The Discussion Web Part in SharePoint has always been a bit quirky. It doesn’t act like most other discussion applications and can often confuse users. One specific confusing "feature" is this. When you start a discussion, the Subject is visible as a link in the Web Part. If you click on the Subject, the same site will…
Following the tip that my colleague Mauro Cardarelli posted in his blog, I still wasn’t seeing any flyouts on the navigation tabs. I fiddled with things for a while and finally figured out why. I needed to change a single navigation option to make things work. Say you have a site hierarchy like: Home |…
The Windows Live Writer team has released Beta 2 of the writer with the new features below. Of specific interest is support for SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) blogs. In fact, I’m using it to write this post! New Authoring Capabilities Inline spell checking Table editing Ability to add categories Page authoring for WordPress and TypePad Support…
UPDATE: I missed the fact that the Virtual Earth Recenter block allows me to set the zoom and altitude. Using that, there was no need to write any JavaScript at all to enable this mashup! I got access to the Popfly site and just built my first mashup. This is a very cool development platform,…
Very interesting blog post over at the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog from Mike Gannotti, a Microsoft Technology Specialist for SharePoint based in Raleigh, NC. entitled SharePoint and Popfly integration — yes, really! When I first heard about Popfly I wondered how it might work with SharePoint. The answer, as explained by Mike: very well! …
This may be a fairly obscure issue, but it seemed worth mentioning. If you use the Cisco VPN Client to access any networks and are planning to upgrade your PC from Windows XP to Windows Vista, you shouldn’t. As of version 5.0.00.0340, the VPN Client isn’t supported if you’ve done the upgrade. In my case,…
A while back I needed to figure out how to do this for a client project. Nothing in the MOSS documentation, and searching the Web proved fruitless until I ran across this post from Carsten Keutmann. Carsten has written a neat little SharePoint utility he calls SharePoint Manager 2007 that lets you get at many of…
Interesting post over at the Virtual Earth team’s blog about the launch today of Popfly. It’ll be fun to get my hands on the add-in for Visual Studio to take it for a spin. The tech world seems to be all caught up in Microsoft’s acquisition of aQuantive today. I hope the launch of Popfly…
When I’m working in SharePoint Designer, I frequently get the error messages below. In almost all cases, the list certainly still exists or the masterpage is still valid, and the error seems to mean nothing. I just click on OK and ignore it. Technorati tags: SharePoint Designer, error
Earlier this week, I was rebuilding a C# Web Service that I’ve been working on, and the changes that I was making weren’t "taking". That is, when I ran the new code, it was behaving like the old code. In addition, when I hovered over the breakpoints that I had set, I was getting the…