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Monthly Archives: November 2009
Export SP Designer BDC Application Model to Visual Studio
Bringing in SQL and other external source data into SharePoint is a hot topic. With SharePoint Designer 2010 you can easily create an external content type and expose your external data as list; however, this does not provide sound disaster … Continue reading
Posted in MOSS, sharepoint
Tagged bdc, bdc model, business data, sharepoint, visual studio
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Creating BDC model in Visual Studio 2010
Last time I talked about creating BDC model in SharePoint 2010 using SharePoint Designer 2010. Pretty quick solution, but in case you’re creating a custom SharePoint project with all sorts of other solutions – probably you want to include your … Continue reading
Posted in sharepoint, sharepoint 2010
Tagged bdc, business data catalog, business data connectivity, visual studio bdc
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Programatically creating best bets and keywords
In case you ever need to load lots of Best Bets or keywords into MOSS, one way of doing it would be through custom XML file and simple console app below. Here is the format of my XML file: <?xml … Continue reading
Programatically creating External Content type in SharePoint 2010
When delivering a SharePoint 2010 talk last Saturday I was asked whether it’s possible to save the external list as a template and the answer at the time of this Beta 2 timeframe is no. One of the reasons you’d want … Continue reading
Posted in sharepoint, sharepoint 2010
Tagged bdc, business data connectivity, creating external connection, external data, external list c#, sharepoint 2010
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SQL data into SharePoint 2010 Beta 2
One of the really great tools for connecting external data with SharePoint 2007 is BDC; however, SharePoint 2010 takes the concept of BDC to the next level. You can treat your external data as a list with most of the … Continue reading
Posted in MOSS, sharepoint, sharepoint 2010, sharepoint designer
Tagged 2010, bdc, business data, sharepoint
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Vancouver TechFest 09 – event and sessions
What can be better than spending rainy Saturday afternoon talking about technology. Vancouver TechFest 09 was an outstanding event with about 250 atendees this year. One of my favorites is the fact that we recorded most of the sessions and … Continue reading
Posted in MOSS, sharepoint, sharepoint 2010
Tagged sharepoint 2010, vancouver tech fest
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Using custom scopes in you sharepoint advanced search
One of the things that sharepoint can do is allow you to consolidate results on one result page from various places: file shares, external and internal sites, and other locations; this is providing sharepoint crawl account has access to the … Continue reading
Posted in MOSS, sharepoint
Tagged custom search scopes, sharepoint, sharepoint advanced search
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Yet another rarely discovered SharePoint search advantage
If you followed my last serries of articles – you probably noticed I’m working on MOSS search right now. It`s amazing how underestimated and underused are features in SharePoint search. One of the tricks I wanted to cover today is … Continue reading
Posted in MOSS, sharepoint
Tagged customizing search, customizing search results, sharepoint results, sharepoint search, sharepoint search xsl, xsl template
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Extending SharePoint CoreResultsWebPart
If you remember what Microsoft says about Search webparts – you can not inherit from their classes and extend them. Turns out, it doesn`t apply to all of the search webparts and classes. Back when SharePoint 2007 was in beta, … Continue reading
Posted in MOSS, sharepoint
Tagged CoreResultsWebPart, extend core results, extend CoreResultsWebPart, sharepoint
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MOSS 2007 development course at BCIT
I`d like to announce for those of you who are local to Vancouver that my MOSS development course is schedule for Jan to April semester at BCIT. This course is mostly designed for MOSS audience but of course with the … Continue reading
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Tagged bcit, moss course, moss training, sharepoint, sharepoint training
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