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Tuesday, September 06, 2005
My PDC schedule
The schedule is still a little bit tight and I still have to make some choices but these are roughly the sessions I want to follow...
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Monday, September 05, 2005
Harnessing properties in SharePoint Search - Feedback
Patrick pointed to an article from Robert Bogue on Intranet Journal - Harnessing properties in SharePoint Search. This is definitely a must read for SharePoint developers...
There is however something he talks about which is not correct:
...But this also means that non-Office documents don't share the same relationship between fields in the document library and the properties of the document itself. So if you're trying to develop a searching mechanism for documents like TIF documents or PDFs, you'll find that setting up a meta data field for those document libraries won't allow you to search for those documents directly via their properties. You'll still be able to organize the information...
There first sentence is true, property demotion only works with Office. But then there is a mistake, you can still search by property even when the document is not an Office format - property demotion does not affect your ability to search a document based on the metadata assigned to it in a document library. I tried it with SharePoint Portal Server 2003 with Adobe IFilter 6.0 installed and it worked...sharepoint
There is however something he talks about which is not correct:
...But this also means that non-Office documents don't share the same relationship between fields in the document library and the properties of the document itself. So if you're trying to develop a searching mechanism for documents like TIF documents or PDFs, you'll find that setting up a meta data field for those document libraries won't allow you to search for those documents directly via their properties. You'll still be able to organize the information...
There first sentence is true, property demotion only works with Office. But then there is a mistake, you can still search by property even when the document is not an Office format - property demotion does not affect your ability to search a document based on the metadata assigned to it in a document library. I tried it with SharePoint Portal Server 2003 with Adobe IFilter 6.0 installed and it worked...sharepoint
Friday, September 02, 2005
Belux Information Worker User Group (BIWUG) and PDC
BIWUG is a brand new User Group in both Belgium and Luxemburg which will focus on Information Worker Technology like Sharepoint,Office, CMS, IBF, etc... We are currently busy setting up our new site on http://www.biwug.be (which will be a SharePoint site off course). If you want to find out more check out our (temporary) site - http://www.u2u.info/IWUSERGROUP/default.aspx
The primary goal of the Belux Information Worker User Group (abbreviated as BIWUG) is to be a central meeting point for the Information Worker community in Belgium and Luxemburg. BIWUG members are people, technical and non-technical, who are interested in Microsoft Information Worker products and technologies. We cover the whole range of products and technologies that influence in some way or another the daily activities of the information worker. BIWUG is there to provide the members the needed organization, infrastructure and support to share their experiences, learn about products and technologies in a different way then at Microsoft organized events, seminars or trainings, discuss problems with other members or IW peers in round-the-table sessions, get product demonstrations from third-party vendors, and much more. BIWUG will be registered as an INETA user group. Read more on INETA at www.ineta.org.
The first meeting will be held on the 22th of september at Dolmen in Huizingen. One of the main topics will be what to expect in the coming months in the area of Information Worker. At Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference 2005 in Los Angeles September we can expect a lot of new information about Office 12 and SharePoint. BIWUG will be one of the first places where you can learn more about all these new exciting things.
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The primary goal of the Belux Information Worker User Group (abbreviated as BIWUG) is to be a central meeting point for the Information Worker community in Belgium and Luxemburg. BIWUG members are people, technical and non-technical, who are interested in Microsoft Information Worker products and technologies. We cover the whole range of products and technologies that influence in some way or another the daily activities of the information worker. BIWUG is there to provide the members the needed organization, infrastructure and support to share their experiences, learn about products and technologies in a different way then at Microsoft organized events, seminars or trainings, discuss problems with other members or IW peers in round-the-table sessions, get product demonstrations from third-party vendors, and much more. BIWUG will be registered as an INETA user group. Read more on INETA at www.ineta.org.
The first meeting will be held on the 22th of september at Dolmen in Huizingen. One of the main topics will be what to expect in the coming months in the area of Information Worker. At Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference 2005 in Los Angeles September we can expect a lot of new information about Office 12 and SharePoint. BIWUG will be one of the first places where you can learn more about all these new exciting things.
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Wednesday, August 31, 2005
InfoJet EditPart 1.1 - edit InfoPath forms in SharePoint
I found this very recently InfoJet EditPart 1.1. I haven't tried it yet but I do think it uses a pretty weird configuration. InfoJet EditPart is a SharePoint webpart butit requires an install of InfoJet Service (which is not free - more pricing info here). InfoJet Service is a Java class library for publishing InfoPath forms to the web - it uses Tomcat 4.1.3, Resin 3.0.6, OC4J 10.1.2, WebLogic Server 8.1 or WebSphere 5.1 as platform. Does anybody have experience with this product?
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Blogging and attending PDC
If you are a blogger and you are attending PDC as well, take some time to register at PDCBloggers.Net. I just did ...
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Sunday, August 28, 2005
SharePoint Tools Galore v4
Time for another update of the SharePoint and MCMS tools Galore list, version 4 here it comes....
SharePoint toolsuites
Coras workplace suiteSuite with
rollup webparts (for news,documents,tasks,...), navigation controls and full language localization (This is way cool...)
Syntergy Provide lots of modules such as
replication technologies for SharePoint, bulkloader, audit for SharePoint,...
Tools for SharePoint from SPSDev.com - contains Pocket Portal,
My Team OrgChart WebPart, Bulk upload
Search
Entopia K-Bus for SharePoint Portal Server: Adds extra information discovery capabilities, also allows
SharePoint to index Documentum, Opentext,...
WSS PowerSearch - The developers ofthis product also have
some other nice SharePoint tools, check out PowerRecycle and PowerNav
Behaviortracking from Mondosearch
Coveo SharePoint search
SharePoint Advanced Search Tools (Gotdotnet)
Ontolica - enhanced search interface for the SPS search engine
SharePoint word breaker update
MCMS (Microsoft Content Management Server)
MCMS Manager 3.0
Telerik RAD controls for MCMS
Backup/Data Recovery/Antivirus
SharePoint document recovery tool : Free download from Stephane Cordonnier
McAfee Portal Shield Antivirus solution
AVG SharePoint Server Edition web site Antivirus solution
Sybari Antigen for SharePoint
TrendMicro PortalProtect Antivirus solution
Workflow
NetPoint Solutions
Factiva:Search and workflow tools for Office 2003
Captaris Teamplate: This workflow toolset even adds a module for fax based workflow "RightFax Workflow wizard
Skelta workflow .Net
K2.Net
Nintex smartlibrary
Smart workflow from LMR Solutions
DataLan FlowBuilder
ActiveSPS Workflow Solutions
Document, Records and Digital Assets Management
Meridio: .Net software which integrates seamlessly into SharePoint and provides records management
features needed to be compliant with standards such as Sarbanes-Oxley, US DOD 5015.2 records management standards,...
Towersoft
Wisdom
Mobius
Equilibrium MediaRich for SharePoint- digital asset management (DAM) solution to Microsoft Office Systems 2003.
Workshare Professional -Secure document compliance
Utilities & developer tools
SharePoint Explorer : another free tool which you can use to explore the SharePoint object model
Admin report kit for SPS 2003: configuration and usage reporting tool for SPS 2003
SharePoint site permission manager (Gotdotnet)
SharePoint explorer for VS.Net
BlueDogLimited Webpart Tool Kit
CAML Query Builder (U2U)
SharePoint Configuration analyzer
CAMLViewer 1.0 (Stramit)
James Milne's SharePoint CSS Skinner
Office Web Components
RSS Feed for SharePoint Lists (U2U)
SharePoint Import Export tools (Gotdotnet)
SPS Portal 2003 Search Web Service Tester
Windows SharePoint Services: Usage Blob Parser
Metalogix - Migration tools for SharePoint and MCMS
ViewPoint - SharePoint navigation and modeling tool
SharePoint Utility Suite Release 2 and SPSiteManager 1.1
SMove for SharePoint
SharePoint analyzer - Gathers information about a SharePoint configuration - Created by Mike McIntyre, an Escalation Engineer in PSS, and is used extensively by PSS in troubleshooting customer issues
SharePoint Explorer (IE Addin)
InfoPath
CaveDigital XML Form WebPreviewer Web Part- allows users without InfoPath to view the contents of forms on their web browser.
AchieveForms
InfoView
NetXPert InfoScope
InfoJet EditPart for SharePointEdit your InfoPath forms from within your browser
WebParts
Acar Learning Technologies - Poll webpart for SharePoint, Quiz webpart for SharePoint
CSEG Rollup webpart
FluidNature image webpart
Calendar webpart
My ChangePasswordControl Webpart for Sharepoint
Office Live meeting webparts
Cave Digtal XML Form webprevriewer webpart
SharePoint FAV 1.1
High availability & replication
Neverfail for SharePoint- Replication, switchover, failover and switchback for SharePoint
DoubleTake
Echo for SharePoint
Business Intelligence & Reporting
DSP Portal Edition : Adds webparts which can display information from OLAP cubes
Omnisys Power Gauge - displays measurements based on various types of data sources, using dynamic and configurable gauges.
Crystal Reports SPS integration kit
BI Portal
SQL Server 2000 report pack for SPS
Miscellaneous
Brightwork: adds MSF (Microsoft Solution Framework) on top of SharePoint
Ratings & expert module for SharePoint
K-Wise - Migration tools
Factiva Modules to integrate news sources into your WSS/SPS (Factiva is a Dow Jones & Reuters company)
Advis site navigator Navigation and UI enhancements
Omnisys Probability Impact Matrix webpart - based on WSS risk list from Project Server 2003
CAHSAL ecKnowledge
KnowledgeLake Connect
Offline/Mobile Portal capabilities
Digilink revelation Lets mobile users synchronise offline information with SPS and WSS
IORA Another solution for offline SharePoint usage
Groove - software firm that Microsoft acquired a couple of months ago, they sell amongst other Mobile workspace for SharePoint
BerryPoint - Adapts SharePoint for display on Blackberry
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SharePoint toolsuites
rollup webparts (for news,documents,tasks,...), navigation controls and full language localization (This is way cool...)
replication technologies for SharePoint, bulkloader, audit for SharePoint,...
My Team OrgChart WebPart, Bulk upload
Search
SharePoint to index Documentum, Opentext,...
some other nice SharePoint tools, check out PowerRecycle and PowerNav
MCMS (Microsoft Content Management Server)
Backup/Data Recovery/Antivirus
Workflow
Document, Records and Digital Assets Management
features needed to be compliant with standards such as Sarbanes-Oxley, US DOD 5015.2 records management standards,...
Utilities & developer tools
InfoPath
WebParts
High availability & replication
Business Intelligence & Reporting
Miscellaneous
Offline/Mobile Portal capabilities
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Saturday, August 27, 2005
Link cleanup
I just cleaned up some of the links I pasted in my OneNote - here's a list with some of them which are definitely worth a visit:
SharePoint BlogSearch
InfoPathDev
SharePoint Workflow libraries (Gotdotnet)
IISADMPWD Virtual Directory Is Not Created During a Default Install of IIS 6.0
On transforming WordML to HTML again
VS.Net Teamsystem presentations
Creating a serialization library for sharepoint lists using generics
How to provide self-service password management for SharePoint
Building webparts in ASP.Net 2.0
Ajax was here - autocomplete textbox
Preview of WSS templates
3-part article about CSS showcases
[Listening to: On a Plain - Nirvana - Nevermind (03:16)]
GDI+ FAQ
A couple of days ago I had to write some code to page through multipage tiff files - luckily I found the answers I needed on the GDI+ FAQ from Bob Powell. He also has a XML feed to which you can subscribe.
GDI+ is the graphics system most often associated with Windows Forms and is a more modern replacement for GDI. This frequently asked questions list contains articles and code that will help you to understand the ins and outs of GDI+.
GDI+ is the graphics system most often associated with Windows Forms and is a more modern replacement for GDI. This frequently asked questions list contains articles and code that will help you to understand the ins and outs of GDI+.
[Listening to: Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana - Nevermind (05:01)]
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
BIWUG - Benelux Information Worker User Group
Quite an impressive showup yesterday at the first meeting of BIWUG - here are some of them with their blogs....
Jan Tielens
Patrick Tisseghem
Hannes Decorte
David Bosschmans
... and many more. Weird enough not everyone seems to have a blog ;-)
The overall goal of the BIWUG is to provide the IW community in Belgium and Luxemburg with the necessary infrastructure and organization to enable a community meeting point for everybody who is interested in Microsoft?s Information Worker technology. A lot of community activities are happening already in Belux in the context of blogs, informal meetings, events organized by Microsoft or partners. BIWUG wants to formalize these activities and become the single point of entry for the Belux IW community to the outside world.
For more info, check out the (temporary) SharePoint site, where you can read a lot more about the things we are planning to do. You can also vote about the new logo. If you are interested do not hesitate to subscribe.
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... and many more. Weird enough not everyone seems to have a blog ;-)
The overall goal of the BIWUG is to provide the IW community in Belgium and Luxemburg with the necessary infrastructure and organization to enable a community meeting point for everybody who is interested in Microsoft?s Information Worker technology. A lot of community activities are happening already in Belux in the context of blogs, informal meetings, events organized by Microsoft or partners. BIWUG wants to formalize these activities and become the single point of entry for the Belux IW community to the outside world.
For more info, check out the (temporary) SharePoint site, where you can read a lot more about the things we are planning to do. You can also vote about the new logo. If you are interested do not hesitate to subscribe.
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Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Drag&drop from Outlook 2003 to SharePoint 2003 document library
If you switch a SharePoint document library to explorer view, you can take an email from within Outlook 2003 and drag & drop it immediately inside the document library. There are however some things to watch out for:
The file name will be based on the subject in the e-mail message, so if this contains invalid characters you will receive an error
I have only seen it working on clients with Windows XP SP2 with Outlook 2003 SP1 - we tried it on a Windows 2000 Professional which also had Outlook 2003 SP1 and this did not work
Make sure the WebClient service is running on the client
Does anybody have more experience with it or can anybody explain why it doesn't work on the Windows 2000...
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Does anybody have more experience with it or can anybody explain why it doesn't work on the Windows 2000...
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[Listening to: Boys Don't Cry - The Cure - Greatest Hits [Bonus CD] Disc 2 (03:04)]
Monday, August 15, 2005
Error loading image in picturebox
I got a most peculiar error last week when running a C# Windows forms project. This project contained a windows form with a picturebox for which I changed the image property to a specific image file. The error was triggered by this line this.pictureBox1.Image = ((System.Drawing.Image)(resources.GetObject("pictureBox1.Image"))); and said
"Additional information: Could not find any resources appropriate for the specified culture ( or the netrual culture ) in the given assembly. Make sure PortalCreator.resources was correctly embedded or linked in to thassembly Dolmen.SharePoint.Tools.PortalCreator"
The problem seemed to be caused because I defined an enum in the code file before the PortalCreator class. This caused the wizard generated code in InitializeComponent() to fail. So always make the form class the first class in the file.
"Additional information: Could not find any resources appropriate for the specified culture ( or the netrual culture ) in the given assembly. Make sure PortalCreator.resources was correctly embedded or linked in to thassembly Dolmen.SharePoint.Tools.PortalCreator"
The problem seemed to be caused because I defined an enum in the code file before the PortalCreator class. This caused the wizard generated code in InitializeComponent() to fail. So always make the form class the first class in the file.
[Listening to: Kinderfeld - Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar (04:54)]
Add MSN Messenger presence within your blog
This is a very cool tip from Mark Kruger - Add MSN Messenger Presence Within Your Blog or Any Plain HTML Page
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Thursday, August 11, 2005
Using FrontPage RPCs and SharePoint
If you really want to learn about FrontPage Server Extensions RPCs and SharePoint, you should take a look at the code for SharePad on GotDotnet. I have used it in a project and have extended it a little bit. This is definitely an excellent resource for everybody. Underneath is the code I added to create a folder in a SharePoint document library.
/// <summary> /// Creates a folder in a document library, if the folder already exists no error occurs /// </summary> /// <param name="destinationUri"></param> /// <param name="sFolderName"></param> public void CreateUrlDirectory(string destinationUri, string sFolderName) { WebUrl webUrl = UrlToWebUrl(destinationUri);
System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection methodData = new System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection();
// Add general request to stream methodData.Add("method","create url-directory:" + GetServerExtensionsVersion(webUrl.SiteUrl)); methodData.Add("service_name",""); //e.g. postin/demosubfolder creates demosubfolder in documentlibrary postin //parentfolders have to exist before creating a child folder methodData.Add("url",sFolderName); methodData.Add("executable","false");
HttpWebRequest req = StartWebRequest(GetAuthorURL(webUrl.SiteUrl), methodData); System.IO.Stream reqStream = req.GetRequestStream(); reqStream.Flush(); reqStream.Close();
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse(); string sResponseString = GetResponseString(response); //Debug.Write(sResponseString);
}
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