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How To: Easily construct your CAML queries with CAML Query Builder 2008-05-05 07:19:34 This post is a mere followup to my previous minor posts on the subject of SPQuery
and SharePoint queries located here. Basically this post will provide step-by-step instructions to construct
your CAML (Collaborative Application Markup Language) queries using the U2U CALM Query Builder
which you can ... (More) Read more:Easily
Introduction to SharePoint Queries 2008-05-04 16:23:25 Prephase Recently I've been using SharePoint Queries
more and more, not to say in my latest personal project: Zimmergren Forum WebPart. At times when I've been out at some clients to help them either refactor existing code or build new code, weather doing it myself of joining an existing SharePoint ... (More) Read more:Introduction
SPQuery returning all items 2008-05-02 11:37:39 If you've ever used the SPQuery objects to get SPListItems from a SPList, and you didn't get it to work because the query would return ALL items in the SPList, you might have used code similar to this: SPQuery postsQuery = new SPQuery(); postsQuery.Query = string.Format( " ... (More)
SharePoint Forums WebPart : What's going on? 2008-04-28 18:33:42 As a follow-up to my previous blogpost: "Forum Web Part for SharePoint" I thought I'd let you know the status of my personal pet-project. I've been getting alot of feedback regarding the Forum WebPart which is soon to enter it's beta-testing stage. Thanks for the feedback in terms of the ... (More) Read more:Forums
Office Labs site launched - I urge you to check it out! 2008-04-28 17:40:39 All I can say is, go check out "Office Labs" for yourself (click here). And by the way, DO check out the "Community Clips" section. It's awesome. That's all I had for now, back to coding some enhancements on the Forum WebPart which is coming along nicely... Just wish one had mo ... (More)
Forum Web Part for SharePoint 2008-04-15 14:35:02 People have been requesting a better discussion forum functionality than the one in SharePoint by default. I took that request and made it into a new personal project of mine. Currently the forum looks like any forum you see on the web, but it's using- and is based entirely on SharePoint and the Sh ... (More) Read more:Forum
Italy next - arrivederci for now! 2008-04-10 11:00:00 We're going to Italy
with our company (350+ nerds).
It'll be a blast and we'll stay there until this Sunday.
Keep your eye out for new posts when I get back - I've got some nice ideas cooking.
Pingback/Trackback hell with EBE 2.0 Final 2008-04-09 14:32:00 As many of you have noticed, I'm getting a whole lot of spam in my ping- and trackbacks - Enhanced Blog Edition for SharePoint is missing some kind of spam-check for the trackbacks.
I will get to it to clear them out as soon as possible, but I'm going to Italy tomorrow and got tons of things to ... (More) Read more:Final
, Trackback
Tip: RequestAccessEnabled programatically using the SharePoint Object Model 2008-04-09 10:15:33 I bumped into a strange problem today. It wasn't hard to solve, but worth mentioning. To manually enable the option to request permissions to the site, you do this from Site Actions - Site Settings - Advanced Permissions - Settings - Access Request. From that page you can specify if users should ... (More) Read more:Object
The attack of the RSS - Sorry 2008-04-09 05:57:00 As I've been re-writing some (many) of the URLs in my blog people have been complaining that they got duplicate RSS entries.
The URL re-write took about 20 minutes, under which period a total of 7 people sent me the comment that my RSS was fubar - Now it's fixed :)
Thanks for tuning in, and ... (More) Read more:attack
CKS:Enhanced Blog Edition - Enable Search 2008-04-01 16:37:00 The other day I started coding a custom searchfunctionality to use with the Community Kit for SharePoint's Enhanced Blog Edition
(CKS:EBE) - which is what this blog is running on.
However, while it would be fun and all to create a new custom search functionality for the EBE - someone beat me to i ... (More) Read more:Search
LINQ to SharePoint 2008-03-28 08:29:00 For those of you who's new to LINQ (Language Integrated Query), here's a brief description:
"General-purpose query facilities added to the .NET Framework apply to all sources of information, not just relational or XML data. This facility is called .NET Language-Integrated Query (LINQ). ... (More)
Stress Testing SharePoint Solutions with Visual Studio 2008 2008-03-27 08:26:00 One of my pals, MVP Liam Cleary, posted a very interesting article on how to use Visual
Studio 2008 to test the performance of your SharePoint Solution.
I urge you to check his article out : -testing-using-visual-studio-team-system-2008.as ... (More) Read more:Testing
How To: Get up and running with the Silverlight 2.0 Blueprints for SharePoint 2007 2008-03-19 14:41:00 Author: Tobias Zimmergren I got a chance to finally try the blueprints out, and it works fine. It's a couple of steps on the way that needs to be performes, listed below. What you need to think about when setting it up is to make sure the following pre-requisities are installed on your Shar ... (More) Read more:running
New Blog: WSS 3.0 SP1 + Win Server 2008 2008-03-17 03:48:00 I just got this new blog up and running with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 on a Windows Server 2008 machine.
It's running really smooth and I hope it will be just as good as the one before.
Have a good day, and don't forget to hook up the new RSS-feed ( www.zimmergren.net/rss.xml )
Silverlight 1.0 seamless integration with SharePoint 2007 complete! 2008-03-13 18:30:00 Author: Tobias Zimmergren Url:
Yep. It's me again...
I managed to salvage most of the data from the bluescreen a couple of hours earlier (due to the persistent use of source control).
I'll cover this topic more in details in one of the days to come, for now - this is ... (More) Read more:complete
, integration
Bluescreen of Death on my VPC 2008-03-13 17:30:00 I completed my integration project with Silverlight 1.0 and SharePoint 2007 - which doesn't requiry any configuration on your server, except to install my Web Part with the .wsp solution.
But...
Instead of giving you a nice guide on how to implement and integrate Silverlight, Microsoft gave me ... (More)
SharePoint Cross List Queries in a custom UserControl 2008-03-09 13:00:00 Author: Tobias Zimmergren Url:
I got the question last week weather it's possible to get items from all lists of <your chosen type here> gathered and displayed on one page. This is - like most things - possible in SharePoint without any greater efforts. With som ... (More) Read more:Cross
, custom
, Queries
Silverlight (2.0) Blueprints for SharePoint 2008-03-03 12:05:00 Author: Tobias ZimmergrenUrl:
Hi people, been really busy the last couple of weeks and havn't had the time to answer your mails nor write any new blogposts.
However, I just felt that I needed to get this link out there for you guys to check out in case you havn't alrea ... (More)
Windows Live Alerts - Now on your blog or website 2008-02-04 18:00:00 Author: Tobias ZimmergrenUrl:
I just read a post by Michael Gannotti which was about the new features from Windows
Live. Now you can use Alerts on your blog/website
so people can register/sign up to receive alerts when you make changes or adds new posts to your blog.
R ... (More) Read more:Windows Live
MOSS 2007: Using AJAX UserControls in SharePoint 2008-01-10 12:16:00 Author: Tobias Zimmergren Url:
This post merely shows you how you can use the AJAX
functionality in SharePoint by using UserControls.
What we need to be able to follow the steps in this article
Have installed ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX 1.0 Extensions (Download here)
Con ... (More)
MOSS 2007: Add support for AJAX in your SharePoint installation 2008-01-04 17:02:00 Author: Tobias ZimmergrenUrl:
In this very short and straight-on post I'll just mention how you can configure your SharePoint installation to enable support for ASP.NET AJAX
1.0 since a lot of people have been asking me about it.
Before we make any changes in the web.con ... (More)
Update to what's going on 2007-12-17 14:21:00 Cheers and thanks for the mails and comments regarding the Silverlight/SharePoint integrations. I've been getting some good feedback and assistance along the way. The next step I need to do is get the VPCs back up running and make some final touches and then start taking screenshots and try to rem ... (More) Read more:Update
Busy busy busy + new laptop :) 2007-12-07 14:12:00 As you may have noticed, I'm rather busy these days and have little time to blog. At the moment I'm working on a mediumsized CommunityServer-based project for a large multinational corporation (not allowed to disclose anymore info ;))
I'm receiving my new personal laptop today (2.0GHz dualcore 64 ... (More)
Silverlight and SharePoint integration 2007-11-09 14:20:00 I'm writing this post as a question/survey and want to know if there's any interest in actually posting a blog on some different integration
-possibilities with SharePoint and Silverligt.
I've created a couple of smaller projects that uses SharePoint's exposed webservices to create a nice Silverli ... (More)
Silverlight with Ian Blackburn 2007-11-06 14:20:00 I'm on the train right now with two of my colleagues, heading to Stockholm to attend a Silverlight course held by Mr. Ian Blackburn
himself.
I'll be sure to post some interesting stuff about Silverlight and SharePoint integration soon, as I've made a couple of integrations the past couple of days ... (More)