MDC 2007 Videos

Hay finally the MDC 2007 sessions videos are available on barmagy.com  some sessions still not uploaded yet but they are working to make them available soon

Dundas chart for sharepoint

Came a cross this nice charting components for Sharepoint from Dundas

 

"For outstanding charts and graphs for SharePoint Server 2007, Dundas Chart for SharePoint is the foremost charting solution on the market.  (It’s what you expect, coming from the industry leader in data visualization technologies.)

Dundas Chart for SharePoint boasts all the features our customers have requested – features which have evolved over years of continuous enhancements.  We believe this broad development work has led to the most advanced and flexible charting package available for SharePoint. "

Read more here

 

Free Sharepoint features on CodePlex

Found today some nice free MOSS features on CodePlex (refered by Sharepoint Team blog)

find them at www.codeplex.com/features

 

 

Minimal Publishing Site

• This Feature creates a minimal publishing site for use in MOSS that can be used as a starting point for creating public Internet sites. It is based on the Publishing template that ships with MOSS, but the style sheets, graphics, and page layouts have been removed.
  
  Just the basics remain in the Minimal Publishing site

Print List

• This Feature adds a "Print List" menu item to the "Actions" menu for every list in the site collection. This Feature is based on the sample found here and is used with the permission of the author.
  
  A printer-friendly view of a list

Theme Changer

• This Feature changes the site theme and alternate style sheet to those specified in the FEATURE.XML file. This Feature is ideal for changing the site theme and Alternate CSS when a new site is created.

Placeholder Master

• This Feature adds a new master page to the gallery named "Placeholder.master". This master page shows all of the placeholders and their content in a table structure so you can easily see what content is rendered in which placeholder. This Feature is useful for understanding how placeholders are used in master pages and which ones you would have to change when creating a custom master page.
  
  Showing placeholder content

Presence Contact List

• This is a contact list modified to show presence information as a drop-down associated with the e-mail field. This Feature is based on the code posted here.
  
  Presence information in a custom list

Content Type Hierarchy

• This Feature presents the site content types in a hierarchical view. It shows the relationships between the content types, including hidden types.
  
  Content Type Hierarchy

Log Viewer

• This is a Feature for viewing the Unified Logging Service (ULS) logs through the SharePoint Central Administration site.
  
  Viewing Log Files

Upgrading Area based on custom site definition

Hay, it has been so long since the last post i made , but here i’m again trying to recap what i missed.

 

I’ve found this nice Post on the Sharepoint team blog which talking about how to ugpgrade an area that is based on a custom site definition, which is really useful when you upgrade from V2 (SPS2003,WSS2003) into V3 while you have a customized SPS areas.