At a recent SharePoint architects meeting at Microsoft, Tony & Tony from Acentium demonstrated some Silverlight integration with SharePoint. This inspired me to see how easy it would be to use Silverlight with the ARF framework. Silverlight &...
After much work I have finally managed to release a version of ARF (Alternative Rendering Framework for SharePoint) for everyone to use. This version have been in development for a long time and is currently being used on four of my projects. It is ...
I had developed a team site on a virtual machine with the intention to move it to a WSS install once it was ready. I planned on using STSADM -o export to achieve this. Initially I had a problem exporting the site because of a feature I had created ...
ViewState is useful for saving a control's state across page post backs, but is does no good at all if you are navigating via links...the ViewState is only ever used during a POST not a GET. If you have a SharePoint publishing site (or even a collab...
The SharePoint developer explorer was originally written for Visual Studio 2005 and so wasn't available in VS2008. However it does work with VS2008 and here are the instructions to make it available... 1. Download the zip file from http://www.code...
Recently I have been having discussions with a number of people about whether using sub-folders in the 'Pages' library of a MOSS publishing site was supported. I asked a number of Microsoft people (including MVPs) and got various responses, mostly...
I had in interesting problem the other day...I couldn't create the hierarchies for a variation because of the following error.
No Variation Root Web has been set - hierarchies cannot be created until a Variation Root is set.
This was strange b...
Recently I have been working for Parity Business Solutions on a new website for the 'Equality and Human Rights Commission' in the UK, and finally after a lot of blood, sweat and tears the website is live...perfectly on time! This website has been...
So I had created my new custom publishing site template, added my own webtemp xml file in the TEMPLATE\Xml\1033 folder and created a new Internet site d on this template. The next step was to setup the variations for the new site and create the ...
"Out of the box" is a term applied to SharePoint (both WSS and MOSS) quite a lot...with good reason, there is a lot of functionality which is available without having to write a single line of code. Install the software, create a site wi...