In SharePoint 2007 it is possible to create site templates based on an existing site. A template can be used to create new site collections and subsites based on that template. When you export a site template, it creates a .stp file for you. Copying this .stp file over to an other evironment gives you...
Last week I passed the Exam 70-573: TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Application Development exam. People asked me what I used to prepare for the exam. Because the official learning material is pretty scarce at the moment, I used e.g. a training, read bogs, seen web casts and used my SharePoint...
A new CTP version of the SharePoint project and item templates for Visual Studio 2008 are available. Remember that an CTP version is still in development, so Microsoft Support doesn’t officially support them. Download VSeWSS v1.3 March 2009 CTP from the Microsoft Download Center . Error logging...
January 2009 the Microsoft SharePoint Product Group announced the Community Technology Preview of Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint v1.3 (VSeWSS). Previous VSeWSS versions were not out-of-the box installable on x64 machines, therefore I blogged about Installing Visual Studio Extensions for...
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An introduction into Data Form Web Parts The Data Form Web Part is a Web Part component that is available out-of-the-box with WSS 3.0. It allows you to display information from different data source types, with the possibility to change or insert new data. You can display a single item or a collection...
If you receive error Exception from HRESULT 0x81070215 when you open a list or access the SharePoint site manager, a list has not properly been deleted and is in a corrupted state. You can change the corresponding custom list definition after you have deleted the list to fix the problem. Because the...
A few days ago I blogged about hosting ASP.NET 3.5 charting controls in a SharePoint Web Part , now there has also been a first beta release of a Silverlight variant. Jan Tielens created a Charts Web Part which hosts Silverlight charts in a SharePoint Web Part. It makes use of Silverlight and the Visifire...
The ASP.NET Charting Controls have been announced last month. The charting controls are a nice addition to ASP.NET, which has already been discussed by Rick van den Bosch and Scott Guthrie . When you would like to use the charting controls in SharePoint, consider using the ChartPart for SharePoint ....
The Visual Studio Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services (VSeWSS) is a set of tools for developing custom SharePoint applications. It adds project templates and project item templates to your Visual Studio 2008 environment and contains a SharePoint Solution Generator to generate Visual Studio projects...
For the next version of Visual Studio, Visual Studio 2010, new tools for SharePoint development have been announced. The Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint will contain the following features: Server Explorer for SharePoint viewing Lists and other artifacts in SharePoint directly inside of Visual...