Customizing Search Series - Finally Customizing the Search Results

Welcome to the sixth and final article in the Customizing Search Series. We will be finally customizing the actual search results. Everything that was done previously was all part of ... Continue Reading...

A tribute to the humble leave form - part 6

Hi again When I started this series of articles, I knew it would be quite a few parts and ambitious in its way. But after reading some of the other great ... Continue Reading...

Everything You Need to Know about BDC: Part 2 of 8

Welcome back.  This is part two of an eight part series on BDC.  In the first article, I gave you an overview of the BDC from a business standpoint and ... Continue Reading...

Everything You Need to Know about BDC: Part 1 of 8

Welcome to the first of an eight part series on the Business Data Catalog (BDC).  While BDC is an enormously powerful tool, it’s also fairly complex and not well understood.  ... Continue Reading...

Customizing Search Series - Creating the Custom Results Page

This is the fifth article within the Customizing Search Series. This article continues to build out the customization of search using a new content source based on the BDC. When ... Continue Reading...

Creating a SharePoint Web Part that hosts a data binding Silverlight application

In the beginning of this year I started working on the Silverlight BluePrint for SharePoint together with my mentor Patrick Tisseghem who suddenly passed away recently. I dedicate this article ... Continue Reading...

Introduction to SharePoint Feature Stapling - Part 2

Welcome to part 2 of my Introduction to SharePoint Feature Stapling. In part 1 I explained the process of creating a feature stapler and associating it with a site definition. ... Continue Reading...

Customizing Application Master Pages - part 5 of 6

Introduction This is the fith article in a six-part series on ASP.NET Master Pages and SharePoint. Introduction to Master Pages. Examining the out of the box Master Pages in SharePoint. Developing a custom Master ... Continue Reading...

Customizing the user experience of SharePoint: Modifying the default experience (Part 2 of 6)

Hey, we're back, and it's time to get our show on the road once again. This is the second part of a six part series on customizing the user of ... Continue Reading...

Sell! Sell! Sell! Why Build a Dashboard Anyway? (Part 2 of 6)

In my last article, I introduced you to the idea of Business Intelligence within a SharePoint framework and the basic terminology around dashboards. To review, a dashboard, in the context ... Continue Reading...