Via Patrick:
«There he is again with his 'Modify Shared Page' extension again some readers will say :). But Carlos Segura Sanz has wrapped up a must-have Web Part (called the csegModifyMenu Web Part) that makes it very simple to move those administrative links over to the 'Modify Shared Page' menu.
Read more on it over here.»
I have recently found Chris Pratley's OneNote blog. Chris is part of the OneNote team and has a lot of posts referecing goodies and tips as well as forecasting news on OneNote 12.
Some examples:
If you are an OneNote fan and constant user like me, you will also appreciate this:
Keep it up Chris! 
Via Serge:
«From the online documentation @ http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/spptsdk/html/tsovOMGdlnsShowASPErrors_SV01108995.asp?frame=true:
Displaying ASP.NET Error Messages
You can disable Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services error messaging so that ASP.NET error messages are displayed instead.
To display ASP.NET error messages, perform the following steps:
- In the Local_Drive:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\60\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS folder, change the name of the global.asax file to global.bak.
- In the web.config file in the same folder, change customErrors = "On" to customErrors="Off".
That is the stupid thing when you are working with SharePoint for so long: you forget to reread the documentation for new additions!»
That is the very truth!
Via Patrick:
«Brian Jones posted interesting news this week. The forthcoming Office 12 products will have native PDF support. This is certainly a good investment since organizations heavily use this format in their day-to-day operations. I know also that WSS vNext will have better support for storing PDF files.»
As you can read from Brian's post, the PDF support will be built into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher, OneNote (GREAT!), Visio and InfoPath (also great!).
This another move that more and more makes me feel that the next line of products comming out of Office "12" are going to empower people to build really great new solutions, thus freeing developers to answer real business and proccess needs instead.
Via Patrick:
«I couple of days ago, I received a mail from Luis Du Solier asking me a good way to find out what version of WSS is installed on the machine. I could not really help him immediately but he found the very useful information on the blog of Penny.
Update: Mike has summarized all you need to know about the WSS versions here. Great job Mike.»
Via Patrick:
«Question from Brian
Is it possible to deploy a SmartPart that already references a user control so that my end users never have to select anything (either via the tool property or the list)? I want to deploy a few Web Parts built with the SmartPart, but not have users switch the users controls I am using in the SmartPart.
Answer from Jan
You have to use this little trick:
1) add a smartpart instance to a page
2) select user control and set desired properties
3) export the web part and save the dwp (using the dropdown menu of the web part title bar)
4) copy the dwp to the WPCatalog folder of your SharePoint site
Now your usercontrol/smartpart web part will be shown in the virtual server gallery.»
Weekend @ Porto
A little train, a little boat, and a little work/geek dinner at friends' house.
Windows Pesentation Foundation
If you're curious about the WPF (former Avalon) a good start would be reading this whitepaper from the North Face proof-of-concept shown at PDC05.
You can also check out the video from the presentation of this proof-of-concept here.
Microsoft MAX (codename)
Also from PDC05, another nice proof-of-concept, from the site:
Microsoft® Codename Max is not like any other product. That's because it's not a product—it's your opportunity to try an exciting new user experience from Microsoft. Max is built on built on the next-generation WinFX technology that will drive the development of Windows Vista® applications. Today Max lets you make lists of your photos and turn them into beautiful slide shows to share with your family and friends. Tomorrow...who knows?
I think this image is self explanatory.
Today we encountered an error while trying to execute the following code:
SPWeb newWeb;
newWeb = myWeb.Webs.Add(txtName.Text.Replace(" ",""),txtName.Text,txtDescription.Text,(uint)System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture.LCID,Request.QueryString["Template"].ToString(),false,false);
We run this on a machine with Windows 2003 (English) and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (Portuguese) and got an error that the language was not supported on the server.
Florin Zamfir pointed me to the solution: since we were running Windows 2003 English version, the System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture.LCID was returning 1033 (english LCID) instead of the 2070 (portuguese LCID), which resulted in obvious BUMMM.
So we installed Windows Server™ 2003 Multilingual User Interface Pack (Portuguese-Portugal) and set every Regional Settings to Portuguese.
Fixed  Hope this is useful to someone.
Via Patrick:
When working with the SharePoint object model, you quickly will encounter security issues with certain calls to classes and members within the WSS or SPS object model. There have been discussions on how to get around that by impersonation but do know that SharePoint sometimes reverts back to the original logged-on user. So, you will have to find other tricks. Basically, there are three, all of them involving your code being moved to somewhere else: a Web service, a COM+ app, or an AppDomain. Maurice has done some great stuff documenting the last technique and has done an update of the material yesterday. Take a look at it and keep it somewhere close since you might need it!
My contribution:
- Keep in mind that WSS application pool account needs less previledges to run than the SPS2003 application pool account.
- Here's a good article on how-to do credential-less impersonation by Todd Bleeker.
 We're looking for portuguese freelancers for a project.
A CaveDigital, empresa na área das tecnologias de informação na zona de Lisboa, procura freelancer (f/m) para integração em projecto visando a análise e desenvolvimento de várias aplicações em ambiente WEB. O projecto será realizado em Lisboa com a duração mínima de 6 meses.
O Candidato deverá preencher os seguintes requisitos:
- 1. Experiência em Análise de Sistemas.
- 2. Conhecimentos de ASP e ASP.NET/C# e MS SQL Server.
- 3. Facilidade de comunicação.
- 4. Boa capacidade de trabalho em equipa.
- 5. Disponibilidade no curto-prazo.
Os interessados deverão enviar o seu curriculum (CV, portfolio, nacos de código, etc) para: info@cavedigital.com
Via Mark Harrison:
The IE Developer Toolbar was announced at PDC and provides several features for deeply exploring and understanding Web pages.
Download
Features include :
- Explore and modify the document object model (DOM) of a web page.
- Locate and select specific elements on a web page through a variety of techniques.
- Selectively disable Internet Explorer settings.
- View HTML object class names, ID's, and details such as link paths, tab index values, and access keys.
- Outline tables, table cells, images, or selected tags.
- Validate HTML, CSS, WAI, and RSS web feed links.
- Display image dimensions, file sizes, path information, and alternate (ALT) text.
- Immediately resize the browser window to 800x600 or a custom size.
- Selectively clear the browser cache and saved cookies. Choose from all objects or those associated with a given domain.
- Choose direct links to W3C specification references, the Internet Explorer team weblog (blog), and other resources.
- Display a fully featured design ruler to help accurately align objects on your pages.
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