February 2009 - Posts
SharePointReviews.com is supergreat!
I believe this site will grow extremely fast in 2009 and if they do their cards right it will for sure be the number one site for searching and reading reviews on SharePoint related products.
It’s a great work done by the people behind it, thanks Inna for bringing this to our attention!
So if you want, sign up and become a contributor to SharePointReviews.com!
Interesting post on how to create your MOSS VPC
I find lesson 20 really interesting which is new to a newbie in virtualisation issues.
Go to post here
Skrattretande om Windows 7 versionerna
Alla som hoppats på ett mindre antal versioner av Windows 7. Knappast troligt alls, kolla denna bild som kommer från ett stort förlag som skriver om detta.
Hur ska detta kunna bli mindre förvirrande för slutkonsumenten?
Så nu undrar jag vilken version mina föräldrar kommer skaffa, vilken tror du?
Start your workflow from code!
For me this has been a great and difficult journey. I have asked the best SharePoint consultants available, I have posted on several forums with no luck what so ever.
What do I want to accomplish?
Well I want to be able to start a named workflow on a particular list or a particular item, from my C# code.
How can I do this?
It is a lot of tricky bits according to me but when they all are in place it rocks! It works! It’s beautiful!
The image shows you all the code which starts the workflow on a particular listitem. You can see my String ListItemID first and this string holds the listitems unique ID.
You can also see SPURL, SPListName, SPWorkflowName and you understand you will have to define these or replace them with your values.
We loop through items which is stupid I admit when we only return one record but I hadn’t the time to swoop the code before posting.
They we will hook up WorkflowManager and loop through the Associations to find the named workflow. You can see the if statement in the middle comparing the name of the workflow with our string SPWorkflowName.
If you want a bigger picture of this, click the image :)
Hope you enjoy this post! I love it!
Remote Deploy of WSP packages and more
Last night the people at Portal Solutions released a new project on CodePlex called WssDeploy.
This project is übercool folks. Install it as a addin to your local Visual Studio 2008 environment. Install the WssDeploy Windows Service on your target WSS or MOSS machine.
Make sure you provide a user account which is a local admin.
After this has been done you can now remote deploy WSP files to your MOSS and several more functions is built in. Me like!
http://www.codeplex.com/WssDeploy
SharePoint User Account Control
I just say wow and because of things on a sunday I will just give you the link over to CodePlex but please, you will need this!
http://www.codeplex.com/spuac
Visual Studio 2010 with SharePoint stuff!
So we are all hoping that you can do more and design more in Visual Studio 2010 than you can now. It seems we are all going to be pleased.
Check out this recently released screenshots.
This images are ripped from the original post which is linked below!
Here you can see a applicationpage in VS 2010. Looking good right!
And the server explorer. Wow, there is a lot of stuff on the left hand pane folks!
Read more at the original post: http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2009/02/19/sharepoint-tools-support-in-visual-studio.aspx
Use your SkyDrive as a local drive!
Finally I did it! I found a supreme software which will connect Amazon accounts, SkyDrive, Google Docs and Google Picasa and make them usable as local drives.
Chek it out!
www.gladinet.com
SenseNet from Hungary seem extremely similar to SharePoint
I just walked through some features of the current release and some more on the upcoming release of the SenseNet system. It is opensource, created in .NET and it seems like a superduper great system.
![18[1]](http://itbloggen.se/cs/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/diaznet/181_5F00_thumb_5F00_06DD6A27.jpg "18[1]")
Click the image to see the full size image!
I want all you Sharepointers comments on this competitor as soon as possible. Can we learn something from their features? Can we create a comparison chart between this one, SharePoint and IBMs platform?
I feel a little bit sick though after walking through their mindmap-alike feature flashenabled webpage… whoa! My office is spinning around like a rollercoaster now.
http://www.sensenet.hu/
SharePoint List Association Manager – SLAMMED!
So I just got of the MSN Messenger with Allan Wellenstein at AW Systems. He wanted to follow up how I feel about my new friend SLAM. So I thought I would post my latest feelings about SLAM to you all.
First of all I will tell you this, with SharePoint Slamified and my SharePoint lists Slammed into standard read-only tables I can create anykind of website or application working with read-only SharePoint data without the need of any front-end SharePoint solutions. How about that?
The installation process and our testing samples
I am installing SLAM now and in the end you wanna see this!
After this is done make sure you goto http://www.codeplex.com/SLAM/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Getting%20Started and read it. I did not today but Allan kindly reminded me about it and thank you for the greatest support Allan!
Make sure you get the SLAM.DUMMY.CONFIG file from the folder /resources in your virtual directory of your SharePoint and drop a copy of it in the root of that virtual directory and rename it to SLAM.CONFIG.
After installation is done just goto Site Settings in your SharePoint installation and activate the feature.
So activate it and then magic starts to happen…
Activated and ready to configure your SLAM? How do I know if I am?
You will see the SLAM Control Panel inside Site Settings menu Site Collection Administration. Click on it!
You will get an nasty error now telling you that the SQL Server cannot be found… if you didn’t follow the instructions in the readme.txt or the online guide which you find by clicking the link above in this post.
So… like me… huh! Forgot to create the database. Let’s do that now!
We created an empty database named slam and now we will open up the slam.config file and edit the connectionstring inside.
Edit the ConnectionStrings, type in your serveraddress and instance if you have an instance. Enter db name SLAM (if used) and your credentials. SAVE!
When you edit some stuff in your SharePoint environment you might need to grab your command console and enter the magic word IISRESET and it will be a little nightmare moment without SharePoint. SharePoint will now have to work it’s way up to the surface again and it can be (read will be) a bit slow for a while.
When everything in this configuration steps is done you can click again on SLAM Control Panel and you will see the screen below. NO ERRORS!
So let’s enter a relationsship between my lists in my development environment. My new slam.config looks like below.
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If everything is good you can go into the SLAM control panel and you will get this.
So look at that! Relations created in SLAM and what the heck are going to do now to get something cool out of this SLAMMER?
Let’s open up the SQL Management Studio now and create a query against the newly created tables. Tables should have been created now like below.
If we take a look inside our Tasks table it should look like the image below.
So you see all the data here from your SharePoint lists, or at least all the data from the fields that you decided to SLAM.
This means that relations created in SLAM and SLAMMED fields and tables will get stored syncronized outside SharePoint in a SQL Server.
So this is awesome as hell boys and girls! I just SLAMMED four of my SharePoint lists and then created an ordinary WebSite Application within Visual Studio 2008. Connected to my SQL Server which holds the SLAMMED tables fully syncronized from SharePoint. Created some views and pages that present data and information from SharePoint on a thin website application. What about that? I just imitate the OLW commercial, CHESUS!!!
I am extremely impressed of SLAM and what stuff you can do with your SharePoint SLAMIFIED as to say all SharePoint content SLAMMED into standard read-only tables.
This product will not just (as of today) be the 12th most popular on CodePlex. It will for sure be a popular product all over the Internet among us SharePoint Nerds!
Thanks a lot to Allan for all support and tips when testing this awesome software.
www.codeplex.com/slam/ – Let’s SLAM IT!
SenseNet from Hungary seem extremely similar to SharePoint
I just walked through some features of the current release and some more on the upcoming release of the SenseNet system. It is opensource, created in .NET and it seems like a superduper great system.
![18[1]](http://itbloggen.se/cs/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/diaznet/181_5F00_thumb_5F00_175AE2E1.jpg "18[1]")
Click the image to see the full size image!
I want all you Sharepointers comments on this competitor as soon as possible. Can we learn something from their features? Can we create a comparison chart between this one, SharePoint and IBMs platform?
I feel a little bit sick though after walking through their mindmap-alike feature flashenabled webpage… whoa! My office is spinning around like a rollercoaster now.
http://www.sensenet.hu/
SharePoint List Forms Extensions Feature
When you create and use your SharePoint list forms for editing and creating new items you have always had this wet dream on displaying different fields depending on which user is logged in and using the form, am I right?
If you nick, nod or scream yes of frustration this post will make you happy and joyful. The team at KWizcom have released their List Forms Extensions and this version adds this functionality for your forms. Yes, oh yes you can manage which form fields get displayed or not using their extensions.
Go to the productpage here
Strangely it seem that all Sharepointers miss this forum or?
I am confused now, I am the co-moderator of the forums at www.sharepointcommunity.com and it is a lazy task. How come there are no more Sharepointers using this forum?
What forums do you all use? If you miss one click the link above, register and go posting.
Head to Head SharePoint Development – Swedish Post!
Äntligen måste jag säga efter snart 10 års uppehåll som lärare inom utveckling. Förr i tiden utbildade jag dryga 300 personer inom klassisk ASP och så vitt jag vet var kurserna mycket populära och alltid fullsatta.
Tillsammans med LabCenter arrangeras nu utbildningen Head to Head SharePoint Development. Det är en grundkurs i SharePointutveckling som lär dig det mesta om de möjligheter som finns inom SharePoint.
Läs mer här
www.labcenter.se
Announcing SharePoint Conference 2009
WHOA!
This very night Microsoft announced the SharePoint Conference details. It will go down at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada between October 19-22.
For all the sweat details visit www.MSSharePointConference.com!
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