Monthly Archives: February 2009

MOSS Search and browser languages

Posted by Peter Gerritsen on February 26, 2009
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We had a very strange issue with some search functionality we developed for a portal. We created an option to search for documents in a library by specifying the path to a specific folder. This is done by specifying a keyword query like 9:”folder/subfolder”. In this case the searchproperty 9 contains the path of the item. While this [...]
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Creating a 3D tagcloud in Silverlight (part 2)

Posted by Peter Gerritsen on February 19, 2009
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In part 1 I showed you how to create the basics for a 3D tagcloud in Silverlight. In this part I’ll show how to get the tags from your html for inserting it into a blog template, we’ll change the color of the tag based on the weight of the tag and let the hyperlink button actually function as [...]
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Adding AJAX.Net to your MOSS WebParts

Posted by Peter Gerritsen on February 18, 2009
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I know there are loads of posts on this subject already, but in this one I’ll try to give some useful tips on this subject. First, you need to add AJAX.Net entries to your web.config of the MOSS site. A very easy way to do this is by using the Ajaxify stsadm extensions. Simply add the included [...]
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Creating a 3D tagcloud in Silverlight (part 1)

Posted by Peter Gerritsen on February 14, 2009
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When I saw the wp-cumulus plugin by Roy Tanck, I thought it would be a great idea to implement the same sort of functionality in Silverlight. It’s hardly original but allows me to learn some parts of the Silverlight framework. The components behind it are quite simple: Get (or send) the tags from your HTML page to the [...]
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Hosting your Silverlight application and media in the cloud

Posted by Peter Gerritsen on February 13, 2009
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Update: The Silverlight Streaming beta has ended. If you want to host your Silverlight apps on Microsoft’s infrastructure and video’s check out Windows Azure Microsoft now offers a service called Silverlight Streaming for hosting your Silverlight content in the cloud. At the moment the service is in beta and you get a whopping 10 GB of storagespace [...]
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Fix ASP.Net form submit behavior with jQuery

Posted by Peter Gerritsen on February 6, 2009
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In standard ASP.Net web form pages there’s only one form tag for the entire page. This unfortunately has some side effects on form submit behavior. In a standard HTML all forms are contained in their own form tag. When the browser receives a enter key press for the form the form is submitted. Because of the single form [...]
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Retrieving Tasks assigned to users or one of their groups

Posted by Peter Gerritsen on February 3, 2009
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Sometimes you want to retrieve all tasks that are assigned to a user or to one of the SharePoint groups the user is a member of. This quite easy to accomplish through generation of a CAML query. Just create an Or statement for tasks assigned to the user and loop through all of the groups in the SPUser [...]
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