Over the past month, I can hardly count the times I've had to help developers and customers restore original code, forms, and what not. So I may seem to be stating the obvious but here are a few handy tips to know before you begin development and ...[Read More]

In a previous article, I explained how to handle transparent PNG files assuming they were background images. To deal with this problem for PNGs which are not set as background images, we'll use a little javascript. First, we still need to detect t ...[Read More]

Creating a new web design in Photoshop, Illustrator, or your design tool of choice is the easy part. Developing the page and the style sheet to make things look just like the pretty picture is the hard part. Web 2.0 is all about gradients, catchy ic ...[Read More]

I found the following instructions on the web for setting up the Adobe PDF iFilter at http://www.sharepointblogs.com/vandest/archive/2006/11/23/sharepoint-2007-acrobat-pdf-ifilter-6-0.aspx : Here are the instructions for installing the PDF IFi ...[Read More]

The Page Viewer web part is a very powerful feature of SharePoint. It provides you the ability to embed a remote web page within your SharePoint page. One problem while with this is dealing with the height and width of the web part. If the remote ...[Read More]

You may run across the need to restart Excel Services in SharePoint 2007 if the Excel Services web parts are not rendering. Typically, restarting the service can fix this issue. This is done through STSADM. Stsadm –o enumservices will give you t ...[Read More]

If you're developing in SharePoint, you're probably aware of the useless error messages which are generated if something goes wrong with your code. Well, you can turn on "Friendly Error Messages" by modifying the web.config file of the r ...[Read More]

The Community Kit for SharePoint: Enhanced Blog Edition (CKS:EBE) is a great add-on for SharePoint. What a brilliant piece of work this is. A big thanks goes out to the team of developers who worked on this. The installation of this feature was a ...[Read More]

Well, it's finally up. My SharePoint blog site powered by Community Kit for SharePoint: Enhanced Blog Edition. I spend a lot of time deploying solutions to meet the needs of businesses. And a lot of those solutions involve SharePoint. SharePoint h ...[Read More]