After presenting at the SharePoint Conference 2007 in Berlin more presentations are coming up. They will all be relatively close to home in the Netherlands. On March 23th I'm presenting at the SDE together with Dirk Zekveld. Our presentation will be on behalf of the Dutch Information Worker User Group (DIWUG).The session will be about: "Using the Windows SharePoint Services Feature Model to create and deploy custom solutions". Other people from DIWUG that are presenting are Marianne van Wanrooij and Rolf Eleveld on "Extending your Microsoft Office System: Word 2007" and Mart Muller on "ECM in MOSS 2007: Site Columns en...

When building custom web parts for Windows SharePoint Services V3. You can use the SPContext object to get for instance the site or web from the current context.  But that's not all you can get from SPContext. You can also get the listitem and the webfeatures. In WSS V2 you would use SPControl.GetContextSite() or SPControl.GetContextWeb() but that's a lot less flexible and it's slower as well. A couple of different uses of SPContext are shown below:*************************************************************************SPList currentList = SPContext.Current.List; SPWeb currentSite = SPContext.Current.Web; SPSite currentSiteCollection = SPContext.Current.Site; SPWebApplication currentWebApplication = SPContext.Current.Site.WebApplication;*************************************************************************SPListItem item = (SPListItem)SPContext.Current.Item;*************************************************************************SPWeb site...

Last week (11-14th February) I was in Berlin for the SharePoint Conference 2007. I attended quite a lot of interesting sessions, particularly from Patrick Tisseghem and Mike Fitzmaurice. But the most exciting part of the conference for me was the fact that I was asked by Bart Wessels from Microsoft to co-present his session on "SharePoint Designer 2007: Building No-Code SharePoint Solutions".  Bart did most of the story telling while I did the demo's. The contents of the session consisted of the following: The Fantastic 40 templates Solutions with Data...