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]

A while back I ran into this issue: I had two web parts in the same project but I wanted them to share settings. As my experience as an ASP.Net developer was pointing me to use the web.config file, instead I thought SharePoint must have something similar to this without me having to mess with the web.config file. After searching and posting on MSDN, I did finally find a solution that uses the properties of SharePoint Sites and Webs. Below is a sample code that stores the Employee Prof... [More]

When using the XML web part in SharePoint, I received the error: The XSL specified by the XSL property or XSL Link property is not valid, or the XSL file cannot be accessed. Make sure you have specified a valid XSL style sheet for this Web Part, or if the XSL file is linked that it can be accessed by the server. For assistance, contact your site administrator. More about making XSL files accessible. I received this error after using SharePoint Designer to update the default.aspx page by a... [More]

By default the calendar is in a list view, and will list the upcoming dates in order. One of the benefits of SharePoint is the clean graphical view of the calendar. It looks like Outlook and is easier to read and understand. We have found many customers enjoy the calendar view instead of the Current Events list view so they switch the view. When the calendar is switched to week or month view, the page get's stretched out and will normally cause the user to have to scroll horizontally to vie... [More]