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Jenny’s SharePoint Tip: Rollup items across a site collection by creating a cross list data view web part.

Written by: Jennifer Hersko

While working on a client project I had a request to rollup all  calendar items across a single site collection on the home page of the root site.  After reviewing several blogs describing how to create a cross list data view web part (dvwp) I was able to successfully create a solution per the client

Jenny’s SharePoint Tip: How to display “This Month” birthdays in a list using an XSLT filter

Written by: Jennifer Hersko

Anyone who has ever worked with SharePoint knows that creating filters on date values is not as straight forward as one would expect.  This example explains how to compile employee birthdays in a custom list that automatically displays only the current month’s birthdays.  With a few calculated columns, a data view, and minor XSLT this is easy to

Silverlight Caching Data Requests

Written by: Jorge "El Che" Vasquez

SilverLight is a great presentation display. However, when it works perfectly on ALL Browsers, with exception of Internet Explorer, it become very comical. Background We developed a SilverLight display which uses “WebClient” class to query an RSS feed asynchronously: WebClient proxy = new WebClient(); proxy.OpenReadCompleted += new OpenReadCompletedEventHandler(OnReadCompleted); Once the callback event is triggered by

Adding a Silverlight Control to an existing ASP.NET Website

Written by: Johnny Bouder

I’ve only been working with Silverlight for a few months now and I’ve came to the conclusion that either my Google-fu is lacking or there isn’t a great deal of lower level information out there on how to get started. Personally I’m going with the latter because in my experience if you follow some of these posts online you’ll find yourself creating a sample Silverlight project, which is hosted within its own development application. But how do you actually add the control to your existing site?

Hopefully this will shed some light on the subject.

Surface SDK and Windows 7

Written by: Jorge "El Che" Vasquez

I recently upgraded my computer from Windows Vista to Windows 7.  And while setting up my computer, I discovered that the Microsoft Surface SDK only works on Windows Vista. I am not going to lie, but I was very disappointed and could not see why the SDK could not work on Windows 7. Hence, I went ahead and searched

Please wait while Setup finishes determining your disk space requirements

Written by: Jorge "El Che" Vasquez

.MSI files can act strangely at times. Causing us to explode in anger as to why it decided that it must check your disk for space requirements. Is this a sign that I must take a break and get a cup of coffee? Hence, I clicked on “Return” on the above message and took a

Walkthrough: DVWP Tooltip

Written by: Chris Lincoln

Tooltips may be implemented to greatly improve user experience in many scenarios.  This walkthrough will provide a method with which tooltip functionality may be implemented on SharePoint Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) using XSL and JavaScript. Preparation Open the SharePoint site in SharePoint Designer 2007 Open the page on which the tooltip functionality will be implemented Enable either

It’s Peanut Butter Jelly Time

Written by: Gitendra Malla

On an early Thursday morning last August, I walked into the office with a hole in my stomach. Following my regular routine, I went to the kitchen area and tossed two loaves of bread into the great belly of the toaster oven, which boasts a 12 inch pizza capacity. As usual, I waited for the

Microsoft My Phone

Written by: Jorge "El Che" Vasquez

If you ever lost a phone, you know how it feels to know that all the data that you had saved on your phone is gone. All those pictures, music and contacts are gone with the phone. It happened to me and it was a royal pain to recover a small portion of what I

How to Customize the Layouts Application Master Page

Written by: Hector Portillo

The introduction of master pages in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 has made it easy for designers like me to customize the look and feel of SharePoint sites. I had created and customized master pages and user controls in .Net applications using Visual Studio. I was feeling right at home when I opened my first