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Friday, June 06, 2008 3:11 PM

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...
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Friday, June 06, 2008 2:08 PM

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...
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Monday, April 21, 2008 12:06 AM

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...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008 7:54 PM

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...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008 6:55 PM

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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Wednesday, February 13, 2008 4:14 PM

Final Release of VSeWSS 1.1 (Visual Studio extensions for Windows SharePoint Services)

It kind of took them some time. Some of you might remember my old (ish) post ( http://dotnet.org.za/zlatan/archive/2007/08/29/ctp-for-version-1-1-of-the-quot-visual-studio-extensions-for-windows-sharepoint-services-quot-vsewss.aspx ) announcing CTP for version 1.1 of the "Visual Studio extensions for Windows SharePoint Services" (VSeWSS). So much like the CTP version these extension are in fact (as you're guessing) for Visual Studio 2005. The whole awesome thing that VSeWSS 1.1 brought...
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Monday, December 03, 2007 9:21 AM

KB 941955 Update for SharePoint 2007 AJAX Web Part Development

For those of you that have used this post of mine ( http://dotnet.org.za/zlatan/archive/2007/10/12/developing-ajax-web-parts-in-sharepoint-2007.aspx ) to create your own AJAX web parts here's an important KB 941955 ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941955 ) article that will help with what your potential bug might be. It refers to an issue with: "A Web Part that contains an ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 UpdatePanel control that uses the _doPostBack() function does not work when the URL of the hosting...
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Sunday, November 18, 2007 11:04 PM

Search in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: Customizing and Extending

This is a follow up on my first lecture from the Unified Communications and SharePoint Conference that happened last week in Johannesburg. As I promised to those of you that attended, you will find here the uploaded deck + source code from the demos. Presentation deck: http://dotnet.org.za/blogs/zlatan/SRC303%20Search%20in%20SharePoint%20-%20Dzinic.zip Demo snippets: http://dotnet.org.za/blogs/zlatan/OCS%20Conference%20Snippets.zip Demo source code: http://dotnet.org.za/blogs/zlatan/SearchWebPartExample...
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Friday, October 12, 2007 6:23 PM

Developing AJAX Web Parts in SharePoint 2007

Ok so one thing that I haven’t blogged about is developing Web Parts for SharePoint 2007. One thing about it is that nowadays it’s very easy, far less complicated then SPS 2003 days. As a matter of fact if you’re running Visual Studio 2005 with Office SharePoint Server 2007 SDK 1.2 and Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 1.1 CTP. All you really have to do is create a Web Part project, override the right method, press the little “Play” button on top of your Visual Studio...
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