SharePoint performance – the missing piece. If you have ever looked at the HTML source of a rendered SharePoint web page (and who hasn’t?) you’ll see that the output of a zone contents i.e. a webpart, gets dumped into a div tag which in turn is part of a page level table. All good stuff. […]

One of my favorite SQL stored procedures has been hiding in the master database since SQL 7. It’s a useful utility for running commands against every database on a given SQL Server named sp_MSForeachDB. It undocumented and may have been created for running updates during SQL upgrades. But we can put it to work for […]

I ran across a neat SharePoint trick in Todd Bleeker’s 60 Hive blog. It’s a quick way to add webparts to Document Library and List views including AllItems without having to go into FrontPage. This is really useful when you want to add a instructions or descriptions on one of these standard pages. Here’s what […]

Microsoft has responded to my newsgroup question about browser support for Office 2007. There are 2 levels of support. Here is their preliminary position which is subject to change before they RTM. I think there is a typo on the "nix" line about firefox version since it conflicts with a previous line. "At this moment […]

What the books say To develop a WebPart the best place to start is to download the SharePoint Templates, a VS.Net project template that creates a basic project with all the files needed to get your code into SPS as a fully qualified WebPart. http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.aspx?familyid=CAC3E0D2-BEC1-494C-A74E-75936B88E3B5&displaylang=en After you install the template create a new project and […]

Short article on Cnet today with Jeff Raikes stating that Microsoft’s main business license customers will have the software in October while the consumer business has to wait until Vista is released. http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-6054088.html?part=rss&tag=6054088&subj=news