Yesterday I attended the “The Zen of ASP.NET 2.0” preconference Session. It was really a great session to get an impression about all the nice new features of ASP.NET 2.0. The topics covered were very similar to the ASP.NET 2.0 training from DevelopMentor which I attended before but a lots of additional or different samples were […]
I will join the Portal sessions and will pass by at the SPS/CMS booth to join some of the Ask the Expert events. See you there!
Mark Harrison has written a nice summary on how to deploy SharePoint web parts: http://markharrison.co.uk/blog/2005/07/how-to-deploy-web-parts.htm
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As mentioned by Arpan there are no plans to support ASP.NET Web Parts with MCMS with SP2. Anyway, today I took some minutes to play around with the web parts using my ASP.NET 2.0 site (see here for details on how to setup such a site) and at least for a read-only website I did […]
I played around with master pages on my ASP.NET 2.0 MCMS web site (see here for details on how to setup such a site). My findings are that on a read-only website MCMS Placeholder controls work fine as well on the master page and on the content page. That’s what I assumed when I wrote […]
Even without MCMS SP2 being available you can already evaluate ASP.NET 2.0 with MCMS! You cannot use it on a read-write website as webauthor does not yet work with ASP.NET 2.0 but you can configure a website that is configured with ASP.NET 2.0 as MCMS read-only website. I just tried this and found that all out-of-the-box […]
[This article has been replaced with a new improved version.] As outlined in the article I posted yesterday ASP.NET 2.0 provides new concepts to implement site navigation based on new server controls and the Site Map Provider concept. The controls and the provider work together and allow the implementation of a very flexible and scalable […]
Now – after support for ASP.NET 2.0 with MCMS 2002 Service Pack 2 – has officially been announced lets have a short look on the new features coming with ASP.NET 2.0 and how they might give benefits to a MCMS site. Master Pages One of the key selling points for ASP.NET 2.0 is the new […]
Just in case someone is wondering why questions in the newsgroup are not answered by me next week: I’m enjoying a one week vacation with my girlfriend Michaela in Cervia (Italy).
Chester has created a nice summary on state changes during approval based on the MCMS documentation: http://chestermr.blogspot.com/2005/06/posting-state-change-by-approval.html
Laks has posted a very good summary on how to implement host header mapping for authoring and production in the newsgroup which I would like to share with all of you: I had gone through some trouble in figuring out this need. With help from stefans notes and microsoft support, i have put this together…hope […]
