The Ramp Up program has just launched a new track for SharePoint developers... Ramp Up is a free, online, community-based learning program, with a number of different tracks that will help you build your portfolio of professional development skil...
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 ...
In order to develop with SharePoint you really need to have a set of tools to make your life simpler. Everyone has their own preferences, but this is my current toolset. Everyday Tools These are the tools I use pretty much everyday and couldn't get ...
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...
When I initially created the SharePoint developer explorer the code wasn't really complete and needed a lot of tidying & refactoring. Because of this I didn't actually add the code to the CodePlex project. I was planning on doing this, but am st...
zevenseas have recently released a couple of tools to be used with the Community Kit for SharePoint.
These tools include a feature builder for themes, allowing you to easily package a theme into a deployable feature and a search integration con...
I have updated the JavaScript which makes the left navigation on a standard SharePoint site expandable. This new version 'remembers' the width between page views and also works when the TreeView is not present. You can download the new JavaScript f...
Working locally with DLLs deployed to the GAC is straight forward enough and can be made easy with post build scripts. However, when you are working with a remote server and the DLL needs to be in the GAC its a bit more tricky...particularly if you ...
I'm not sure what I was reading but I discovered IE7Pro the other day. IE7Pro adds a number of extremely useful extensions to IE7 and best of all is free! You can download it from the IE7Pro website.
One of the useful features are the user scr...
I have been working a lot with document libraries recently, large ones with lots of sub-folders. I enabled TreeView navigation to ease navigation around the different folders, but was hampered by the width of the left navigation. The fixed width a...