Mads Nissen

I didn't really expect too much from this feature, but yesterday I had to move a large Excel file to a Sharepoint list and gave it a real try. After several attempts on the "Import Spreadsheet" I forfitted and created the list definition manually and copied in the values column by column from the source sheet.

I get a lot of mail from people trying to find good solutions for handling mail with Sharepoint. The alternatives are pretty in the open as described in my previous posts, but Rob Clark found another twist to the issue.

Entering the new year my colleague Anders inspired me to join the crowd of good samaritans. A task postponed far too long. Suffering from severe cruft I formatted my box and started out with clean sheets. This gave me the opportunity to start developing with least privelige and also installing Cassini for a lighter ASP.NET experience. I'm also finally starting up with VS.NET 2005 for real.

You cannot have missed it. The earthquake/tsunami have caused so much pain for locals and tourists in the area. Contribute to your favorite help-organisation, they're all working hard at the moment to provide as much aid as possible. Norwegians can contribute to the aid organisations, all listed here. International aid organizations listed at CNN.

Seems like a Sharepoint Developers like NAnt and developers that emply continous integration (usually with NAnt) also likes Sharepoint.

Patrick asks why Microsoft is silent on the SmartPart approach to webpart development. He gets response from Mike Fitzmaurice and Mike gets flamed in comments for beeing egocentric and authoritative. Daniel gets in the race and shows support for the smartest of parts.. In other words the heat is on!

There is a lot of speculation on Microsofts strategy and plans for workflow engines in their productlines. CaPo refers to a document from Scott Woodgate and gets interesting comments on his post.

Long awaited Release Candidate 1 of v0.85 is ready for NAnt. Added support for .NET 2.0 Beta 1, Mono and NUnit 2.2 are the major new features.