(Stev Chen) This article discusses some basic concepts of Web Parts, their advantages, and how to use them.

(D’Arcy Lussier) I had the pleasure today of trying to get Silverlight and SharePoint to play nice with each other. You’d *think* this wouldn’t be that difficult. But as I’m learning more about SharePoint, I’m realizing also that things are sometimes more complex than we assume.

(Matt Turner) The Mark Logic User Conference is just two weeks away! Once again, XQuery enthusiasts will flock to San Francisco for a great mix of hands on technical sessions, best practices and, my favorite, customer application profiles. Look for lots of live demos, interactive and frank discus

(ambati sreedhar) In this article, you’ll learn about sorting and paging as well as the Check All and Uncheck All functionality using OnRowDataBound for an ASP.NET grid view in SharePoint. You will also learn how to call a user control from a SharePoint web part.

(Sahil Malik) Silverlight 2 just went RTM. This product is unique because for the first time in the Microsoft world, you have .NET running cross platform, in a secure way, and without all the deployment hassles. It has the ability to bring rich UI, right to the browser—much like Flash, but with more

(Ray Barley) I have a requirement to extract data from a SharePoint list. Ideally I would like to be able to do this from an SSIS package. In an earlier tip you showed how to do this by implementing a CLR function that invokes the SharePoint Lists web service. Isn’t there a built-in component tha

(James Lappin) Records management is the weakest link in SharePoint 2007. This weakness will not deter organisations from adopting the product. SharePoint’s strengths in other areas, particularly the flexibility it provides teams in setting up their own collaborative environment, together with the s

(Baris Wanschers) MOSS2007 comes with the Content Query Web Part to group and sort content as you need. This works like a charm in most situations, but sometimes I find most common things missing. Lately I was working on a news archive for a company who posts a lot of articles. They needed an overvi

(Mark Kromer) Let’s say you’ve just spent many hours designing a SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services (SSAS) unified dimensional model for the sales managers in your company, perhaps even with complex formulas from financial planners incorporated. For business intelligence (BI) professionals, the most

(Michael Desmond) Times are tough all over, but it seems somebody forgot to tell that to the growing ranks of SharePoint developers. Even as general IT and development budgets turn south, industry watchers say the amount of activity around SharePoint applications and features continues to rise.