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March 2006 - Posts

• TeamLook: Create workitems and view reports from within Outlook

  If you're not a developer yourself, but you do work with Work Item Tracking (WIT) a lot, like project managers or requirements managers, etc, currently to use the Team Foundation Client-tools, you need to start Visual Studio.NET 2005 as it's the main Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 29, 2006 8:58 PM by Porint | 0 Comments Filed under: General .NET Development, Visual Studio Team System

• Custom formatting for SharePoint lists using FlexListViewer-webpart

  FlexListViewer-webpart can be used to display lists of other sites. It does so by reading the contents of the view of the remote list, storing it into a small object-model, serialize it to an XML-stream and transform it to HTML using an xslt. The stylesheet Read More... Posted Saturday, March 25, 2006 8:12 PM by Porint | 23 Comments Filed under: SharePoint Portal Server, FlexListViewer

• Visual Studio.NET 2003 - SP1

  If you thought that after the release of Visual Studio.NET 2005 with all its fancy editions, MS would stop investing any time in VS.NET 2003, you thought wrong! A service pack (SP1) is scheduled for RTM on June 1st, 2006. If you would like to attend the Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 21, 2006 6:06 PM by Porint | 1 Comments Filed under: General .NET Development

• SQL 2000 / 2005 comparison on Sharepoint Portal Server

  Microsoft just released a testreport comparing SPS running on SQL 2000 and SQL 2005. Shortly said, SQL 2005 makes SPS perform better on every aspect, but most notably is the 51% increase in Requests Per Second performance (on a Small Web Farm). To see Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 21, 2006 7:53 AM by Porint | 0 Comments Filed under: SharePoint Portal Server

• FlexListViewer-webpart update: support for LookUp-fields

  About a month ago I released the FlexListViewer-webpart . Because I got a lot of positive reactions, I decided to give it some more work! :) Biggest change is that I added support for LookUp-fields to the FlexListViewer-webpart. It already displayed the Read More... Posted Friday, March 17, 2006 11:01 PM by Porint | 0 Comments Filed under: SharePoint Portal Server, FlexListViewer

• Site/list rollups in SharePoint 2007

  On the SharePoint TeamBlog , you can read about site roll-up webparts that are provided with Office SharePoint Server 2007. I really miss this feature in the current version of SharePoint. Our company uses WSS sites a lot: every project has it's own project Read More... Posted Monday, March 13, 2006 7:57 PM by Porint | 1 Comments Filed under: SharePoint Portal Server

• Migrating to Office SharePoint Server 2007

  Mark Harrison is hosting a webcast on 'Migrating to Office Sharepoint Server 2007' on March 30th, 5pm CET with Metalogix . See his blog for more details. I'll definitely attend this session! Read More... Posted Friday, March 10, 2006 7:00 AM by Porint | 0 Comments Filed under: SharePoint Portal Server, Office, Office System 2007

• Visio template and stencil for designing SharePoint sites (beta)

  My colleague Erno ( click for his blog ) sent me this link: http://blogs.msdn.com/roberdan/archive/2006/03/05/543967.aspx A guy called Roberto D'Angelo created a visio template you can use if you want to design a Sharepoint portal site layout. Really Read More... Posted Friday, March 10, 2006 6:57 AM by Porint | 2 Comments Filed under: SharePoint Portal Server, Office, visio