Sharepoint Developer Notes

SharePoint – Accessibility
Topics about improving accessibility and usability for the physically challenged.
SharePoint – Business Data Catalog
Topics about the Business Data Catalog capabilities in Office SharePoint Server.
SharePoint – Business Intelligence
Topics about implementing SharePoint for business intelligence oriented solutions.
SharePoint – Design and Customization
Topics about site design (i.e. definitions, templates) and page customization (i.e. layouts) as well as [...]

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In this post I’ll illustrate how to programmatically add sub menus to the Site Actions menu. This post has an accompanying Visual Studio 2008 solution containing all source code for the Quick Site Settings Feature as discussed below. The source code can be downloaded from [...]

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My Community Content web part and Top Rated Content web part allow user to quickly rate a page’s content and easily add rich HTML comments to SharePoint 2007 pages. Using these web parts, your anonymous users can rate the page content’s quality and logged-in [...]

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Would you like to have a link to WSS Central Administration from the Site Actions menu of any site in WSS v3? I finally got some time to throw together a custom Feature that provides this functionality. The WSS Solution Package containing this Custom Action [...]

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The Cross-Site Lookup Column provides users with a simple means for adding Cross-Site Lookup fields to any List within the same WSS v3 Site Collection.
To download and use this free add-on for WSS v3, follow this steps.
1. Download the zip archive
2. Unzip the archive and [...]

I received a copy of Andrew Connell’s new SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development book a few weeks ago. As expected, Andrew’s new book is excellent – well written with a ton of substantial content. I particularly like chapter 10 on Field Types and Field Controls.
SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development is a must have [...]

I have received notification that I’ve been presented with the 2008 Microsoft® MVP Award for Windows Server – Windows SharePoint Services. This is my second consecutive year of being honored with this award, but I have to say that the amount of gratitude, appreciation, and personal satisfaction in being re-awarded has not diminished at all. [...]

This past Tuesday morning Microsoft released important updates for SharePoint. Microsoft strongly recommends that you install the updates that apply to you as soon as your patching and maintenance schedules permit.
The updates can be downloaded from the links below:
Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297) – x86
Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297) – x64
Infrastructure [...]