January 2009 - Posts
The SharePoint Podcasting Toolkit
The Podcasting Toolkit has been around for a while but todays guest blogger has an extreme knowledge inside this plattform. Everyone interested in earning some about this pod casting toolkit you better head on to this link.
GetSharp is the real external implementation of the SharePoint Podcasting kit so download and start to play.
Connecting With Excel Services in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to Create a Controller Workspace
The Controller Workspace is a portal designed for the Financial Controller enabling him/her to oversee the close processes in one location. It brings together data from several accounting and compliance systems providing real-time status.
This is a great thing for financial people and SharePoint consultants that have their customers in this field.
Watch the movie, download the summary.
Watch the high resultion movie here
Or just go to the page where they speak about it, click here.
Chris Johnson rocks at PDC 2008 with his SharePoint session
I just sat down in my big nice soft chair and watched the recorded session where Chris Johnson the program manager at Microsoft which work within the SharePoint Services Team shows off on stage.
I am just thrilled over this kind of sessions and I am grateful that they have been recorded for us to see in our own space and speed at home.
You can learn a lot from this session, like how he deploys a new theme through activating it as a feature. He is switching designs with a click of a button. SilverLight Charting, special field definitions and so much more. You can join Chris in this recording for more than an hour.
A true SharePoint nerd watches SharePoint recordings together with Samantha Who and some icecream, some snacks and my wife…
See it now!
Full PowerShell power in your WebParts and in SharePoint
You just gotta see the new PowerEventRecievers made by the crazy guy at iLoveSharePoint. This guys just throws a lot of superamazing stuff for free, downloadable from CodePlex.
But the new stuff now is the PowerEventReciever which will give you full blown PowerShell scripting in events inside SharePoint.
This would make it possible to actually trigger PowerShell scripting capabilities when for an example adding records to a SharePoint list. Making it possible to handle all kinds of cool stuff when things happen on our SharePoint lists.
So get your mouse in the palm of your hand and click this link now!
News WebPart for SharePoint in SilverLight
Really cool News aggregator for SharePoint announcements built with SilverLight. Even if you do not want a news aggregator on your SharePoint site you will learn how to build SilverLight solutions on SharePoint and how to configure your SharePoint for SilverLight usage.
Get it from CodePlex here.
Make use of roles with the OwnerEventHandler just released
Another post to CodePlex, the developerheaven for sure nowadays. I am just thrilled of all the projects you can find on this site and more and more gets posted everyday.
Project Description
EventHandler for WSS3 that allow modify security permission when add elements in sharepoint libraries or custom lists
With this solution you can control permissions in list elements or document libraries elements in sharepoint.
This solutions contains an EventHandler "OwnerEventHandler" in the "OwnerItemEventReceiver".
You can register the ItemAdded event with Event Handler Explorer.
Read all of it at CodePlex
Pimp your SharePoint with Features from GraceHunt
There is a bunch of features released on CodePlex (www.codeplex.com) from GraceHunt which I really start to like. Not that I need to hide the quicklaunch menu so often or in desperate need to add various links to Site Settings pages and so on… BUT!
There samples and solutions shows me how to do all kinds of stuff just with features. I think I have to start learning more and more about features.
Check them out on CodePlex, click here!
Jian Suns post on FBA was really helpful
So I went on stumbling around Jian Sun for a while and then I just found that the latest post about configuring FBA for SharePoint was really helpful. I didn’t for instance now that if you did FBA this way you could use the FBA Tools from CodePlex in the way Jian Sun does.
You gotta read this
All kinds of tricks and stuff for STSDEV Users
I stumbled upon a post that linked to this place for information about STSDEV and I am sorry to say that I gave that up when the new Extensions arrived but I now several people use STSDEV for all their projects.
So Jian Suns blog is worth reading if you use STSDEV.
Click here
Data Privacy Day at Microsofts Website
Interesting information and movie, watch it online. Click here!
SharePoint Community Sverige is here!
After a long period of internal braindamage and thinktanks this week was the startingpoint for SharePoint Community Sverige. I am not alone in this project, almost everyone at my work HumanData is involved in the project and my new SharePoint friend Wictor Wilén is also heavily involved as one of the main persons in this project.
We hope that all of you living in Sweden or outside speaking Swedish will head to the site right away and signup for an free account.
Go to www.sharepointcommunity.se and register now! The first 50 members will be invited to a special event in Stockholm in the near future.
Let your SharePoint Fire keep burning by visiting the community site daily. We will write articles, blogs, upload instructional videos and more to the site and we all hopa you will enjoy your stay with us.
TechDays in Västerås 17-18 march 2009
So this event seem to be a must have event for all us geeks. We all want to the the geeks in their 48-hour show when they are supposed to put together a whole functional infrastructure for a company from zero to working state in two days.
I am also looking forward to see the new online services with SharePoint Online Services which is in my interest so to say.
I am going to suck up to my boss now and I hope to see all of you there.
TECHDAYS
Nothing about SharePoint in this post!
Today one of the most popular night club scenes went on fire. They have been threaten since december and this was the fourth attempt to set the club on fire. Today they succeeded and I feel sorry for all those people who likes to go there and the owners who have put in a lot of time and effort in making this a great night club.
Measure HardDrive Size and FreeSpace in a WebPart
So I wrote last week on my upcoming post on this subject. Here it is, my Performance Part for displaying available space and total size on any drive on your server. The idea is to add more and more webparts so that you can monitor and check performance inside SharePoint.
First out is the one that will give some data about the drives in your system. You can set the driveletter yourself inside the propertypane with this WebPart.
private double getHDDSize(string drive)
{
//check to see if the user provided a drive letter
//if not default it to "C"
if (drive == "" || drive == null)
{
drive = "C";
}
//create our ManagementObject, passing it the drive letter to the
//DevideID using WQL
ManagementObject disk = new ManagementObject("Win32_LogicalDisk.DeviceID=\"" + drive + ":\"");
//bind our management object
disk.Get();
//return the HDD's initial size
return Convert.ToDouble(Math.Round(((((double)Convert.ToDouble(disk["Size"]) / 1024) / 1024) / 1024), 2));
}
So the above will get the DriveSize for us and the code below will get the FreeSpace in the drive.
private double GetHDDFreeSize(string drive)
{
ManagementObject disk =
new ManagementObject("win32_logicaldisk.deviceid=\"" + drive + ":\"");
disk.Get();
return Convert.ToDouble(Math.Round(((((double)Convert.ToDouble(disk["FreeSpace"]) / 1024) / 1024) / 1024), 2));
}
So with these two functions using the WMI inside Windows we will get the data we need to populate the rest of our webpart using Microsoft Charting components.
Here is the complete code for you to use anyway you want.
Code for WebPart
Microsoft Web Platform Installer
Microsoft is on it for real and they also release the Microsoft Web Platform Installer on their site. With this tool even users with Windows XP and Windows 2003 server can use the installer go get all the neccessary files and software to start developing cool web applications.
This is by far the best stuff I have seen in a long time regarding the hazzle it can be to get all the right stuff installed just to try the .NET Environment.
Goto Microsofts site and download it now!
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