Video: Citizen Service Platform in Porto

You can read the Case Study here.

Hi all,

Daniel Dias Pereira will be presenting our Board Meeting solution on a live webcast this afternoon.

His presentation will be in portuguese:

Webcast 26 - "The Best of Techdays 2008 ITPro" - Innovation Day - Administração Pública Electrónica: Gov 2.0

- CaveDigital (Daniel Pereira): Reuniões e Colaboração Digitais;

A solução CaveDigital Board Meeting 2007 vem potenciar a Modernização Administrativa ao nível dos Decisores de topo, permitindo que as suas reuniões passem a ocorrer no plano digital, contribuindo assim para a diminuição drástica do consumo de recursos naturais e do impacto ambiental, bem como para potenciar o aumento da agilidade nos processos de tomada de decisão. Na sua variante Town Hall Edition, esta solução dá resposta às Reuniões de Câmara, desmaterializando por completo o fluxo de trabalho, desde a elaboração das propostas até à sua deliberação em Reunião de Câmara e resultando também na criação automática de minuta de acta.

Será demonstrada a solução implementada na Câmara Municipal do Porto, onde a plataforma supracitada estima-se (baseado em dados recolhidos desde a entrada do sistema em funcionamento) permitir a poupança de até 30 àrvores por ano, para além dos ganhos na qualidade das propostas e tempo de preparação de cada Reunião de Câmara.

To subscribe to this webcast, go to: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032379345&Culture=pt-PT

Cheers!

If you ever want to check if a document library item's author is the current user, here's the code snippet on how to do it:

SPFieldUserValue authorUserValue = new SPFieldUserValue(myWeb, myItem["Author"].ToString());
if (myWeb.CurrentUser.LoginName == authorUserValue.User.LoginName)
{

// your code will go here

}

Hope this takes away pain from anyone trying to use GetByID

P.S.: sorry all of you I haven't yet replied to your emails - I've been on the road and jumping airports a lot, so life is kinda hectic which is making it hard to keep up with my mailbox.

You're getting «HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED)» when you try to create subwebs using a custom site definition programmatically?

For a quick work-around, just add this to your Assembly.info.cs file, re-compile and re-deploy:

using System.Security;

...

[assembly:AllowPartiallyTrustedCallers]

Signing and making your code trusted should also work, but if you're on a tight spot, this code will probably get you some air to breath

Hope this helps someone out there

Both me and Daniel Pereira just did 70-630. Instead of bragging about it, let's just say it's done, with style

Three or four weeks ago I did this during a weekend (yes, had no sleep...)

Basically, I integrated the Timeline from SIMILE (Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike Environments) into a SharePoint web part which consumes event itens from a SharePoint Calendar list.

I really fancy on how I might be using this in the future

SPException ...

Pedro Santana just shared this with me ...

Now, who had the idea of translating the role ID for full control on MOSS 2007 pt-PT ?

... naughty you!

Patrick's been kind enough to share again more goodies and gems with the rest of us

A great new deal of books are reaching the market, which waits hungry for office & sharepoint 2007 knowledge!

Inside MOSS 2007 (Patrick's), which I'm waiting eagerly for

Designing Forms for Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 and Forms Services 2007 (Scott Roberts & Hagen Green), which I reviewed and find a good source for all that is InforPath and Forms Services 2007 (holds your hand from novice to intermediate).

Workflow in Office 2007 (David Mann), which I'm reading now and so far, so great

Via Mart,

«Finally it is there!

This Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services contains the following tools to aid developers in building SharePoint applications:
Visual Studio 2005 Project Templates

• Web Part
• Team Site Definition
• Blank Site Definition
• List Definition

Visual Studio 2005 Item Templates (items that can be added into an existing project)

• Web Part
• Custom Field
• List Definition (with optional Event Receiver)
• Content Type (with optional Event Receiver)
• Module

SharePoint Solution Generator

• This stand-alone program generates a Site Definition project from an existing SharePoint site. The program enables developers to use the browser and Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer to customize the content of their sites before creating code by using Visual Studio.

Download here»

For those of you installing Beta 2 TR, you probably run into trouble when uninstalling the WinFX 3.0 Runtime Components Beta 2... Here's a tool for that:

Brief Description

Thanks to another member from our team, Marcos Alves, for helping me find it

Patrick and Mart write about government policies requiring to have no table elements in the design of web pages, using div instead.

The workaround suggested, or solution, would be to take advantage of the Control Adapter Framework provided by ASP.NET 2.0.

Take a look at the CSS friendly ASP.NET 2.0 control adapters beta 1.1 and this page.

Read Patrick's and Mart's posts on this subject for more details.

For a post on How-to implement CSS friendly ASP.NET 2.0 control adapters in SharePoint 2007, see Frank's post.

As promised, I'm releasing some of our documentation, so here's the following white paper, in portuguese:

Microsoft Learning Gateway 2005
Arquitectura de Referência para Portais Educativos

Sumário Executivo
Portais são ferramentas de agregação e disponibilização de conteúdos e serviços online para as organizações. Um Portal ao serviço da Educação potencia uma melhor interacção entre os diversos intervenientes (Professores, Alunos, Encarregados de Educação, Funcionários Administrativos, etc.), uma ponte entre estes intervenientes e as organizações (Administração Pública e Local, Agrupamentos Escolares, Escolas, Fornecedores, etc.) e, quando associada uma forte componente colaborativa, podem potenciar a produtividade e agilizar o trabalho e as actividades do dia-a-dia destes intervenientes e organizações.

Este documento procura descrever uma arquitectura de referência para Câmaras Municipais, ou outras estruturas organizativas agregantes, para uma solução que permita a fácil disponibilização de conteúdos e ambientes colaborativos, simultaneamente potenciando uma plataforma sobre a qual seja possível desenvolver respostas a necessidades específicas das organizações, ao nível estratégico e ao nível operacional, bem como agilizar a integração dos seus diversos sistemas.

20051122192300 - MLG 2005 - Arquitectura de Referencia para Portais Educativos.zip (1,01 MB)

Hope it is useful to someone out there

Patrick posts great stuff, again ,

«The ribbon in Office '12' is a wonderful new UI experience and a lot of people really seem to like it. During my O12 workshops, I often get the question 'Will we be able to build the ribbon in our own applications?'. Microsoft does not directly give you new ribbon controls in your VS.NET toolbox. But wait! Look at the DotNetBar on www.devcomponents.com. I have not tried it yet but looking at the screenshots and the explanation, this is what you need if you want to integrate the ribbon in your own applications.

»

Accordingly to DevComponents.com website, one single developer license costs $189, and if you want to have with that the source code as well, it costs $249... Seems fair 

Today will be the last day of this training workshop on Development with SharePoint and K2.net I'm giving - hope it has been helpful to my trainees and that they will succeed and make me proud with every project they do with these technologies.

Here's something I would like to share with everyone

Here's a site with free .NET code snippets: http://www.gotcodesnippets.com/

Enjoy