November 2007 Blog Posts
TRINUG in concert with Microsoft and our local Microsoft Developer Evangelist Brian Hitney ,is sponsoring a Visual Studio 2008 "Install Fest" in next months meeting on December 12th in Raleigh. All registered attendees will be eligible for a free license for Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition. For more details on the event check out http://www.trinug.org. Space is limited and registration has filled up pretty quick so we're likely almost full. Once we do fill up I will be opening up the waiting list this evening in case we have some cancellations. If you haven't registered yet I'd recommend doing...
When working with MOSS publishing sites its often a requirement to create a new custom publishing page and also set a new instance of that page as the default page for the site. In this exercise we're going to create a new feature that will cover the steps needed to accomplished this. Step 1: Create the Feature that will handle all the necessary plumbing:<Feature xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/" Id="9C8E73EA-C313-49e3-A8EB-365EF5251AB9" Title="Custom MOSS Publishing Infrastructure" Description="Custom MOSS...
I've been fielding a lot of questions by clients and coworkers lately related to solutions packages so I thought it was a good topic to touch on in my blog as well . Solutions packages are a new feature (not to be confused with upper case Features) in WSS 3.0 (and therefor MOSS as well) that allows content to be distributed across a SharePoint farm. This content can include any files such as binaries, Features, modules, files, and even web.config updates and can be scheduled to deploy across your SharePoint server farm. This replaced the often tedious and...
I will be presenting an Introduction to Developing and Deploying Custom Site Definitions to the NYC SharePoint User Group on Wednesday December 5th. Presentation Synopsis:Site Definitions have existed since WSS 2.0 but have been simplified with the introduction of Features in SharePoint 2007 (WSS & MOSS). In this presentation I will be discussing the basics of Site Definitions and Feature creation along with with some tips & tricks on how to simplify the process. Along the way we'll touch on some of the advantages of developing Site Definitions over site customization. Finally we'll discuss how to use the...
Although I'm still not home yet I flew the red eye back from Vegas Thursday night just in time to head down to Hilton Head with the wife for a few days (working vacation unfortunately). This was my first conference in several years. In years previous (including last years TechEd and DevConnections) I had always booked them well in advance but needy clients always lead me to canceling or selling my tickets at the last minute.. DevConnections Vegas 2007 reminded me of all the things I love and hate about conferences. I headed out Sunday night with...