Deployment. Newsletter. Search. Custom SharePoint STSADM Commands. Free source code and programming help. Introduction With Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) and of course the WSS v3, it is possible to implement custom commands for the STSADM Administration Tool. Why? You want to implement little helpers for developing/testing without an administration interface. You want to add functionality for administrators to help them, including the possibility to script those commands for batch usage. There might be some other reasons to implement custom commands, but the ones above are the most asked questions and purposes.
My intention in this is mainly supposed to help developers who implement custom timer jobs like I did. How? Developing a custom command is very simple. You need one class which implements ISPStsadmCommand and an XML file for the registration of your command so that the stsadm.exe knows what to do with your command. Setting Up Development Environments for the 2007 Microsoft Office System. Summary: Learn how to set up development environments for the 2007 Microsoft Office system, including client and server applications. Create sample projects that demonstrate the types of application solutions that you can create using this system. (33 printed pages) Keith Bunge, Solanite Consulting, Inc. Alex Hart, Solanite Consulting, Inc. Bryan Hart, Solanite Consulting, Inc. How to Create a MOSS 2007 VPC Image: The Whole 9 Yards - SharePoint Reporter Blog. Building a Blog Host, Part 2. SharePoint Templates for CodeSmith tool - SharePoint world of ECM and Information Design.
Are you a big fun of CodeSmith tool?! Blog for Sharepoint Hunter. Trick the Sharepoint Query String (URL) « Abstract Spaces. May 5, 2008 at 7:38 PM (SharePoint) Tags: SharePoint Adding some parameters in the URL i.e. QuerySting gives some bonus , specially for the pages where “EditPage” is not available from Site Settings. It Even works if there is no SiteSettings assigned to user( Should we take it as BIG security BUG ? ) For example there is no “Edit Page” Option available in any of lists “NewFrom.aspx”. so there is no other way then to go in sharepoint designer and then edit the page. But this way is more easier, as to just trick the URL and you will have NewForm.aspx in Edit Mode in Browser. !!!!!! The possible parameters with values are : Different combinations of this parameters gives some time saving benefit of editing the same page in designer.
Making the Layouts section of the "Create Page" page easier to read. Its always frustrated me that the list box on the "Create Page" page always shows the content type first with brackets around it. I am always looking for the layout title, but when you have a number of available layouts based on a single content type it can be tricky to find the one you are after... I thought it would be nice to have the layout title first and the content type second.... Sharing ....SharePoint : SharePoint Developer introduction for .NET Developers. Sharepoint - All About SharePoint - S.S. Ahmed - MVP Microsoft SharePoint.
Karthick's Blog. Leveraging Custom Property Builders in SharePoint Web Parts. I'm anxiously awaiting Microsoft's release of Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint Services as mentioned by Mathew Cosier here, Mart Muller here, and Wes Preston here.
When released, these new extensions should make our lives as SharePoint developers a bit simpler. In the meantime, if you follow a consistent approach when laying out the structure and outputs of your WSS v3 Feature project, it becomes possible to create useful and time-saving tools for automation inside the Visual Studio 2005 IDE. In my development environment I've defined and frequently use tools to add, deploy, upgrade, retract, and delete a WSS Solution Package (wsp).
My favorite of these tools is the upgrade operation, as it allows for a quick "build and test" iterative development cycle. Behind the scenes, each of these tools call the appropriate stsadm.exe operation and display the command's result in Visual Studio 2005's Output Window. WSP Solution Add WSP Solution Deploy Global WSP Solution Upgrade.
Building a blog host, Part 3. Building a Blog host, Part 1. Home - Michael Gannotti on SharePoint + Home - Lawrence Liu's Report from the Inside. Joel Oleson's Blog SharePoint Land : File Name, Length, Size and Invalid Character Restrictions and Recommendations. How To Create a Hyperlink to SharePoint's List Export to Spreadsheet - Westin's Technical Log. Because you can't copy the hyperlink on the "Export to spreadsheet" link on SharePoint lists, here is how you can create your own hyperlink.
Replace the [Placeholders] with your environment's information. A handy way to get the list and view GUIDs is to go into "Modify Columns and Settings" then scoll down to the views section and click on the view that you want to use. You will notice the escaped list and view GUIDs in the resultant URL. SharePoint Server. SharePoint: Script to Install All Application Templates. I referred to couple of posts to help you install WSS v3 application templates.
If you followed those instructions to a tee, then you would have been successful in installing the application templates. However, installing 20 or 40 templates using that method made me cranky Why not install all of them using a script? Well here it is (idea originated from Dustin Miller) which I used to first add the templates and then deploy them.
Note: Make sure Windows SharePoint Services Administration service is running. Just include this in your script if you want net start spadmin Now extract all you Application Templates in a folder. SharePoint Object Browser. Free source code and programming help. Download the project - 13.37 KB Introduction. SharePoint Shelter » Blog Archive » Differentiating Between the Cost and Value of SharePoint. In class today, we had a heated debate regarding trustworthy, commercial collaborative software.
Not surprisingly, I took the side of SharePoint so joined the group preparing the argument for the Microsoft stack (it was small group session breakout). Interestingly, the argument ended in a stalemate after both presented cases, both sides agreeing that each has their inherent benefits (its god damn hard to come up with an ample argument against Open Source benefits), and innate faults. However, from that preliminary argument, a new dialogue was produced. Regardless of the stack choice that either group was defending, it is typical that management level sponsorship for collaborative environment efforts often has difficulty pegging down the value of standing up a collaborative software instance.
Office SharePoint Server 2007. Chris O'Brien's blog: Using the SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard. So if you've read the earlier posts about the tool (Introducing the SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard and When to use the SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard) and figure this is a useful tool, let's go onto the next level of detail. Generally speaking the Content Deployment Wizard 'just works', but if you want to know more about the different options, read on. This post contains reference information and a guide to some deployment scenarios at the end. Chris O'Brien's blog: Creating lookup columns as a feature. This is the second article in a series aimed at explaining the process of creating a MOSS site using SharePoint features.
For the full series contents, see my introduction. Last time we looked at the process of creating some SharePoint lists using VSeWSS. Sure, creating a list is a simple end-user task using the SharePoint UI, but in some scenarios such as when your site is a highly controlled internet/WCM site (or generally anywhere where we have multiple environments for dev/QA/staging/production) this deployment technique doesn't really cut it. Instead we probably want to use something more automated and repeatable than recreating such site artifacts manually each time.
Erika Ehrli : New Office Visual How-tos: MOSS and WSS 3.0.