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Yesterday I had the pleasure to attend and present at the SharePoint Saturday Belgium edition. The Belgium Information Worker Usergroup (BIWUG), who organized the event, deserves a big round of applau...
Im pretty sure everybody who is using SharePoint has sent a link to a document in a Document Library to somebody else (in an email message for example). So you probably know that links to documents (o...
Check out the live agenda and find out why you should attend TechDays 2011. Review the sessions and speakers and build your own personalized agenda. Today we already have more than 1200 registrations....
Last week was a very special week for me: I delivered my last course as a U2U trainer. Ive been a full-time U2U employee for almost 7 years. During that time I had the opportunity to travel the world,...
Yesterday evening Scott Guthrie announced that Microsofts contributions to the jQuery Javascript library were accepted as Official jQuery plugins. One of those contributions is the jQuery Template plu...
If youre an avid reader of this blog, you probably now that Im quite a big fan of the jQuery Javascript library, especially in combination with SharePoint sites. For a while Ive been trying to find a ...
SharePoint 2010 and Silverlight is a fantastic combination, especially when you use the Client Object Model for Silverlight to access SharePoint data. But maybe youve encountered the following situati...
If you have developed Features for SharePoint 2007, youre probably aware of a very serious limitation of Feature Development: upgradability. Deploying version 1 of your customization is no problem, bu...
Many SharePoint developers know that deploying your SharePoint customization to a SharePoint server often requires you to tinker the web.config of the sites where youd like to see the customization in...
The Logging Database is one of the many new concepts that will make the life of many SharePoint administrators quite a bit more enjoyable. In SharePoint 2007 the Unified Logging System (ULS) logged al...
A couple of weeks ago, the Belgian Techdays were held in Antwerp. Together with Scott Hillier I presented the SharePoint pre-conference sessions (watch them online over here, search for pre-conference...
Yesterday I tried to deploy a Business Data Connectivity Model project created in Visual Studio 2010 to my SharePoint 2010 test server (all RTM versions), but during the deployment of the solution, Sh...
Consuming SharePoint 2010 data in Windows Phone 7 applications using the CTP version of the developer tools is quite a challenge. The issue is that the SharePoint 2010 data is not anonymously availabl...
Earlier this week at the Mix10 conference, Microsoft announced the developer story of the Windows Phone 7 Series. As expected, its all about Silverlight! For all the details I highly recommend to watc...
Two weeks ago I was in Iceland, talking about SharePoint 2010 at TM Software (some photos here :-) ). During the course, some students showed me a pretty cool public SharePoint 2007 site that the...
Next week on Wednesday and Thursday Ill be in Milano, Italy during the SharePoint & Office Conference 2010. They have a nice lineup of both Italian and international speakers to deliver 60 session...
If youre an avid reader of this blog, you are probably aware of the fact that using Javascript plus SharePoint is a very powerful combination. In SharePoint 2007 there were a couple of techniques you ...
Last week I stumbled upon some pretty neat functionality of the out-of-the-box List View Web Part in SharePoint 2010: the AJAX Options. When you add a Web Part from the List and Libraries category (th...
Next week (18th and 19th of January, 2010) the Microsoft SharePoint Connections 2010 will be held in Amsterdam RAI (The Netherlands). There is a great lineup of speakers and sessions over there, so I'...
Next week (December, 17th) the Belgian Information Worker User Group (BIWUG, http://www.biwug.be) is organizing an evening full of SharePoint 2010 development topics. I'm talking about the Client Obje...
Recently I ran into the following issue when I tried to deploy a SharePoint 2010 Project in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. In the output window the following message was displayed and the deployment faile...
Finally the public betas of SharePoint 2010 (both SharePoint Foundation and SharePoint Server), Office 2010, SharePoint Designer 2010 and Visio 2010 are available on MSDN Subscript...
During the last couple of weeks, we at U2U have been very busy building course material for our upcoming SharePoint 2010 courses. We expect that lots of experienced SharePoint developers, power users ...
Ive got the pleasure to be able to present a Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) session at TechEd Europe next week: BOF14 Microsoft SharePoint, jQuery and Microsoft Silverlight: Better Together. If you are inte...
In 20 minutes a very important event is going to get started: the SharePoint Conference 2009! If you're not in Vegas (like me), get yourself in front of a computer with a big bag of chips, popcorn or ...
Summary: The SmartTools jQueryLoader enables the jQuery Javascript library in your SharePoint sites using an effortless and Assembly-Free deployment technique. Additionally the jQueryLoader will dynam...
When I was installing a brand new demo environment using Microsoft's latest and greatest platforms (Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008) I ran into an annoying issue related to SharePoint. The ...
In my previous post I introduced a small script to extend the Edit Control Block (ECB) of list items and documents. The added menu items in the ECB allow users to update certain metadata fields for th...
I'm pretty sure every SharePoint enthusiast has seen those great Sneak Peek videos Microsoft released some time ago. And I'm sure that lots of the new features shown were very exciting for lots of you...
Other articles in this series:
Customizing the SharePoint ECB with Javascript, Part 1
Customizing the SharePoint ECB with Javascript, Part 2
In the previous articles I explained the basic technique t...
In my two previous posts about customizing the Edit Control Block (or ECB for short) with Javascript, I showed some basic examples of what can be accomplished with this technique. Now its time to buil...
Other articles in this series:Customizing the SharePoint ECB with Javascript, Part 1Customizing the SharePoint ECB with Javascript, Part 3In the previous article in this series I explained how to add ...
First of all; what is the ECB in SharePoint? Well ECB stands for Edit Control Block and it is the context menu that is displayed for all items in SharePoint Lists and Document Libraries (and their cor...
I guess this will be blogged extensivly the coming hours and days: Microsoft has released official documentation about the next version of SharePoint. Read all about it here: http://sharepoint.microso...
Already since a long time Ive been thinking about a web part that would search-as-you-type using SharePoints search engine. The idea behind this concept is that while youre typing a query in the searc...
Later on this week, on Friday May 29th, I will be presenting two sessions at the Developer Days in The Hague (The Netherlands). I'm pretty excited to be there, not only because it's always lots of fun...
When working with the out-of-the-box SharePoint web services, it may have happened to you that the Web Service response contained the following exception embedded in the XML:Exception of type 'Microso...
If you have read some of the previous posts on this blog related to using jQuery in SharePoint 2007 sites, you probably know that its perfectly possible to make call the out-of-the-box SharePoint web ...
In my previous post I explained how you can make use of the Lists.asmx web service of SharePoint, to load list items by using the jQuery Javascript library. The example discussed in that post is simpl...
Due to popular demand Ive created another sample of how you can make use of the jQuery Javascript library in your SharePoint sites. This example uses SharePoints Lists.asmx web service to retrieve all...
In my previous post I showed how to make a call to SharePoints Lists.asmx web service with the jQuery library to retrieve information about the Lists and Document Libraries that are available on a spe...
If you read this blog you probably know that besides the web user interface, SharePoint also exposes some interfaces which you can use from code: the SharePoint object model and the SharePoint web ser...
My last post about splitting the Top Navigation Bar of a WSS site in two with the help of jQuery, triggered a little discussion (in a good way) in the comments. As a result Christophe from the Path to...
Since I got a fan of the jQuery Javascript library, usually I cant resist showing off the power of this library in my SharePoint development courses at U2U. For example two weeks ago I was in sunny ...
My pal Lieven and I are preparing some cool demos to show at the Belgian TechDays SharePoint Preconference next week. Our goal is to build up a nice story that shows the various ways how to use ShareP...
Next month, (10, 11 & 12 of March) the Belgian TechDays will be held in Antwerp. Together with my pal Lieven Iliano, I'll present the SharePoint Pre-conference day on March, 10th. So what is this ...
[Via Paul Andrew] Now here is a must have tool for every SharePoint developer that wants to make sure that his code isnt causing any nasty memory leaks due to forgotten Dispose calls (typically on the...
Tonight Ive uploaded new versions of all the components of the SmartTools for SharePoint project on CodePlex. For those of you who dont know the SmartTools project: its a collection of useful SharePoi...
[Announced on the SharePoint Team Blog] The SharePoint-year makes a good start with the CTP release of version 1.3 of the extensions with the longest name ever: the Visual Studio 2008 extensions for W...
Last week I was teaching the U2U Advanced SharePoint Development course in Brussels when one of my students showed me a web part he had created. The web part showed a cool 3D chart (rendered...
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