Jul2
For those of you attempting to use Content Deployment in MOSS there has been a significant effort on the part of the folks at Microsoft to fix the many, many issues with the feature set. Content Deployment or Prime, is primarily used for publishing content from one site to another but has many other uses. The KB articles are here: WSS: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952698 MOSS: http://suppor...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Wednesday, 2 Jul 2008 05:59.
Jun4
I am very pleased to announce that Andrew Connell, MVP has released a book dedicated to the topic of Web Content Management Development. This book was a labor of love (you never hear that writing a book is easy…) by AC and a couple contributing authors like Spencer Harbar, Bob German, John Holliday and me. The content is great, here is a peek: Embarking on Web Content Management Projects ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Wednesday, 4 Jun 2008 08:02.
Apr6
I have created a project on CodePlex for sharing the XSL samples I have created in my search demonstrations. I have ideas for other samples that I will post as I have time to develop them. If anyone out there is interested in participating just download a sample so you can review how I documented the samples and then send me an example. If you have ideas but no time...I totally understand! Let me...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Sunday, 6 Apr 2008 08:21.
Feb28
The February version of the SharePoint SDK has been released! The notice is on the SharePoint Team Blog. As they say, while you are there update your Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint. ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Thursday, 28 Feb 2008 05:28.
Jan26
I just had the pleasure to present at the Sleepless in Dallas event. Contestants receive 8 hours of training in SharePoint and then are split into teams. The teams receive a challenge and then have all night to design, develop and present a solution using what they learned.
My presentation on SharePoint Master Pages and Page Layouts. I covered how to create and troubleshoot master pages. The ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Saturday, 26 Jan 2008 03:29.
Dec25
I am happy to announce that I will be presenting three topics at the SharePoint Conference 2008 in Seattle March 3-6.
Advanced Search Configuration and Management
Organizations intending to implement a search solution in SharePoint often approach this "technical problem" by asking "What do we need to index?". While this approach may yield results they are usually less th...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Tuesday, 25 Dec 2007 06:48.
Dec7
Recently I was working on a method to get a Flash file to read from a SharePoint list (more on that later…). I had a working solution, so I created my solution package and deployed it to our test servers. Rather than seeing my spiffy new application page (_layouts/catapult/spiffy.aspx) I received the following error:
"Could not load type."
Without going into all of the other solut...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Friday, 7 Dec 2007 06:27.