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Sunday, January 27, 2008 4:27 PM

SharePoint Development Tools

For those doing Visual Studio development for SharePoint, you really have to check out the STSDEV tool on CodePlex. Ted Pattison and friends have done a really good job here. This tool generates class library project files while automating may of the
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008 1:29 PM

Take SharePoint Content Offline

If you need a solution like this that works great and is very inexpensive.....duh it's free (at least at this time).....then check this out. </steve> Colligo Reader enables you to easily download content from SharePoint sites to your laptop - so
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Thursday, January 03, 2008 10:15 PM

Extranet Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint

The Extranet Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint is a new Solution Accelerator being developed by Microsoft. Currently in beta, this toolkit provides you with best practices and tools to securely collaborate with your customers, suppliers, and partners-across
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Sunday, November 25, 2007 4:20 PM

Managing Site Collections: new STSADM command

Have you ever wanted to move a site collection from one content database to different content database? Or if you're not a merger you might be a splitter. Well, neatly tucked away inside the recent security hotfix is the new STSADM command mergecontentdbs
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Thursday, November 01, 2007 2:19 PM

Tools for Troubleshooting: Windows Sysinternals

Recall, Microsoft acquired Sysinternals in July, 2006. I was a big fan of Sysinternal's toolset and the good news it is still getting better. If you're an admin or developer, these tools will help you manage, troubleshoot and diagnose problems. I currently
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Thursday, August 23, 2007 3:46 PM

Visual Studio Extensions for WSS is Updated

VSeWSS has been revised and a new CTP is available here . For those not familiar with VSeWSS, you can start here or here . </steve>
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007 7:33 PM

Tools for the Graphics Design Challenged

Yes, I belong to this illustrious group. On numerous occasions I've been browsing and came across a Web page that had some excellent color scheme combinations and I wanted to know what the specific colors were so I could reuse. Well, I got a tip from
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Friday, May 11, 2007 4:33 PM

MOSS Search Manager

A new site I came across, some cool stuff worth checking out. Download the MOSS Search Manager tool. </steve>
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Saturday, May 05, 2007 8:29 PM

Getting Strong Names for SharePoint Assemblies

Yesterday I was working with a colleague deploying a custom activity to be used by SPD. I noticed he was using copy and paste to get the public key token from the Windows Explorer view of the GAC. I told him that this was really lame and he should expand
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007 1:58 PM

WCM Authoring using NON-IE Browsers

Cross-browser rich text editor for SharePoint 2007 Who said there is no free lunch, or free editor??? Well, this is definitely a deal you can’t pass up. If you are using the WCM features of MOSS, then you definitely need to go grab this tool: r.a.d.editor
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Monday, April 02, 2007 4:22 PM

MOSS Internet and Extranet Collaboration

For those thinking or planning on this kind of a deployment, there is a new tool you should check out. I know the folks that put this together and they are top notch. </steve> Extranet Collaboration Manager for SharePoint 2007 Extranet collaboration
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Saturday, March 24, 2007 4:55 PM

STSADM Reference

This will come in handy so keep it bookmarked. </steve>
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Friday, March 23, 2007 5:35 PM

Visual Studio Extensions for WSS v3

The RTM version has just been released and you can get it here . Overview This release of the Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services contains the following tools to aid developers in building SharePoint applications: Visual Studio
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Saturday, March 17, 2007 1:23 PM

Preview PDFs in Outlook 2007

File preview capability can become addicting once you expect it. Since I've been using Vista and Office 2007 I have become addicted. If you'd like to preview .pdf files from within Outlook, then you'll probably want to check this out. If you are interested
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Saturday, March 10, 2007 10:19 AM

Shortcut Functionality with Start++

A cool tool from Brandon Paddock worth checking out. ... Users of WDS on XP may recall the “Deskbar Shortcuts” functionality that allows you to create little aliases between words or characters with commands and searches. For example, you could set up
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