February 2009 Entries
The Lightning Conductor Web Part is one of our best sellers as it has a very good UI for end users to configure how to rollup and display their SharePoint information, but also with the ability for developers to apply their own XSL styles and really weave some magic. Brett’s done a good job recording some new screencasts and articles to show you how do get the most from the web part: Getting started with the Lightning Conductor Web Part Rolling up lists and libraries with custom columns Rolling up your content type information Configuring XSL...
There have already been two Business of Software (BoS) conferences and I’ve wanted to attend both but things didn’t work out with schedules and other stuff. The event for 2009 has already been announced and so I bought my ticket on the day that they came out. If you write and sell software products it is a must attend event. To convince yourself make sure you watch the videos of the past events : http://network.businessofsoftware.org/video and to get your ticket for the 09 event in November you can get it here: http://www.businessofsoftware.org/
If you are, make sure you check out BDC Web Man. We’ve just released version 1.0.0.0. It will save you a ton of time by generating all the web methods and classes you need to get a web service layer working nicely with the BDC. BDC and Web Services. Of course all feedback and ideas welcome!
There’s a number of great upcoming SUGUK events in February posted on the web site you need to check out. Let’s hope the weather improves soon eh? Birmingham User Group Meeting – Tuesday Feb 17th Back in Birmingham to continue the back to basics series and user adoption theme that we started before Christmas. For more information and to sign up go here http://suguk.org/forums/thread/16933.aspx London User Group Meeting – Thursday Feb 26th Michael Noel is visiting us from the US and will be going through some Farm Best Practises and we'll also have a Q &...