Category Archives: SharePoint

Microsoft SharePoint Team Announces the VSeWSS version 1.2!

Excellent! Now all you SharePoint developers out there using VSeWSS who are itching to start using Visual Studio 2008 can do so :o) Read the full details in a posting the SharePoint Team Blog from Chris Johnson (another kiwi flying … Continue reading

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SharePoint Navigation Elements: How to Code with them.

I’m a pretty regular poster over on the MSDN SharePoint dev forum and one of the things that I see pop up every so often is questions about how to interact with the Navigation components that are built into SharePoint. … Continue reading

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User Guide for VSeWSS 1.1 released

Microsoft have just released the full version of the user guide for VseWSS 1.1. For a little more information, read Paul Andrew’s blog post: http://blogs.msdn.com/pandrew/archive/2008/05/12/announcing-visual-studio-extensions-for-sharepoint-developer-user-guide.aspx Download if from: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=A8A4E775-074D-4451-BE39-459921F79787&displaylang=en Also, take a look at the authors 😉

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SharePoint fails at collaboration?

What??? Here at Intergen we run a series of late afternoon seminars for interested parties called Intergen Twilight Seminars. Last night we had a guest speaker, one Michael Sampson his session was based on his whitepaper: The 7 Pillars of … Continue reading

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Which version of VSeWSS is installed?

I’ve just had  phone call from a colleague of mine asking if I knew how to tell which version of VSeWSS was installed on the machine he was using. All you need to do is pull up the About Visual … Continue reading

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Parameterised SQL Reports in SharePoint

So, I’ve developed a parameterised report and surfaced it inside a SharePoint site using the Report Viewer Web Part. Now the user has this ‘nice’ pane on the side of the report to supply the parameter value…. How do I … Continue reading

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Developing SQL Reports: Useful Resources

OK, so I promised more on the reporting services front. This post is just a quick follow up on that with a few resources, a.k.a blog posts from smart cookies, that I found VERY useful. A great 3 part intro … Continue reading

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Installing SSRS in SharePoint Integrated Mode

Oops, nearly two weeks since a post! That’s a bit of an indicator of how busy I’ve been of late… Anyway, I had to set up up SQL Server Reporting Services in SharePoint Integrated mode. Not too difficult on the … Continue reading

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VSeWSS Deployment Issue

Ok, here at Intergen we are working on the VSeWSS 1.1 User Guide. As part of this we have to create code samples in both C# and VB.NET for all the code that we produce. No big deal really. Except … Continue reading

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SPQuery is not reusable.

So I’m writing some code to assemble some information about items in a list. My original approach was this: The problem here was that the second call to GetListItems was returning the exact same results as the first call, despite … Continue reading

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