InfoPath Managed Form Templates Deployment Tool for SharePoint

I found this very useful tool for deploying an Infooath Manage Form Templates for SharePoint…

Check out this link

 

Free World Clock and Weather Web Part from Bamboo Solution

Show the date and time, weather and location for each of your offices…for free.

Wish it would snow without all the cold and icy mess? Your wish is granted! The Bamboo Solutions World Clock & Weather Web Part allows users to display local time and weather for selected major cities around the globe. This free Web Part allows you to: Show weather or clock by location with temperature, date, and time. Show temperature in celsius and/or fahrenheit. Show only date, time and location. Choose from analog or digital clock styles as well as colors. Change the font and font color of the date and time, temperature and location. Choose a date and time format. Show the country or province of a location. Arrange the weather or clocks vertically or horizontally. Show as many locations as you want with the option to scroll through each location.

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SharePoint Customization Best Practices (White Paper)

I found this site where it tackles SharePoint Customization Best Practices. There is a free white paper that you can download for your reading references.

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Have fun SharePointing!!!

 

SharePoint Development Tools

Just thought of sharing the development tools and utilities that I’m using for  SharePoint development.

Host: Windows 2003 R2 (64-Bit) -  This will allow me to maximize my RAM usage

Or

Windows 7 Beta 1 (64-Bit) - on-going experiment…. So far… So good

VM App:

MS VPC or VMWare - I use both…

VM:

Windows 2003 R2 (32-bit) – My VM development box

IDE:

Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite – Installed on my dev box

Branding Tools:

Office SharePoint Designer 2007 - I love using this tool for branding our SharePoint Portal.

Pain.Net – Free Image Editing Tools

InstantEye Dropper – Cool free apps for getting HTML, HEX, etc… colors

Extras:

VSeWSS 1.3 - Works on 64-bit flat form

MOSS 2007 SDK

WSS 3.0 SDK

TextPad

NewSID – A free tool from Microsoft that change the SID info of a computer specially when restoring or creating a different VM from a base image.

TreeSize – A free tool, yet powerful enough to tell where you precious hard disk space went. This is very useful if your having a hard disk space error (usually happens when creating a web application).

 

Announcing: Community Technology Preview of Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint v1.3

The Visual Studio extensions for SharePoint (VSeWSS) provide project templates for developers using Visual Studio 2008 to create, debug, package and deploy SharePoint projects including Web Parts, Data Lists, Content Types, Event Receivers, Templates, Modules and other SharePoint artifacts. The v1.3 release is an incremental release of the VSeWSS including top feature requests. It is an interim release for SharePoint Developers on the roadmap until Visual Studio 2010 is released with significantly improved SharePoint development tools as outlined here.

The Community Technology Preview (CTP) release is available here on Microsoft Connect where customers can also report any feedback they have. It is anticipated that all existing VSeWSS 1.2 projects will work with the CTP. The CTP is not supported by Microsoft Customer Support Services. You are encouraged to provide feedback through the Microsoft Connect site and to discuss the extensions on the SharePoint Development MSDN Forum.

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Windows 7 and SharePoint Development

Since Windows 7 Beta 1 was released, I’ve decided to install it on my laptop (Dell Precision M2400) and see how it will benefit me to use it as a SharePoint development environment. I’ve used the 64bit version to squeeze the juice out of my laptop’s RAM.  I’ll post a follow-up result of this experiment.

You can go to  http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/beta-download.aspx to download your copy.

 

 

Have Fun and happy SharePointing!!!

 

Yet another deserialization code for InfoPath Form

You can follow the steps for deserializing an infopath form into C# or VB.NET object at this link:

http://www.bizsupportonline.net/infopath2007/how-to-deserialize-infopath-form-object-c-sharp-visual-basic.htm

also you can use this approach for deserialization code:

Private Function GetExpenseData() As Expense

Dim expenseFrm As Expense
Dim serializer As New XmlSerializer(GetType(Expense))

Using stream As IO.Stream = workflowProperties.Item.File.OpenBinaryStream()
expenseFrm = TryCast(serializer.Deserialize(stream), Expense)
End Using

Return expenseFrm

End Function

 

Happy New Year and Sharepointing to all!!!

 

The fruit of being a SharePoint Addict

Materials and sources that brought me to this level:

• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Administrator’s Companion
• Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Inside Out
• Microsoft Windows Sharepoint Services Version 3.0 Inside Out
• MCTS: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Configuration Study Guide: Exam 70-630

Also, reading weblogs and blogs from MVP’s,  have a try-it-out attitude and the most important of all is PASSION.

 

Announcing the WSRP Toolkit for SharePoint (Free)

Today, we are excited to announce the release of the Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) Toolkit for Office SharePoint Server 2007.  The WSRP Toolkit for SharePoint provides sample code for producing WSRP conformant data from SharePoint lists and libraries.  External portal platforms (e.g. BEA AquaLogic Portal, IBM WebSphere Portal, SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal etc.) can then render SharePoint data natively through their WSRP consumer portlets.  The Toolkit is available now for download from the MSDN Code Gallery.