Most of the SharePoint websites I work on do not expose any of the standard SharePoint functionality. They do not use webparts and so do not require any of the SharePoint javascript functionality.
SharePoint includes files to support the client s...
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 ...
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...
Its always frustrated me that the list box on the "Create Page" page always shows the content type first with brackets around it. I am always looking for the layout title, but when you have a number of available layouts based on a single...
I have answered two questions today about problems with sites which have been moved into a development environment from the live using backup & restore. I thought I would write a post about it, mostly so that I had easy access to the post from S...
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...
Recently a client was finding it difficult to edit HTML in a publishing page when the HTML was lengthy and went over a page in the browser. Basically the floating toolbar of the Rich Text Editor (RTE) in SharePoint went out of view as the page scr...
I had a problem last week where I couldn't create a variation of a site, it just kept failing to copy certain pages. Turns out that the problem was with the layout associated with the page...the URL of the layout was pointing to a non-existent site....
Rapid For SharePoint provides a taxonomy & classification system for SharePoint using custom columns and the release of RapidForSharepoint is available for download from the Rapid website.
I'm a bit late on this as the release has been availa...