Learn how to develop on Sharepoint by MSFT
If you are a beginner or experienced developer, Sharepoint can look pretty daunting at first...but it's ok because those clever people at microsoft have realised this and have put together a new mini-site which will help developers starting out in the world of Sharepoint and MOSS2007.
It explains what are and how to create web parts, workflows, event handlers page branding, web services and navigational along with quickstart code snippets, online virtual labs and much more... oh and C# and VB code (nice).
The site is very new and a lot of the content has not been finalised yet but hopefully by the time you read this there should be a lot more.
Check out the new site at http://www.microsoft.com/click/SharePointDeveloper/ ...oh and it's a way cool use of silverlight too!
How to use SharePoint webparts without having to write one!
Ever wanted to build a MOSS webpart and thought...'I just don't have time to do this! I just want to write a quick user control'?
Well...I stumbled accross 'SmartPart' on CodePlex the other night and...man why didn't I know about this before!? This great project will allow you to host any ASP.NET web user control inside a pre-built webpart on your SharePoint site...it even supports AJAX...now how cool is that!
This means that you can re-use already existing web user controls from your existing ASP.NET projects and they will work straight away on your SharePoint page without any need for writing webpart specific code. The project is very well put together with plenty of documentation and screencasts to get you working quickly, full credit to Jan Tielens for such a good job.
You can check out SmartPart at CodePlex http://www.codeplex.com/smartpart
firstly and finally!
I am finally down with the kids and have my own blog!
Suppose I had to get with the times sooner or later... just hope it's not too late!