My most popular SharePoint posts of 2009

Author: Tobias Zimmergren
http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren

Introduction

As per requests, I have put together a small list of my post popular and most read blog posts of 2009.

All in all, the year of 2009 was awesome - and we've only got even more awesome things to look forward to in 2010.

But to get on with it, here's my "Top 10 Most Popular SharePoint Posts" of 2009!

My Top 10 Most Popular SharePoint Posts - 2009

MOSS 2007: Getting Started with the Business Data Catalog

Related: Write your first BDC Web Part

WSPBuilder - Walkthrough of the Visual Studio Add-in
Introduction to SharePoint Online
SharePoint Online - Customization
SP 2010: Getting started with the Client Object Model
Although this was very recently posted, it has gained a lot of popularity and is quickly moving up the list of most read posts.
Recover/Fetch your Application Pool Password
How To: SharePoint and Silverlight - Part 1
Upload a document to a SharePoint Document Library programmatically (SharePoint Object Model)
Debugging your code execution for anonymous users in SharePoint
10 Free SharePoint Themes - Visual Overview

Summary

A very short list of the most viewed articles I wrote in 2009. There's plenty more of course, but to keep it short and concise I chose to go with the Top 10 as requested :-)

There's also another cool way to keep track of popular posts in the SharePoint community, and that's using PostRank. Visit this URL: http://www.postrank.com/topics/sharepoint and you'll be presented with popular blogs about SharePoint where you can easily find new content to read.

As for 2010, we've got some really fancy stuff to look forward to - and I've written a few posts about SharePoint 2010 to cover some of the new aspects for developers. Keep an eye out for them.

Enjoy this simple post. I'm still on vacation, so I'm not going to be much elaborate than this ;-)

Published: Jan-04-10 | 4 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Announcing TOZIT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren
URL: http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com

Note: Generally I don't like to "promote" things in my blog, rather staying objective. But this is too good not to mention - so bear with me a couple of minutes while you read through this post ;-)

TOZIT is born

After many years in the IT business it is with great pride I am now announcing TOZIT. This business has been running for a couple of years and was in the beginning of 2009 renamed to TOZIT.

TOZIT has a main focus on Microsoft technologies with a strong love for SharePoint and .NET techniques.

What we do

Consulting

SharePoint architecture, development, customizations and general implementations and solutions in projects that ranges from small to enterprise.
Implementations with project management, issue tracking, document management that follow ISO standards and a variety of other niches are some of the things we have done.
SharePoint consulting one of our main focus areas at TOZIT.

Training
- We conduct SharePoint and .NET training in various forms. With a close collaboration with one of the largest training centers in Scandinavia, we can make sure to meet any requirement the customers may have.
- Our Microsoft Certified Trainers make sure to deliver quality training.
Products / Custom development
- Building products on .NET and SharePoint technologies is something we have experience with, and love to do.

Partner network

TOZIT is collaborating with a few selected partners, making sure no assignment is too large to handle.

Contact information

To get in contact with us, please use the below details:

Web
http://www.tozit.com

E-mail
tobias@tozit.com

Visiting address:
TOZIT
Norra Vallgatan 20
SE-211 25 MALMÖ
SWEDEN

Published: Jun-14-09 | 13 Comments | 0 Links to this post

CKS EBE – Comments Manager

Author:	Tobias Zimmergren
Blog:	http://www.zimmergren.net

Introduction

<EDIT>
A new version of this tool can be downloaded [here]
Read more about the new version [here]
</EDIT>

I have been getting a few requests from people who've been getting quite a lot of spam in their Enhanced Blog Edition SharePoint blog, and who don’t currently have the ability to change any code or make adjustments. (They’ve got permissions to the system, but not to actually do anything like upgrade the assembly, add a nifty re-captcha validator or any other changes. They’re only allowed to do the “admin-stuff through the admin-interface”).

My quick and dirty solution was to provide them with a “Comments Manager” which basically is a Windows Application that will list all comments in the blog with a checkbox beside it. The “admin” can then check the desired (or, undesired..) blog comments and then kill them. This solution proved to be much faster than to do the same using the web browser using e.g. the tedious “Edit in datasheet view” option.

Note; This isn’t by far any cool application – it merely does what the few people want it to do, kill undesired comments with a better overview :)

Features

This light-weight application will do the following:

List all comments
- Comment Author
- Trimmed Body
- Background-coloring
  - Green for comments with status = “Approved”
  - Red for all other (Rejected and Pending)
Kill selected comments

Simple as that!

Comments Manager preview

Download

Download the CKS:EBE Comments Manager v1.1.0.0

If you have ideas or comments, or if it simply doesn’t work – leave a comment!
Better yet, leave a comment anyway! :)

Future additions

If required by the people using this simple app – the future versions could include

Comment status change [Approval status]
Use Web Services to connect to your SP site instead
Track- and linkback manager
etc. etc.

Technorati Tags: Microsoft, MOSS 2007, WSS, EBE, SharePoint, Download

Published: Oct-16-08 | 4 Comments | 0 Links to this post

I’m a Microsoft MVP

SharePoint MVP

I’ll keep this short, as I’m still rather stunned about this awesome news!

Yesterday after work I received some great news from Microsoft – I’ve been awarded the MVP award!

This means that we’re now two SharePoint MVP’s in Sweden. Göran Husman at HumanData and me!

Thanks to everyone for your support

About the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award

You can read about the award here: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/

“Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) are exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who are awarded for voluntarily sharing their high quality, real world expertise in offline and online technical communities. Microsoft MVPs are a highly select group of experts that represents the technical community's best and brightest, and they share a deep commitment to community and a willingness to help others.”

- Quoted from the Microsoft MVP site

Technorati-tags: MVP, Microsoft, Zimmergren, SharePoint

Published: Oct-03-08 | 29 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Going offline - Finally the vacation has arrived!

As you may have noticed, I havn't been really active here the last couple of weeks since I've been fully absorbed with a bunch of cool SharePoint projects lately. However, the time has come for me to go on a well-deserved vacation for 2 weeks. During that period, you will probably not hear a word from me.

When I'm back, I've got some cool ideas to blog about - see you then!

Perhaps a little bit of golf on Mallorca?

And, perhaps a whole lot of sun on Mallorca?

Published: Sep-04-08 | 13 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Microsoft Tech·Ed EMEA 2008 - Developer

Author: Tobias Zimmergren
http://www.zimmergren.net

(Get your TechEd EMEA 2008 Developer BLOG BLING from here)

Microsoft Tech·Ed EMEA 2008 Developers

Microsoft Tech·Ed EMEA 2008 Developers is the Microsoft premier technical education conference just for developers. For five days, you and more than 4,000 of your peers have countless opportunities to explore about the latest cutting-edge technologies from Microsoft.

Be a part of the experience
- Design a personalized schedule from 15 Technical Tracks and 3 Virtual Tracks
- Advance your development skills in one of more than 200 Breakout Sessions
- Go deep with Microsoft experts in one of more than 90 Interactive Sessions
- Take your time and drill down on a specific task with our Self Paced Hands-on Labs

Be a part of this year’s Tech·Ed EMEA 2008 Developers, 10-14 November 2008, in the CCIB, Barcelona, Spain.

For more information, check out the following:

- Is Tech·Ed EMEA 2008 Developers right for you? Learn who should attend.
- Why you can’t afford to miss Tech·Ed EMEA 2008 Developers. See the benefits of attending.

Tracks of interest

The most interesting tracks for me would probably be the following ones:

PDC Highlights
- The best highlights from PDC, presented at TechEd - Yay!
Office and SharePoint
- This is ofcourse nothing I can skip, as it lies so close to my heart!
  (It's sad, I know...)
- A good mix of different topics regarding SharePoint and Office will be covered
Business Intelligence
- Learn how to easily integrate, analyze, and report on all of your corporate data, using the Microsoft data platform, end-user tools, and analytics applications.

See you there?

If anyone is going to TechEd Barcelona this year (Developer tracks), please leave a comment. It would be great fun to meet some of the people I only meet "online" otherwise.

Leave a comment if you're showing up, and I might just buy you a beer once we're there!

Cheers.

Technorati Tags: TechEd, Microsoft, Events, PDC, Developer

Published: Aug-27-08 | 8 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Screencasting software

For those of you who're interested in recording some screencasts and video tutorials, I just ran across this blog: http://mashable.com/2008/02/21/screencasting-video-tutorials/

I wanted to post this as a bookmark to myself, and as a peak to those of you who's interested.

Some of them are free, some are commercial.

Published: Jul-30-08 | 2 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Back on track

I've been getting tons and tons of mail from people regarding the blog, Forum Webpart and my vacation during the last 3 weeks.

There has been quite a few things happening the last couple of weeks. Not only the awesome vacation I had in Egypt, but also moving into my new apartement.

Egypt

Hats off to Egypt, and to the people who recommended me to go there. It's an interesting place to visit, and there's plenty of souvenirs to buy if you're that kind of person (Like me). Part from just purchasing souvenirs the Red Sea is probably one of the best places in the world to dive and snorkel in. We went snorkling in the Red Sea and holy cow, it's awesome. Incredible-looking fishes swimming right next to you, almost checking you out as you dive around. It was like swimming straight into the Discovery Channel or a giant aquarium if you like.

New apartement

The other thing that has obsorbed most of my sparetime (blogtime, sharepoint-coder-time etc) is my new apartement which I moved into this weekend. If you've got your ways through Malmö (Down south in Sweden), you're welcome to pay me a visit for some never-ending SharePoint nerd talk and a beer or two.

SharePoint Forum WebPart

People have been bugging me lately about the SharePoint Forum WebPart, and getting a working version out there. As mentioned before, other things did get my focus the last couple of weeks - but now I'm back and I need your suggestions, which I'll leave the next blogpost for!

Thanks for tuning in, and please re-send any emails I might have accidentally sorted out during the crazy hours of mail-sorting the last couple of days ;)

Published: Jun-10-08 | 4 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Forum WebPart, Egypt and new litterature

UPDATE:
Please read the latest news about the Discussion Forum Web Part here:
http://www.zimmergren.net/archive/2009/09/01/tozit-sharepoint-discussion-forum-solution-for-wss-3-0-and-moss-2007-released-today.aspx

Enjoy!

Hi people. As many of you guys already know I'm off to Egypt for a well deserved vacation for 2 weeks now. I'll be back on track June 4th with lots of new material to blog about.

Here's a quick status of all things going on:

SharePoint Forum WebPart

The SharePoint Forum WebPart that I'm currently developing is shaping up, but there's still things that needs to be take care of before I can throw it into the wild. I was hoping to get it out as a beta already, but more prioritized things came up and I had to postpone it a few days.

I promise to get it up and running as soon as I'm back from the pyramids!

Inside the Index and Search Engines: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

I purchased MVP Patrick Tisseghem and Lars Fastrup's latest book, Inside the Index and Search Engines which will cover a lot of the ground when it comes to enterprise search. I've started to read it a bit now, and it's quite well written with many good samples. This will be the only litterature I'm bringing on my vacation to Egypt on monday ;)

Egypt - I'm off for a 2 week vacation by the pyramids

On monday I'm going to Egypt and I'll stay there for 2 weeks on a well deserved vacation. As aforementioned, I'll take on the "inside the index and search engines"-book while down in Egypt during some "lazy hours" and will probably have some nice feedback regarding this book when I'm back.

See you around

See you around when I'm back, with even more material on different topics regarding SharePoint.

Keep up the good work people, and I'll just sip some Mojitos, Egyptian Whiskey and eat some good food for the next two weeks.

Published: May-16-08 | 36 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Italy next - arrivederci for now!

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.

Published: Apr-10-08 | 1 Comment | 0 Links to this post

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