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SharePoint Slide Decks

Thanks to everyone who came along to our recent SharePoint event for developers.  I noticed that there are some problems with the download links for slide decks on the event page. I've copied all the slides, in PPT and PPTX format, to my Windows Read More

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Office SP1 including SharePoint SP1 - now released!

Service Pack 1 for all of the 2007 Microsoft Office products is now released.  You can download SP1 for various parts of the Office System... Office Suite SP1 Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 including SP1 (slipstream) Read More

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Microsoft CoffeeTalk - Exeter

We're trying hard to find new ways of reaching you, or at least making it easier for you to reach us, by travelling to more and more different parts of the country to speak about our technology.  One new initiative is the Microsoft CoffeeTalk. This Read More

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Another MSDN Nugget on WSS WebParts

I recently uploaded the third of my MSDN Nugget videos on building WebParts for WSS v3.  This time, we look at connectable webparts - that is, webparts that can expose data to others on the same page, and likewise consume data exposed by other webparts Read More

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When a WSS WebPart Depends on Other Files

When you've built a WebPart for WSS and you want to package and deploy it to a WSS server, you have to create a CAB file that contains your assemblies and a manifest.xml file.  See my MSDN Nugget here for full details.  But that only covers Read More

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New WSS v3 WebPart with Custom Editor Nugget

I just published a new MSDN nugget that shows how to add a custom editor to a WSS webpart so that users can configure complex properties of your webpart through the browser. You can find the nugget here, and download the sample code here.   Technorati Read More

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Virtual Earth Map in a SharePoint WebPart

I've posted some sample code here that shows how to display a VE map inside a WSS3 WebPart. There are a few interesting challenges that I had to overcome to make this work, and given time there are more challenges that could usefully be addressed.  Read More

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New MSDN Nugget on SharePoint Web Parts

I just published a Nugget that gives an introduction to building Web Parts for WSS 3, and then deploying your web part to a SharePoint server.  Again, if you're not aware of the MSDN Nuggets, see the full set here. Building and Deploying a Web Part Read More

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