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I got the following 2 links via the User Group.

• MindSharp Summit - SharePoint Developer
• MindSharp Summit - SharePoint Administrator

Its training by MindSharp on SharePoint in Sydney, need I say more?

tags: SharePoint, Training, Sydney

Lately I have discovered a quirk with document libraries in WSS v3 and MOSS that is not very consistent.

Basially the problem I am seeing is that SharePoint doesnt consistenly handle query parameters passed to aspx pages store in document libraries.

For instance if you had a page in a document library called MyPage.aspx, and if you were to point it in your browser as

http://server/[site]/Document Library/MyPage.aspx?MyQueryParam=Value

your page would load only some of the time. More of than not SharePoint complains that "Item MyPage.aspx?MyQueryParam=Value does not exist.." Its almost asif SharePoint is looking for an item named MyPage.aspx?MyQueryParam=Value  in the document library.

Solution - none that I know at the moment

Workaround - dont store your aspx/webpart pages in a document library if you want to pass query parameters to it. Store them on the root of you site.

Issue with Work Around - You wont be able to store MetaData (what would previously been stored in Columns of the Document Library) against your aspx page.

Solution - Store them programitcally using the Properties collection of the SPFile object.

Programatically? Yep programatically, however I do have a tool that helps me out. It lets me add and update properties in the Properties collection of the SPFile object. This uses the SPObject model and hence would need to run on the server. If anyone is interested I could clean it and put it up online for consumption.

tags: SharePoint, MOSS, 2007, WSS, Quirk, Tool, Object Model

Good looks and VW might not always go hand to hand, but this concept called the iroc at the Paris Motorshow is one that would break those odds.

Article on Autoblog.

tags: vw, iroc, paris motorshow

I wanted to extend my dektop keyboard and mouse to my laptop, and I had seen this been done before I knew it included the use of a vnc.

So I googled for it and came across Jeff Handleys blog posting which links to Synergy.

Tried it and its super.

tags: kvm, extend, remote, synergy, oss, vnc

B2TR of SharePoint designer even though its a bit more stable than plain old B2, it is still frustrating to work with. I will be editing a DVWP when all of a sudden an action like adding a new <tr>, or saving would cause the whole thing to crash.

Whats worse is if I restart it after the crash, and open the page, DVWP i was working on will be corrupted. This just sucks.

Minor consolation is the DVWP works, but I cant do too much before SPD crashes.

1 step forward... well its more like the wall that was previously there has been moved a bit forward.

tags: sharepoint designer, dvwp, sharepoint

Take a look at this.

See the link at the top and all the big fonts. I have no idea what happened, and not sure how to turn it off, and actually not sure how I turned it on in the first place.

But this actually proves that there are accesbility options baked in to SharePoint 2007

tags: SharePoint 2007, WSS v3, Accesibility

2 Good blog postings on creating list definitons as features

1. Steven Van de Craen's attempt at customizing announcements (thats what I did too)

2. Tod Baginski's in depth analysis of creating list definintions.

But the major  problem with the approach is CAML for the Views are pain to tinker with. Just absolutely chaotic, requiring a lot of patience, and if not done methodically would result in admitting yourself to a mental institution.

Now Mart gave me a tip yesterday (Mart you should really blog this.), which is you can extract the CAML from a list template (i.e. stp file). So the process would be, create the list in SharePoint, save it as a template, open the stp file in some cab viewer, extract CAML and use it in list definition.

Will keep you posted if I suceed  in this.

tags: sharepoint, lists, definitions, features, templates