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MOSS2007 – User Controls within Web Part (Part 2)
Categories: Development, Office System 2007, SharePoint
In our last post we looked hosting a simple user control using a 3rd Party host web part. In this post let's look at creating our own host control. To do this we first need a new class project created using Visual Studio. Once created remove the e.....
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SharePoint – User Control in Master Page (Page Footer)
Categories: Development, Office System 2007, SharePoint
Historically in web programming when you wanted to add let's say a list of static web links to a site you would use the following code: <!--#include file="mymenus.inc"--> Using this syntax would allow you to structure a website.....
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[Off-Topic] Aren’t “Phishing” emails and web sites getting better!
Categories: General
Completely off my normal topic of blogging, I received an email today in my hotmail inbox: I was quite intrigued to find out that I am now able to become an "EBay Power Seller", fantastic, so I open up the email and am presented wit.....
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Feedback Web Part
Categories: Development, Office System 2007, SharePoint
I recently had a requirement to create a web part that would allow users to write feedback for a particular page within a SharePoint. I found a great article from Janne Mattila, it talks about creating a feedback web part that uses a custom list f.....
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Media Player Web Part
Categories: Development, Office System 2007, SharePoint
On a recent project I was working on there was a requirement for a web part that would allow Windows Media files to be played. After searching the internet I found the following link: http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ajp/archive/2007/07/18/media-play.....
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U2U CAML Query Builder Feature Second Version is Released
Categories: Development, SharePoint, Office System 2007
Fantastic news from U2U, the latest version of the CAML Query Builder has been released. This is a slightly different version, but looks excellent. Get over to the following link and download it!   http://www.u2u.be/Res/downloads/u2usharepointso.....
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Web Part Safe Control Utility
Categories: Development, Office System 2007, SharePoint
Just been searching the net for some stuff and came across a great utility from Chris for adding Safe Control entries to the web.config for the various DLL's you may have added to the GAC. Anyway it looks great and is well worth adding to your set o.....
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MOSS2007 – The Wonderful Errors
Categories: Development, Office System 2007, SharePoint
It never ceases to amaze me what causes some of the errors you get within SharePoint, or any other application. Today while creating a web part I managed to get this error on a page that wasn't even using the web part I created as I haven't even a.....
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MOSS2007 – User Control within a Web Part (Part 1)
Categories: Development, Office System 2007, SharePoint
While I have been working on a project I was asked about hosting user controls within a web part. I talked about using the SmartPart and also writing a custom host web part. As I have been asked this a few times now I thought it useful to document.....
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MOSS2007 – My Site "Create Blog" Link Hidden using CSS
Categories: Development, Office System 2007, SharePoint
Over the past few months I have had the chance to work on a few different MOSS2007 implementations. Each is unique to a certain degree and each has its own issues and technical problems that need to be overcame. One issue that always seems to aris.....
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Extranet Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint
Categories: General, Office System 2007, SharePoint
Microsoft have released one of their Solution Accelerators for Extranet scenarios when using MOSS2007. It is made up of some custom web parts and controls etc, that make the extranet authentication and managament easier. It is currently in beta and .....
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Free Exchange Server 2007 Component Architecture PDF
Categories: General
If you are into all the Microsoft Architecture and Applications then this is a great PDF to get your hands on. Aside from showing the high-level architecture, this poster highlights the feature set of Exchange Server 2007 such as:    Managemen.....
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