Today, in one of my occasional manual visits to Windows Update, I was offered the Office 2003 SP3 important update, but I am running Office 2007. My guess is that because I upgraded from Office 2003 that some widget or another is still around that makes Windows Update want to offer SP3 to me. Methinks…
Interesting post about some upcoming enhancements to Live Maps. From what I’ve been able to glean, these enhancements should be available on October 16th (or so). Think of this: pretty soon you will be able build a Popfly mashup that shows a map of your recent trip with your route highlighted, with clickable pushpins that…
While trying to solve an unrelated problem (Why can’t I have a Rich Text column that works right in a Document Library in SharePoint?!?!? More on that later…), I ran across this great post on Keith Bunge’s blog (Click Mice, Unclick Mice): Data View Web Parts bound to List Names. By binding your Data View…
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…