Archive 2007
August 27, 2007
Working with noise words
Noise words are words that do not improve the relevancy of a matching document, and, therefore, are not considered useful in a search query. Words such as "and", "the", or the company name are very common and will be found in almost any document and are therefore useless in a search query.
August 3, 2007
A Domain-Specific Language: using WPCL 2007
The WPCL 2007 stands for the Web Part Connection Language 2007, a DSL that integrates with Visual Studio.NET 2005 and can be used to create ASP.NET 2.0 connectable web parts. The WPCL language:
- Allows you to create a diagram that can be used to define web parts and web part connections.
- Performs basic checks to ensure the validity of a model.
- Allows you to transform a WPCL diagram into C# code that can be copied and pasted into a web part library project.
July 20, 2007
About client callbacks and building a people picker web part
Before ASP.NET Ajax was released, ASP.NET 2.0 offered another technology that lets client-side script communicate asynchronously with a server-side method. This technology is known as client callback technology and although it is reasonably easy to implement it does not offer a full-blown framework for implementing Ajax scenarios such as ASP.NET Ajax does.
However, there are still controls out there that are quite powerful that use client callbacks for their implementation, such as the ASP.NET 2.0 Treeview control and the SharePoint People Picker. In this blog post, we will discuss how client callbacks work and then show how to build a web part that uses the People Picker to find account names and groups.
July 13, 2007
Small trick with the My Places Bar in Word
To enhance the user interaction experience of a SharePoint environment, it's a nice little trick to add a shortcut to a SharePoint site or list to the My Places Bar. Since we had forgotten all about this trick and stumbled upon it today, we're documenting it in this post.
July 13, 2007
Monk for SharePoint 2007 v0.2.1
There is a new release available for Monk, the current version is v0.2.1. This version contains one bug fix: the document process doesn't stop anymore when WSRP producers have not been defined.
April 9, 2007
Monk for SharePoint 2007 v0.2
We've created a new release of Monk, the current version is v0.2. It contains enhanced error messaging and two bug fixes.
March 23, 2007
ItemCheckingIn event and %1!.512s!
Are you banging your head against the wall because whatever you seem to do, any code you add to the ItemCheckingIn event handler just results to the mysterious error message %1!.512s! ???
February 26, 2007
Monk for SharePoint 2007
The Monk for SharePoint 2007 v0.1 tool is able to document certain aspects of SharePoint deployments in the form of HTML documents.
February 19, 2007
SharePoint Max URL Size
Learn more about SharePoint URl limits and the 'URL Length Checker' tool.
February 12, 2007
Registering SharePoint 2007 site event receivers - the SEventReg tool
The amount of control over events has increased in MOSS 2007. It's now possible to cancel actions before they are completed. The names of such events, such as WebDeleting, always end in the suffix "ing". These events are executed synchronously. Other events, for example WebDeleted, indicate that some type of actions has already occurred. Those events always end with the suffix "ed" and are processed asynchronously.The seventreg tool can be used to register MOSS 2007 event receivers that are associated to SharePoint sites.
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