The content query web part is a beautiful web part, and it's a shame it's only available in MOSS. I would love to use it in WSS. Anyway, the web part will search the entire site collection, or specific sites as you specify, and return items for certain content types, or all, and/or meeting a filter criteria. As you can imagine, a very useful tool to roll up data and lists from sites all into a central page or dashboard. The issue with this web part is customizing it! There are a few predefined ... [More]

Using the SharePoint user controls InputFormSection and InputFormControl [More]

I recently upgraded my blog to BlogEngine.Net and since then the comments stopped working. Seeing as I'm more busy than Obama right now, I never really stopped to properly troubleshoot it. Recently I took up the challenge and thanks to someone else having the same issue, my blog is now fixed and users can add comments to my posts. So please, comment away! If you're looking for the solution for your own blog, see http://blogengine.codeplex.com/Thread/View.aspx?ThreadId=59277.

There has been a few requests from our customers to setup certain pages to autorefresh after a certain amount of time. These pages are usually views of a list, or the home page. I found a rather simple script to throw on the page which will reload the page for you. Copy the script below and paste it into a Content Editor Web Part by clicking the Source Editor button. Optionally you could use SharePoint Designer and add it to the page directly. Change the 30 in setReloadTime at the end to the des... [More]