Tobias Zimmergren's thoughts on development

SharePoint Forum and SharePoint Forum Web Part

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:00:53 GMT

A lot of people have been bugging me about the Discussion Forum WebPart I've created for SharePoint (WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 alike, of course). Therefore, I decided to give you some update as to what's going on. First of all... The main reason for me being a little more passive with the blog the la ... (More)

Screencasting software

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:22:00 GMT

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, s ... (More)

U2U CAML Query Builder - New version out

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:10:00 GMT

I just read Karine Bosch's blog where she posted some news on the U2U CAML Query Builder, so I just ought to get your attention in that direction. Check the detailed updates out in Karine's blog: http://www.u2u.info/Blogs/karine/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=d35935e0%2D8c0e%2D4176%2Da7e8%2D2ee90b3c8 ... (More)

What browser do you use?

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:09:28 GMT

I was reviewing the logs from the stat-counters on my blog and to my surprise I found out that almost 20% of all the readers are using Internet Explorer 4.01. - In my opinion that product doesn't even exist anymore ;) Simple stats from my counters, converted to percentage: Internet Explorer < 4 ... (More)

Infrastructure updates for MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:20:00 GMT

Technorati Tags: WSS, MOSS, SharePoint, Infrastructure, Updates As some of you might already know, Microsoft released their infrastructure updates to MOSS and WSS yesterday (2008-07-15). Instead of yabbing along here about the actual updates, I'm simply going to provide you with links to the dow ... (More)

SharePoint's hidden user-list - User Information List

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:03:00 GMT

Okay, this might not come as news to most SharePoint developers who've been around a while, but lately I've been messing with the User Information List in SharePoint and it doesn't seem that many people know that it exists. Note: This list is only visible to and accessible by administrators. Use ... (More)

Back on track

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:39:00 GMT

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 o ... (More)

SharePoint Virtual Images from Microsoft

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 17 May 2008 08:49:00 GMT

WSS 3.0 SP1 Virtual Disk Tonight at 08:23 Microsoft released the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 virtual disk with Visual Studio pre-installed. You can find the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 here MOSS 2007 Virtual Disk Most of you probably already know that there's an image out for ... (More)

Forum WebPart, Egypt and new litterature

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 16 May 2008 21:49:00 GMT

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 current ... (More)

How To: Easily construct your CAML queries with CAML Query Builder

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 05 May 2008 12:19:00 GMT

This post is a mere followup to my previous minor posts on the subject of SPQuery and SharePoint queries located here. Basically this post will provide step-by-step instructions to construct your CAML (Collaborative Application Markup Language) queries using the U2U CALM Query Builder which you c ... (More)

Introduction to SharePoint Queries

Tobias Zimmergren — Sun, 04 May 2008 21:23:00 GMT

Prephase Recently I've been using SharePoint Queries more and more, not to say in my latest personal project: Zimmergren Forum WebPart. At times when I've been out at some clients to help them either refactor existing code or build new code, weather doing it myself of joining an existing SharePoi ... (More)

SPQuery returning all items

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:37:00 GMT

If you've ever used the SPQuery objects to get SPListItems from a SPList, and you didn't get it to work because the query would return ALL items in the SPList, you might have used code similar to this: SPQuery postsQuery = new SPQuery(); postsQuery.Query = string.Format( " ... (More)

"It's Silverlight, it's strong and tight, they got it right, try it tonight"

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:51:00 GMT

Over at Dan Wahlins blog you can listen to a new Silverlight song. Go check it out and relax to some sweet Silverlight music. - I know, I'm a geek.

SharePoint Forums WebPart : What's going on?

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:33:00 GMT

As a follow-up to my previous blogpost: "Forum Web Part for SharePoint" I thought I'd let you know the status of my personal pet-project. I've been getting alot of feedback regarding the Forum WebPart which is soon to enter it's beta-testing stage. Thanks for the feedback in terms of th ... (More)

Office Labs site launched - I urge you to check it out!

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:40:39 GMT

All I can say is, go check out "Office Labs" for yourself (click here). And by the way, DO check out the "Community Clips" section. It's awesome. That's all I had for now, back to coding some enhancements on the Forum WebPart which is coming along nicely... Just wish one had mo ... (More)

Forum Web Part for SharePoint

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:35:00 GMT

People have been requesting a better discussion forum functionality than the one in SharePoint by default. I took that request and made it into a new personal project of mine. Currently the forum looks like any forum you see on the web, but it's using- and is based entirely on SharePoint and the ... (More)

Italy next - arrivederci for now!

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:00:00 GMT

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.

Pingback/Trackback hell with EBE 2.0 Final

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:32:00 GMT

As many of you have noticed, I'm getting a whole lot of spam in my ping- and trackbacks - Enhanced Blog Edition for SharePoint is missing some kind of spam-check for the trackbacks. I will get to it to clear them out as soon as possible, but I'm going to Italy tomorrow and got tons of things to ... (More)

Tip: RequestAccessEnabled programatically using the SharePoint Object Model

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:15:33 GMT

I bumped into a strange problem today. It wasn't hard to solve, but worth mentioning. To manually enable the option to request permissions to the site, you do this from Site Actions - Site Settings - Advanced Permissions - Settings - Access Request. From that page you can specify if users should ... (More)

The attack of the RSS - Sorry

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:57:00 GMT

As I've been re-writing some (many) of the URLs in my blog people have been complaining that they got duplicate RSS entries. The URL re-write took about 20 minutes, under which period a total of 7 people sent me the comment that my RSS was fubar - Now it's fixed :) Thanks for tuning in, and ... (More)

CKS:Enhanced Blog Edition - Enable Search

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:37:00 GMT

The other day I started coding a custom searchfunctionality to use with the Community Kit for SharePoint's Enhanced Blog Edition (CKS:EBE) - which is what this blog is running on. However, while it would be fun and all to create a new custom search functionality for the EBE - someone beat me to i ... (More)

LINQ to SharePoint

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:29:00 GMT

For those of you who's new to LINQ (Language Integrated Query), here's a brief description: "General-purpose query facilities added to the .NET Framework apply to all sources of information, not just relational or XML data. This facility is called .NET Language-Integrated Query (LINQ). ... (More)

Stress Testing SharePoint Solutions with Visual Studio 2008

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:26:00 GMT

One of my pals, MVP Liam Cleary, posted a very interesting article on how to use Visual Studio 2008 to test the performance of your SharePoint Solution. I urge you to check his article out : http://www.helloitsliam.com/archive/2008/03/10/moss2007-testing-using-visual-studio-team-system-2008.as ... (More)

SharePoint-related blogs running on SharePoint and the Enhanced Blog Edition community kit

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:24:00 GMT

Since I just got my own blog up and running with the Enhanced Blog Edition kit (www.codeplex.com/cks), I thought that it'd be fun to compile a list of bloggers that run the EBE for SharePoint. For now it's not a very long and thrilling list, but hopefully it'll grow! If you've got a blog running S ... (More)

How To: Get up and running with the Silverlight 2.0 Blueprints for SharePoint 2007

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:41:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren I got a chance to finally try the blueprints out, and it works fine. It's a couple of steps on the way that needs to be performes, listed below. What you need to think about when setting it up is to make sure the following pre-requisities are installed on your Shar ... (More)

New Blog: WSS 3.0 SP1 + Win Server 2008

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:48:00 GMT

I just got this new blog up and running with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 on a Windows Server 2008 machine. It's running really smooth and I hope it will be just as good as the one before. Have a good day, and don't forget to hook up the new RSS-feed ( www.zimmergren.net/rss.xml )

Silverlight 1.0 seamless integration with SharePoint 2007 complete!

Zimmergren — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:30:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren Url: http://www.zimmergren.net Yep. It's me again... I managed to salvage most of the data from the bluescreen a couple of hours earlier (due to the persistent use of source control). I'll cover this topic more in details in one of the days to come, for now - this is ... (More)

Bluescreen of Death on my VPC

Zimmergren — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:30:00 GMT

I completed my integration project with Silverlight 1.0 and SharePoint 2007 - which doesn't requiry any configuration on your server, except to install my Web Part with the .wsp solution. But... Instead of giving you a nice guide on how to implement and integrate Silverlight, Microsoft gave me ... (More)

MOSS 2007: Creating a custom AJAX UserControl that will query the SharePoint Search Query Object Model to perform searches

Zimmergren — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:15:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren Url: http://www.zimmergren.net If you've read my last two blogposts you already know how to configure ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX for your SharePoint Server and how do deploy a UserControl that uses AJAX functionality on you SharePoint Server. You can find my previous articles ... (More)

SharePoint Cross List Queries in a custom UserControl

Zimmergren — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:00:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren Url: http://www.zimmergren.net I got the question last week weather it's possible to get items from all lists of gathered and displayed on one page. This is - like most things - possible in SharePoint without any greater efforts. With som ... (More)

Silverlight (2.0) Blueprints for SharePoint

Zimmergren — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:05:00 GMT

Author: Tobias ZimmergrenUrl: http://www.zimmergren.net Hi people, been really busy the last couple of weeks and havn't had the time to answer your mails nor write any new blogposts. However, I just felt that I needed to get this link out there for you guys to check out in case you havn't alrea ... (More)

Windows Live Alerts - Now on your blog or website

Zimmergren — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Author: Tobias ZimmergrenUrl: http://www.zimmergren.net I just read a post by Michael Gannotti which was about the new features from Windows Live. Now you can use Alerts on your blog/website so people can register/sign up to receive alerts when you make changes or adds new posts to your blog. R ... (More)

Get a Web based Windows Live Messenger application on your blog or website

Zimmergren — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:14:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren Url: http://www.zimmergren.net Short post! I just bumped into this feature of the Windows Live Messenger application which enables you to actually add a web-based messenger to your site or blog. Check out http://settings.messenger.live.com/applications/websettings.as ... (More)

MOSS 2007: Using AJAX UserControls in SharePoint

Zimmergren — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:16:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren Url: http://www.zimmergren.net This post merely shows you how you can use the AJAX functionality in SharePoint by using UserControls. What we need to be able to follow the steps in this article Have installed ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX 1.0 Extensions (Download here) Con ... (More)

MOSS 2007: Add support for AJAX in your SharePoint installation

Zimmergren — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:02:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren Url: http://www.zimmergren.net In this very short and straight-on post I'll just mention how you can configure your SharePoint installation to enable support for ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 since a lot of people have been asking me about it. Before we make any changes in ... (More)

Update to what's going on

Zimmergren — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:21:00 GMT

Cheers and thanks for the mails and comments regarding the Silverlight/SharePoint integrations. I've been getting some good feedback and assistance along the way. The next step I need to do is get the VPCs back up running and make some final touches and then start taking screenshots and try to rem ... (More)

Busy busy busy + new laptop :)

Zimmergren — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:12:00 GMT

As you may have noticed, I'm rather busy these days and have little time to blog. At the moment I'm working on a mediumsized CommunityServer-based project for a large multinational corporation (not allowed to disclose anymore info ;)) I'm receiving my new personal laptop today (2.0GHz dualcore 64 ... (More)

Silverlight and SharePoint integration

Zimmergren — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:20:00 GMT

I'm writing this post as a question/survey and want to know if there's any interest in actually posting a blog on some different integration-possibilities with SharePoint and Silverligt. I've created a couple of smaller projects that uses SharePoint's exposed webservices to create a nice Silverli ... (More)

Silverlight with Ian Blackburn

Zimmergren — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:20:00 GMT

I'm on the train right now with two of my colleagues, heading to Stockholm to attend a Silverlight course held by Mr. Ian Blackburn himself. I'll be sure to post some interesting stuff about Silverlight and SharePoint integration soon, as I've made a couple of integrations the past couple of days ... (More)

MOSS 2007: Customize the Search Result (using XSLT) - Part 3 - Customize using SharePoint Designer 2007

Zimmergren — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:17:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren Url: http://www.zimmergren.net After being rather busy the last couple of weeks due to taking the SharePoint Certifications as well as tutoring some MOSS 2007 Development around the country it has finally begun to lighten up again. Being the geeky nerd that I am (Yeah ... (More)

All certifications passed successfully - Let's get on the blogging-train again!

Zimmergren — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:17:00 GMT

As some of you know, I've been rather absent the last couple of weeks and not really replied to mails and comments in the blog. This is because I've concentrated on taking the SharePoint certifications, aswell as being out in the country (Sweden) and consulting. I hereby proudly let you know tha ... (More)

MOSS 2007: Configure Document Conversion for your server

Zimmergren — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:16:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren Url: http://www.zimmergren.net I recently bumped into a challenge where I had to make it possible for people to convert their Word, Excel, InfoPath or other documents to a web page for display in your SharePoint 2007 installation. After a few minutes of informationgath ... (More)

MOSS 2007: Customizing the Search Results Page (XSLT) - Part 2 - Add highlighting

Zimmergren — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 20:16:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren Url: http://www.zimmergren.net In one of my previous blogposts I wrote about how you easily could alter the XSLT of a the Search Core Results Web Part on your Search Results Page in order to achieve a customization to the presentation of the output. In this article I ... (More)

MOSS 2007: Connect a custom Search Page to a custom Search Scope

Zimmergren — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 20:15:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren Url: http://www.zimmergren.net The other day I got a comment on a post from one of my readers who wanted to know how you can connect your custom created Search Page with a specific Search Scope. Create a custom Search Page Navigate to your Search Center (http://yo ... (More)

MOSS 2007: Customize the Search Result (using XSLT)

Zimmergren — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:15:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren Url: http://www.zimmergren.net Since people have been bugging me to get started with the blogging again, I guess I should just take their advice and get to it. This blogpost will cover the basics of customizing your search results-page using XSLT. I will in a later ... (More)

Back from the Mediterranean

Zimmergren — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:14:00 GMT

I was out sailing for the last week, in the mediterranean. One of the best vacations I've had in a long time really. We (two friends of mine and me) sailed from southern Mallorca (Palma) to france (st. Tropez and Antibe) with alot of stops on the way along the Mallorca and Minorca coastlines :) I ... (More)

Less time than I thought..

Zimmergren — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:11:00 GMT

Having less time over during the evenings this week at the hotel than I thought I'd have.. Conclusion is - as you have noted - that I'm a bit slow on the blogging. However, I've got some nice ideas that I will be blogging about soon after I return home. Check in soon!

Great News - SharePointBlogs.com post-backups

Zimmergren — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:11:00 GMT

Edit: After a search through the database, I found out that there isn't as many SharePointBlogs-posts as I had hoped. However I've managed to get a great bunch of posts recovered to some bloggers through mail and MSN. So after all, it wasn't all in vain =)Lastly: Keep up the good work Dustin. Ori ... (More)

Role-Based Templates for SharePoint My Sites

Zimmergren — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:11:00 GMT

*sigh* - I just finished a blogpost about the above title, and when I pasted a link in the texteditor, my browser crasched. That said, I'm going to make this short, I don't want to re-write it =). Visit: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA102147321033.aspx for information on t ... (More)

Going to Gothenburg again - Informator

Zimmergren — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:10:00 GMT

The upcoming week I'll be attending the T2742-course at Informator in Gothenburg. I will personally tutor this course myself later on this year, but right now I am attending it so I can get a good look on how to prepare for it and structure it. I'll have some time to kill since there's going to ... (More)

Simple Excel Services - Step by step, publishing a spreadsheet to SharePoint 2007

Zimmergren — Wed, 09 May 2007 20:10:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren Url: http://www.zimmergren.net In this post I will briefly describe how you can connect your excel spreadsheet to a SharePoint list using Excel Services. I will not go into any details as to what Excel Services is, how you get it online or what the great uses are. I w ... (More)

Zimmergren VSTO Tip #1: Extend the Ribbon-menu in Word 2007

Zimmergren — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:09:00 GMT

In this Visual Studio Tools for Office I will walk you through how to make a very simple customization to the Word 2007 (or any of these: Visio, PowerPoint, InfoPath, Outlook or Excel) Ribbon-menu and add our own button with some code to execute when it's pressed. Basically, what you need to do ... (More)

Zimmergren MOSS 2007 Tip #4: Extending the "Site Actions" menu with a custom feature

Zimmergren — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:08:00 GMT

In this little tip I will show you how you can customize the "Site Actions" menu by creating a Feature to manipulate the menu and deploy it to your SharePoint site. This post, as the previous in the series is just an overview of what can be done and will not be discussed in detail how ... (More)

Zimmergren MOSS 2007 Tip #3: Publishing and displaying an InfoPath form in the browser

Zimmergren — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 20:08:00 GMT

In this little tip I'm creating a Sample InfoPath form to be published to my Forms Library on my site and then opened within the browser when you want to edit/update the form. This is a sampleform from InfoPath: Bring up the Design Checker (Tools - Design Checker), make sure you don't have a ... (More)

Zimmergren MOSS 2007 Tip #2: Retrieve stuff by code

Zimmergren — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:07:00 GMT

This is by no means meant to be anything other than a small tip on how to interact with the object model. If you need more information on how to interact and code with the object model, drop me a comment. But for now this is just to show you guys out there who havn't done any coding with SharePoin ... (More)

Zimmergren MOSS 2007 Tip #1: Anonymous Access

Zimmergren — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 20:07:00 GMT

This is the first post I'm making in a series of small "how-to's" and "aha!"-posts. It will be basic stuff that you often want to know, and why not write them down here instead of in a hidden document that I'll forget about.. Today's tip is: Enabling Annonymous Access to your ... (More)

I am Superman too! [Take the quiz]

Zimmergren — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 20:09:00 GMT

I saw in Liam's blog ( http://www.sharepointblogs.com/helloitsliam ) that he took the Superhero-test. It's been going around the office for a long time, and I just had to take it again. (Last time I was Wonder Woman... Dang) Your results:You are Superman Superman 85% Rob ... (More)

The final 20 Application Templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Zimmergren — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:07:00 GMT

At last! Many of you already tried the first 20 application templates (Site Admin-templates), while the other 20 were just released (Server Admin-templates). "Site admin templates are custom templates that are easy for any SharePoint site administrator to install into the template gallery wi ... (More)

Virtual PC 2007 availible for download!

Zimmergren — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:06:00 GMT

You've probably seen this in a bunch of other blogposts already, but if you havn't: It's time for an upgrade of those horrible VPC's ;) Go get VPC 2007 from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx Quoted from the Microsoft website:"Use Microsoft Virtual PC ... (More)

Estimated release timeframes for SharePoint 2007 Language Packs!!

Zimmergren — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:04:00 GMT

"One of the most frequently asked questions about SharePoint that we've received since RTM is, "Where is the [this] or [that] Language Pack?" While we still cannot provide exact dates due to variables in our localization and release management processes for different languages, I' ... (More)

Configure aliases for your web-applications in MOSS 2007

Zimmergren — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:04:00 GMT

Alias?Alias! Say your web-server is named myServer1 and you want users to access it via the browser with http://companyintranet instead.What you need to do is � obviously � change in the DNS so that the address myServer1 points to companyintranet, but you also need to make some configurations in t ... (More)

I am Outlook 2007! Try the quiz :)

Zimmergren — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:04:00 GMT

Apparently I am Outlook 2007 according to this fun little quiz :) "Connecting with people is the key to your happiness and success. Your outgoing, action-oriented personality is something everyone who knows you can count on. You have the information at your fingertips - whether it is a dat ... (More)

I've had little time to blog, sorry

Zimmergren — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:03:00 GMT

As you can see it's more than a month ago since my last post, and that post promised a few posts to come from the course in .DK. However I've been really busy (70h/week). But now it has started to clear out and I can once again see the horizon. This time I promise that I will post something inte ... (More)

SharePoint 2007 - Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Solutions

Zimmergren — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 20:02:00 GMT

I am currently in Denmark (Hellerup) at a u2u course by Patrick Tisseghem on SharePoint 2007 held by Jan Tielens. It is a 5-day course, and I will get you some juicy details when the course is over. Course details: http://www.u2u.net/CoursePage.aspx?CODE=UO12W Cheers

A reflection tool for SP 2007, SharePoint Inspector

Zimmergren — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:01:00 GMT

The last couple of days I havn't came across anything interesting to blog about, since I've been busy with alot of other projects. However, I recently stumbled into a blogpost linking to an application called SharePoint Inspector, which is described below. Quote from the author: (This tool can be ... (More)

WSS v3.0: Import an ASP.NET Web Part to your Windows SharePoint Services Site

Zimmergren — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:57:00 GMT

It is possible to use your ASP.NET web parts in your Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) application simply by exporting them to create .webpart files. .Webpart files are simply XML files that contains property values, state data, assembly or source file details about your Web Part (WP). In order to ... (More)

Common Page and Site Customization Tasks (MOSS 2007)

Zimmergren — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:56:00 GMT

Check this MSDN site/article out. Summarizes alot of information about customizing your pages and sites :) These topics are covered:How to: Customize NavigationHow to: Create a Minimal Master PageHow to: Customize Page Editing Toolbar ComponentsHow to: Add a Button to the HTML Editor Field Contro ... (More)

MOSS 2007: Search and Indexing

Zimmergren — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 19:55:00 GMT

In this post I will show you how to configure search by creating a content source that should be indexed and a search scope to limit the results when searcing. I will also show you how to customize the Search Center and adding a tab with a custom search and search results page. I will walk you ... (More)

T2617 - Introduction to SharePoint 2007

Zimmergren — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:54:00 GMT

Monday through wednesday (today) I went the T2617 course held by Göran Husman, Sweden's only MVP in sharePoint. The overall impression was great, and my thanks goes out to Göran who did a great job as the tutor. I will in my upcoming post(s) describe some of the subjects covered, and what that re ... (More)

What's new in WSS 3.0 and SharePoint Server 2007

Zimmergren — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:53:00 GMT

This afternoon I was at a SharePoint 2007 Seminar held by Cornerstone (www.cornerstone.se) and led by Patrik Holsti. It was a good seminar which covered a lot of cool stuff in the new versions. The reason why I say versions as plural, is because Patrik clearly separated WSS 3.0 and SharePoint ... (More)

Creating a custom Master Page for your MOSS 2007 portals and sites

Zimmergren — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:53:00 GMT

When I first started discovering Master pages I didn't know where to start and what would be needed in order for a basic and as minimalistic master page as possible to work. I gathered information to be able to make myself a minimal masterpage which would be the startingpoint of my upcoming cus ... (More)

What are Master Pages and why would you use them?

Zimmergren — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:51:00 GMT

One concept we tend to see alot in the new version of SharePoint ( MOSS2007 ) are Master Pages. Most of you probably already know what a master page is, but for those of you who don't I will try to give an explanation here. A Master Page is a file with the extension *.master which basically ... (More)

Welcome to my new blog

Zimmergren — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 19:50:00 GMT

This is my very first blogpost at here and it will certainly not be the last one. Hope you enjoy my future additions. - Tobias