Creating Site Definitions for Windows SharePoint Services

MSDN Article

 

Learn how to create a custom site definition for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services sites. This article provides an understanding of how Windows SharePoint Services V2 site definitions work internally and how the Collaborative Application Markup Language (CAML) defines the structure of lists and views

 

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Thank you Patrick for the referral

SharePoint Products and Technologies Document: Planning and Designing SharePoint Products and Technology Solutions for Geographically Dispersed Sites

This white paper describes three supported deployment solutions for accommodating geographically dispersed sites with SharePoint Products and Technologies. Included in this paper are recommendations for deploying SharePoint Products and Technologies across multiple geographic sites (based on the three supported solutions), statistics for estimating SharePoint Products and Technologies bandwidth utilization and the resulting user experience across a WAN, and information on configuring settings such as search crawls to optimize bandwidth utilization and the user experience. Finally, this paper describes the test environment and methodology that was used to develop these recommendations

 

 

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SharePoint Products and Technologies Sample: Creating a Site Context Search Box that Uses Portal Search Results

From Microsoft:

 

Learn how to add a custom search box to SharePoint Portal Server sites by using sample code for the site context search box.

 

download the sample from here

CRM 3 List web part

Via Mark Harison

The List Web Part for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 provides a subset of the Microsoft CRM record list functionality. It allows users to view Microsoft CRM records as a list from a SharePoint dashboard, open records in Microsoft CRM 3.0 from the list, and connect Microsoft CRM Web Parts to filter different lists.

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WSS Development Tips and Tricks

A nice article on Sharepointblogs.com

in this Post you will find a comiled list of the tips and tricks of WSS development from the MSDN site

 

Setting Default Values for Web Part Properties in the .dwp File

Writing Web Parts with Preview Support for FrontPage

Customizing the Web Part Shortcut Menu

Using Impersonation to Access Data that the Current User Cannot Access

Referring to Lists and Fields

Making Updates with the AllowUnsafeUpdates Property of SPWeb Class

Filtering a Collection of List Items by Using Views or CAML Queries

Using the DataTable Object to Work with List Items in Memory

Customizing the Context Menu of Document Library Items