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Sterling Jameson
Custom ASPX pages (w/ code behind) in SharePoint
There are several different ways to add custom ASPX pages with code behind to SharePoint. The following link gives an overview of some of the most common ways to do this (http://sharenotes.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/add-custom-aspx-pages-or-asp-net-pages-in-sharepoint/) ; however, the below approach in this article is a new alternative which I find to be fairly quick, easy, and allows us [...]
Reporting Services Options
Having implemented Reporting Services solutions on a number of projects, I think it’s important to note the different ways to deal with implementing reports. First off, you can go with the model using a Report Server, SSRS 2005 or 2008. Either way, in this case, you are are leveraging Business Intelligence Development Studio, or VS [...]
Setup a Silverlight 2 Development Box
The release of Silverlight 3 adds some great new features (http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/overview.aspx), but one cumbersome obstacle now is the ability to continue development in Silverlight 2. With all the automatic updates and installation files forcing you to upgrade to 3, it was quite tough to get a new development environment up and running for developing Silverlight [...]
MOSS Branding – Site Actions
There are some great browser add-ons out there to help you as you brand your SharePoint site. My favorite of these being Mozilla’s Firebug for FireFox. There are some fairly hard styles to catch though, even with the assistance of on of these add-ons. Ever try branding all those links in the Site Actions drop [...]
MOSS Content Deployment
SharePoint offers a lot of out-of-box features for managing content from an end user perspective. Sometimes you may want your end users to have the capability to migrate content across multiple site collections, or even different web applications. In my case, I needed a solution which would allow a user to publish a document, list, [...]
Default CSS Settings
Each browser applies its own default settings to HTML tags. For example, while IE and Firefox may both add a default top margin to the <p> tag, the size of that margin spacing may be different in each browser. Further, one browser may apply a default lower margin or padding, for example, while another browser [...]
Custom Sharepoint Theme
Creating a new SharePoint theme is a fairly straightforward process. You can entirely leverage the existing themes as a foundation on which to begin constructing your own. To make a new theme, simply follow these steps: Navigate to the themes folder: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\TEMPLATE\THEMES. Make your own theme named “EXAMPLE” by copy/pasting [...]