Arpan Shah, Product Manager for MCMS and SharePoint has written a nice article on his blog about how to get ready for Office “12”: http://blogs.msdn.com/arpans/archive/2005/11/24/496759.aspx
He quoted me a couple of times pointing to my blog. For your convenience below are direct links to the articles Arpan was refering to.
Regarding direct access to the database or modifying the database with undocumented API (which has the same impact from a support side):
- Direct Access to the Database
- Part 1 – Documented / Undocumented API – Why Should I care?
- Part 2 – What would YOU do?
- Part 3 – How to identify 3rd party products using undocumented program internal intefaces
About MCMS 2002 Service Pack 2 articles:
- ASP.NET 2.0 and MCMS – a first look
- ASP.NET 2.0 and MCMS – The easy way to site navigation
- ASP.NET 2.0 and MCMS – Master Pages
- ASP.NET 2.0 and MCMS – Web Parts
- ASP.NET 2.0 and MCMS – glitches with navigation controls when switching between modes
- ASP.NET 2.0 and MCMS – glitches with themes
- ASP.NET 2.0 and MCMS – creating a custom membership provider for MCMS
- ASP.NET 2.0 and MCMS – implementing page summary controls using a custom SiteMapProvider and a TreeView control
About MCMS 2002 Navigation and Membership Providers for ASP.NET 2.0:
- ASP.NET 2.0 and MCMS – The easy way to site navigation
- ASP.NET 2.0 and MCMS – implementing page summary controls using a custom SiteMapProvider and a TreeView control
- MCMS Site Map Provider for ASP.NET 2.0
- ASP.NET 2.0 and MCMS – creating a custom membership provider for MCMS
- ASP.NET 2.0 MembershipProvider Framework for MCMS