(Cliff Green) I have seen a few implementations of SharePoint Thesaurus generators that use various means to manage the data in a thesaurus file and then generate the file. Why not use a SharePoint list to do the same thing. If you are using Excel, as most of these do, why not a list.

(Eric White, Tristan Davis and Zeyad Rajabi) Using the Open XML SDK 2.0 in combination with Word Automation Services enables many scenarios that are difficult when using only the Open XML SDK 2.0, such as repagination, conversion to other document formats, or updating dynamic content in documents.

(Bruce) This is a video demonstration of how to create a custom theme for use in a SharePoint 2007 installation. Custom themes are one way to brand your SharePoint site without having to write any code and offer easy reusability across multiple sites.

Learn about the new user experience in SharePoint 2010 and how you can use the new UI in your customizations. This training module also discusses improvements in list handling, including list relationships and new form-rending options.

(Andrew Connell, Scot Hillier, and Ted Pattison) Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock or programming in the clouds, you’ve probably noticed that Microsoft SharePoint technologies have become popular. Over the last few years, IT professionals throughout the industry—including many people at Microso

Learn about improvements in Feature Framework and solution deployments in SharePoint 2010, how the new Services Architecture model provides flexibility and scalability for centralized systems, and how to use the new deployment model for customizations.

In this new 2-part video series hosted by Alan Le Marquand we’ll cover how deploying SharePoint into an organization provides capabilities that address the following requirements: extracting information from silos and making it more widely available and achieving this in a way that remains relevant

(Frank Rice) The goal of these exercises is to give you the steps that you need to access data from various sources by using web development tools and technologies such as SharePoint 2010 and Visual Studio 2010. Each task addresses a particular scenario. When you have completed an exercise, you shou

(Ryan Tetzlaff) If you’ve rolled out SharePoint 2007 to your company you may soon find a need to categorize your sub-sites and the content on your portal. This article will walk you through setting up a site map for your Microsoft SharePoint intranet.

(Frank Rice) In this exercise, you develop and deploy a visual Web Part that reads data from three lists by using LINQ queries and displays the results in a grid view control. The Web Part also contains a drop-down control that enables you to select which query is executed. To complete this task, yo