SharePoint 2010 takes advantage of Silverlight to provide rich and interactive user interfaces. It also greatly simplifies hosting of media content and Silverlight applications within SharePoint by providing out-of-the-box Silverlight-enabled web parts. In this post I will point out some of these Silverlight enhancements and show you how easy it is to host media content [...]
Adding Custom Properties to a SharePoint Web Part NOTE: This post is part 2 of the tutorial entitled Building a SharePoint List Aggregator Web Part with Custom Properties. All SharePoint web parts have properties that control their behavior and appearance. You can access these properties by clicking on a little triangle on the right side [...]
As a developer working with Microsoft technologies, I use Visual Studio on a daily basis. Therefore, I’m really looking forward to the new version that is currently under development – Visual Studio 2010. It has a number of new and improved features, and will support the upcoming .NET Framework 4. In this post, I’m going [...]
NOTE: This post is a part of the tutorial entitled Building a SharePoint List Aggregator Web Part with Custom Properties. Creating a SharePoint Web Part To get started, open VS 2008, click on File > New Project, choose Class Library project template, name your project, choose the location and click OK. Close the Class1.vb file [...]
This is a tutorial on how to build a customizable web part for MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0. We will be building a List Aggregator – a web part that can collect, filter, and display list items from all lists of a certain type from all sub-sites in up to 3 site collections. This web [...]