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As Mark pointed out, all PDC slide decks are now online. Especiall interesting for all MCMS customers would be the following slide deck from Microsoft Lead Program Manager for Content Management Server Ryan Stocker: OFF313 Web Content Management Application Development and Engine Extensibility     OFF313_Stocker.ppt And here is a link to another related sessions: OFF308 […]

This week I received two questions on confusion caused by the fact that the difference between CmsHttpContext.Current.Mode and WebAuthorContext.Current.Mode was not clear. CmsHttpContext.Current.Mode – Publishing Mode This mode reflects the current Publishing Mode of MCMS. So this mode indicates if the API will currently see the published or the unpublished version of the posting and […]

Ok, finally some official information next version of MCMS has been officially anounced and presented at PDC. Here is a short summary of everything that has been anounced so far: Next version of MCMS will be build on top of WSS in Office 12 ASP.NET 2.0 features like Masterpages will be leveraged Plugable Membership and Role providers allow […]

At the PDC this morning Microsoft demonstrated Office 12 in public for the first time. The news you’ll hear is “they changed the user interface.” So, we wanted to talk with the team who came up with this new UI and we wanted to ask them “are you nuts?” After all, changing how Office works […]

Designing Your MCMS 2002 Solution for Reusability Summary:  Use best-practice design recommendations for Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 applications and Web sites to help you create your site in a way that prepares it for future versions of MCMS technology. (8 printed pages) Best Practices for Ensuring Application Reusability and Upgrade in Windows SharePoint Services […]

[Via Mike Fitzmaurice] RSS.  Everything about sites, lists, libraries, etc., can be syndicated via RSS automatically.  Blogs and Wikis.  Templates and features in the box. Content Types.  These aren’t just like SPS 2001’s document profiles.  They define sets of metadata, but they also contain view information.  And associated workflows.  And events bound to them (synchronous […]

[Via Arpan] There were several large announcements made at PDC that are very relevant to SharePoint and CMS customers. I’m personally super excited about this and to be part of this. Microsoft revealed Office “12” – client and servers and talked about our investment in ECM. This is great news for CMS and SharePoint customers […]

[Via Angus] Angus is currently at the PDC and he is blogging about all anouncements made on the future of SharePoint and MCMS. Here is a summary of all anouncements made yesterday: WSS SP2 will be shipping by end of the month. It will support ASP.NET 2.0 web parts (be aware that SPS will not […]