Matthew McDermott, MVP

General ramblings from a SharePoint MVP about SharePoint and Microsoft technologies related to collaboration, web content management and productivity.
Jul2

KB952698 and KB952704 Released

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.
1 Comment | Categories: Development, Web Publishing

 
Jun4

Professional SharePoint 2007 WCM Development

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.
0 Comments | Categories: Books, Development, MVP, Web Publishing

 
Apr6

Search XSL Samples on CodePlex

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.
2 Comments | Categories: Development, Search

 
Feb28

New release of WSS/MOSS SDK

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.
0 Comments | Categories: Development

 
Jan26

Sleepless in Dallas

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.
9 Comments | Categories: Development, Training, Web Publishing, Speaking Engagements

 
Dec25

Speaking at SPC 2008

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.
3 Comments | Categories: Development, Office 2007, Training, Speaking Engagements

 
Dec7

"Could Not Load Type" Error

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.
3 Comments | Categories: Development