Do you want to start developing for SharePoint on Visual Studio 2008? Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2008 Extensions, Version 1.2 is now available for download.
Version 1.2 of the Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services contains the following tools to aid developers in building SharePoint applications:
Visual Studio 2008 Project Templates
- Web Part
- Team Site Definition
- Blank Site Definition
- List Definition
- Empty SharePoint Project
Visual Studio 2008 Item Templates (items that can be added into an existing project)
- Web Part
- Custom Field
- List Definition (with optional Event Receiver)
- Content Type (with optional Event Receiver
- Module
- List Instance
- List Event Handler
- Template
SharePoint Solution Generator
This stand-alone program generates a Site Definition project from an existing SharePoint site.
If you’ve been following the Introduction to SharePoint for .NET Developers webcast series, you might be interested to know that Microsoft has hands-on-labs that correspond to the same topics.
You can get everything from this brand new site that just went live: http://www.MsSharePointDeveloper.com.
http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2008/may08/05-21ExpandedFormatsPR.mspx
The 2007 Microsoft Office system already provides support for 20 different document formats within Microsoft Office Word, Office Excel and Office PowerPoint. With the release of Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) scheduled for the first half of 2009, the list will grow to include support for XML Paper Specification (XPS), Portable Document Format (PDF) 1.5, PDF/A and Open Document Format (ODF) v1.1.
Is it possible to link to a document in a document library when the document is stored in another document library? Yes it it … How do we do it? Read on …
You can use Content Types to do this. A Content Type is a sort of template for types of documents you store in a library.
We use the Content Type “Link to a Document” to link to a document that could be stored in another document library.
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With Sharepoint 2007 it is possible to enforce a user to check out a document before he is allowed to edit the document. You can do this at the bottom of the versioning settings page.
When you want to edit a document and you didn’t check it out you get the following warning:
If you choose OK, edit the document and save it you’ll be asked to check in the document, to leave it checked out or to discard your changes and undo the check out:
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