Scenario Recently a client had a requirement to upload documents to their SharePoint site. They wanted the ability to drop numerous files in a FTP folder and have them uploaded to SharePoint automatically. Solution We decided to solve this using a Custom SSIS Task that uploads files to the required Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) Document Library. We therefore used the Integration Services Project under the Business Intelligence Project types within Microsoft Visual Studio ... [Read more]

The example I’ve taken is using WSS 3 and Silverlight 2. You need to install following pre-requisites to create and deploy your silver light application to SharePoint site •    .NET Framework 3.5 •    WSS 3.0 SP1 (and MOSS 2007 SP1 of you are using MOSS 2007) •    Visual Studio 2008 SP1 •    Visual Studio Extension for SharePoint 1.2 or latest •    Silverlight Runtime •    Silverlight SDK •    Silverlight Tools for VS 2008 STEP 1: Deploy Silverlight DLL to GAC This assembl ... [Read more]

Recently I've been spending a lot of time working on various SharePoint projects, none more challenging than the Citroën site launched earlier this year. I'm going to take the time to explain how we put together our web parts and server controls, particularly from the point of view of a WCM scenario where the complexity of our mark-up was significantly greater than that of a traditional "vanilla" intranet SharePoint due to the various accessibility guidelines we needed to adhere to ... [Read more]