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The Five Things I Can’t Live Without

Uber SharePointer Bob Fox tagged me in the Five Things I Can’t Live Without game.  So here are the five things on my list:   1. I’m going with Bob on this one – my family.  I have the world’s best wife, who puts up with all my nonsense, late hours, constant travelling, and this […]

Performance Benchmarks for SharePoint Lists

Finally.  FINALLY.  F-I-N-A-L-L-Y!  For years I’ve been telling everyone who would listen about the negative consequences of performing looping operations in the object model (OM) against large data sets.  Our internal testing proved this to be the case.  Our customer’s experiences validated our own results.  And just plain common sense said this was a B-A-D […]

July Community Events

July is usually considered a holiday month, especially for our British friends, but there are still some good community events to put on the calendar:   July 17  DFW SharePoint Community   Location: Microsoft Las Colinas Campus Presentation: Ontolica Search for SharePoint    As a side note, I have recently been invited to join the advisory […]

BinaryWave Web Part Wrapper Now Supports AJAX

Sean just posted a new version of our web part user control wrapper with full Ajax support for download.  This will allow you to host User Controls within an update panel for AJAX-like functionaility with SharePoint.  Get it here.  Instructions for deploying the web part are also in the blog post in case you haven’t done […]

Missing UI Settings in the Object Model

Houston, we’ve got a problem.  It seems that there are quite a few settings in the ShaerPoint UI that are not supported in the Object Model.  Just yesterday, Sean Skinner discovered that when creating WSS sites programmatically the options to enable the navigation menus were missing.  A few weeks back, a client sent me an email […]

Ultimate List of SharePoint Bloggers

People are always asking me which SharePoint blogs they should be reading.  The answer, of course, is all of them!  So don’t wait around, fire up that RSS reader and go get the BIG LIST Mark Kruger has compiled.

Modifying Grouped By Headers, Part Deux

A while back I posted a tip about hiding grouped by headers in list views.  These are the content separators that appear at the top of a group of list items and have a +/- image for expanding/collapsing the group, the title of the group column, a colon and the group item name, like so:   […]

O Community, Where Art Thou?

The topic of Communities, especially SharePoint Communities, has been on my mind quite a bit lately.  According to dictionary.com, community is defined as "a social, religious, occupational, or other group sharing common characteristics or interests and perceived or perceiving itself as distinct in some respect from the larger society within which it exists".  Hmm, okay, […]

Displaying Current User Information in WSS v3

Here’s a tip that’s really simple but I had a number of people ask me about it at TechEd so I thought I’d post it here.  Apparently it’s a common requirement to display user information, such as name, login name, or email address on various master and layout pages throughout a site.  Although the Welcome/Login […]

SharePoint UK User Group Meeting June 28th in Reading

The UK user group is back at Microsoft in Reading on June 28th.  I attend quite a few community gatherings and I can tell you that the UK User Group is one of the best run nd best organized of them all.  The content is always relevant and you’ll end up learning something whether you meant […]