Mads Nissen

Ohoi Sharepoint Dev Team!

A bit more than a week ago my colleague Anders Norås published an article on a JavaScript XmlSerializer that he has been working on for quite a while. The article got quite an amount of attention after Dare Osabanjo referenced Anders on the MSDN feed. Internally we've been discussing the applicability of Anders solution.

This XSD is a draft and is not yet tested.

Working your way through the Sharepoint css classes is not fun. I just spent several hours trying to accomplish the following:

Tracking down correct css classes and overriding the right attributes can be very cumbersome. These CSS elements shows how to customize the main elements in the portal.

This useful script can be pasted into the body element of any Sharepoint aspx page through FrontPage and will display an elements css class when hovering over it with the mouse.

Michaeljon addresses the problem, but the message is pretty much "wait for the next release". We're leaning towards Option 3 in my previous post and possibly getting rid of those japanese yomi fields on the Contact entity that are sucking up 750 spaces of nvarchar (1500 bytes!).

Using custom site templates in Sharepoint is a really powerful feature. You can customize your WSS site through frontpage or the web UI and save the site as a template. By default the template is stored in the top-level site template gallery of the site you customized.