December 2007 - ShareBlog

Required fields and linking to other lists

Had an interesting problem come up at work the other day. I had written some custom code that reads from ListA (which has 3 required fields one of which is a lookup into ListB) and outputs them. Every so often the web part would come back saying that...

Published Sat, Dec 29 2007 9:18 AM by gary

Filed under: SharePoint

Hope to see you at the MS Office SharePoint Conference in March

I just got the confirmation from my company ( MicroLink) that I will be attending the conference in March. If you are not familiar with it, check out the the confernece's homepage . We are also an exhibitor so I will be spending a lot of time in our...

Published Fri, Dec 28 2007 7:28 AM by gary

Filed under: SharePoint

Create a web part to show sites and sub-sites

Saw a newgroup question the other day about how to do this in SharePoint 2007. While the solution posted works quite well here is some code that I wrote that should accomplish what the user needs. This will either start at the root of your site collection...

Published Fri, Dec 28 2007 7:20 AM by gary

Filed under: SharePoint

Process appears hung when deploying/retracting solutions

I have noticed from time to time that when I deploy solutions (using the Central Administrations, Operations, Solution Management) the Status field is stopped on either "Deploying" or "Retracting" for quite a long time. While normally...

Published Thu, Dec 27 2007 7:47 AM by gary

Filed under: SharePoint

SharePoint is taking over the world!

Well, maybe not the entire world, but at least according to this Network world article it is becoming the de-facto collaboration platform! http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/gwm/2007/1217msg1.html

Published Mon, Dec 24 2007 1:41 PM by gary

Filed under: SharePoint

Recruiters, get a clue

Update: Had another call from a recruiter yesterday. It was night and day difference! He was very professional, knew what he was going to say, and even though I turned him down he asked.....let me say that again, HE ASKED....if it would be alright to...

Published Thu, Dec 20 2007 6:24 AM by gary

Filed under: Misc

Time to go 64bit

As a follow-up to yesterday's post let me restate that the next version of SharePoint is set to be 64bit only. This means that if you have the option any new SharePoint 2007 install should be done using the 64bit version otherwise you will not have...

Published Wed, Dec 19 2007 9:09 AM by gary

Capacity planning beta and hardware recommendations

The SharePoint team blog has posted a great entry about the beta of the SharePoint capacity planning program as well as information about hardware recommendations. Basically you will need 64bit machines for the future versions of SharePoint. Not really...

Published Tue, Dec 18 2007 9:01 AM by gary

Filed under: SharePoint

...and now that SharePoint SP1 has been released the SDKs have been updated

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdeveloperdocs/archive/2007/12/11/SharePointSDKsLiveForSP1.aspx

Published Thu, Dec 13 2007 7:29 AM by gary

Filed under: SharePoint

MOSS SP1 now available

This update applies to the following programs: Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Microsoft® Office Project Server 2007 Microsoft® Office Forms Server 2007 Microsoft® Office Groove® Server 2007, 64-Bit Edition http://www.microsoft.com/downloads...

Published Tue, Dec 11 2007 12:31 PM by gary

Filed under: SharePoint

SharePoint Developer Document Blog now live

These are the people responsible for the SharePoint SDK among other things. Check them out! http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdeveloperdocs/

Published Wed, Dec 05 2007 7:39 AM by gary

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Required fields and linking to other lists

Hope to see you at the MS Office SharePoint Conference in March

Create a web part to show sites and sub-sites

Process appears hung when deploying/retracting solutions

SharePoint is taking over the world!

Recruiters, get a clue

Time to go 64bit

Capacity planning beta and hardware recommendations

...and now that SharePoint SP1 has been released the SDKs have been updated

MOSS SP1 now available

SharePoint Developer Document Blog now live