MCMS

Sandeep Maheshwari is the bad guy of this story. He uploaded a code sample to GotDotNet which uses undocumented API calls to update the MCMS repository content. If he would like to do something like this to his own repository: fine! He will loose the chance to get support from Microsoft if a database inconsistancy […]

[Via Spence] With the recent release of Service Pack 2 for MCMS, it is now possible to take advantage of many ASP.NET 2.0 features within your MCMS applications. The ASP.NET 2.0 AdRotator control has been enhanced to allow for programatic population, which makes it much easier to produce a AdRotator using MCMS Resource Gallery Items. […]

In the first part of this article I discussed how to implement a SiteMapProvider for an MCMS website. ASP.NET 2.0 ships with three new controls that can be used for site navigation: SiteMapPath Menu TreeView Problems with the TreeView control SiteMapPath and the Menu control can easily be used on a MCMS website but the […]

Spencer has provided an article with some nice steps to setup MCMS 2002 with SP2 with VS.NET 2005 and SQL 2005. Just a small correction: the point that the steps he provided will prevent the VS.NET 2003 problem from happening. The problem only occurs on some machines and we are not yet sure why the […]

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 […]

[Via Angus and Patrick Tisseghem] Last week I mentioned the new book ‘Advanced Microsoft Content Management Server Development’ from Andrew Connell, Angus Logan, Lim Mei Ying and Stefan Gossner. If you want a taste of it, go here and download chapter 5 for free – ‘Searching MCMS with SharePoint’. Even if you do not work with MCMS, […]