Implementing SharePoint Blog

ThreeWill had several associates attend the SharePoint 2009 Conference in Las Vegas and we also had associates at both the first SharePoint 2010 Ignite for IT Pros and the first SharePoint 2010 Ignite for IT Developers training in Atlanta.

We wanted to share the most important technologies in SharePoint 2010 as we see them, so we thought it would be fun to try to prioritize them. …

I recently suffered through an issue with VSeWSS 1.3 that is very frustrating. When building and doing a "deploy" from inside VS.NET, if you run in to the following error, here are two options that worked for me.

The Error:
No language-neutral solution exists in the store. …

A couple of weeks back, I showed how you can use the DataFormWebPart to display video content in a list item edit form (see Video Review via the DataFormWebPart). This week, we use the simple power provided by the DataFormWebPart to bridge in Silverlight!



Switching out the Windows Media Player control used previously with Silverlight has many advantages. For one, …

Content Types in SharePoint are hierarchical and can even be called object oriented. Each has a parent content type such that a content type can have not only its own behaviors (e.g., workflows, information management policies) and metadata (fields), but it also inherits its parent's behaviors and metadata. …

The DataFormWebPart is quite the swiss army knife of SharePoint development. Check out the video player/review page below.



For this simple, but effective solution, I combined SharePoint Designer, the DataFormWebPart, and WSS 3.0. Granted, I've used this same concept now on several projects, so I've got the process down pretty good, but, nonetheless, this took about an hour to put together. …

If you were there, when I lost access to my Picture Library in my at-home SharePoint site last weekend, you might have redirected me to this blog post listing out code which can help you retrieve data directly from a SharePoint content database. See, my son is "student of the week" this week, …

A few weeks ago I ran a MOSS Governance Workshop for one of our clients and I wanted to share a little about how it went.

What is Governance?

First off, what is Governance? I'm sure there are several definitions out there, but since we are talking about governing SharePoint, I'll provide a definition I found from Microsoft:

"Governance is the set of processes, procedures, policies, guidelines and tools affecting the way people direct, …

Cross posted with Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/11/14/how-we-did-it-automating-service-requests-using-infopath-forms-services.aspx

Overview

Today's guest blog post is from ThreeWill, a Microsoft Managed Gold Partner located in Alpharetta, Georgia that focuses on SharePoint development and integration. …

Cross posted with Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/11/03/how-we-did-it-allowing-connections-to-multiple-ssrs-servers-with-report-viewer-and-explorer-web-parts.aspx

Overview

Today's guest blog post is from ThreeWill, a Microsoft Managed Gold Partner located in Alpharetta, Georgia that focuses on SharePoint development and integration. …

SharePoint applications are made up goodies such as custom web parts, lists,  list event handlers, site definitions, site pages, application pages, and on and  on. We package our SharePoint applications as features in order to maximize  reusability and ease deployment. Then we add more deployment-ease by packaging  our features and their resources as SharePoint solution (.wsp) files. The [SharePoint Solution Installer|http://www.codeplex. …