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Early Xmas Present from the Search and BDC Teams: Custom Security Trimming

While we generally lock down features many months before we get to RTM and spend all of the remaining time on performance and stability, there are a few very few number of times when we find we real...

The RTM SDKs Will Be Downloadable on November 28th, 2006

I jumped the gun in yesterday's second post when I said the SDKs were ready along with the downloadable trials.  They are indeed finished being written, but there are more hoops than you can imag...

Using ASP.NET for AJAX in SharePoint Sites: Tread Gently for Now

We get asked about what we're doing about AJAX quite a lot these days, especially about ASP.NET for AJAX (the technology formerly known as "Atlas"). We *love* AJAX. We actually use AJAX (albeit no...

Okay, Okay, I'll Start Blogging Again...

I'm here in Auckland with Arpan Shah presenting at Tech Ed: New Zealand sessions and meeting every Kiwi customer and partner I can. They've been working me pretty hard; I got off the plane at 5:10am t...

WSRP and JSR168 Are Two Completely Different Things...

WSRP, as I covered a few days ago, is an interoperability standard.  It’s platform- and language-neutral.  It’s all about requesting and transmitting chunks of HTML using SO...

Time To Discusss WSRP...

I thought I’d start this next wave of postings with the subject I’ve avoided the longest — WSRP.  This one will be a little long… What is WSRP? The abbreviation stan...

I Am Back In The Saddle and Ready to Pontificate

My blog isn’t so much a running news log as it is an opinion column and platform for communicating practical advice.  That having been said, I’ve been slacking off for too long.&...

Welcome Aboard, PJ 'n' Pals!!!

Two new blogs have been created in the past few days that I thought you should bookmark: If you’re building applications for the U.S. Federal Government, the Microsoft Developer and Platform Eva...

Ghosting, Schmosting!

This is one item I’ve been holding back for a while.  FrontPage “12” will be a great SharePoint site designer on many, many fronts.  Like the current version, using it to e...

PDC Day 3 (Day 2 for SharePoint Technology Sessions)

So it’s 10am as I start this posting, which I’m typing while I bounce back and forth between Ryan Stocker’s talk on the Web content management services you’ll see in Office &ld...

The Kimono Is Open, The Veil Is Lifted, The Gags Are Removed.....

I just got out of Steven Sinofsky’s keynote session on Office “12” here at the PDC, and that means one thing.  Actually, multiple, things, but the big thing is that I can stop&n...

FitzBlog : Web Part Interoperability -- Good News and Bad News

That post I made on Monday  Namely:  “FitzBlog : Web Part Interoperability -- Good News and Bad News”  It’s out.  It was U2U’s news to break, and Mike Ammer...

Web Part Interoperability -- Good News and Bad News

So we’re getting ready to unveil a little bit tomorrow and a lot on Wednesday regarding WSS “v3” and our Office “12” servers, but a couple of things have popped up that a...

Supportable Customizations: Don't Panic

Ive been at a lot of conferences in the past few months, and the question I was asked most often had to have been around what we support and dont support when it comes to site and portal cus...

Will Windows SharePoint Services Work With SQL Server 2005?

The short answer:  Heck, yeah! The long answer: For the love of God, dont try it in production yet.  SQL Server 2005 hasnt shipped.  But as weve been testing our beta code for WSS Servi...

Will Windows SharePoint Services Work With SQL Server 2005

The short answer:  Heck, yeah! The long answer: For the love of God, dont try it in production yet.  SQL Server 2005 hasnt shipped.  But as weve been testing our beta code for WSS Servi...

I've Been Gone A While

I know that, while I’m travelling, I should just freaking file blog postings from the road since it’s more dynamic and compelling ‘n’ stuff, but I didn’t.  I’m...

PDC Sessions Have Been Posted!!!

Head over to http://commnet.microsoftpdc.com/content/sessions.aspx to see a nearly-complete list of what we can tell you to date.  Specifically look at the “Office and SharePoint&rdquo...

TechEd, End of Day 4: The Most Interesting New Thing I Saw All Day

The last four days here in Orlando have been a blur, and that’s not because of the humidity or the evening events.  There’s a lot going on here.  There are a lot of people here.&...

SharePad Has Been Updated

The SharePad workspace on GotDotNet has been updated.  It now supports getting/setting custom properties with every open/save.  If you want an example of how to use FrontPage RPCs, the ...

Site Definition KickStart Project

Want some help building and deploying site definitions, complete with resources like Web Parts, CSS files, etc.  Get thee to http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/sharepointdevkickstart, the latest in ...

Want a Good Example of FPRPC? Try SharePad!

I haven’t blogged for a while, but I’m hoping to make up for it — starting with this… I’ve told you before that, if you want to add full SharePoint document library supp...

Want a Good Example of FPRPC Try SharePad!

I haven’t blogged for a while, but I’m hoping to make up for it — starting with this… I’ve told you before that, if you want to add full SharePoint document library supp...

There's an Office/SharePoint Development Track at This Year's PDC...

The fact that there’s an Office/SharePoint Development track at this year’s Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, CA from the 13th from the 16th of September is a big break fo...

SharePoint Advisor Magazine Hits the Newsstand!!!

I cannot begin to tell you how happy I am about the first issue of SharePoint Advisor magazine.  I just got an advance copy, and the regular copies are leaving Advisor Media’s warehouses to...

One More Time...

Comments like "Unless of course you want to use them next year" made in reponse to my posting “Keep Writing SharePoint Web Parts Until (at least) 2006” make me wonder if people...

Make sure you attend this year's PDC

I’m not going to say anything more at this time, but I’d strongly suggest that attending this year’s Microsoft Professional Developers Conference would be an exceptionally good idea....

Update on the ASP.NET 2.0 warning

Several of you have reported having successfully installed the .NET 2.0 runtime on a machine running WSS/SPS. If you set the IIS Web Application for WSS/SPS to use ASP.NET 1.1, thi...

Why do the WSS/SPS teams seem to be so darned tight-lipped about futures

You may have noticed this blog’s byline,.in which I refer to myself as “sharing whatever he can get away with” about developing with SharePoint Products and Technologies.&n...

Please Stay Out Of The Database!!!

We had a fun internal debate this week on a new tool developed in France.  If you can read French, it’s documented here; the download link for the executable (whose UI is in English) is her...

Indexing and Searching ASPX Files

Someone sent me a comment to one of last week’s postings lamented the trouble with indexing ASPX files, particularly because MS product support says that we don’t recommend searching ...

SharePoint Sites are Data

Next week I’m going to post something that explains the relative merits of efforts like IBuySpy Portal, DotNetNuke, etc., compared to Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server.&nb...

Web Parts ⊃ Portlets

To say “Web Parts are Microsoft’s ASP.NET technology for implementing portlets” would be correct, but grossly incomplete.  One key facet of Web Part technology is that we d...

We've got to come up with a better way to catalog Web Parts -- any ideas

I get asked “how many Web Parts exist” all the time.  The question drives me crazy. I understand why.  Portal vendors cite the list of available portlets they have on hand a...

Keep Writing SharePoint Web Parts Until (at least) 2006

ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts rock.  We in SharePoint-land love them.  We’re building “v3” on ASP.NET 2.0.  But none of that matters right now if you have to deliver code for ...

Custom Forms-Based Authentication Solutions for WSS/SPS, Hand-Rolled or Partner-Supported

There’s a nice article on TheServerSide.NET entitled Integrating 3rd Party Single Sign On in Sharepoint Portal Server that explains how to write a custom (unsupported by Microsoft) for...

Don' t think we don't still love iOra

The majority of my posts are for developer issues (not — normally — developer techniques, as many other blogs do that), but I’ll make an exception here since I just brought up Groove...

Webcastapalooza

Just about every presentation we did in the area of SharePoint Products and Technologies at last month’s Microsoft Office Developer Conference is being redelivered as a MSDN Webcast. I...

Good "SharePoint Development" = Good .NET Development

Gregory MacBeth provides a nice enumeration of the skills you need to be a “SharePoint developer”.  It’s a good list.  I endorse it.  But examine it closely,...

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