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Gregory S. MacBeth shared a comprehensive list of books and items needed to become an effective SharePoint developer
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Prior to launching Voitanos, I published my video courses through Pluralsight. You can find those courses listed here as well.
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Gregory S. MacBeth shared a comprehensive list of books and items needed to become an effective SharePoint developer
List of IFilters included in SharePoint as well as links to more IFilters. Adding to my SharePoint links page now… DesktopSearchIFilters
Great post by Scott Hanselman today. ComputerZen.com : Advanced ASP.NET Caching and AddValidationCallBack
Stefan Goßner’s article highlights scalability issues with CmsApplicationContext in MCMS 2002. Context objects lack resource management features.
Join me on my search for custom or 3rd party solutions that can add advanced functionality, like workflows and auditing, to SharePoint document libraries.
MCMS utilizes an ISAPI filter to trap requests and build pages before processing them with IIS and .NET. Learn more on MSDN
Barry shares an article on programming role-based security in web parts and mentions Jay Nathan’s article on SharePoint Security and .NET Impersonation
Stefan Gossner’s utility generates reports for MCMS 2002 resource gallery items to show all postings using a specific resource.
The text endorses Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server as a guide for creating MCMS 2002 content-rich sites without prior knowledge.
What’s next for Microsoft Content Management Server? In this article, I’ll share my thoughts and Microsoft’s plans to merge it with SharePoint.
Maurice’s SharePoint Thoughts post discusses the future of web part development and using SmartPart to achieve it. Check it out
Darrel Norton has a nice article about profiling .NET applicatoins using the open source NProf app. Profiling .NET applications with nprof
The article suggests using CustomPropertyDbEx, Migration Console, and Web Manager to simplify MCMS 2002 custom property upgrades
MCMS 2002 is a CMS platform that stores site assets, with the ability to add custom metadata properties through Site Manager or PAPI for improved management.
Simply put, CustomPropertyDbEx takes the custom properties you can create and assign to channels, templates, and postings and moves from from the CMS environment out to a database while maintaining a close link between the CMS asset and the custom properties. There are downsides with the current …
Project involves many nested channels and creating them on the fly. Programmatically working with custom properties in CMS channels is challenging
In part 2 of my SharePoint and CMS series, I explore different solution types and provide insight on selecting a primary entry point for end users.
As a SharePoint expert, I explain the differences between SharePoint and Content Management Server. Get a brief intro to SharePoint without a sales pitch.
An Open Question: Searching for Resources on Integrating MCMS 2002 & SharePoint, Blogger Reflects on Readership
I’m considering writing about combining MCMS 2002 & SPS due to a lack of documentation. They’ve had some success with implementation.
Learn to add user controls/web parts to libraries with theoretical part 4, and take advantage of style sheet class reference tables to customize sites
SharePoint implementation project involving multiple portals, WSS sites, non-SharePoint sites & MCMS 2002 integration. Lacks logical hierarchy
In this post, I’ll detail the steps & code used to get this working. I used this method to add search capabilities to a site implemented with MCMS 2002.
I want to share my experience implementing search functionality on a content website using SharePoint, and provide you with some useful code samples.