I recently had a requirement to duplicate (at least in part) the publishing architecture of MOSS using WSS. Specifically, the user wanted to be able to deploy web part pages to a specific document library when a new site was provisioned and add web parts to those pages automatically. This allows the user to browse […]

I will be presenting "Building Scalable and Secure Line of Business Applications with SharePoint Server 2007" at the Tulsa TechFest on October 20th, 2007 at 2:30PM.  This is a great conference with tons of content on .NET, SQL, SilverLight, DotNetNuke, AJAX, and lots of other topics.  If you are in the area, make plans to […]

Join me at SharePoint Connections Las Vegas November 5th – 9th, 2007.  This year’s event is being held at the Mandalay Bay Hotel, renowned for Shark Reef, House of Blues, and the best darn skirt steak you’ll find in this hemisphere (Rum Jungle).   There are a ton of great sessions that you absolutely cannot afford […]

The SharePoint User Group UK is holding its first ever User Group meeting dedicated to 3rd party SharePoint Vendors on October 18th in London. Technical only demonstrations ( no sales pitches ) will be presented by representatives of each company in 30 minute slots. We have some great companies presenting their new SharePoint 2007 software […]

Me! That’s right, yours truly is a shiny new SharePoint (WSS) MVP. How cool is that? As with any award, there are lots of people to thank. First and foremost, my thanks go to the one-and-only Bob Fox, who looks after me, tries to keep me out of trouble (hey, he’s not perfect) and without […]

In a follow on to his earlier post regarding SharePoint development, Andrew Connell has posted detailed instructions on how to create, configure and deploy ASPX pages using code-behind files in SharePoint 2007.  What I found most interesting in this article are the detailed solution package instructions and XML samples, both of which are sadly lacking […]