I’ve found that if you create a Web Part Connection between two Web Parts using the SharePoint UI, you cannot reliably remove the connection.  After you remove the connection, if you remove one of the connected Web Parts, you often get an error that SharePoint can’t find the identifier of the removed Web Part.  This…

Say you want to have a SharePoint site that displays all of the items in a list that were created this month, but also have an archive listing, like most blogs do.  There’s a neat trick that you can use to make this work. First, add a column to the items in your list called…

I’m just starting to work on a Web Service that will generate Word 2007 documents from a set of templates.  The inputs will be data from a SharePoint list. (More on that part of it when I get there.) As I began setting up the Web Service, I realized that the System.IO.Packaging and Microsoft.Office.DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Packaging assemblies…

Steve Lombardi at Microsoft has sent out a call for "My Hood" collections in Live Maps.  Apparently he is testing some cool new features for collections, and he needs about 1,000 of them to fiddle with.  Check out his blog post: New feature in Live Maps needs your help Technorati tags: Live Maps, collections

I was invited into the Windows Live Beta today.  If you are a member of http://connect.microsoft.com, you may also be eligible. The Windows Live Team invites you to be an extension of our development process by giving us feedback on our software before the rest of the world sees it. You’ll be helping us ensure…

There are two significant performance and reliability patches available for Vista that have not yet been released through Windows Update.  You can go and grab them from Microsoft’s site, though. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938979http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938194 I installed them today, and I think that I’m already seeing some improvements, specifically coming back from hibernation on my laptop.  Some Office apps…

I ran across a neat trick today to get navigation from My Site back to the main Site Collection.  From any Site Collection site, append the query string ?MySiteView=1 to the URL.  This will take you to your My Site, with the previous site displayed as a tab.  There is a drop down from that…

There is no way in native SharePoint to display all of the Site Collection’s users for a "FaceBook" type of application.  However, there is a slightly messy trick you can use to accomplish this. Add a Content Editor Web Part wherever you want to provide a link to the FaceBook and add the following link…