So, now that SharePoint Designer is free, your first question is going to be how to prevent people from using it, right? Well, first, take a deep breath and sit back. It’s time to think about what you actually want to accomplish. SharePoint Designer is indeed totally free now. What this means is that any…
I’d heard the rumors, but now it’s apparently true: My favorite Microsoft development tool is now free. This seems like a shift in strategy for Microsoft, but they try to explain their reasoning in a Letter to SharePoint Designer Customers. If you follow my blog at all, you know that I think you can do…
We’re using our hosted WSS site for our Internet site, our Intranet, and our Client Extranet. This is a very cool use of WSS, IMHO. Not only do we have all of the great content management capabilities for our external site, but we have the team-based capabilities which we can use to interact with our…
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…
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…
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 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…
Every time I think I understand everything there is to know about CSS (I’m being very facetious), Heather Solomon blogs about something I had no idea about. Her latest trick is to use attribute selectors to change the formatting of specific types of Web Parts. This is another trick that is great for SharePoint but…