Jan Tielens' BloggingsJoy, frustration, excitement, madness, aha's, headaches, ... codito ergo sum!New Version of the Caml Query Builder Tool- May 28, 2008 My colleague Karine has released a new version of her Caml Query Builder Tool! Version 3.1.0.0 has some great new features:Query fields by IDGetListItemChanges (method of the Lists.asmx web service)GetListItemChangesSinceToken (method of the Lists.asmx web service)extra options of the QueryOptions partsupport for data type ModStat Download here and check her blog post for the full details.http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2008/05/28/new-version-of-the-caml-query-builder-tool.a... DevDays NL Presentations and Demos Online- May 28, 2008 Pfew, the DevDays 2008 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands are over! I think both of my sessions (Getting your SharePoint Code Deployed & Advanced Web Part Development) went pretty well; no crashes or failing demos. Let's hope the audience thinks the same. :-) I already got quite some requests to get my presentations and demo code. So instead of sending a copy to everybody's email, I've uploaded them to my SkyDrive account. If you have any questions, comments andor feedback; feel free to post..http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2008/05/28/devdays-nl-presentations-and-demos-online.as... DevDays 2008 The Netherlands- May 21, 2008 For the third year in a row I'll be speaking at the Dutch Developer Days in Amsterdam. The event starts tomorrow and I've got two sessions on Friday (Getting your SharePoint Code Deployed and Advanced Web Part Development). Speaking in Amsterdam is always lots of fun, so I hope to meet you there! By the way, if you can't make it to the event, you can watch a life screen of the keynote.http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2008/05/21/devdays-2008-the-netherlands.aspx Photo World Record Attempt in Amsterdam- May 21, 2008 Micromiel is organizing a cool photo event in Amsterdam this weekend, I whish I could attend it! This Saturday (the 24th of May), I&8217;m organizing an event for amateur-photographers in downtown Amsterdam. The day starts around 12 noon with a welcome and introduction at &8216;De Rode Hoed&8216;, a pretty classy venue naar the waterside. Around 40 photographers will be divided into 4 groups of 10, and will then board a ship that will be docked right outside the building. Right then, the...http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2008/05/21/photo-world-record-attempt-in-amsterdam.aspx Creating Hierarchical Menus with a CustomAction in SharePoint- May 8, 2008 Its a fairly known technique to make use of CustomActions to add elements to the out-of-the-box user interface of SharePoint: you can add menu items to the Site Actions menu, you can add links on the Site Settings page, etc. The following piece of XML is the manifest of a feature that will add a new menu item to the Site Actions menu: <Elements xmlns="http:schemas.microsoft.comsharepoint"> <CustomAction ...http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2008/05/08/creating-hierarchical-menus-with-a-customact... Creating Custom Application Pages that look like OOB Application Pages- May 8, 2008 Juist a quick post so I won't forget this link: http:graegert.comp=505 Steve Graegert has written a great post on how you can work with the SPPropertyBag to store configuration settings. Of course that's very interesting, but in this post he also describes how you can build a custom Application Page that looks like it's an OOB Application Page. The trick is to know the SharePoint user controls that are responsible for building the UI, like InputFormSection and InputFormControl. Once again,.http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2008/05/08/creating-custom-application-pages-that-look-... New Release of the SmartTools for SharePoint- May 7, 2008 I just uploaded a new release of the SmartTools for SharePoint to the CodePlex site. Currently the SmartTools project has two components: What's New web part: show new or modified data on SharePoint sites Autocomplete Text Field: AJAX autocomplete lookup field Changes in this release: What's New v1.1 Fixed issue with Link items Added option to Excluded or Include a list of content types Autocomplete Text Field v1.1 Fixed an issue if the field was used as.http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2008/05/07/new-release-of-the-smarttools-for-sharepoint... |