At the moment I am reading Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to prepare for the Microsoft Certified Master SharePoint program. I consider myself an experienced SharePoint developer, but I came across a couple of basic facts that I didn't know or wasn't fully aware of. The first tip: when you are creating custom Application Pages for SharePoint 2007 (WSS and MOSS alike) your page should inherit from Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.LayoutsPageBase. I never realized that there was a separate class an application page should inherit from. Mine always just inherit from System.Web.UI.Page. While looking up the LayoutsPageBase on MSDN I came across some...

Dinsdagavond (17 februari) was de eerste DIWUG avond van dit jaar. Ondanks de late uitnodiging was de opkomst erg goed, er waren meer dan 50 bezoekers!De avond werd gehost bij en gesponsord door Sparked. We hadden weer twee presentaties: Serge van den Oever van Macaw hield een presentatie over Business Productivity Online Suite. Zijn slides staan hier, en Serge heeft zelf ook een blogpost over de presentatie geschreven met links naar andere interessante resources. Clemens Reijnen van Sogeti presenteerde over Collaboration in the Cloud. Zijn slides zijn hier te vinden. Ik wil hiervandaan graag Sparked bedanken voor de goed georganiseerde avond en de...

  If you want to use UserControls in SharePoint web parts you can use SmartPart (http://www.codeplex.com/smartpart). But you can also build a web part that load a UserControl yourself.   If you want to do it yourself you start out by opening Visual Studio (whether you use 2005 or 2008 doesn't matter). Next you create a new project of the type "ASP.NET Web Application".     Then you can add a new class to the project and you make sure that it inherits from System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.WebPart.   ...

I love Twitter. I started using it a couple of weeks ago and I am starting to get hooked on it. Of course I also love SharePoint, so what would be better then to combine the two by having a Twitter web part that displays the tweets in your public timeline in your SharePoint environment. Aidan Garnish has build the web part and blogged about it. The blog and the download of the web part can be found here. I installed the web part and it works like a charm. ...

The Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 has been announced!http://www.mssharepointconference.com/Pages/spc2009.aspx A whole conference about SharePoint "14" for IT Professionals, IT Decision Makers, Architects and Developers.And this time we get to go to Las Vegas instead of Bellevue. Let's have some fun! ;-) http://www.helloitsliam.com/archive/2009/02/03/microsoft-sharepoint-conference-2009-announced.aspx