Tobias Zimmergren

Hosted Microsoft TFS – Team Foundation Service – Part 4: Connect your project to TFS and create a build definition

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:10:12 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction A while back an announcement was made that TFSPreview.com had been made available for general testing. Various bloggers at Microsoft put an invitation token in their MSDN blogs so everyone can have a go at it. In this article series we’ll take a very quick look [...]

Hosted Microsoft TFS – Team Foundation Service – Part 3: Configure a build server to work with TFSpreview

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:57:47 +0000

Sweden SharePoint User Group – Malmö / Stockholm

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:04:09 +0000

Introduction The Sweden SharePoint User Group (SSUG) is a non-profit organization where we continuously provide meet-ups and presentations about SharePoint in Sweden. There’s no doubt that everyone’s been very busy the last year and things aren’t about to change now. As we head deeper into 2012 I’m sure we’ll have plenty of awesome SharePoint-related meetings [...]

Hosted Microsoft TFS – Team Foundation Service – Part 2: Connect your development rig

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:14:46 +0000

Getting Started with Debugger Canvas – An aid in your daily development (debugging) tasks

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 06:24:29 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren | www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction Sometimes when you’re in a development project you can feel the pain of debugging. If there’s a lot of code floating around it may be hard to sort out the method calls and how the depend on each other if it’s a very complex solution. To ease [...]

Conditionally Enable or Disable a Button/Command in your SharePoint 2010 custom Ribbon group

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:19:02 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction In most of my recent projects I’ve been required to hook up some custom functionality and add custom forms, pages and Web Parts. Some of the forms and pages I designed needed to be launched from the Ribbon menu, which of course is contextual. This basically [...]

Hosted Microsoft TFS – Team Foundation Service – Part 1: Getting Started

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:35:02 +0000

New blog design launched

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:40:31 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren A new blog platform means… I finally migrated from WSS 3.0 as a blogging platform to WordPress. Obviously WordPress contains tons of awesome utilities and functions for SEO and general blogging tasks. The SharePoint platform was pretty descent to have the blog hosted on, but in [...]

SP 2010: Developing for performance Part 8 – Control that ViewState

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:39:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction SharePoint 2010 developing for performance article series: In this series of articles I will briefly introduce you to some key concepts when it comes to developing for performance in our SharePoint 2010 applications. Related articles in this article series Part 1 – SP 2010: Developing for [...]

SUGUK Meeting along with the Golf Day in August

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:41:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction Once a year in the UK, the SUGUK (SharePoint User Group UK) organizes a SharePoint Golf Day and a User Group event in combination with that. Details are now published on the SUGUK.org web site, and it looks like there will be two awesome sessions delivered [...]

SP 2010: Developing for SharePoint 2010 and Windows Azure – Part 1

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:03:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction After many-a-requests I’ve decided to do an article on how you can work with an Azure-hosted SQL Server and consume that data in SharePoint 2010. Related articles for working with external data in SharePoint 2010: Getting started with Business Connectivity Services (BCS) in SharePoint 2010 Programmatically [...]

Office 365 – Part 2: Getting started with Office 365

Tobias Zimmergren — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 21:07:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction In this series I will cover the aspects of Office 365 briefly and of course dig deeper into the SharePoint-bits. The article series is meant to give you a heads up about Office 365, and of course give you the information you need to get started [...]

Office 365 – Part 1: What is Office 365 and how can my organization benefit from using it?

Tobias Zimmergren — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 21:00:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction This is the first post in a series about Office 365. In this series I will cover the aspects of Office 365 briefly and of course dig deeper into the SharePoint-bits. The article series is meant to give you a heads up about Office 365, and [...]

Sweden SharePoint User Group – May 26th, Stockholm

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 13 May 2011 21:39:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction After a bit longer pause than we normally take, it is with great pleasure I now finally announce a new date for the next SSUG (Sweden SharePoint User Group) meeting taking place in Stockholm. Sogeti is kind to be a sponsor for the conference room and [...]

SP 2010: Developing for performance part 7 – Crunching those scripts

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 09 May 2011 14:37:25 +0000

SharePoint Best Practice conference in London 2011 session download

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:01:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction The last week that just passed was filled with quite some cool happenings over at the BPCUK Conference in London. If you’ll follow the #BPCUK tag on Twitter you’ll find all the juicy information that you missed out on – there’s no real need for me [...]

SP 2010: Developing for performance Part 6 – CSS Sprites

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:11:25 +0000

SharePoint Best Practices conference in London – here we go!

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 07:56:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction It probably doesn’t surprise anyone that the BPC conference in London is one of the main events to look forward to in the realm of SharePoint conferences. I will of course be attending this conference and I’ll be delivering an introductory session about Silverlight and SharePoint. [...]

TechDays 2011 in Örebro was a great success!

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 11:24:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction This week during Tuesday and Wednesday we had one of Sweden’s coolest Microsoft conventions of the year – Microsoft TechDays. It was a great success with many new acquaintances and some very cool sessions being presented. Microsoft Awards 2011 This year I was on the jury-board [...]

TOZIT AB is hiring in Sweden – Looking for a new challenge?

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:18:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction Some exiting news is about to be published and I’m glad to announce that some fantastic plans we’re working on is about to take shape. As stated in the headline of this post, TOZIT AB is now hiring staff in Sweden. We’re looking for sales representatives, [...]

SP 2010: Developing for performance Part 5 – Disposal patterns and tools

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 08:58:25 +0000

SP 2010: Developing for performance Part 4 – Logging

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 08:43:25 +0000

SP 2010: Developing for performance Part 3 – Caching in SharePoint 2010

Tobias Zimmergren — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 10:56:25 +0000

A look back at 2010

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 09:11:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction A new year dawns, as we move into 2011. There’s plenty of awesome things going on that will shortly be announced for 2011. Right now, though, let’s focus on what 2010 looked like. Here’s a short summary of some of the highlights. Popular articles from 2010 [...]

SP 2010: Developing for performance Part 2 – SPMonitoredScope

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:16:25 +0000

SP 2010: Developing for performance Part 1 – Developer Dashboard

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:46:25 +0000

Sweden SharePoint User Group – We’re alive!

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:04:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction The past couple of weeks I’ve been buried in work daytime, and been working just as much night-time with the new SSUG site and the things that will be launched on the site soon. I’m happy to announce that the first stage in the configuration and [...]

SEF 2010 – A recap

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:31:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction SEF 2010 (SharePoint & Exchange Forum) is over for this year and it was – like always – a blast. At SEF 2010 there were some really cool sessions covering some very interesting areas like Lync (OCS 14), Exchange, Windows Phone 7 and of course SharePoint! [...]

SEF 2010 approaching

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 23:03:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction Next week (October 18th and 19th) it’s time for the Swedish conference SEF 2010 (SharePoint & Exchange Forum) which is organized by HumanData. My Session This year I will only be having one session where I’ll be talking about how to get introduced to SharePoint 2010 [...]

Microsoft MVP award renewed for 2010

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 16:46:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction I was just (re)awarded the prestigious Microsoft MVP award for the third year in a row for my contributions to the SharePoint community. A quote from the Microsoft MVP site about the award: We seek to recognize the best and brightest from technology communities around the [...]

Sweden SharePoint User Group (SSUG), Meeting in October

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:47:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction After a long and well deserved vacation we’re now back with new strength! It’s time for our first SSUG meeting for the fall! Please do remember; This is a FREE event – we never have and never will charge anyone for loving SharePoint and sharing the [...]

SP 2010: Web Application settings (web.config) modifications in SharePoint 2010 via code

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:11:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction I’ve been getting some questions lately about modifications to web.config files and SharePoint 2010 – is it possible to automate so that the administrator don’t have to manually edit those files on each WFE? Yes, that’s the easy answer. This was possible in SharePoint 2007 as [...]

SP 2010: Find error messages with a Correlation ID token in SharePoint 2010

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:56:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction In SharePoint 2010, you’ve got some new capabilities for error reporting and logs. One of the most noted features for me as a developer is that whenever you bump into an error message – you’ll be presented with a correlation ID token. In this article I [...]

SP 2010: Developing with the Word Automation Services in SharePoint Server 2010

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:11:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction In SharePoint 2010, there is a new Service Application called Word Automation Services. This Service Application is used to convert documents from Word to different formats. Word Automation Services can open about the same formats as Windows Word 2010 can: Filetypes it can open include:.docx, .docm, [...]

SP 2010: Introduction to programmatically working with Taxonomies in SharePoint Server 2010

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:12:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction One of the coolest new set of functionality for SharePoint 2010 is the Taxonomies (Term Store, Term Sets, Terms) that you can easily create using the amazing Managed Metadata Manager service application. In this article I’ll talk briefly about how you can utilize the SharePoint API [...]

A free MSDN Ultimate subscription goes to Anders Rask

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:50:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction Two weeks ago I posted in the blog about giving out some free MSDN Ultimate subscriptions with VS 2010 to anyone who provided me with a valid enough reason to get them. One of the first few people who sent me an e-mail was Anders Rask, [...]

CKS : Developer Tools – A tool for your toolbox

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:03:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction If you’re a seasoned SharePoint developer, you probably have a good set of tools that you’re working with on a daily basis. Some of my all-time favorites include: WSPBuilder SharePoint Manager ReSharper Reflector Pro Visual Studio 2010 U2U CAML Query Builder <and the list continues> With [...]

MCPD: SharePoint track

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 08:39:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction The SharePoint 2010 exams are final and has been released so you can head over to your local training center and take the exams when you feel ready for it. I recently passed both the TS and the PRO exams for SharePoint 2010 Development, and I [...]

Book: SharePoint 2010 Web Parts in Action

Tobias Zimmergren — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 17:40:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction As you might know there’s a whole lot of SharePoint 2010 books coming out quite soon, and some have already been released to the market. In this article I will highlight one of the books I like in particular, the SharePoint 2010 Web Parts in Action [...]

Free MSDN Ultimate subscriptions including Visual Studio 2010

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:18:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction A couple of weeks ago Microsoft sent me a set of three (3) give-away MSDN Subscriptions (Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN) for me to delegate to those who might want and need one. I thank the Microsoft Visual Studio and .NET Framework product team [...]

Vacation!

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:17:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction It’s vacation, what can I say… Enjoy the summer, and I’ll see you all again in August! Cheers!

SP 2010: Custom RSS provider for your Business Connectivity Services (BCS) connected External Lists

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:32:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction If you’ve been working with BCS and external lists you may have noticed that there’s no RSS feeds enabled for those lists. So to get around this problem I’ve created a custom RSS feed generator that essentially provides you with an RSS/ATOM feed for you so [...]

Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Power Tools – Released

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:49:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction Our good friend Mike Morton over at Microsoft just announced the official release of some great extensions to Visual Studio 2010, called SharePoint Power Tools. These tools will extend Visual Studio 2010 to give your these additional features: Sandboxed Visual Web Part Compile-time warnings on Sandboxed [...]

SP 2010: Uploading files using the Client OM in SharePoint 2010

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:48:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction In this article I will guide your through the process of uploading a document to any chosen document library in SharePoint 2010 through the Client Object Model. This application has a very simple usage scenario: Type in the URL to your site where you want to [...]

SP 2010: BCS problem with AuthenticationMode and RevertToSelf

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:27:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction I bumped into an issue the other week where I was creating a new BCS External Content Type and was hoping to hook up some new connections on a couple of demo farms I’ve created. While most of these things were working like a charm, I [...]

SP 2010: How to create a PowerShell Snapin Cmdlet – Part 2

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:53:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction In my previous article (How to create a PowerShell Snapin – Part 1) I talked about the general approach to create a custom PowerShell Cmdlet. However, in Part 1 I did not talk about how you create SharePoint 2010 specific Cmdlets. That’s what this article is [...]

SP 2010: How to create a PowerShell Snapin – Part 1

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:58:25 +0000

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 creating custom PowerShell commands for SharePoint 2010 that you can use. You will see how easy it actually is to build a custom class library that in turn is an extension to the [...]

Sweden SharePoint User Group – Summer Finale Recap

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:29:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction On May 26th we had our season-finale of the SSUG (Sweden SharePoint User Group) meeting at Scandic Anglais in Stockholm. It was a great event with three speakers that we had organized: Case: Handelshögskolan, Externwebb på SharePoint 2007 Christoffer von Sabsay, Sogeti Offlinehantering i SharePoint 2010 [...]

SharePoint 2010 – The Developer Tour Malmö – Recap

Tobias Zimmergren — Sun, 23 May 2010 13:02:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction I helped André Henriksson from Microsoft deliver the SharePoint 2010 Developer Roadshow in Malmö this spring. It was a fun and we had a great time, and according to the great feedback we’ve been getting – we did good. Download the presentation Some questions arose as [...]

Access denied by Business Data Connectivity – Solution

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 08 May 2010 10:18:25 +0000

Auhtor: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction Lately I’ve been rolling around parts of Sweden and doing training, seminars and workshops on SharePoint 2010 with a bunch of companies and people. One thing that I’ve been showing off, which I’m totally in love with by the way, is the BCS (Business Connectivity Services) [...]

Sweden SharePoint User Group, May 26th, Stockholm

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 06 May 2010 13:22:25 +0000

I just published information about the upcoming User Group event in Stockholm here: http://www.sharepointcommunity.se/events/sweden-sharepoint-user-group-2 This time we’re going to be hosting the event at Scandic Anglais in Stockholm, near Stureplan. Get going, sign up here and wait for an updated agenda! / Z

SharePoint Evolution Conference, London

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:35:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction As many of you guys out there know already, the conference called SharePoint Evolution Conference just came to an end yesterday. SPEvo was a 3-day conference with lots and lots of great sessions and superb entertainment. Just around the corner of the Big Ben, the conference [...]

SharePoint 2010 – The Developer Tour (Sweden)

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:45:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction We’re not too far from a release of the awesome Office and SharePoint products in the 2010-family, and as we approach this release we’re preparing some fantastic stuff for all of you developers to indulge in order to be somewhat prepared when it hits the market. [...]

SP 2010: SharePoint Server 2010 – Creating a custom Document ID provider

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:19:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction In this article I will talk about how you can create your custom Document ID provider for your SharePoint Server 2010 installation. Sometimes I’ve been getting the question weather or not it’s possible to change the behavior or change the way the Document ID’s are generated, [...]

SP 2010: Site Collection Keep-Alive Job now available by AC

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:07:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction Normally I don’t make link-posts like this one, but it is too good to miss out on. My main man and friend Andrew Connell (AC) have created a new utility for SharePoint 2010 which is essentially a "warmup" job for your Site Collecions. This job is [...]

SP 2010: Certification exam details for SharePoint 2010 published

Tobias Zimmergren — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:06:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction Microsoft has published the two developer-oriented certifications for SharePoint 2010 on Microsoft Learning. Personally, I think there is a huge improvement now as we’re not only getting the MCTS-credit but can now also become an MCPD (Microsoft Certified Professional Developer) on the SharePoint platform. Something I’ve [...]

SP 2010: Validate Sandboxed Solutions using SPSolutionValidator

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:31:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction If you’ve been playing around with SharePoint 2010 lately, you’ve most likely noticed a new concept introduced as "Sandbox Solutions". With sandboxed solutions (read more about them here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee536577(office.14).aspx) comes the possibility to scope your solutions to Site Collection (into the new Solution gallery). A question [...]

SP 2010: Dynamically displaying messages to your users with the Notification and Status bar areas in SharePoint 2010

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:13:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction With the new version of SharePoint comes a full set of new and awesome features that you’ll have to indulge and learn. One of the small things that makes my day much more fun is to display messages to your users in the Status- and Notification [...]

You will find me at these coming SharePoint events in the near future!

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:18:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction Some of my friends, students, clients and fellow Sweden SharePoint User Group members have been asking when and where I will show up for some interesting discussions in Q1/Q2 this year. So I thought I’d lay it out simple and easy, with focus on the big [...]

This is my current development rig

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:52:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction A lot of my clients, students and SharePoint friends have been asking me about details on my latest development rig – so here you go, a full disclosure of the machine and it’s peripherals that I’m currently using for my primary SP 2010 development. Notes: I’ve [...]

SP 2010: LINQ to SharePoint – What CAML lies behind my query?

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:00:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction The two following questions are quite popular in my SharePoint 2010 developer training classes, so I ought to answer them right here. "What does LINQ to SharePoint really do?" "Can I see the CAML query generated by the LINQ to SharePoint query?" The answer is simple: [...]

SP 2010: Getting started with LINQ to SharePoint in SharePoint 2010

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:25:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction In SharePoint 2010 you now have the ability to use LINQ syntax to fetch items from your lists instead of using the "traditional" approach of CAML queries. (Including SPSiteDataQuery and SPQuery objects) In this article I will give you a brief introduction to how you can [...]

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

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:13:25 +0000

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. SP 2010: Programmatically work with External Lists (BCS) using the Client Object Model In my previous [...]

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

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:38:25 +0000

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. SP 2010: Programmatically work with External Lists (BCS) using the Client Object Model In my previous [...]

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

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:48:25 +0000

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. SP 2010: Programmatically work with External Lists (BCS) using the Client Object Model BCS in SharePoint [...]

SP 2010: How To – Relational lists in SharePoint 2010

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:55:25 +0000

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 information from more than one list with the improved SPQuery object. [...]

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

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:48:25 +0000

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 can subscribe to the "ItemAdded" event for a specific list, and have your [...]

SP 2010: List Joins & SPQuery enchancements!

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:53:25 +0000

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 lists in SharePoint 2010, they also introduced a new set of investments in how we [...]

My most popular SharePoint posts of 2009

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:06:25 +0000

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 look forward to in 2010. But [...]

Merry Christmas and a Happy New SharePoint Year

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:44:25 +0000

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. But for now [...]

SP 2010: Presentations from SharePoint & Exchange Forum in Sweden

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:00:25 +0000

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 presentation I did was required to be in Swedish, and I haven’t done any translation [...]

Sweden SharePoint User Group Meeting in Stockholm

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:22:25 +0000

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 exciting news about SharePoint 2010. When? December 14th. Gather up around 17.30. Where? At Connectas [...]

I am a SharePoint 2010 Ignite instructor in Sweden

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:39:25 +0000

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 Partners, trained by Microsoft staff and approved trainers. A quote from Microsoft website about the Ignite program: [...]

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

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:29:25 +0000

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 require SharePoint Server 2010 to be installed. The Client Object Model is [...]

SharePoint 2010: Getting Started with Development on SharePoint 2010

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:23:25 +0000

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-Labs that I stumbled upon SharePoint 2010 Hands On Labs HOL01 – Developing [...]

Blessed with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award, again

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:18:25 +0000

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 Microsoft® Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award. These exceptional community leaders come from a wide [...]

Come and meet me in Vegas, Amsterdam and Berlin!

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:35:25 +0000

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 baby!) I guess you haven’t missed that it’s time for the [...]

SharePoint Saturday Copenhagen – Code samples

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:24:25 +0000

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 been looking through the evaluation forms from the event, and wow – [...]

SharePoint Books: Recommended Reading

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:24:25 +0000

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 that a well written book is great to have around you while [...]

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

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:19:25 +0000

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, I didn’t really have enough time to finish it off. [...]

SharePoint Saturday Copenhagen – Recap

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:45:25 +0000

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 event. I’m hoping to see some more SPSaturday events around Scandinavia, and hopefully we’ll be [...]

SharePoint Saturday Copenhagen – 1 day left

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:19:25 +0000

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 beer we can grab after Presentation I’ll be giving [...]

Microsoft SharePoint Conference – Info and Sneak Peaks

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:36:25 +0000

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 possible for a chat and a (lot of) beer during the [...]

What is SharePoint – A simple explanation

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:12:25 +0000

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 doesn’t necessarily highlight any specific area of the product. Makes it a bit easier to explain to people what [...]

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

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:12:25 +0000

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 pain in the buttocks if you [...]

SharePoint Saturday Copenhagen – Meet me there

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:46:25 +0000

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 SharePoint Saturday Copenhagen website: "Join SharePoint architects, developers, and other professionals that [...]

SharePoint BDC Part 2: Creating your first BDC Web Part

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:36:25 +0000

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 (MOSS 2007 specifically, as it’s an Enterprise feature). In this article [...]

Free Bamboo Solutions products for User Groups

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:23:25 +0000

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 3.0. This week I received the good news that Bamboo is now offering all User [...]

SharePint in Las Vegas

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:22:25 +0000

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. Read more about it here, and if you’re [...]

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

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:25:25 +0000

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 better than others: http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2008/12/20-excellent-free-rich-text-editors/ My favorite ones As for which ones I would [...]

SharePoint 2010: Developer Documentation and Protocol Documentation

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:23:25 +0000

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: 2010 (Technical Preview) Developer Documentation Enjoy. Technorati Tags: SharePoint 2010,WSS 4.0,SharePoint,Microsoft

SharePoint 2010 Sneak-Peak videos are officially out

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:37:25 +0000

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/Sneak_Peek/Pages/default.aspx Have fun Technorati Tags: SharePoint 2010,WSS 4.0,SP 2010,Microsoft,SharePoint

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

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:55:25 +0000

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 is about – customizing the RSS settings of any SPList object [...]

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

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:41:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren URL: http://www.zimmergren.net Introduction As you all know, most of the SharePoint people (architects, developers, testers, designers, <etc>) are running our environments virtually. That rocks! But, there’s some things one need to think of when you want to migrate your VPC to Windows 7. I just "migrated" all of my Microsoft Virtual PC [...]

SharePoint: Recommended links June 2009

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:28:25 +0000

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 instead of having to pile through those 200 new posts/day [...]

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

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:13:25 +0000

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 as our example for retrieving data using the BDC. I will step you through the simple process [...]

Announcing TOZIT

Tobias Zimmergren — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:34:25 +0000

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 TOZIT is born After many years in the IT business it [...]

Debugging your code execution for anonymous users in SharePoint

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:56:25 +0000

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, SharePoint automatically tries to identify the user. This means that if you’re [...]

Sweden SharePoint User Group, May 28th Re-Cap

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:29:25 +0000

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 sessions. With that said, thank you Precio for lending [...]

Important note about the SharePoint SP2

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 22 May 2009 14:48:25 +0000

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 recently installed, have a look at your license type to make sure it’s [...]

Sweden SharePoint User Group, May 28th

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 21 May 2009 09:51:25 +0000

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 The agenda for the evening looks something like this: [...]

Recover/fetch the Application Pool password

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 18 May 2009 12:30:25 +0000

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 which is a base for this article: The Application Pool Password is stored [...]

SharePoint Server 2010 preliminary requirements

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 12 May 2009 10:57:25 +0000

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-requirements.aspx Have a good read

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

Tobias Zimmergren — Sun, 03 May 2009 10:36:25 +0000

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 MOSS 2007 SDK [...]

WSS and MOSS: Service Pack 2 Released Today!

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:18:25 +0000

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 overview of major updates and rollups/cumulative updates post SP1, check out my mate Spence’s awesome [...]

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

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:30:25 +0000

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 development environment looks like! Note: For different [...]

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

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:50:25 +0000

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. Deleting a Field from a View programmatically Alright, [...]

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

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:28:25 +0000

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 uploading any file to your Document Library. Note; Since [...]

TechDays 2009 Sweden – Summary of the event

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:50:25 +0000

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 success for a fully [...]

WSPBuilder supports Windows Server 2008

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:26:25 +0000

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 of WSPBuilder from here WSPBuilder For [...]

WSPBuilder – Walkthrough of the Visual Studio Add-in

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:29:25 +0000

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 document some of the main features here. If I’m missing out on [...]

Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007 is now officially FREE

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:16:25 +0000

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: Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007 is now a FREE download for [...]

Ten (10) Free SharePoint Themes – Visual Overview

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:48:25 +0000

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 Studio 2008 Extensions for SharePoint (VSeWSS) Article Overview I got myself together and summarized all the themes below, where [...]

Sweden SharePoint User Group Malmö – First meeting done

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:23:25 +0000

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 SharePoint Manager 2007. Great job Carsten, and [...]

SharePoint Online – Customization – Part 2

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:23:25 +0000

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 really do any customizations using .wsp packages or deploying custom code on the [...]

Sweden SharePoint User Group – 11th of March in Malmö

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:28:25 +0000

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 administration [...]

SharePoint Ramp Up – Part 2

Tobias Zimmergren — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:25:25 +0000

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 where I outlined the Part 1 of the program. Part [...]

VSeWSS v1.3 – Feb 2009 CTP released

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 11:10:25 +0000

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: [...]

Microsoft SharePoint Online Service Level Agreement (SLA)

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:32:25 +0000

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#filelist Technorati Tags: SharePoint Online,Microsoft Online Services,SLA,MOSS

Microsoft Online Services Release Notes

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:38:25 +0000

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 Online Services Single Sign-on application Download here Microsoft SharePoint Online [...]

SharePoint Online – A first look

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:23:25 +0000

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 brings to your organization. My Swedish readers, this is for you: [...]

Backing up your local Subversion repositories using Live Mesh

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:52:25 +0000

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 for this post is the fact that I found Subversion together with [...]

SharePoint Diagnostics Tool (SPDiag) – Released today

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:32:25 +0000

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 itself; The SharePoint Diagnostic tool (SPDiag) version 1.0, included with the [...]

Visual Studio extensions for Windows SharePoint Services – 1.3

Tobias Zimmergren — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:37:25 +0000

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 functionality which I’ll try to outline here. Overview [...]

Swedish SharePoint Communities – Now we’re talking

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:56:25 +0000

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 rising [...]

SPDisposeCheck tool finally released – get your code straight!

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:33:25 +0000

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 about and downloaded [...]

Starting a SharePoint workflow from code (Event Receiver)

Tobias Zimmergren — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:16:25 +0000

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 on new items or items being changed, I want [...]

SharePoint development environment now running Windows 7

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 09:56:25 +0000

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 II SDRAM – 800 MHz – PC2-6400 Disk: 250 GB S-ATA 7200rpm Graphics: 512 MB [...]

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

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:47:25 +0000

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 customizations and development on the SharePoint Online platform. (aka. the cloud) TOC [...]

Custom list definitions with custom forms – changing master page

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:36:25 +0000

[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 following line of my [...]

How To: SharePoint and Silverlight 2.0 – Part 1

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:40:25 +0000

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 support for AJAX in your SharePoint installation How to: Get [...]

How To: Custom Web Part Properties (ToolPart)

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:49:25 +0000

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 (Really, you can just download the entire [...]

I can (Windows) Azure you – Song

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:22:25 +0000

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 [...]

Sweden SharePoint User Group presentations

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:19:25 +0000

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 waiting for access to the site from Daniel. Before I get that access I’m [...]

Sweden SharePoint User Group – First meeting done

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:40:25 +0000

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 doing a [...]

Microsoft Office Systems 2007 – Service Pack 2

Tobias Zimmergren — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:27:25 +0000

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 be released somewhere between [...]

MSDN Ramp Up – Free training online

Tobias Zimmergren — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:26:25 +0000

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 choose from; SharePoint for developers [...]

Sweden SharePoint User Group – November 18

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:36:25 +0000

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 – which is also a recap [...]

Leaving for TechEd EMEA 2008 – Developers

Tobias Zimmergren — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 10:30:25 +0000

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 [...]

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

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:15:25 +0000

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 Vista, the 2007 Office [...]

Microsoft announces a new .NET logo

Tobias Zimmergren — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:09:25 +0000

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 share this with you so you [...]

CKS EBE – Comments Manager – Version 1.1.0.0

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 01:18:25 +0000

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 out as of right now. It’s still a work-in-progress as a little private pet project of mine, so any suggestions and feedback are appreciated For more information [...]

CKS EBE – Comments Manager

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:27:25 +0000

Author: Tobias Zimmergren Blog: http://www.zimmergren.net Introduction <EDIT> A new version of this tool can be downloaded [here] Read more about the new version [here] </EDIT> I have been getting a few requests from people who’ve been getting quite a lot of spam in their Enhanced Blog Edition SharePoint blog, and who don’t currently [...]

Web Part Caching – A simple approach

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:34:25 +0000

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 practices for creating our custom solutions based on web [...]

I’m a Microsoft MVP

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:00:25 +0000

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! Thanks to everyone for your support About [...]

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

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:42:25 +0000

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 to a CodePlex project called [...]

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

Tobias Zimmergren — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:23:25 +0000

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 about how you can manually set up your SharePoint environment for use with Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5. In this article I will talk about how you can incorporade some [...]

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

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:12:25 +0000

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 this article I [...]

Going offline – Finally the vacation has arrived!

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:34:25 +0000

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 [...]

Microsoft Tech·Ed EMEA 2008 – Developer

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:24:25 +0000

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 than 4,000 of your peers have countless opportunities to explore about the latest cutting-edge [...]

SharePoint Forum and SharePoint Forum Web Part

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:17:25 +0000

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 bugging me about the Discussion Forum WebPart I’ve created for SharePoint (WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 alike, of course). Therefore, I decided to give you some update as to what’s going on. First of [...]

Screencasting software

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:22:25 +0000

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, some are commercial.

U2U CAML Query Builder – New version out

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:10:25 +0000

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%2D2ee90b3c8e5a&ID=30 Cheers

What browser do you use?

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:09:25 +0000

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 < 4.01 – 0.5% Internet [...]

Infrastructure updates for MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:20:25 +0000

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 downloads and documents, so you can read it yourself. Sidenote: Just [...]

SharePoint’s hidden user-list – User Information List

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:03:25 +0000

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. User Information List – Background [...]

Back on track

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:39:25 +0000

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 off [...]

SharePoint Virtual Images from Microsoft

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 17 May 2008 08:49:25 +0000

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 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to use [...]

Forum WebPart, Egypt and new litterature

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 16 May 2008 21:49:25 +0000

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! Hi people. As many of you guys already know I’m off to Egypt for a well deserved vacation for 2 weeks now. I’ll be back on track June 4th with lots of new material to blog about. Here’s a quick [...]

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

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 05 May 2008 12:19:25 +0000

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 can find on the U2U Community Tools page. Prerequisites In [...]

Introduction to SharePoint Queries

Tobias Zimmergren — Sun, 04 May 2008 21:23:25 +0000

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 SharePoint team – I always bump [...]

SPQuery returning all items

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:37:25 +0000

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( "<Query>"+ "<OrderBy>"+ "<FieldRef Name=’Created’ />" + [...]

“It’s Silverlight, it’s strong and tight, they got it right, try it tonight”

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:51:25 +0000

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 23:33:25 +0000

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 know the status of my personal pet-project. I’ve been getting alot of feedback regarding the Forum WebPart which is soon to enter it’s beta-testing stage. Thanks for the [...]

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

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:40:25 +0000

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 more time

Forum Web Part for SharePoint

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:35:25 +0000

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 SharePoint database [...]

Italy next – arrivederci for now!

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:00:25 +0000

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 19:32:25 +0000

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 [...]

Tip: RequestAccessEnabled programatically using the SharePoint Object Model

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:15:25 +0000

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 be able to [...]

The attack of the RSS – Sorry

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:57:25 +0000

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 [...]

CKS:Enhanced Blog Edition – Enable Search

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:37:25 +0000

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 it. Daniel [...]

LINQ to SharePoint

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:29:25 +0000

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). " Read More about LINQ: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb308959.aspx I was just about [...]

Stress Testing SharePoint Solutions with Visual Studio 2008

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:26:25 +0000

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.aspx

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

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:24:25 +0000

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 [...]

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

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:41:25 +0000

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 SharePoint server: [...]

New Blog: WSS 3.0 SP1 + Win Server 2008

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:48:25 +0000

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!

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:30:25 +0000

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 what it looks [...]

Bluescreen of Death on my VPC

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:30:25 +0000

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 a Bluescreen of Death smacked in my [...]

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

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:15:25 +0000

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 here: MOSS 2007- Add support for AJAX in your SharePoint [...]

SharePoint Cross List Queries in a custom UserControl

Tobias Zimmergren — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:00:25 +0000

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 <your chosen type here> gathered and displayed on one page. This is – like most things – possible in SharePoint without any greater efforts. With something called Queries we can use the object model [...]

Silverlight (2.0) Blueprints for SharePoint

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:05:25 +0000

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 already: http://www.ssblueprints.net/sharepoint/ "Open Source [...]

Windows Live Alerts – Now on your blog or website

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:00:25 +0000

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. Read more on Michael’s blog here

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

Tobias Zimmergren — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:14:25 +0000

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.aspx to create one for yourself. First off, click the little green MSN-guy (it’s green if the person is [...]

MOSS 2007: Using AJAX UserControls in SharePoint

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:16:25 +0000

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) Configured web.config to enable AJAX support (See my previous post [...]

MOSS 2007: Add support for AJAX in your SharePoint installation

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:02:25 +0000

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 the web.config we need the following: A backup of [...]

Update to what’s going on

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:21:25 +0000

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 remember what the heck I’ve [...]

Busy busy busy + new laptop :)

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:21:25 +0000

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 64bit with 2GB RAM running Windows Vista Business), [...]

Silverlight and SharePoint integration

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:20:25 +0000

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 Silverlight application to present the information (in this case some info [...]

Silverlight with Ian Blackburn

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:20:25 +0000

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. Cheers

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

Tobias Zimmergren — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:17:25 +0000

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, like you aint?), of course the first thing [...]

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

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:17:25 +0000

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 that I’ve successfully passed all the four SharePoint 2007 certifications, [...]

MOSS 2007: Configure Document Conversion for your server

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:16:25 +0000

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 informationgathering I realized that i could actually make it very [...]

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

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 20:16:25 +0000

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 will scratch on the surface [...]

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

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 20:15:25 +0000

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://yourcompany/SearchCenter) Choose "Site Actions -> Create Page" [...]

MOSS 2007: Customize the Search Result (using XSLT)

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:15:25 +0000

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 blogpost also show you how you can [...]

Back from the Mediterranean

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:14:25 +0000

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’ve [...]

Great News – SharePointBlogs.com post-backups

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:11:25 +0000

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. Original post:——-I’ve got some great [...]

Less time than I thought..

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:11:25 +0000

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!

Role-Based Templates for SharePoint My Sites

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:11:25 +0000

*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 the MySite Templates.Visit: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=516b95c5-9133-46c4-a01f-d7598780dc17&displaylang=en if you want to go directly to the download page. [...]

Going to Gothenburg again – Informator

Tobias Zimmergren — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:10:25 +0000

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 [...]

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

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 09 May 2007 20:10:25 +0000

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 will simply step you [...]

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

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:09:25 +0000

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 before doing [...]

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

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:08:25 +0000

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 [...]

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

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 20:08:25 +0000

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 any errors. [...]

Zimmergren MOSS 2007 Tip #2: Retrieve stuff by code

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:07:25 +0000

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 [...]

Zimmergren MOSS 2007 Tip #1: Anonymous Access

Tobias Zimmergren — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 20:07:25 +0000

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 site Begin by navigating [...]

I am Superman too! [Take the quiz]

Tobias Zimmergren — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 20:09:25 +0000

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% Robin 75% Green Lantern 70% Wonder Woman 67% Spider-Man 65% Supergirl [...]

The final 20 Application Templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:07:25 +0000

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 without requiring server administration access. Server admin templates were created as site [...]

Virtual PC 2007 availible for download!

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:06:25 +0000

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 2007 to run multiple operating systems at the same time on the same physical computer. Switch between [...]

Configure aliases for your web-applications in MOSS 2007

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:04:25 +0000

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 the Central Admin, as shown below. [...]

Estimated release timeframes for SharePoint 2007 Language Packs!!

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:04:25 +0000

"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’m very pleased (and relieved since I’ll hopefully get fewer questions now) [...]

I am Outlook 2007! Try the quiz :)

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:04:25 +0000

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 date or a keyword, you can always come [...]

I’ve had little time to blog, sorry

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:03:25 +0000

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 [...]

SharePoint 2007 – Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Solutions

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 20:02:25 +0000

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

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:01:25 +0000

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 downloaded from: http://community.gatweb.fr/files/default.aspx?Sort=Downloads)"SharePoint Inspector is a [...]

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

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:57:25 +0000

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 be able to export your WP, [...]

Common Page and Site Customization Tasks (MOSS 2007)

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:56:25 +0000

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 ControlHow to: Customize the HTML Editor Field ControlHow to: Customize the Asset [...]

MOSS 2007: Search and Indexing

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 19:55:25 +0000

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 [...]

T2617 – Introduction to SharePoint 2007

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:54:25 +0000

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 really means. [...]

What’s new in WSS 3.0 and SharePoint Server 2007

Tobias Zimmergren — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:53:25 +0000

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 2007. WSS 3.0 is [...]

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

Tobias Zimmergren — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:53:25 +0000

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 customizations and changes. [...]

What are Master Pages and why would you use them?

Tobias Zimmergren — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:51:25 +0000

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 [...]

Welcome to my new blog

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 19:50:25 +0000

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