In a previous post, I talked about the problems that I was having getting emails on my iPhone when I was getting SharePoint alerts. I still haven’t figured out the issue, but here’s something I’m trying to solve it. My Exchange hosting provider recently pointed out that I had exceeded my quota, so I went…
Perhaps the news is a bit stale, but IE8 was released yesterday to the world. You can download it from the Internet Explorer site. It’s so new that the title of the page is still ‘Internet Explorer 7: Home Page’! I’ve posted a few things that I like about IE8; click on the IE8 tag…
In most cases, you won’t need to use them, but SharePoint exposes much through Web Services which can be used in DVWPs as Data Sources. The nice thing about the Web Services is that they let you get at things *about* site contents as well as the contents themselves. In other words, the meta-meta information. …
Today’s SharePoint Saturday here in Boston (Microsoft’s office in Waltham, actually) was a great success by my measure. I’m not sure how many people were there, but every session I went to was packed, the crowd was truly engaged, and the discussions were rich. Thanks to all who came to my session: Developing with SharePoint…
This is something that I’ve tried to solve many times and each time I’ve ended up doing something more complicated than I’ve needed to, but I knew would work. I finally bit the bullet and solved it the right way. Here’s the scenario: You have a primary list with many items in it One of…
My session at SharePoint Saturday Boston will be from 10:45 am – 12:00 pm on Developing with SharePoint Designer – The Middle Tier, Focus on Data View Web Parts (DVWP). Hope to see you there!
I loaded IE8 about a month ago and since then I’ve been getting the error below after I check in a page. First, the usual message that the page needs to be approved: If I choose ‘Yes’, I get the error: “A World Wide Web browser, such as Windows Internet Explorer, is required to use…
I’ve been watching my blog stats go up lately with a lot of hits from condron.us and alphainventions.com. I’ve done some research into both and I have a few opinions I’d like to share. (Note that you can see your blog hits here at WordPress by going to your Dashboard and then Blog Stats: currently…
I wanted to post a reminder that SharePoint Saturday Boston is coming up next Saturday, March 14, at the Microsoft offices in Waltham, MA. I’ll be doing a session entitled Developing with SharePoint Designer: The Middle Tier, Focus on Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) and talking about a lot of the techniques that you’ve seen…
Tip o’ the tam-o’-shanter to the folks over at Blog Kindle for letting us know that there’s a Kindle app for the iPhone. Take a look at the Kindle For iPhone and iPod Touch post. If you read my recent post about my new Kindle 2, you know that I mentioned that I wouldn’t be…