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Office Live version 2
A while ago I completed migration of my company’s justia solution to Office Live version 2. justia is a legal practice management system that was originally written in Office Live and uses a number of javascript libraries and external services to provide the functions it needs to operate.
7Jun2008 | darren | 1 comment | ContinuedSharePoint Quick Surveys 1.0.2
Yes….hot on the heels of 1.0.1 is another release of the SharePoint Quick Surveys web part. This is a result of user feedback and makes a couple of small changes and fixes. Thanks to all of you who have taken the time to install the solution and try it out for me.
7Jun2008 | darren | 4 comments | ContinuedSharePoint Quick Surveys 1.0.1
This is a quick post to say that I’ve placed version 1.0.1 of the SharePoint Quick Surveys web part in the downloads section. This is a small maintenance release to correct a couple of minor bugs.
5Jun2008 | darren | 0 comments | ContinuedChanging names in file uploads
Quite a few people have been using the ASP.Net file upload module and have been asking if it is possible to save the uploaded files to different locations or with custom file names.
This is possible by changing your implementation of the IFileProcessor interface, specifically the StartNewFile method.
SharePoint Quick Surveys
This article explains how to create a web part which collects SharePoint survey responses and displays graphical results. The webpart can be contained in the side bar of your home page and can display rich graphical results in a variety of formats.
The web part uses the SurveyFieldIterator which is built into SharePoint to display survey questions. These can be displayed in any web part zone. Once a user responds, a web handler (ASHX) generates bar graphs and pie charts of the results using GDI+, although the article also shows how this could easily be changed to use Silverlight for rendering.
The completed project is packaged as a SharePoint feature along with a suitable installer.
17Feb2008 | darren | 45 comments | ContinuedSharePoint picker ToolPart
SharePoint 2007 includes pop-up pickers for selecting lists and sites, however these are not automatically exposed to web parts. This article describes how to create a custom tool part to easily use these functions.
The tool part can be used to extend custom SharePoint web parts allowing users to easily select target sites and lists without having to type in the URL. This is similar to the way in which the ContentQueryWebPart control functions helping to provide a better and more familiar user experience.
23Jan2008 | darren | 9 comments | ContinuedSharePoint and Silverlight- a perfect match
Silverlight makes it easy to display dynamic graphical data from SharePoint sites. This article explains one method of doing so.
12Jan2008 | darren | 0 comments | ContinuedOffice Live template tips
Recently I’ve been heavily involved in writing Office Live site templates. These templates typically utilise javascript and external web services to extend the functionality of Office Live.
9Jul2007 | darren | 2 comments | ContinuedBlogging on Windows Mobile
For a little while now I’ve been wanting to write a mobile blogging client for Windows Mobile 5. Why? Well I just wanted to be able to write blog posts on the move.
29Jun2007 | darren | 30 comments | ContinuedDrawing charts in SharePoint and Office Live
Today I’m going to describe how to use SharePoint web services along with a Flash charting component to build live charts in web parts which are populated directly from data held in lists within your Office Live or SharePoint site.
15Jun2007 | darren | 12 comments | Continued