As many of you already know, this week Microsoft released a free tool for creating application definitions in the Business Data Catalog.  Some people feel that this spells the end of BDC MetaMan from Lightning Tools.  I couldn’t disagree more.   First, for full disclosure purposes, let me say up front that Nick Swan is […]

I’m going to deviate from my regular All SharePoint, All The Time programming to pontificate about one of my other obsessions – Tablet PC.  Admittedly, I’m a latecomer to the whole inking experience – I started using Tablet PC for the firs time earlier this year.  Funny thing is, it’s kinda like SharePoint – you hear people […]

You just gotta love Adam Buenz.  First, he’s a hell of a guy; second, he can drink like a fish; and third, he comes up with the most outrageous blog postings that make me shake my head in wonder (and often in confusion).  Nobody, but nobody, could write this post with a straight face and get […]

Just a quick reminder that the DFW SharePoint Community meeting is this coming Tuesday, August 21st from 4:00 – 6:00 PM at the Microsoft campus in Las Colinas.  This month we have Matthew Ordish, Microsoft Office Platform Technology specialist, speaking on Office Business Applications.  Be sure to register in advance if you’re planning to attend.  […]

PublishingWebControls in MOSS are a great feature, allowing editors to add all kinds of formatted content to publishing pages based on site definition content types.  Unlike web part zones in WSS, however, these controls don’t completely disappear from the page when no content has been added to them.  What gives with all that ugly white […]

This one had me beating my head against the wall for quite a while so I’m sharing it to save you the cost of a handful of Tylenol (or Paracetamol if you’re on the other side of the pond).   Each item in a SharePoint list has an associated SPAttachmentCollection array.  It would seem logical that […]

Monday evening I had the pleasure of attending a SharePoint Interest Group meeting in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  The group is organized by BJ Pohl and, although still small and growing, has a good core of highly enthusiastic SharePointers.  In a stroke of luck my good friend Jonathan Swartz, Information Worker Partner Technology Specialist at Microsoft, and Brian Evans, Strategic Engagement Manager, were […]

While working on a web part for a client’s MOSS public web site I discovered some strange behavior regarding GUID’s embedded in query string arguments.  My web part, a simple viewer that replaces the functionality of the old ‘txtlstvw’ page from SharePoint 2003, takes the GUID of a list and an item ID as query string […]

The next DFW SharePoint Community meeting is being held at the Microsoft campus in Las Colinas, Texas on August 21st.  This month Matthew Ordish, a Microsoft Office Platform Technology Specialist, will discuss Office Business Applications (OBA’s).  There is a lot of cood content in this presentation that is relevant to the SharePoint Community so don’t […]

It doesn’t take long for anyone who does client-side coding in SharePoint to figure out that the trusty ol’ getElementById() method just ain’t all it’s cracked up to be.  Sure, it works fine in standard ASP.NET pages but in SharePoint all that pretty client-side code goes right out the window.  Just what is going on […]