June 26, 2008 - 14:30, by Hans Blaauw
As everyone already knows (except "real" developers because they refuse to use this very productive method) the Dataview webpart can be used to do many cool things with XML, databases, webservices, RSS etc. But, there is a problem. When building DataView webparts live in your production environment (yes some people do this) it will make your pages unghosted. You don't want that!!!
Best approach is to have either a development test environment or a seperate site-collection for building DataView webparts. After finishing your webpart you can export it and use it in the production environment. The good thing about the DataView webpart is that you don't need to install anything else. However, always remember if you use lists, that you need to change the ListID to ListName in the .webpart file.
Sure this isn't managed code etc. and it has no versioning in it. Brings me to a point, why didn't Microsoft add the Document versioning control system into the webpart gallery? Isn't that weird, we have versioning in the Site templates and List templates.
June 23, 2008 - 10:54, by Hans Blaauw
I have build a small DataV iew webpart that can display our Twitter feed in your own SharePoint environment.
You can download it here.
It is possible to change it to work with your own feed, search for http://twitter.com in the webpart and change the settings to match your settings.
June 20, 2008 - 13:21, by Hans Blaauw
If you start to offering communities to external users you don't want all account information in the AD. It will get a big mess and you want to seperate internal from external.
Now that OpenID is supported by Microsoft it is time to investigate SharePoint and OpenID. I think it would be great to use OpenID as a custom authentication provider. It seems till now nobody has written this although there is a .NET initiative here. It is called DotNetOpenID.
I think it wouldn't be to difficult to build this into SharePoint. Anyone there to try it?
Update: someone already started this, see below presentation:
June 20, 2008 - 13:09, by Hans Blaauw
Currently i'm working in a project where the social aspect of My Sites is important. I tracked down a whitepaper that explains the Social networking features of SharePoint in depth.
Follow this link.
June 20, 2008 - 13:03, by Hans Blaauw
Daniel reported on TownSquare for SharePoint (Facebook look-a-like for the Enterprise) but he did not include a screenshot. I got hold of a first screenshot, see below.
