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Multiple RSS Aggregator Web Part Example

Ok so............. long time ago, in a city far far away (from Cape Town) our very own Willy ( http://dotnet.org.za/willy ) wanted to re-launch SAArchitect ( http://www.saarchitect.net/ ) community and envisaged a need to aggregate all the feeds from SAArchitect community members and filter on a certain tag in the blog posts posted by those same members (in particular "SAArchitect" tag). Since http://www.saarchitect.net/ is running on a SharePoint 2007 platform, he needed a SharePoint kind...

How to use Web Part Custom Properties in SharePoint 2007 and WSS 3.0

It's so weird how so many people ask you the same thing around the same time sometimes, anyway I've had some request around on how to create custom properties for Web Parts in SharePoint, more to the point, on how to get them to categorise and appear in the "Modify Web Part" panel. It's quite simple actually, just declare the properties and decorate them with attributes like in the following example: [WebBrowsable(true), Personalizable(true), Category("RSS Aggregator Web...

Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services have been released

Yes.... that's right, the long awaited extensions that give you among other things much needed SharePoint Web Part templates, have been released. Now you can add items into your SharePoint projects like Web Parts, Event Handlers, Definitions, Custom Fields etc. Cool hey? Well I think so...... Download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7bf65b28-06e2-4e87-9bad-086e32185e68&displaylang=en Also check out the new http://www.mssharepointdeveloper.com/ for even more...

Top 100 SharePoint Blogs

Joel Oleson ( http://www.sharepointjoel.com/ ) is probably by far one of the most prominent experts in this madness that is SharePoint, which some of you, that are active in this space, most likely already know and have outmost respect for him much like I do............ and to be found on his Top 100 list of SharePoint blogs is a great honour!! Check his blog post here: Top 100 SharePoint Blogs Spring 2008 with Technorati, Bloglines, and Google Reader ( http://www.sharepointjoel.com/Lists/Posts/Post...

Create compact and powerful conditions in your workflows using SharePoint Designer

Ok although some people might know that I personally try never to use SharePoint Designer for designing, developing and deploying workflows, there are some of you that accept its limitations and use it in the most imaginative ways to create very powerful workflows that nicely complement your MOSS solutions. I sincerely applaud those efforts and in that spirit please check out the latest post from the Microsoft SharePoint Designer team titled Create compact and powerful conditions in your workflows...

SharePoint Developer MSDN Web Cast Series

See some prominent SharePoint MVPs cover SharePoint development fundamentals: Date Topic and Signup URL Presenter May 20 th 9AM PST Web Parts Robert Bogue May 21 st 9AM PST Data Lists Robert Bogue May 27 th 9AM PST Silverlight Andrew Connell May 28 th 9AM PST Event Handlers Andrew Connell June 3 rd 9AM PST Page Branding Andrew Connell June 4 th 9AM PST Workflow Robert Bogue June 10 th 9AM PST Web Services Andrew Connell June 11 th 9AM PST Page Navigation Andrew Connell June 17 th 9AM PST User Management...

Visual Studio extensions for SharePoint – Developer User Guide

Check out the new release of the Developer User Guide for Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint has come. Some of you might remember me blogging about the release of extensions earlier this year ( http://dotnet.org.za/zlatan/archive/2008/02/13/final-release-of-vsewss-1-1-visual-studio-extensions-for-windows-sharepoint-services.aspx ). So what is so cool about this documentation? Well, it's a nice reference for developers and for using the extensions, check out the document sections: Starting...
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Developing Business Intelligence Solutions with SharePoint 2007 and PerformancePoint 2007 - SADeveloper event - Post Event Info

Ok so it took me some time to write post event info on my last speaking event (better very late than never), namely: "Developing Business Intelligence Solutions with SharePoint 2007 and PerformancePoint 2007" ( http://dotnet.org.za/zlatan/archive/2008/04/04/developing-business-intelligence-solutions-with-sharepoint-2007-and-performancepoint-2007.aspx ) We've had a smaller crowd this time, mostly due to the session being organised right in the middle of the holidays but our diehard fans...

Using PeopleEditor Control with Web Parts in SharePoint 2007/WSS 3.0

Ever wanted to borrow that cool AJAX like control in SharePoint 2007 (or WSS 3.0) that lets you pick and resolve users so that you can manage those users/groups and their permissions. The control I'm talking about is PeopleEditor (aka People Picker) and there's not much documentation out there, and the examples are not very helpful. At some point in time last year I decided to investigate this control and find out how to get resolved items out of it, as I needed to use it and abuse it for...

What does it take to be a SharePoint MVP

Well here's an excellent post ( http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/04/17/sharepoint-mvps-know-how-to-have-fun-and-give-constructive-product-feedback.aspx ) explaining this together with pictures of my fellow MVPs from the recent MVP Summit, which I unfortunatelly was unable to attend, but the next one I will definitely not miss. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Developing Business Intelligence Solutions with SharePoint 2007 and PerformancePoint 2007

This session was actually scheduled for the 26th of March but we unfortunatelly had to postpone the meeting in the last minute as I needed to be in Johannesburg urgently (I'm finally back in CPT). Here's write up from the invite (you can also download it in pdf on infromationworker.co.za under events): S.A. Developer.net April 2008 Meeting - Developing Business Intelligence Solutions with SharePoint 2007 and PerformancePoint 2007 Please join us for an exciting session presented by Zlatan...

Pimpin' Ain't Easy, But It's Necessary :)

This is just to let the rest of you guys that don't know yet in the community, I am your new SharePoint MVP!!! I'm still celebrating :) I would like to thank our South African Community in general, then SADeveloper, South African MVPs, Information Worker Community and last but not least, Microsoft for your support in all my speaking events and initiatives... All of you guys are the greatest !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm looking forward to working and contributing even more then before. I will...
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Faceted Search Screencasts!!

For those of you that struggled with configuring Faceted Search ( http://www.codeplex.com/FacetedSearch ) of which I'm personally a huge fan, Microsoft released the two following video walkthroughs: How to install it ( http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=bb8d1495-9c8e-4ee5-bde8-c326f70c5ea6 ) How to configure it for Business Data Catalog - BDC ( http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=4c021182-b7a3-4520-944d-dc1e6fb3791d ) See original post about this here ( http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive...
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Debugging Web Parts in SharePoint 2007

Ok in my previous article I covered basic SharePoint 2007 Web Part Development, (this is another thing I've been asked a lot) one important thing when it comes to development especially more complex web parts is debugging and stepping through the code. This is super easy so here you go.................... So..... you finished developing your Web Part, and you pressed Crtl+Shift+B and your Build went fine, but you get errors displayed when you test your Web Part in SharePoint 2007, so what do...

Developing Basic Web Parts in SharePoint 2007

Many times in the past I've been asked to help and elaborate on one SharePoint topic and that is building Web Parts for SharePoint. I've talked about this in my community events as well as conferences where I presented. I've also blogged about some more advanced development of Web Parts but I've never done a more basic explanation of how to develop simple Web Parts. After this last request I finally gave in, so here it is. Coolest thing about web parts in SharePoint is its complete...
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