(Sahil Malik) Have you heard the latest buzz around town? SharePoint is a platform! I think this news caught even Microsoft by surprise. I say that because SharePoint is still grouped under the “server” category and seems to get more IT Pro treatment than developer treatment. The fact is, though, th

(Daan De Brouckere and Raj Agarwal) SharePoint as a platform offers an immense amount of out-of-the-box capabilities that can be harnessed by understanding and taking the right approach to the business requirements. This article is a continuation of “How to Maximize SharePoint Out-of-the-Box Feature

(Margie Semilof) One interesting result of the swift corporate uptake of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is that SharePoint administrators are meeting SQL Server database administrators and getting a crash course in storage technology for the first time.

(Daan De Brouckere and Raj Agarwal) SharePoint’s out-of-the-box functionality is not to be underestimated. Leveraging document libraries, custom lists, and out-of-the-box workflows are always mentioned as “low-hanging fruit” when implementing SharePoint for a client. Where you can provide extra valu

(Sahil Malik) In this article, I am going to talk about five things from an architect or management point of view that you will probably end up wishing you had known before you started your SharePoint project. In part two of this article I will follow up with five more things targeted specifically f

(Steven Barden) As it was previously described in part one of this two part series, there are two primary types of pages found in a WSS application, Application Pages and Site Pages. The first type of SharePoint pages (they can go in either order by description really) are Application pages, and are

(Vincent Rothwell) XSLT allows you to to use the directive to import additional XSL into your transformation. This can be really useful to pull in standard sections into your own transform. This is good practice as it removes duplication and improves maintainability.

(Steven Barden) This article will focus on the concepts of the two main page types that can be found in SharePoint 2007 (WSS): Application pages and Site pages. Since this is a WSS level objective, as opposed to MOSS, you will not need MOSS to review the information provided. Windows Server 2003, WS

(Ray Barley) Our business users are storing some data in SharePoint lists that we need to access from our ETL process that updates our SQL Server data warehouse. Can you provide us with the details and an example of how we can do this from a SQL Server CLR function?

(Steven Barden) This article will display the deployment of using a feature to install code that creates an unpopulated Word Document List. It is part two in a series of articles that will focus on using install techniques and features to perform various actions. When viewed as a whole, these featur