Tobias Zimmergren's thoughts on development

SP 2010: Programmatically work with External Lists (BCS) using the Client Object Model

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:13:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction Article 3 in the small BCS-series: 1. SP 2010: Getting started with the Business Connectivity Services (BCS) 2. SP 2010: Programmatically work with External Lists (BCS) in SharePoint 2010 3. S ... (More)

SP 2010: Programmatically work with External Lists (BCS) in SharePoint 2010

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:38:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction Article 2 in the small BCS-series: 1. SP 2010: Getting started with the Business Connectivity Services (BCS) 2. SP 2010: Programmatically work with External Lists (BCS) in SharePoint 2010 3. S ... (More)

SP 2010: Getting started with Business Connectivity Services (BCS) in SharePoint 2010

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:48:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction Article 1 in the small BCS-series: 1. SP 2010: Getting started with the Business Connectivity Services (BCS) 2. SP 2010: Programmatically work with External Lists (BCS) in SharePoint 2010 3. S ... (More)

SP 2010: How To - Relational lists in SharePoint 2010

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:55:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction One of the new cool things in SharePoint 2010 is the fact that we now have relational lists. In my previous article about List Joins, I talked about how you programmatically can fetch and join i ... (More)

SP 2010: How To - Event Receivers and Custom Error Pages

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:48:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction SharePoint 2007 Many of you are aware that in SharePoint 2007, you can create Event Receivers (aka. Event Handlers) to take care of things for you when specific things happen. For example, you ... (More)

SP 2010: List Joins & SPQuery enchancements!

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:53:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction As per request by some of my readers who wanted information about how you can query SharePoint lists using joins in SharePoint 2010, here's an introduction! With the introduction of relational ... (More)

My most popular SharePoint posts of 2009

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:06:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction As per requests, I have put together a small list of my post popular and most read blog posts of 2009. All in all, the year of 2009 was awesome - and we've only got even more awesome things to ... (More)

Merry Christmas and a Happy New SharePoint Year

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:44:08 GMT

I'm finally going.. Vacation! For the first time in 1.5 years I'm finally having a well deserved vacation :-) Got some nice SP 2010 posts lined up for january/february with all the new good stuff to know about developing with the new tools, as well as hacking about with the new object models. B ... (More)

SP 2010: Presentations from SharePoint & Exchange Forum in Sweden

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:00:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction At the SEF 2009 Conference in Sweden I delivered a session about SharePoint 2010 development. The sessions from SEF are now available for download from the SEF web site. Unfortunately the pre ... (More)

Sweden SharePoint User Group Meeting in Stockholm

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:22:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction Now that we are free to talk about and disclose information about SharePoint 2010, we're going to host a final Sweden SharePoint User Group meeting in Stockholm where we're covering some exciti ... (More)

I am a SharePoint 2010 Ignite instructor in Sweden

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:39:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction A while back, along with a bunch of other awesome SharePoint people, I attended the SharePoint 2010 Ignite training in Amsterdam. The Ignite-training is an invite-only training for Microsoft Pa ... (More)

SP 2010: Getting started with the Client Object Model in SharePoint 2010

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:29:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction In this article I will talk about how you can get started with using the Client Object Model in SharePoint 2010. This new object model is introduced in SharePoint Foundation 2010, and does not ... (More)

SharePoint 2010: Getting Started with Development on SharePoint 2010

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:23:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction Now after the SharePoint Conference 2009 is over, we’re free to publish and disclose a lot of content around SharePoint 2010. The first thing that I’ll do is to link to these awesome Hands-On-La ... (More)

Blessed with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award, again

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:18:33 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction Without trying to sound too dumb to explain the award program, I’ll just quote the website: We seek to recognize the best and brightest from technology communities around the world with the ... (More)

Come and meet me in Vegas, Amsterdam and Berlin!

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:35:56 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction The summer is over, and businesses around the globe are waking up again – and with that, we’ve got a ton of great events to look forward to this fall. SharePoint Conference, Las Vegas (yeah b ... (More)

SharePoint Saturday Copenhagen – Code samples

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:24:01 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction After SharePoint Saturday in Copenhagen a while back I promised to upload my code-samples from my demos. Being a bit busy the last few days, it’s been taking a bit longer than expected. I’ve bee ... (More)

SharePoint Books: Recommended Reading

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:24:05 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction A lot of people are asking about recommended SharePoint reading - good books and literature on the subject. Most things can be found online today, but sometimes you just can’t get around the fact ... (More)

TOZIT SharePoint Discussion Forum solution for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 released today!

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:19:08 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction I started a project about 2 years ago with the aim of improving the discussion functionalities that comes out of the box with WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007. Since it was a spare-time project back then ... (More)

SharePoint Saturday Copenhagen - Recap

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:45:38 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Thank you, event coordinators Being the first ever SharePoint Saturday in Scandinavia, I must admit that I was overly impressed with the event coordinators (Isaac Stith and Jens Nordgaard) work on this eve ... (More)

SharePoint Saturday Copenhagen - 1 day left

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:19:44 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren SharePoint Copenhagen is going down tomorrow I hope to see you at the little community meetup tomorrow. There will be some cool people, and we'll have a chance to network a bit. (The best part, though, is the ... (More)

Microsoft SharePoint Conference - Info and Sneak Peaks

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:36:56 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction Most of you (awesome SharePoint people) may already know about the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas this year. If you are planning on attending, that's great! I hope to meet as many of you as ... (More)

What is SharePoint - A simple explanation

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:12:39 GMT

Microsoft just posted this brilliant post about how you explain what SharePoint is - in the most simple of ways: SharePoint in Plain English http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/GetThePoint/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=241 This is a video that talks about "SharePoint in general" and d ... (More)

SPTraceView - Easy overview of the SharePoint logs (ULS logs)

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:12:42 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction If you are a SharePoint developer, you often need to dig into the logs in the 12-hive in order to find out why things are behaving the way they are. You and me both know that this can be a pa ... (More)

SharePoint Saturday Copenhagen - Meet me there

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:46:03 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction I'm going to be on the SharePoint Saturday in Copenhagen, so make sure you pop over and say hi if you're attending! Did I mention it's FREE? A quote about SharePoint Saturday from the SharePo ... (More)

SharePint in Las Vegas

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:22:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren URL: http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren SharePint is planned for Vegas For any and all of you who are going to Vegas for the SharePoint Conference (SPC), I'll be glad to forward the message from AC - there's going to be a huge SharePint. Re ... (More)

SharePoint BDC Part 2: Creating your first BDC Web Part

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:36:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren URL: http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction In my previous article (SharePoint BDC Part 1: Getting started with the Business Data Catalog) I talked about what you'll need to do in order to begin to work with the BCD in SharePoint (MO ... (More)

Free Bamboo Solutions products for User Groups

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:43:54 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren URL: http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com Introduction Recently I've been having discussions with Bamboo Solutions regarding using their software on our new Sweden SharePoint User Group / Sweden SharePoint Community site which is going to be based on WSS 3. ... (More)

Twenty (20) Rich Text Editors to use in your applications

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:25:50 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren URL: http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com Introduction Lately I've been looking around for some decent rich text editors for use in my asp.net (and SharePoint) applications. I found this awesome article explaining 20 free rich text editors you can use, some ... (More)

SharePoint 2010: Developer Documentation and Protocol Documentation

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:23:23 GMT

Just like the previous posts, this is just going to be a short "heads up" on some new documentation and links that just showed up on the Microsoft Download Center site: 2010: Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Protocol Documentation 2010: SharePoint Products and Technologies: ... (More)

SharePoint 2010 Sneak-Peak videos are officially out

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:37:10 GMT

So, if you haven't heard it already, http://sharepoint.microsoft.com has updated some information and now let us in on some details about SharePoint 2010. Take a look at the preview/sneak-peak videos and be amazed! I'm stunned. Wow! You'll find the videos here: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010 ... (More)

Using the object model to access and change RSS settings on a SharePoint list

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:55:27 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren URL: http://www.zimmergren | http://www.tozit.com Introduction Sometimes the only option you've got is to alter things using the object model of SharePoint. In this particular case I wanted to change the RSS-settings for a specific list. So that's what this little tip ... (More)

Tip: Convering your Virtual PC 2007 disks to Windows Virtual PC (on Windows 7)

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:41:46 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren URL: http://www.zimmergren.net Introduction As you all know, most of the SharePoint people (architects, developers, testers, designers, ) are running our environments virtually. That rocks! But, there's some things one need to think of when you want to migra ... (More)

SharePoint: Recommended links June 2009

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:28:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren URL: http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com Introduction I previously posted a short post about some good links around SharePoint. It proved to be a popular post. Not only providing a set of good posts, but actually pointing to good posts that is worth reading ... (More)

SharePoint BDC Part 1: Getting Started with the Business Data Catalog

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:13:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren URL: http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com Introduction In this article I will guide you through the very basics of getting started with Business Data Catalog, BDC: Install the AdventureWorks 2008 Sample Databases We will use this database a ... (More)

Announcing TOZIT

Tobias Zimmergren — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:34:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren URL: http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com Note: Generally I don't like to "promote" things in my blog, rather staying objective. But this is too good not to mention - so bear with me a couple of minutes while you read through this post ;-) TOZI ... (More)

Debugging your code execution for anonymous users in SharePoint

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:56:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren URL: http://www.zimmergren.net Introduction Often when developing solutions that has anonymous users enabled, it can be hard to debug them from your local machine - because when you reach a point in your code where permissions higher than anonymous is required, SharePoi ... (More)

Sweden SharePoint User Group, May 28th Re-Cap

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:29:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren URL: http://www.zimmergren.net Introduction On May 28th we held our Sweden SharePoint User Group meeting in Stockholm with great success. Sponsoring the event for the evening was Precio, who had an arsenal of food and drinks layered up for us to dive into in-between se ... (More)

Important note about the SharePoint SP2

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 22 May 2009 14:48:00 GMT

Read the full disclosure "Attention- Important Information on Service Pack 2" in Microsoft's SharePoint Blog There is an issue with installing SP2, which causes your SharePoint environment to fall back to "Evaluation" licence without ever notifying you. So if you've got SP2 ... (More)

Sweden SharePoint User Group, May 28th

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 21 May 2009 09:51:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren URL: http://www.zimmergren.net Introduction On May 28th (thursday next week), we're having our next SharePoint User Group meeting in Stockholm. I'm travelling to Stockholm the 26th and leaving the 29th. Anyone care to hook up for a beer or three, let me know. Agenda ... (More)

Recover/fetch the Application Pool password

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 18 May 2009 12:30:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren URL: http://www.zimmergren.net Introduction Alright, so we've had a few discussions lately regarding securing your SharePoint environments. Not only did I have a discussion about this when I were conducting SharePoint training last week, but we also covered the aspect w ... (More)

SharePoint Server 2010 preliminary requirements

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 12 May 2009 10:57:00 GMT

Introduction The Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog announced today what the preliminary requirements look like for SharePoint Server 2010. Brace yourself, and have a read through this article: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/07/announcing-sharepoint-server-2010-preliminary-system-re ... (More)

WSS 3.0 & MOSS 2007 Software Development Kit (SDK) 1.5

Tobias Zimmergren — Sun, 03 May 2009 10:36:00 GMT

On the 24th of April, Microsoft released a new version of their SDK for WSS and MOSS, and we're now talking about version 1.5. I suggest that you update your virtual machines (or whatever tech you're using for your playgrounds) and install the new SDK. Download Download WSS 3.0 SDK 1.5 Download ... (More)

WSS and MOSS: Service Pack 2 Released Today!

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:18:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren URL: http://www.zimmergren.net Introduction Previous major updates for SharePoint related technologies has been: Service Pack 1 Infrastructure Updates Misc. Rollups Today - as promised - Microsoft released the next set of updates called Service Pack 2. For an ove ... (More)

This is what my current setup is like for my virtual development machines!

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:30:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren URL: http://www.zimmergren.net Introduction A lot of people have been asking me what my current development platform looks like in terms of virtual machines, what OS I'm developing on, what tools I use etc. With this post I will try to summarize what my current virtual ... (More)

How to: Programmatically remove a Field (SPField) from a view (SPView)

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:50:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren URL: http://www.zimmergren.net Introduction This is yet another very simple example of a question I've been getting over and over the past couple of months through comments and emails - instead of answering it each time in the mail, I'm simply shooting it out here. Del ... (More)

How to: Upload a file/document using the SharePoint Object Model

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:28:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren URL: http://www.zimmergren.net Introduction I've been getting a couple of requests to provide details on how you can upload a file or document using the SharePoint Object Model, instead of using the UI. With this simple article, I'm walking you through the process of ... (More)

TechDays 2009 Sweden - Summary of the event

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:50:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren URL: http://www.zimmergren.net Introduction I know, it's a tad late - but better late than never, right? TechDays 2009 is done for this time around. It was the first TechDays to take off in Sweden, but I surely do hope to see more of those events going on! "A ... (More)

WSPBuilder supports Windows Server 2008

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:26:00 GMT

My pal Carsten Keutmann has done some updates with his marvelous tool WSPBuilder to make it support Windows Server 2008 as well. All my development-machines are running Server 2008 along with Visual Studio 2008 and of course - the latest release of WSPBuilder. You can download the latest release ... (More)

WSPBuilder - Walkthrough of the Visual Studio Add-in

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:29:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net Introduction Alright. People have approached me lately and asked me if I could give them a brief introduction to the WSPBuilder extensions available for Visual Studio. Instead of taking all those discussions on one by one, I've decided to docum ... (More)

Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007 is now officially FREE

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:16:50 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren URL: http://www.zimmergren.net Download SharePoint Designer for Free! For a few weeks there has been a numerous people spreading the rumor that SharePoint Designer is going to be a free download. Today Microsoft made it official, and we can gladly share the word: Micro ... (More)

Ten (10) Free SharePoint Themes - Visual Overview

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:48:00 GMT

As many of you already have seen, there's a set of free themes out there for use with your SharePoint sites. They can be downloaded here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=0a87658f-20b8-4dcc-ad7a-09ad22641f3a These themes are to be used with the Visual ... (More)

Sweden SharePoint User Group Malmö - First meeting done

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:23:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren URL: http://www.zimmergren.net Thank you I would like to thank everyone for showing up at the meeting yesterday. I had a great time and it seems that most of you did too. Presentations MVP Carsten Keutmann did a live demo of his awesome products: WSPBuilder and ShareP ... (More)

SharePoint Online - Customization - Part 2

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:23:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren URL: http://www.zimmergren.net Introduction I previously wrote an Introduction to SharePoint Online which was highly appreciated, so now I'm doing a quick follow-up on how you can easily customize the appearance of your SharePoint Online site. Since we today can't real ... (More)

Sweden SharePoint User Group – 11th of March in Malmö

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:28:00 GMT

Finally the time has come to kick off some community work down in the southern Sweden where I come from – and we do that by hosting a Sweden SharePoint User Group event on March 11. Sessions for the evening SharePoint Online (Tobias Zimmergren) What is it How do we use it Demo of administ ... (More)

SharePoint Ramp Up – Part 2

Tobias Zimmergren — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:25:00 GMT

For those of you who have tried the online-training program called MyRampUp, and went through all the exercises for SharePoint developers part 1 – Part 2 is here. Check this out: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/rampup/dd320759.aspx I wrote a bit about the Ramp Up program in this previous article ... (More)

VSeWSS v1.3 - Feb 2009 CTP released

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 11:10:00 GMT

As I know this is a popular tool for some of you guys reading this blog (I'll leave my own comments on the tool unsaid for now) - you can now download the latest February CTP from the Microsoft Download site. VSeWSS 1.3 February 2009 CTP has been released, go on and grab it here: Visual Studio 20 ... (More)

Microsoft SharePoint Online Service Level Agreement (SLA)

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:32:00 GMT

Quickie! For those of you interested in SharePoint Online, you can now find more information on the SLA on the following link which Microsoft Download released yesterday: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=069df92a-4f58-45e3-bbf8-93ed6bcb61d1&displaylang=en&tm#filel ... (More)

Microsoft Online Services Release Notes

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:38:00 GMT

A new set of Release Notes for Microsoft Online Services were released yesterday. For those of you interested in the Microsoft Online Services, you should check it out. Below are some good links touching the Microsoft Online Services. Microsoft Online Release Notes Download here Microsoft Onlin ... (More)

SharePoint Online – A first look

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:23:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren Blog: http://www.zimmergren.net Introduction In this article I will be talking a bit about SharePoint Online, which is hosted up somewhere by the clouds. I intend to do a few articles surrounding SharePoint Online and it’s related services and what possibilities it brin ... (More)

Backing up your local Subversion repositories using Live Mesh

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:52:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren Url: http://www.zimmergren.net Introduction Mostly, I’m using my Server 2008 setup to manage my Subversion repositories – however, now that I’m doing some re-installations and configs with the 2008 machine, I might not want/need to use it anymore. Anyway, the reason fo ... (More)

SharePoint Diagnostics Tool (SPDiag) – Released today

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:32:00 GMT

Okay, this isn’t a “thought on development” but it’s for sure good news for the admin-guys out there.. Today Microsoft Download Center released a new tool for Administrators and monitoring-people, namely a tool called SPDiag. Basically, I’ll let the Microsoft Download Center speak for itsel ... (More)

Visual Studio extensions for Windows SharePoint Services – 1.3

Tobias Zimmergren — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:37:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren Url: http://www.zimmergren.net What is VSeWSS? VSeWSS is a plugin to Visual Studio that adds a set of functionality which may help you in your daily tasks as a SharePoint developer. The plugin comes with a basic set of templates, and a great set of functiona ... (More)

Swedish SharePoint Communities – Now we’re talking

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:56:00 GMT

This is just going to be a short announcement on what’s going on over here in Sweden, on our side of the globe. So – if you’re not interested about what’s going on over here, stop reading right about now. Sweden SharePoint Community As some of you might have noticed, there’s a new community ... (More)

SPDisposeCheck tool finally released – get your code straight!

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:33:00 GMT

You might have heard it before, a tool called SPDisposeCheck was to be released – a tool which will help you (though, not make it perfect..) on your way with finding memoryleaks in certain API objects (e.g. SPWeb, SPSite..) MSDN Code now have officially published this tool, and it can be read abo ... (More)

Starting a SharePoint workflow from code (Event Receiver)

Tobias Zimmergren — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:16:37 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren URL: http://www.zimmergren.net In one of my current projects I was facing the issue of triggering a workflow - but didn’t want the entire workflow to kick off unless absolutely necessary. Instead of the traditional approach where you hook up your workflow to trigger ... (More)

SharePoint development environment now running Windows 7

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 09:56:07 GMT

I thought I’d share my new personal SharePoint Development Environment with you, since it’s probably the best setup I’ve ever used! Specifications HP Elitebook 8530w CPU: 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T9400 6 MB cache RAM: 6 GB DDR ... (More)

Developing and customizing on top of SharePoint Online (in the cloud)

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:47:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren URL: http://www.zimmergren.net SharePoint Online, Standard – How do we develop and customize? Today Microsoft released the whitepaper called “SharePoint Online Standard Developer Guide Dec 2008” which is a document that will walk you through how you can get started with ... (More)

Custom list definitions with custom forms – changing master page

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:36:34 GMT

[Tiny post] As many of you might have experienced when you create your own custom list definition, you can also create your custom forms (DispForm.aspx for example). In my case, I want the DispForm.aspx to use another master page than it originally does, and so I thought I’d just change the follow ... (More)

How To: SharePoint and Silverlight 2.0 – Part 1

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:40:00 GMT

Author: [MVP] Tobias Zimmergren Web: http://www.zimmergren.net Prephase I have previously written up a few articles on how you can get more from your SharePoint environment by enhancing it with AJAX, .NET 3.5 and Silverlight. References to those articles can be found here: How to: Add supp ... (More)

How To: Custom Web Part Properties (ToolPart)

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:49:46 GMT

I’ve been getting a few requests from people who basically want to know how you can modify the Web Part Properties window – and foremost add your own logic and controls there. Prerequisites SharePoint 101 basic knowledge Knowledge about how you build and deploy Web Parts in SharePoint (Re ... (More)

I can (Windows) Azure you – Song

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:22:12 GMT

Okay, so I’ve been writing up a simple song the last week, which I just recorded with my laptop-microphone at the same time that I tried to do some tricks with the guitar… It all ended up with a song called “I can (Windows) Azure you”. You can download the song here Being a serious guy and all, ... (More)

Sweden SharePoint User Group presentations

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:15:00 GMT

You’ll find the presentations from the UG meeting here; My presentation(s) [SWE] Översikt över nyheterna i SharePoint världen [ENG] Overview of the news in the SharePoint community Daniel’s presentation(s) [SWE] SharePoint och Sök [ENG] Deep Dive SharePoint Search Engine I’m still wa ... (More)

Sweden SharePoint User Group – First meeting done

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:40:00 GMT

We had our first meeting this tuesday (November 18th) with about 30 people showing up. The interest is growing for the group, and as it looks now there’ll be more people coming to the next set of meetings. Fun! Thanks to everyone who contributed to the meeting taking place. In the picture I’m do ... (More)

Microsoft Office Systems 2007 – Service Pack 2

Tobias Zimmergren — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:27:39 GMT

Recent announcements around the blog-o-sphere and the announcements at TechEd in Barcelona indicated that the SP2 for Office Systems 2007 is on it’s way. Releasedates Don’t even bother to try to get an exact date for your upgrade. As it is said today, the SP2 for Microsoft Office Systems 2007 will ... (More)

MSDN Ramp Up – Free training online

Tobias Zimmergren — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:26:25 GMT

If you are looking for some free training within any of the many Microsoft technologies, have a look at MSDN's Ramp Up site. It's a free community-based learning program where you can choose the training that fits your needs. Ramp Up overview These are the different tracks you can currently ... (More)

Sweden SharePoint User Group – November 18

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:36:00 GMT

We’re going to have our first User Group with Sweden SharePoint User Group on Tuesday, November 18. Anyone can register and attend the meeting, as long as you sign up here! I will be presenting some highlights (at least what I found interesting in my SharePointer-eye) from TechEd Developers – wh ... (More)

Leaving for TechEd EMEA 2008 – Developers

Tobias Zimmergren — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 10:30:13 GMT

So, after a few weeks of conferences around the globe (PDC, TechEd) the time has come for the TechEd EMEA 2008 Developer tracks. I’m leaving for Barcelona in the morning, tomorrow monday, and will arrive during the early noon. I hope to see some of you guys there, and keep an eye out for updates i ... (More)

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 – CTP – Download now!

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:15:03 GMT

What is this? You can now download a CTP of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 from Microsoft’s download center. Fetch the link in the bottom of this article to download! “Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 are the next generation development tools and platform for Windows ... (More)

Microsoft announces a new .NET logo

Tobias Zimmergren — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:09:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren, SharePoint MVP URL: http://www.zimmergren.net New .NET Logo! I was quite fond of the old logo. Or rather, I didn’t mind it looking the way it did. However this new logo is far more cooler and in total sync with modern design/graphics! I just thought that I’d shar ... (More)

CKS EBE – Comments Manager – Version 1.1.0.0

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 01:18:01 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren Blog: http://www.zimmergren.net It’s getting late over here, but I ought to inform those of you using the EBE Comments Manager that there’s a new version o ... (More)

CKS EBE – Comments Manager

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:27:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren Blog: http://www.zimmergren.net Introduction A new version of this tool can be downloaded [here] ... (More)

Web Part Caching – A simple approach

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:34:00 GMT

All kudos to Vince Rothwell who provided an awesome blogpost on SharePoint Caching and the CacheDependency object This week I am tutoring a SharePoint 2007 development class over at Informator in Gothenburg, Sweden. Today we’ve been looking at Web Parts, creation of custom webparts and best pract ... (More)

I’m a Microsoft MVP

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:00:00 GMT

SharePoint MVP I’ll keep this short, as I’m still rather stunned about this awesome news! Yesterday after work I received some great news from Microsoft – I’ve been awarded the MVP award! This means that we’re now two SharePoint MVP’s in Sweden. Göran Husman at HumanData and me! Th ... (More)

SharePoint .NET 3.5 auto-configuration – escape the manual overhead!

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:42:00 GMT

I have previously talked about how you manually can configure your SharePoint environment to enable .NET 3.5. My approach were to always do this manually, but it seems that there’s a sweet feature for this purpose created, automating this process. As a tip from Jeremy Thake, I’m posting the link ... (More)

How to: LINQ with SharePoint - .NET 3.5 Framework with SharePoint Part 2

Tobias Zimmergren — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:23:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren Blog: http://www.zimmergren.net Introduction In my previous article title "How to: Get up and running with .NET 3.5 in your SharePoint environment" I talked ... (More)

How to: Get up and running with .NET 3.5 in your SharePoint environment

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:12:00 GMT

Since I've been a bit on the lazy side when it comes to the blog (due to multiple reasons..), I'm thinking about writing up an article-series where I'll talk about .NET 3.5 and what it has to offer when used in conjunction with SharePoint. Any input is welcome, of course :) Introduction In thi ... (More)

Going offline - Finally the vacation has arrived!

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:34:00 GMT

As you may have noticed, I havn't been really active here the last couple of weeks since I've been fully absorbed with a bunch of cool SharePoint projects lately. However, the time has come for me to go on a well-deserved vacation for 2 weeks. During that period, you will probably not hear a word ... (More)

Microsoft Tech·Ed EMEA 2008 - Developer

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:24:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net (Get your TechEd EMEA 2008 Developer BLOG BLING from here) Microsoft Tech·Ed EMEA 2008 Developers Microsoft Tech·Ed EMEA 2008 Developers is the Microsoft premier technical education conference just for developers. For five days, you and ... (More)

SharePoint Forum and SharePoint Forum Web Part

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:00:00 GMT

UPDATE: Please read the latest news about the Discussion Forum Web Part here: http://www.zimmergren.net/archive/2009/09/01/tozit-sharepoint-discussion-forum-solution-for-wss-3-0-and-moss-2007-released-today.aspx Enjoy! A lot of people have been bug ... (More)

Screencasting software

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:22:00 GMT

For those of you who're interested in recording some screencasts and video tutorials, I just ran across this blog: http://mashable.com/2008/02/21/screencasting-video-tutorials/ I wanted to post this as a bookmark to myself, and as a peak to those of you who's interested. Some of them are free, s ... (More)

U2U CAML Query Builder - New version out

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:10:00 GMT

I just read Karine Bosch's blog where she posted some news on the U2U CAML Query Builder, so I just ought to get your attention in that direction. Check the detailed updates out in Karine's blog: http://www.u2u.info/Blogs/karine/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=d35935e0%2D8c0e%2D4176%2Da7e8%2D2ee90b3c8 ... (More)

What browser do you use?

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:09:28 GMT

I was reviewing the logs from the stat-counters on my blog and to my surprise I found out that almost 20% of all the readers are using Internet Explorer 4.01. - In my opinion that product doesn't even exist anymore ;) Simple stats from my counters, converted to percentage: Internet Explorer < 4 ... (More)

Infrastructure updates for MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:20:00 GMT

Technorati Tags: WSS, MOSS, SharePoint, Infrastructure, Updates As some of you might already know, Microsoft released their infrastructure updates to MOSS and WSS yesterday (2008-07-15). Instead of yabbing along here about the actual updates, I'm simply going to provide you with links to the dow ... (More)

SharePoint's hidden user-list - User Information List

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:03:00 GMT

Okay, this might not come as news to most SharePoint developers who've been around a while, but lately I've been messing with the User Information List in SharePoint and it doesn't seem that many people know that it exists. Note: This list is only visible to and accessible by administrators. Use ... (More)

Back on track

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:39:00 GMT

I've been getting tons and tons of mail from people regarding the blog, Forum Webpart and my vacation during the last 3 weeks. There has been quite a few things happening the last couple of weeks. Not only the awesome vacation I had in Egypt, but also moving into my new apartement. Egypt Hats o ... (More)

SharePoint Virtual Images from Microsoft

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 17 May 2008 08:49:00 GMT

WSS 3.0 SP1 Virtual Disk Tonight at 08:23 Microsoft released the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 virtual disk with Visual Studio pre-installed. You can find the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 here MOSS 2007 Virtual Disk Most of you probably already know that there's an image out for ... (More)

Forum WebPart, Egypt and new litterature

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 16 May 2008 21:49:00 GMT

How To: Easily construct your CAML queries with CAML Query Builder

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 05 May 2008 12:19:00 GMT

This post is a mere followup to my previous minor posts on the subject of SPQuery and SharePoint queries located here. Basically this post will provide step-by-step instructions to construct your CAML (Collaborative Application Markup Language) queries using the U2U CALM Query Builder which you c ... (More)

Introduction to SharePoint Queries

Tobias Zimmergren — Sun, 04 May 2008 21:23:00 GMT

Prephase Recently I've been using SharePoint Queries more and more, not to say in my latest personal project: Zimmergren Forum WebPart. At times when I've been out at some clients to help them either refactor existing code or build new code, weather doing it myself of joining an existing SharePoi ... (More)

SPQuery returning all items

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:37:00 GMT

If you've ever used the SPQuery objects to get SPListItems from a SPList, and you didn't get it to work because the query would return ALL items in the SPList, you might have used code similar to this: SPQuery postsQuery = new SPQuery(); postsQuery.Query = string.Format( " ... (More)

"It's Silverlight, it's strong and tight, they got it right, try it tonight"

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:51:00 GMT

Over at Dan Wahlins blog you can listen to a new Silverlight song. Go check it out and relax to some sweet Silverlight music. - I know, I'm a geek.

SharePoint Forums WebPart : What's going on?

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:33:00 GMT

Update: This product is available as per this article: http://www.zimmergren.net/archive/2009/09/01/tozit-sharepoint-discussion-forum-solution-for-wss-3-0-and-moss-2007-released-today.aspx As a follow-up to my previous blogpost: "Forum Web Part for SharePoint" I thought I'd let you kn ... (More)

Office Labs site launched - I urge you to check it out!

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:40:39 GMT

All I can say is, go check out "Office Labs" for yourself (click here). And by the way, DO check out the "Community Clips" section. It's awesome. That's all I had for now, back to coding some enhancements on the Forum WebPart which is coming along nicely... Just wish one had mo ... (More)

Forum Web Part for SharePoint

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:35:00 GMT

People have been requesting a better discussion forum functionality than the one in SharePoint by default. I took that request and made it into a new personal project of mine. Currently the forum looks like any forum you see on the web, but it's using- and is based entirely on SharePoint and the ... (More)

Italy next - arrivederci for now!

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:00:00 GMT

We're going to Italy with our company (350+ nerds). It'll be a blast and we'll stay there until this Sunday. Keep your eye out for new posts when I get back - I've got some nice ideas cooking.

Pingback/Trackback hell with EBE 2.0 Final

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:32:00 GMT

As many of you have noticed, I'm getting a whole lot of spam in my ping- and trackbacks - Enhanced Blog Edition for SharePoint is missing some kind of spam-check for the trackbacks. I will get to it to clear them out as soon as possible, but I'm going to Italy tomorrow and got tons of things to ... (More)

Tip: RequestAccessEnabled programatically using the SharePoint Object Model

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:15:33 GMT

I bumped into a strange problem today. It wasn't hard to solve, but worth mentioning. To manually enable the option to request permissions to the site, you do this from Site Actions - Site Settings - Advanced Permissions - Settings - Access Request. From that page you can specify if users should ... (More)

The attack of the RSS - Sorry

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:57:00 GMT

As I've been re-writing some (many) of the URLs in my blog people have been complaining that they got duplicate RSS entries. The URL re-write took about 20 minutes, under which period a total of 7 people sent me the comment that my RSS was fubar - Now it's fixed :) Thanks for tuning in, and ... (More)

CKS:Enhanced Blog Edition - Enable Search

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:37:00 GMT

The other day I started coding a custom searchfunctionality to use with the Community Kit for SharePoint's Enhanced Blog Edition (CKS:EBE) - which is what this blog is running on. However, while it would be fun and all to create a new custom search functionality for the EBE - someone beat me to i ... (More)

LINQ to SharePoint

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:29:00 GMT

For those of you who's new to LINQ (Language Integrated Query), here's a brief description: "General-purpose query facilities added to the .NET Framework apply to all sources of information, not just relational or XML data. This facility is called .NET Language-Integrated Query (LINQ). ... (More)

Stress Testing SharePoint Solutions with Visual Studio 2008

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:26:00 GMT

One of my pals, MVP Liam Cleary, posted a very interesting article on how to use Visual Studio 2008 to test the performance of your SharePoint Solution. I urge you to check his article out : http://www.helloitsliam.com/archive/2008/03/10/moss2007-testing-using-visual-studio-team-system-2008.as ... (More)

SharePoint-related blogs running on SharePoint and the Enhanced Blog Edition community kit

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:24:00 GMT

Since I just got my own blog up and running with the Enhanced Blog Edition kit (www.codeplex.com/cks), I thought that it'd be fun to compile a list of bloggers that run the EBE for SharePoint. For now it's not a very long and thrilling list, but hopefully it'll grow! If you've got a blog running S ... (More)

How To: Get up and running with the Silverlight 2.0 Blueprints for SharePoint 2007

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:41:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren I got a chance to finally try the blueprints out, and it works fine. It's a couple of steps on the way that needs to be performes, listed below. What you need to think about when setting it up is to make sure the following pre-requisities are installed on your Shar ... (More)

New Blog: WSS 3.0 SP1 + Win Server 2008

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:48:00 GMT

I just got this new blog up and running with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 on a Windows Server 2008 machine. It's running really smooth and I hope it will be just as good as the one before. Have a good day, and don't forget to hook up the new RSS-feed ( www.zimmergren.net/rss.xml )

Silverlight 1.0 seamless integration with SharePoint 2007 complete!

Zimmergren — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:30:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren Url: http://www.zimmergren.net Yep. It's me again... I managed to salvage most of the data from the bluescreen a couple of hours earlier (due to the persistent use of source control). I'll cover this topic more in details in one of the days to come, for now - this is ... (More)

Bluescreen of Death on my VPC

Zimmergren — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:30:00 GMT

I completed my integration project with Silverlight 1.0 and SharePoint 2007 - which doesn't requiry any configuration on your server, except to install my Web Part with the .wsp solution. But... Instead of giving you a nice guide on how to implement and integrate Silverlight, Microsoft gave me ... (More)

MOSS 2007: Creating a custom AJAX UserControl that will query the SharePoint Search Query Object Model to perform searches

Zimmergren — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:15:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren Url: http://www.zimmergren.net If you've read my last two blogposts you already know how to configure ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX for your SharePoint Server and how do deploy a UserControl that uses AJAX functionality on you SharePoint Server. You can find my previous articles ... (More)

SharePoint Cross List Queries in a custom UserControl

Zimmergren — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:00:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren Url: http://www.zimmergren.net I got the question last week weather it's possible to get items from all lists of gathered and displayed on one page. This is - like most things - possible in SharePoint without any greater efforts. With som ... (More)

Silverlight (2.0) Blueprints for SharePoint

Zimmergren — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:05:00 GMT

Author: Tobias ZimmergrenUrl: http://www.zimmergren.net Hi people, been really busy the last couple of weeks and havn't had the time to answer your mails nor write any new blogposts. However, I just felt that I needed to get this link out there for you guys to check out in case you havn't alrea ... (More)

Windows Live Alerts - Now on your blog or website

Zimmergren — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Author: Tobias ZimmergrenUrl: http://www.zimmergren.net I just read a post by Michael Gannotti which was about the new features from Windows Live. Now you can use Alerts on your blog/website so people can register/sign up to receive alerts when you make changes or adds new posts to your blog. R ... (More)

Get a Web based Windows Live Messenger application on your blog or website

Zimmergren — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:14:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren Url: http://www.zimmergren.net Short post! I just bumped into this feature of the Windows Live Messenger application which enables you to actually add a web-based messenger to your site or blog. Check out http://settings.messenger.live.com/applications/websettings.as ... (More)

MOSS 2007: Using AJAX UserControls in SharePoint

Zimmergren — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:16:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren Url: http://www.zimmergren.net This post merely shows you how you can use the AJAX functionality in SharePoint by using UserControls. What we need to be able to follow the steps in this article Have installed ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX 1.0 Extensions (Download here) Con ... (More)

MOSS 2007: Add support for AJAX in your SharePoint installation

Zimmergren — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:02:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren Url: http://www.zimmergren.net In this very short and straight-on post I'll just mention how you can configure your SharePoint installation to enable support for ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 since a lot of people have been asking me about it. Before we make any changes in ... (More)

Update to what's going on

Zimmergren — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:21:00 GMT

Cheers and thanks for the mails and comments regarding the Silverlight/SharePoint integrations. I've been getting some good feedback and assistance along the way. The next step I need to do is get the VPCs back up running and make some final touches and then start taking screenshots and try to rem ... (More)

Busy busy busy + new laptop :)

Zimmergren — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:12:00 GMT

As you may have noticed, I'm rather busy these days and have little time to blog. At the moment I'm working on a mediumsized CommunityServer-based project for a large multinational corporation (not allowed to disclose anymore info ;)) I'm receiving my new personal laptop today (2.0GHz dualcore 64 ... (More)

Silverlight and SharePoint integration

Zimmergren — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:20:00 GMT

I'm writing this post as a question/survey and want to know if there's any interest in actually posting a blog on some different integration-possibilities with SharePoint and Silverligt. I've created a couple of smaller projects that uses SharePoint's exposed webservices to create a nice Silverli ... (More)

Silverlight with Ian Blackburn

Zimmergren — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:20:00 GMT

I'm on the train right now with two of my colleagues, heading to Stockholm to attend a Silverlight course held by Mr. Ian Blackburn himself. I'll be sure to post some interesting stuff about Silverlight and SharePoint integration soon, as I've made a couple of integrations the past couple of days ... (More)

MOSS 2007: Customize the Search Result (using XSLT) - Part 3 - Customize using SharePoint Designer 2007

Zimmergren — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:17:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren Url: http://www.zimmergren.net After being rather busy the last couple of weeks due to taking the SharePoint Certifications as well as tutoring some MOSS 2007 Development around the country it has finally begun to lighten up again. Being the geeky nerd that I am (Yeah ... (More)

All certifications passed successfully - Let's get on the blogging-train again!

Zimmergren — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:17:00 GMT

As some of you know, I've been rather absent the last couple of weeks and not really replied to mails and comments in the blog. This is because I've concentrated on taking the SharePoint certifications, aswell as being out in the country (Sweden) and consulting. I hereby proudly let you know tha ... (More)

MOSS 2007: Configure Document Conversion for your server

Zimmergren — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:16:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren Url: http://www.zimmergren.net I recently bumped into a challenge where I had to make it possible for people to convert their Word, Excel, InfoPath or other documents to a web page for display in your SharePoint 2007 installation. After a few minutes of informationgath ... (More)

MOSS 2007: Customizing the Search Results Page (XSLT) - Part 2 - Add highlighting

Zimmergren — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 20:16:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren Url: http://www.zimmergren.net In one of my previous blogposts I wrote about how you easily could alter the XSLT of a the Search Core Results Web Part on your Search Results Page in order to achieve a customization to the presentation of the output. In this article I ... (More)

MOSS 2007: Connect a custom Search Page to a custom Search Scope

Zimmergren — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 20:15:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren Url: http://www.zimmergren.net The other day I got a comment on a post from one of my readers who wanted to know how you can connect your custom created Search Page with a specific Search Scope. Create a custom Search Page Navigate to your Search Center (http://yo ... (More)

MOSS 2007: Customize the Search Result (using XSLT)

Zimmergren — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:15:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren Url: http://www.zimmergren.net Since people have been bugging me to get started with the blogging again, I guess I should just take their advice and get to it. This blogpost will cover the basics of customizing your search results-page using XSLT. I will in a later ... (More)

Back from the Mediterranean

Zimmergren — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:14:00 GMT

I was out sailing for the last week, in the mediterranean. One of the best vacations I've had in a long time really. We (two friends of mine and me) sailed from southern Mallorca (Palma) to france (st. Tropez and Antibe) with alot of stops on the way along the Mallorca and Minorca coastlines :) I ... (More)

Less time than I thought..

Zimmergren — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:11:00 GMT

Having less time over during the evenings this week at the hotel than I thought I'd have.. Conclusion is - as you have noted - that I'm a bit slow on the blogging. However, I've got some nice ideas that I will be blogging about soon after I return home. Check in soon!

Great News - SharePointBlogs.com post-backups

Zimmergren — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:11:00 GMT

Edit: After a search through the database, I found out that there isn't as many SharePointBlogs-posts as I had hoped. However I've managed to get a great bunch of posts recovered to some bloggers through mail and MSN. So after all, it wasn't all in vain =)Lastly: Keep up the good work Dustin. Ori ... (More)

Role-Based Templates for SharePoint My Sites

Zimmergren — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:11:00 GMT

*sigh* - I just finished a blogpost about the above title, and when I pasted a link in the texteditor, my browser crasched. That said, I'm going to make this short, I don't want to re-write it =). Visit: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA102147321033.aspx for information on t ... (More)

Going to Gothenburg again - Informator

Zimmergren — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:10:00 GMT

The upcoming week I'll be attending the T2742-course at Informator in Gothenburg. I will personally tutor this course myself later on this year, but right now I am attending it so I can get a good look on how to prepare for it and structure it. I'll have some time to kill since there's going to ... (More)

Simple Excel Services - Step by step, publishing a spreadsheet to SharePoint 2007

Zimmergren — Wed, 09 May 2007 20:10:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren Url: http://www.zimmergren.net In this post I will briefly describe how you can connect your excel spreadsheet to a SharePoint list using Excel Services. I will not go into any details as to what Excel Services is, how you get it online or what the great uses are. I w ... (More)

Zimmergren VSTO Tip #1: Extend the Ribbon-menu in Word 2007

Zimmergren — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:09:00 GMT

In this Visual Studio Tools for Office I will walk you through how to make a very simple customization to the Word 2007 (or any of these: Visio, PowerPoint, InfoPath, Outlook or Excel) Ribbon-menu and add our own button with some code to execute when it's pressed. Basically, what you need to do ... (More)

Zimmergren MOSS 2007 Tip #4: Extending the "Site Actions" menu with a custom feature

Zimmergren — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:08:00 GMT

In this little tip I will show you how you can customize the "Site Actions" menu by creating a Feature to manipulate the menu and deploy it to your SharePoint site. This post, as the previous in the series is just an overview of what can be done and will not be discussed in detail how ... (More)

Zimmergren MOSS 2007 Tip #3: Publishing and displaying an InfoPath form in the browser

Zimmergren — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 20:08:00 GMT

In this little tip I'm creating a Sample InfoPath form to be published to my Forms Library on my site and then opened within the browser when you want to edit/update the form. This is a sampleform from InfoPath: Bring up the Design Checker (Tools - Design Checker), make sure you don't have a ... (More)

Zimmergren MOSS 2007 Tip #2: Retrieve stuff by code

Zimmergren — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:07:00 GMT

This is by no means meant to be anything other than a small tip on how to interact with the object model. If you need more information on how to interact and code with the object model, drop me a comment. But for now this is just to show you guys out there who havn't done any coding with SharePoin ... (More)

Zimmergren MOSS 2007 Tip #1: Anonymous Access

Zimmergren — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 20:07:00 GMT

This is the first post I'm making in a series of small "how-to's" and "aha!"-posts. It will be basic stuff that you often want to know, and why not write them down here instead of in a hidden document that I'll forget about.. Today's tip is: Enabling Annonymous Access to your ... (More)

I am Superman too! [Take the quiz]

Zimmergren — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 20:09:00 GMT

I saw in Liam's blog ( http://www.sharepointblogs.com/helloitsliam ) that he took the Superhero-test. It's been going around the office for a long time, and I just had to take it again. (Last time I was Wonder Woman... Dang) Your results:You are Superman Superman 85% Rob ... (More)

The final 20 Application Templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Zimmergren — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:07:00 GMT

At last! Many of you already tried the first 20 application templates (Site Admin-templates), while the other 20 were just released (Server Admin-templates). "Site admin templates are custom templates that are easy for any SharePoint site administrator to install into the template gallery wi ... (More)

Virtual PC 2007 availible for download!

Zimmergren — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:06:00 GMT

You've probably seen this in a bunch of other blogposts already, but if you havn't: It's time for an upgrade of those horrible VPC's ;) Go get VPC 2007 from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx Quoted from the Microsoft website:"Use Microsoft Virtual PC ... (More)

Estimated release timeframes for SharePoint 2007 Language Packs!!

Zimmergren — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:04:00 GMT

"One of the most frequently asked questions about SharePoint that we've received since RTM is, "Where is the [this] or [that] Language Pack?" While we still cannot provide exact dates due to variables in our localization and release management processes for different languages, I' ... (More)

Configure aliases for your web-applications in MOSS 2007

Zimmergren — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:04:00 GMT

Alias?Alias! Say your web-server is named myServer1 and you want users to access it via the browser with http://companyintranet instead.What you need to do is � obviously � change in the DNS so that the address myServer1 points to companyintranet, but you also need to make some configurations in t ... (More)

I am Outlook 2007! Try the quiz :)

Zimmergren — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:04:00 GMT

Apparently I am Outlook 2007 according to this fun little quiz :) "Connecting with people is the key to your happiness and success. Your outgoing, action-oriented personality is something everyone who knows you can count on. You have the information at your fingertips - whether it is a dat ... (More)

I've had little time to blog, sorry

Zimmergren — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:03:00 GMT

As you can see it's more than a month ago since my last post, and that post promised a few posts to come from the course in .DK. However I've been really busy (70h/week). But now it has started to clear out and I can once again see the horizon. This time I promise that I will post something inte ... (More)

SharePoint 2007 - Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Solutions

Zimmergren — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 20:02:00 GMT

I am currently in Denmark (Hellerup) at a u2u course by Patrick Tisseghem on SharePoint 2007 held by Jan Tielens. It is a 5-day course, and I will get you some juicy details when the course is over. Course details: http://www.u2u.net/CoursePage.aspx?CODE=UO12W Cheers

A reflection tool for SP 2007, SharePoint Inspector

Zimmergren — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:01:00 GMT

The last couple of days I havn't came across anything interesting to blog about, since I've been busy with alot of other projects. However, I recently stumbled into a blogpost linking to an application called SharePoint Inspector, which is described below. Quote from the author: (This tool can be ... (More)

WSS v3.0: Import an ASP.NET Web Part to your Windows SharePoint Services Site

Zimmergren — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:57:00 GMT

It is possible to use your ASP.NET web parts in your Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) application simply by exporting them to create .webpart files. .Webpart files are simply XML files that contains property values, state data, assembly or source file details about your Web Part (WP). In order to ... (More)

Common Page and Site Customization Tasks (MOSS 2007)

Zimmergren — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:56:00 GMT

Check this MSDN site/article out. Summarizes alot of information about customizing your pages and sites :) These topics are covered:How to: Customize NavigationHow to: Create a Minimal Master PageHow to: Customize Page Editing Toolbar ComponentsHow to: Add a Button to the HTML Editor Field Contro ... (More)

MOSS 2007: Search and Indexing

Zimmergren — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 19:55:00 GMT

In this post I will show you how to configure search by creating a content source that should be indexed and a search scope to limit the results when searcing. I will also show you how to customize the Search Center and adding a tab with a custom search and search results page. I will walk you ... (More)

T2617 - Introduction to SharePoint 2007

Zimmergren — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:54:00 GMT

Monday through wednesday (today) I went the T2617 course held by Göran Husman, Sweden's only MVP in sharePoint. The overall impression was great, and my thanks goes out to Göran who did a great job as the tutor. I will in my upcoming post(s) describe some of the subjects covered, and what that re ... (More)

What's new in WSS 3.0 and SharePoint Server 2007

Zimmergren — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:53:00 GMT

This afternoon I was at a SharePoint 2007 Seminar held by Cornerstone (www.cornerstone.se) and led by Patrik Holsti. It was a good seminar which covered a lot of cool stuff in the new versions. The reason why I say versions as plural, is because Patrik clearly separated WSS 3.0 and SharePoint ... (More)

Creating a custom Master Page for your MOSS 2007 portals and sites

Zimmergren — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:53:00 GMT

When I first started discovering Master pages I didn't know where to start and what would be needed in order for a basic and as minimalistic master page as possible to work. I gathered information to be able to make myself a minimal masterpage which would be the startingpoint of my upcoming cus ... (More)

What are Master Pages and why would you use them?

Zimmergren — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:51:00 GMT

One concept we tend to see alot in the new version of SharePoint ( MOSS2007 ) are Master Pages. Most of you probably already know what a master page is, but for those of you who don't I will try to give an explanation here. A Master Page is a file with the extension *.master which basically ... (More)

Welcome to my new blog

Zimmergren — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 19:50:00 GMT

This is my very first blogpost at here and it will certainly not be the last one. Hope you enjoy my future additions. - Tobias