Travis Lingenfelder
Travis is a Senior Lead Consultant for Catapult Systems and blogs about Microsoft technologies including SharePoint, but is passionate about all things relating to technology. Travis is a MCTS for SharePoint Server 2007 and 2010, application development and configuration.
Jul 312009

Interesting use of a Web Part

While working on a project I recently created a web part where I could specify a set of criteria and it would display hyperlinks to all site collections that matched.  The nice thing about this web part is that you get a list of site collections t ...[Read more]
Published: 7/31/2009  10:57 AM | 1  Comment | Categories: Development, PowerShell, SharePoint, Web Parts

Jul 292009

Advanced Data View Web Part Sorting, Grouping, and Filtering

The data view Web Part I must say is probably my absolute favorite thing Microsoft included with SharePoint. It also has some really nice filtering capabilities built-in. Most of us are probably familiar with the Sort and Group dialog that is pa ...[Read more]
Published: 7/29/2009  9:16 AM | 12  Comments | Categories: Development, SharePoint, Web Parts

Jul 272009

Presentation at SharePoint Saturday – Dallas

This weekend I made the 4 and a half hour drive up to Dallas for the SharePoint Saturday event.  This was the first SharePoint Saturday that I have attended and overall, I was really impressed.  I have to give Kudos to Eric Shupps for organizing ...[Read more]
Published: 7/27/2009  11:58 AM | 0  Comments | Categories: Development, Presentations, SharePoint

Jul 232009

Overview of Custom Field Types in WSS 3.0

Uses of Custom Field Types WSS 3.0 and MOSS have a rich set of field types that ship from Microsoft which can probably handle all of your needs.  There comes a time when you just want a little more though.  Allow me to introduce you to ...[Read more]
Published: 7/23/2009  8:43 PM | 3  Comments | Categories: SharePoint, Development