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Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for WSS Version 1.2/VSeWSS v1.2


Tools for developing custom SharePoint applications: Visual Studio project templates for Web Parts, site definitions, and list definitions; and a stand-alone utility program, the SharePoint Solution Generator. Download the User Guide and Samples listed here: The User Guide for this tool can be found here: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions User […]

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Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit


  The SharePoint Administration Toolkit contains functionality to help administrate and manage Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services. This toolkit contains two new functions – the ability to perform bulk operations on site collections and a Stsadm operation to update alert e-mails after a Web application has changed URLs. WhitePaper Download x86 Download […]

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Enable Accent Sensitive Search for MOSS


I was recently asked this question, while I knew it was possible I didn’t know off hand whether it was a Central Administration setting or run a command at the prompt.  It turned out to be a command option of stsadm, shown below: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN>stsadm -o oSearchdiacriticsensitive -ssp sharedServices1 -setStatus TRUE […]

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Search Server 2008 Express – RTM


  Yes it is finally here, both the x32 and x64 version are now available for download. Search Server 2008 Express (x64) Search Server 2008 Express (x32) You may want to add the following to your enterprise search solution: MOSS Faceted Search installation only takes a few minutes and will improve the users search experience by […]

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ASP.NET Ajax Extensions and SharePoint Service 3.0 SP1


I got the Office Server SP1 installed on my MOSS development machine the other day and thought it would be a great time to try building a Ajax WebPart. These are the steps I did to prepare my WSS/MOSS environment for the Ajax Extensions: Download the ASP.NET 2.0 Ajax Extensions and installed them Modified the […]

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Load SharePoint 2007 List into DataTable


  I have been playing around with the Web Services provided by SharePoint and thought this code example might help someone else as it took me a bit to track down. private ListService.Lists listService = new ListService.Lists();private void LoadList(string listName) {    XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();   doc.LoadXml("<Document><Query/><ViewFields/><QueryOptions/></Document>");   XmlNode listQuery = doc.SelectSingleNode("//Query");   XmlNode listViewFields = […]

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SharePoint Presentation


  Thanks to all of you who attended the presentation given me and Dominic Plouffe on Windows SharePoint Services v3.  Here are the links to the software and blogs mentioned during our PowerPoint presentation. Links: VSeWSS v 1.0 VSeWSS v 1.1 CTP MSDN Minimal Master Page Heather Solomon’s Base Master Page for MOSS SharePoint Server […]

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Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express


The other day I downloaded and installed MSS 2008 on one of our Windows 2003 Server x64 development servers. I immediately picked a couple of file shares and a web site as sample content sources for the server to crawl, it only took a few minutes to setup and when it was finished crawling my […]

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Talking about A Technical Overview of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Part 1 of 2)


  Quote A Technical Overview of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Part 1 of 2) Hosted by: Dominic Plouffe and Wesley MacDonald Date and time: November 12, 2007 at 12:00 PM Location name: 100 Queen Street, Suite 500, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada View this event on Windows Live

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SharePoint Development – Turn off those friendly errors


  The error page displayed while you are doing development on SharePoint has a lot to be desired, while it is perfect for production it just doesn’t;t give you any information to go on while you are knee deep in development. Open your SharePoint site’s web.config Find the <SafeMode> Element and change value of the CallStack […]

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