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Cross posting from Andrew Connell for later reference:

Announcing three CodePlex projects for community WCM code samples

Cross posted on Spencer Harbar’s Blog.

We (Andrew Connell & Spencer Harbar) would like to announce three new CodePlex projects created to enable the community to share examples of useful Publishing site elements built using the Web Content Management features of Office SharePoint Server 2007. Initially these projects contain a number of commonly used MCMS 2002 Placeholder controls converted for use within MOSS Publishing sites which have been graciously donated by Microsoft. Over time these samples will be augmented and enhanced. Future plans include the consolidation and alignment of deployment mechanisms of all code samples in all projects.

All the CodePlex projects listed below are released under the most permissive Microsoft license (Ms-PL) which means that you can do virtually anything you want with these code samples.

Many of the code samples include a MS Word document explaining the process of developing the code sample as well as deployment instructions.

The projects (and the included code samples) are broken down as follows:

SharePoint 2007 WCM Field Controls
A collection of sample Field Controls for use within Publishing Sites built using Office SharePoint Server 2007’s Web Content Management features.

• MultimediaFieldControl: Custom field type and control allowing content authors to specify a URL, width and height of a media file (SWF, PDF, WMV, MPEG, AVI, MPG, MOV) and renders the display of the control with the appropriate ActiveX control markup.

SharePoint 2007 WCM Web Parts
A collection of sample Web Parts for use within Publishing Sites built using Office SharePoint Server 2007’s Web Content Management features.

• FAQWebPart: Web Part that allows business users to contribute to a frequently asked questions list which is rendered with DHTML allowing users to expand/collapse each FAQ item.
• RandomFlashMovieWebPart: Web Part that allows a content author to select one or more Flash movies from a SharePoint library. The Web Part will then display one of the Flash movies, at random, in display mode.
• ThumbnailWebPart: Content authors can specify a SharePoint library containing images that the Web Part will generate thumbnails for. It allows content authors to specify the size, sort order and the number of thumbnails to be displayed in one row.

SharePoint 2007 WCM Utilities
A collection of useful utilities for Publishing Sites built using Office SharePoint Server 2007’s Web Content Management features.

• METATagsGenerator: This ASP.NET 2.0 server control renders HTML <META> tags for each field in the current page’s content type.
• PropertyBagFeature: Allows content authors to modify values within the property bag of pages… similar to the custom properties provided in MCMS 2002.
• SharePointSSLHttpModule: Makes it easy for developers to SSL enable certain parts of a MOSS 2007 WCM Publishing site.

I love mashups and this one is defintely my current favorite!

They’ve equipped 5 of the riders in the race with a GPS tracker, heart monitor, bicycle computer and a radio that continuously transmits readings to the sportsdirector car which then relays the information to some server somewhere. The data is then overlayed a Google Map.

I absolutely love computers!!!!!!!!!!!!

Check it out: http://www.ubilabs.net/tourdefrance/

From Ted Pattison:

I’m thrilled to announce the first course that focuses specifically on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 Web Content Management (WCM). That’s right… no general Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) v3 development topics, minimal admin topics, no other MOSS 2007 topics (Excel Services, BDC, Search, etc)… just four days of 100% WCM for developers! Roll up your sleeves, open Visual Studio 2005 & SharePoint Designer 2007, and great ready to sling some Publishing sites out!

I’m delivering this four-day, hands-on, developer focused course through the Ted Pattison Group starting in early July 2007. The course includes twelve (12) modules and assumes that the student has some developer knowledge of WSS v3… but those new to SharePoint are also welcome. What will you get in four days? The course will cover roughly three modules per day:

Schedule of Lectures

1. WSS Development Primer
2. Web Content Management Architecture
3. Authentication & Authorization
4. Master Pages & Navigation
5. Creating Custom Page Layouts
6. Extending the Out-Of-The-Box Authoring Experience
7. Leveraging WCM Web Parts
8. Custom Field Types & Controls
9. Performance Tuning Publishing Sites
10. Creating Custom Workflow
11. Content Deployment
12. Variations

WSS Development Primer

• Overview of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS)
• WSS Capabilities
• Working with Visual Studio 2005 and the WSS object model
• Working with WSS features & the WSS solution package framework

Web Content Management Architecture

• Overview of MOSS 2007: added value on top of WSS
• Overview of Web Content Management (WCM) and Publishing sites
• Creating Publishing sites
• Working with the Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing namespace

Authentication & Authorization

• Additional SharePoint groups and permission levels in MOSS Publishing sites
• Managing permissions
• Pluggable authentication
• Alternative Access Mappings & Zones
• Utilizing multiple authentication models

Master Pages & Navigation

• Creating & editing master pages using Office SharePoint Designer 2007
• Implications of customized & uncustomized master pages (unghosted & ghosted)
• Managing & deploying Master Pages using the structured development approach
• Navigation provider model and SharePoint’s site map data sources
• Customizing the out-of-the-box navigation controls and site map data sources

Creating Custom Page Layouts

• Creating & editing page layouts using Office SharePoint Designer 2007
• Adding and editing field controls and Web Part zones on Page Layouts
• Managing & deploying page layouts using the structured development approach
• Incorporating 3rd party components (including your custom components)

Extending the Out-Of-The-Box Authoring Experience

• Customizing and extending the SharePoint Rich HTML Editor
• Incorporating the telerik r.a.d.editor for Office SharePoint 2007
• Effectively using the edit mode panel
• Customizing and extending the Page Editing Toolbar

Leveraging WCM Web Parts

• Implementing the Table of Contents Web Part
• Implementing the Summary Links Web Part
• Implementing the Content Query Web Part
• Customizing the rendered output of Publishing Web Parts
• Creating and deploying custom Web Parts

Custom Field Types & Field Controls

• Creating custom field types
• Creating custom field controls
• Incorporating custom field controls and types into page layouts
• Deploying custom field types and field controls

Performance Tuning Publishing Sites

• Overview of MOSS WCM performance enhancements
• Implementing and customizing page output caching
• Implementing and customizing disk-based object caching
• Performance techniques when working with the object model

Creating Custom Workflows

• Creating & editing workflows using Office SharePoint Designer 2007
• Creating template sequential and state machine workflows using Visual Studio 2005
• Integrating Office InfoPath 2007 forms into Visual Studio 2005 authored workflows
• Deploying workflows created using Visual Studio 2005

Content Deployment

• Overview of MOSS content deployment
• Publishing content from one environment to another
• Configuring Content Deployment via the browser-based user interface
• Working with Content Deployment using the SharePoint object model

Variations

• Overview of Web Content Management multilingual enhancements and capabilities
• Implementing variations and labels
• Using variations to implement multilingual and multidevice sites

This course is available in both as an open enrollment offering as well as private engagements. The first date the course will be offered is July 9-12 in Tampa, FL. For more information on scheduling, dates offered, and registration, please refer to the official course page & schedule page.

SharePoint 2007 Flash Animation Web Part – The Code Project – SharePoint Server

A while ago JSJR did a cool demo of integrating Flash with lists in WSS3.0. Getting the SWF to load was a pain, so here’s a Flash Web Part instead:

Here’s a description of howto create template for pretty printing contents from a list in Sharepoint. This is highly recommended reading:

Easily print SharePoint lists using your own template

And there’s an online demonstration of the functionality.

With the different authentication provider support for MOSS, there are more and more free applications that will provide user management tools integrated in the SharePoint environment.

One very good example is the Forms Based User Administration Feature, which can be downloaded from codeplex.

Featurelist:

• The Feature includes an Administrator web part to view/edit/delete and add users to the data store by an administrator.
• Self registration page for users to request access to the site.
• New functionality for self registration
• Password retrieval via email
• CAPTCHA validation on self registration
• UI Enhancements

Forms Based User Administration Feature Release Beta 1.0
Mart Muller
Tue, 06 Feb 2007 12:26:14 GMT

It seems like they have released a professional and developer version of the BDC metadata manager for MOSS 2007! Great work!

“BDC Meta Man makes generating Application Definitions easy due to the many features it offers.

• Easy to use Windows application
• Ability to connect to and browse multiple data sources
• No need to know how to write XML or SQL
• Integrated Shared Service Provider Administration Web Site
• Inspect your application definition and edit any part of it
• Saves enormous amounts of time and effort”

For a full overview of features per version, check out this document.

BDC Meta Manager Professional and Developer released
Mart Muller
Tue, 06 Feb 2007 12:16:28 GMT