• SharePoint
  • Setting up your SharePoint development environment
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  • MySQL daddy quitting Sun?
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Shocked by the news… He was a legend in a SharePoint world. Unfortunately I didn’t any chance to meet him before leaving this world. Although I am a frequent follower of his blog, books (2), screen cast and many more articles. Even, I got to know more about him when I was in Brussels. Coz, he was a very famous SharePointer and co-founder of U2U - Belgium. 

Thx for everything that you have done for the community.  Personally, I know how much of knowledge I have absorbed from your articles, books, etc. My thoughts are with Patrick's family and you will be missed…

If you have attended to yesterday (4^th September 2008) Joy’s session in CDNUG monthly meeting, you may heard about Best Practices in developing Web Parts. Yes, as a one point he clearly mentioned that not use HTML tags directly in Web Part’s rendering. Here I am going to add something by showing how to write out proper HTML in Web Parts.

What will happen if I write the code like above? Nothing, it will work properly as long as HTML is correct. Then, what is the sense?  Fine… these are the point to say that is not good.

• Yes, I know you can write minimum code with first approach. But is it readable? Noh... Actually it is not.
• It is not maintainable code. Just think you want to add another row for HTML table. Then you have to check each HTML tag to find the exact position.
• Error prone. For an example if you mistakenly forget to put HTML close tag, then it will affect to whole page that web part is running. And also, it may affect to another web part in your page or syndication generation.
  

If you check the below code, you can understand the difference.  I know it may take little bit of your time. But end of the day you have well written peace of code. Maintainability, fine HTML, etc... Everything is there… 

Yes, Today (2^nd of September 2008) is the day that beta is available for windows users. New features will include "isolated" tabs designed to prevent browser crashes and a more powerful JavaScript engine and also Google has promised to deliver "improved speed and responsiveness across the board." So, let’s ready to get new user experience with brand-new browser…

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome

Check Google comic book explaining Google Chrome.

• SharePoint
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• ASP.NET / Silverlight / AJAX / JavaScript
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  • 12 Things You Should Never Say to a Client
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This is really good chance for SharePoint lovers to get fresh start or polish your SharePoint skills. Joy (MVP) will do the session based on SharePoint workflows and Web Parts. I hope it is a Level 200 session. Anyway, you can get full details about the session via blow link.

Session Details (177.03 kb)

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  • Integrating Custom ASP.NET ASPX form into Sharepoint InfoPath Form Service Programmatically
  • The Great Debate: SharePoint Designer vs. Custom Site Definitions
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  • Common Validation and Length Validation with Regular Expression in ASP.NET
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It is a bit old news, but still pretty interesting among the community.  Actually, Multi Monitor supporting is a new feature of Visual Studio 10. Here is the link where you can get more info about this.

This is how i explain the Sales Lead Pipline to my customer....

Sales Lead Pipeline.pdf (110.83 kb)

Actually this is a very simple explanation between SharePoint Site Template (.stp) and SharePoint Solution package (.wsp).

*.wsp *.stp *.wsp solution file includes the resources and manifest files. *.stp site template file also includes the resources and manifest files. Using with MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 Using with SPS 2003 / WSS 2.0 and MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0 *.wsp use to deploying the site features like List, Web Parts, fields. *.stp file is limited to deploying singe site template with its own lists. Bit complicated to use, but more extensible for customizing with good knowledge. Easy to use with minimum SharePoint knowledge.