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Several very useful open source add-ons and tools for SharePoint recently released

When CodePlex, which is Microsoft's open source project hosting web site, launched almost 2 years ago, the SharePoint product group was one of its earliest promoters and adopters, and the Community Kit for SharePoint for which I was the founding contributor...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2008 8:34 PM by Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog

Filed under: Community Kit for SharePoint, Community, Developers, Source Code

Announcing the Community Kit for SharePoint: Enhanced Blog Edition 2.0 (CKS:EBE) final release!

I'm incredibly proud and pleased to announce that after 9 months of work (all volunteers!) and 2 very well received/tested beta versions, the final release of the Community Kit for SharePoint: Enhanced Blog Edition 2.0 is now available on the CKS...

Published Wed, Mar 03 2008 11:26 AM by Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog

Filed under: Web 2.0, Community Kit for SharePoint, Source Code, Social Computing, Enterprise 2.0

Community Kit for SharePoint: Enhanced Blog Edition reaches feature complete Beta 2 status!

When the Community Kit for SharePoint 2.0 pre-release was announced almost 4 months ago, the Enhanced Blog Edition stood out due to its innovative XSLT driven Modular Theme Framework (MTF), which enabled EBE themes to be easily packaged up and simply...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2007 9:57 AM by Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog

Filed under: Web 2.0, Community Kit for SharePoint, Source Code

Announcing Community Kit for SharePoint: Windows Live Authentication!

Ever since the Windows Live ID Web Authentication SDK was announced a couple of months ago, many people have asked when there would be a solution for WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007 to authenticate Windows Live ID users. Well, it didn't take long for Keith Bunge...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2007 4:29 PM by Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog

Filed under: Community Kit for SharePoint, Source Code, Administration, Extranet, Authentication

Announcing Community Kit for SharePoint: Virtual Earth Maps on SharePoint

Microsoft's Virtual Earth technology powers the maps on Live Search and many other web-based applications, but many people have wondered how to get VE maps to work on SharePoint. Several months ago, the SharePoint Designer team blogged about a way...

Published Sun, Oct 10 2007 6:45 AM by Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog

Filed under: Web 2.0, Community Kit for SharePoint, Mashup, Source Code

Announcing the Community Kit for SharePoint: Internet/Extranet Edition Forms-Based Authentication solution!

As many of you know, one of the best new features in WSS 3.0 (and consequently MOSS 2007) is the way it leverage's ASP.NET 2.0 to support for forms-based authentication or FBA along with the ability to support multiple authentication providers. Steve...

Published Sat, Oct 10 2007 10:41 AM by Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog

Filed under: Security, Community Kit for SharePoint, Community, Source Code, Administration, Extranet, Authentication

Announcing the CKS: World Clock and Weather web part

In February, we published a KB article about the discontinuation of the MSNBC web parts in the online Web Part gallery. Of these web parts, the one that displayed weather information was one of the most popular. Bamboo Solutions , a SharePoint ISV partner...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2007 4:29 AM by Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog

Filed under: Community Kit for SharePoint, Source Code

Community Kit for SharePoint 2.0 Pre-Release announcement

About 3 months ago, I pre-announced the kick-off of the Community Kit for SharePoint (CKS) 2.0 effort, and fairly quickly, over 20 volunteers signed up to help. After just 2 months of work (mostly on nights and weekends), the CKS team has accomplished...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2007 7:00 PM by Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog

Filed under: Web 2.0, Community Kit for SharePoint, Community, Source Code, Social Computing

"ChatterBox" persistent chat session for SharePoint

Have you ever wanted to have a persistent chat session right on your SharePoint team or collaboration site? It can be much easier and quicker for typing a message than SharePoint’s built-in Discussion Board. The ChatterBox web part provides an example...

Published Tue, May 05 2007 6:09 AM by Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog

Filed under: Community Kit for SharePoint, Developers, Collaboration, Source Code, AJAX

Understanding the SharePoint calendar and how to export it to iCal format

Introduction One of the challenges of accessing SharePoint calendars via the object model is that there are so many different types of events – normal events, all-day events, recurring events, recurrence exceptions, and deleted instances – and they all...

Published Tue, May 05 2007 1:44 AM by Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog

Filed under: Community Kit for SharePoint, Developers, Collaboration, Source Code, Interop

Localized versions of the CKS: User Group Edition and sneak peak of the CKS: Enhanced Blog Edition now available

As mentioned previously , the Community Kit for SharePoint is one of the top 3 community oriented initiatives sponsored* by the SharePoint product group. (The other two are the SharePoint Community Portal and the SharePointPedia, the latter of which will...

Published Tue, May 05 2007 9:29 PM by Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog

Filed under: Web 2.0, Community Kit for SharePoint, Community, Source Code

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