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Silverlight SharePoint Forum
Categories: Development, Office System 2007, SharePoint, Silverlight
Just been catching up on blog posts etc and came across this great un-released silverlight forum web part from the boys at Lightning Tools again. Check out the screencast here:   http://www.lightningtools.com/blog/archive/2008/05/27/sharepoint-sil.....
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CKS:EBE – How to create a new skin (Part 2)
Categories: CKS, Development, Office System 2007, SharePoint, WSS
In the last posts we looked at creating our initial graphic using Photoshop and then exporting the relevant graphics and XHTML into a directory ready for converting to a master page that can be used within the CKS:EBE Theme Framework. In this post w.....
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CKS:EBE – How to create a new skin (Part 1)
Categories: CKS, Development, Office System 2007, SharePoint, WSS
As most of you know the Community Kit for SharePoint Enhanced Blog Edition has been released and is now available for download from here: http://www.codeplex.com/CKS/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Enhanced%20Blog%20Edition&referringTitle=Home I thin.....
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CQWP HINTS – Main News Item and Sub News Items
Categories: Development, Office System 2007, SharePoint, CQWP, XSL
While working with the CQWP and with specific clients, I was asked about displaying some news items in a specific format. Normally for lots of clients the following layout works well. However for this specific format the following layout was .....
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CQWP HINTS – Windows Media Player
Categories: Development, Office System 2007, SharePoint, CQWP, XSL
In the last few posts I have given a few hints for when you need to use the CQWP. In this post we will again look at using the CQWP, but this time look at making it display a little Windows Media Player control that plays a video from our media st.....
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CQWP HINTS – Import XSL Styles into “ItemStyle.xsl”
Categories: Development, Office System 2007, SharePoint, CQWP, XSL
NOTE: Brendon beat me too the next post!! :-) Check it here: http://blogs.sharepointguys.com/brendon/sharepoint-2007/programming/connecting-the-cqwp-without-changing-itemstyle-xsl/ One of the problems with using the CQWP in SharePoint is that if.....
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My Personal Web Part Project
Categories: Development, General, Personal Projects, Office System 2007, SharePoint, WSS
Over the past week or so I have started to build a web part that I have been meaning to build for a while. This web part will do the following: Connect to a site collection Connect to a site Connect to a list or library Connect to a spec.....
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Remember Everything - EVERNOTE
Categories: General
Pop over to this site and see if you need this in your life!!   http://evernote.com/.....
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CQWP HINTS - Only show more link if needed
Categories: Development, SharePoint, Office System 2007, CQWP, XSL
In the last posts we looked at tweaking the XSL slightly to change the title URL. In this post we will continue with the CQWP and XSL. In one of my previous posts I showed how to add a "[more]" button and a short description that comes f.....
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CQWP HINTS – Swap the “title” URL from “$SafeLinkUrl” to a custom URL
Categories: Development, Office System 2007, SharePoint, CQWP, XSL
Hopefully by now you may know that I am a great advocate of the Content Query Web Part within the SharePoint environment. Over the past few weeks I have had lots of requests for little style changes or just general questions on how to do things wi.....
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