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[Cross-posted from Randall Isenhour's blog .] Hello SharePoint Developers! We are excited to announce the availability of the latest updates to the online MSDN Library + the downloadable SDKs for both MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0! In our never-ending efforts...
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I'm very excited to announce that we have just released the an updated version of the Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint that supports Silverlight 2 Beta 2 ! These blueprints were designed to provide developers with a better understanding of how...
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[Cross posted from the Enterprise Search Blog ] It’s been around 45 days since the acquisition of FAST Search and Transfer closed and we’re moving quickly to provide interoperability for Microsoft customers between FAST ESP and Microsoft SharePoint Server...
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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...
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Background This is part 2 of the blog series that was started about a month ago with Neil Hodgkinson's post . He and I had a good time with our session at the Office Developer Conference 2008 in San Jose a few weeks ago. If you attended our session...
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This is one for the developers. The Microsoft Software + Services Blueprint folks have been kind enough to build a blueprint for the use of Silverlight in SharePoint Web Parts. The Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint is source code and guidance for developers...
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This first of two guest blog entries, written by Neil Hodgkinson, a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer based in the UK, will cover the "why we did it" aspect of the open source faceted search solution for MOSS 2007 and MSS 2008 that has been released...
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A few months ago, we and Atlassian announced their SharePoint Connector for Confluence, which impressed both customers and analysts. Now, ThreeWill , a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner specializing in developing SharePoint-based solutions, which helped...
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The Profile Import Tool is designed to import users and update their profile properties in MOSS 2007 when forms based authentication is used rather than integrated Windows authentication. The tool was cleverly developed by Steve Peschka (SharePoint Ranger...
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As the adoption of SharePoint increases within Microsoft, more and more teams are bound to develop useful tools and add-ons, which in the past would have been kept strictly internal to Microsoft. With the success of the Community Kit for SharePoint along...
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Avneesh Kaushik is a Senior Consultant with Microsoft Consulting Services and was the SharePoint Technical Lead for the development of the HawaiianAir.com website that was previously profiled here . He has authored two very useful technical articles based...
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About 6 months ago, I posted a guest blog entry by Scot Hillier, a SharePoint MVP, about the shared source Features project that he had started on CodePlex. Since then, several others ( Brendon Schwartz , Dan Attis , Renaud Comte , and Stacy Draper )...
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There's been some buzz about the Community Kit for SharePoint during the past few days, but it's not the only exciting and useful SharePoint oriented shared source project on CodePlex. The SharePoint Governance , SharePoint Features , and SharePoint...
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I'm posting this on behalf of my colleague, Mike Fitzmaurice . In Mike's own words: Have you wanted information on how to package web parts, event receivers, or list/feature/site definitions into solutions? How to deploy those solutions from a...
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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...