Just another Don't Do this when Developing SharePoint Blog Post - IT IS NEEDED!(Via WithinSharePoint)

Ok, you hear over and over and over again, don't do this, don't do that when developing SharePoint. But it seems that not too many people listen to all that wonderful best practice guidance. This code has so many bad components to it was unbelievable. Every SharePoint rule was broken. There were so many broken things that we couldn't fix them all, so we focused on the most important and visible items.

Maarten has done a great job of summarizing all the things we had to do to fix this code. Check out his blog.

Enjoying SharePoint Saturday Conference in DC

If you are in the area and are not attending this conference then you are really missing a good opportunity to learn something new and to meet and befriend new exciting people. It's a beautiful day today. There are hundreds of sessions to choose from. Rooms are full. It's so encouraging to see SharePoint community growing. SharePoint Saturday used to host 200 attendees at one time. Now it's more than 1200 attendees. Wow!
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Extend SharePoint with WorkEngine’s Cost Management Capabilities(Via Michelle)

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"For this blog post, I thought I’d share some “outside the box” ideas on how to extend your current SharePoint Project Management environment by adding the power of WorkEngine’s Cost Management capabilities.

For instance, imagine you are using SharePoint to manage your bids and proposals. SharePoint offers a great enterprise content and collaboration platform to manage, collaborate and share complex RFQs with many suppliers and subcontractors. Throughout the purchasing lifecycle, organizations have activities that need to be managed for managing requisitions, bidding information, tender documents, RFQ, supplier responses, purchase orders and much more. If you are familiar with WorkEngine’s Work Management capabilities, it’s easy to understand how it will augment your SharePoint solution with visibility and tracking to all your work associated across multiple bids and proposals."

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Getting XML data from SharePoint list (Via Hemanth )

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“Ever wondered how you can generate a XML file/data from a SharePoint list, Have you started to think on the possible code..wait!!, here is an easy solution.

Simply format the following string to form the request URL.

http://contoso/sites/sales/_vti_bin/owssvr.dll?Cmd=Display&List={GUID}&XMLDATA=TRUE&noredirect=true

· {0} – The URL to your site. This could be the root web or a child site.

· {1} – The GUID for your list.

Please refer the following MSDN article for a more detailed instructions”

For complete blog post visit Hemanth’s blog.

New SharePoint 2010 Implementers Courseware, Two Courses: Internet Sites Implementers and Enterprise Content Management Implementers (Via Paul Andrew)

Extract from the original post “I am pleased to announce that TechNet have published two new Training Courses for Implementing SharePoint Solutions. Each of these courses contains 15 modules representing 5 days of instructor led training and each module includes video lessons, hands on labs, and a quiz.

SharePoint Enterprise Content Management Implementers Course

This course teaches implementers how to leverage features in SharePoint Server to implement an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system. ECM systems are designed to manage large amounts of content, including content in the form of documents and content in pages, wiki libraries, blog posts, and other types of non-document content. Document management is the heart of ECM. ”

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Mid-market WCM products continue to chug along in 2011(Via Irina Guseva)

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“In our recent 20.1 release of the WCM Report, we've updated evaluations of several CMS vendors in the .NET arena, including DotNetNuke, Ektron, Kentico, and SharePoint.

The lower half of this tier -- what we call mid-market products -- is a bit like the crowded Grand Central station: arrivals are more or less according to schedule, the orchestration is in place, and innovation is sparse. The .NET CMS darlings who dominate this tier are not necessarily shaking up the universe, but merrily chugging along.

The demise of former mid-market stalwarts RedDot (Open Text Web Solutions) and Immediacy (Alterian CMC) is an indicator to the Darwinian evolution in the jam-packed space. There are many choices in the mid-market CMS product tier even as some offerings like Sitecore differentiate themselves by becoming more platform-like (read: complex). Only the fittest will survive”

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