJAX in SharePoint 2007. Scott confirmed Daniel's statements (not supported, only use the the client side scripts, server-side controls don't work, etc), but more interesting; he told the audience that ASP.NET AJAX will be supported in SharePoint 2007. How is Microsoft going to pull off this trick? <quote>ASP.NET Ajax will be supported in SharePoint when we release a service pack for SharePoint, we will ship it later this year.</quote> Great!!
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Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint: Web Administration Tool
One of the big new things (among tons of others of course) in SharePoint 2007 (both WSS v3 and MOSS 2007) is the fact that SharePoint now uses the authentication provider model of ASP.NET 2.0. This means that you have store the user accounts and passwords in another data source than Active Directory (the only option in SharePoint 2003), for example a SQL Server database. The good news is that SharePoint is relying on ASP.NET 2.0 for this, so if you know how to enable Forms Based Authentication in ASP.NET 2.0 sites, you also know how to enable it in SharePoint 2007! Enabling it is one thing, adding users to the database that stores the user accounts is another thing. Techies probably know lots of ways to create user accounts: stored procedures, sql statements, Visual Studio's Administration Site, ... But out-of-the-box there is no UI available to actually do that in ASP.NET 2.0/SharePoint 2007.