OBA, SharePoint and Aghy [MVP]

Nintex just released the Global SharePoint Survey that is aimed at understanding the adoption and usage of Microsoft Office SharePoint products and technologies worldwide.

The survey is open to both business and IT professional users of SharePoint. Those who participate in the survey will be eligible to win a conference pass to the 2009 Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas (value USD $1199).

To participate in the Global SharePoint Survey simply visit www.sharepointsurvey.com The Global SharePoint Survey will be open until July 17, 2009.

Originally posted at my new blog.

The SharePoint 2007 SP2 bugfix is ready:

“The update can be applied before or after Service Pack 2 installation.  If the update is applied prior to installing Service Pack 2 it will prevent the expiration date from being improperly activated during installation of Service Pack 2, if it is applied after Service Pack 2 it will remove the expiration date incorrectly set during installation of Service Pack 2.“

More information and downloading can be found HERE.

Originally posted at my new blog.

Just announced officially: SharePoint Designer is available to download for free! No, this doesn't mean the end of this product's support. Moreover, stay tuned… I can't tell more as I'm under NDA, but the vNext will rock! Trust me!

If you want to know more, see Asif's post.

Originally posted at my new blog.

A few hours ago I've received the news: I've been renewed with the MVP award for another year.

Originally posted at my new blog.

Although the development of Linq4SP has been finished since a few weeks,
unfortunately we had to be faced a few (sales and marketing based) issues during
publishing it. So if you've downloaded and started to use the Linq4SP, probably
you experienced an error message in the last days: "Your expiration date is
reached! You need to purchase a license file to run this software."

We apologize for the inconvenience. Today a new version was uploaded, which
has the same bits and no functional differences, but the time bomb is extended
to January 1, 2009. You can download it from
here.

We're working on the solving of our problems, and hopefully the final version
can be released at the beginning of December. In a few days I'll be back with
further informations.

Thanks for your understand, and let us know if there is anything we can help
with.

First of all, I'd like say a big thank you for everyone who has been testing
Linq4SP
RC1. We've fixed the bugs sent by you and found by ourselves, and finally
today evening we could relese the next version of Linq4SP. The fixed bugs are
the followings:

• Before RC2 in case of choosing more than one site to generate, the Generator
  had managed the sites and lists in a wrong way. With RC2 you are able to use
  more than one site in the same time, without these uncomfortable issues.
• in case of lookup fields configured incorrectly (for example, task lists of
  team sites), the Generator skip the wrong column, instead of freezing
• concurency handling

If you're interested, you can download the Linq4SP RC2 from here. Of
course, if you find some bugs errors or anything strange, don't hesitate to contact us!

As you probably know, our developer team has been working on the LInq4SP in
the last couple of months. Linq4SP is a readable-writable Linq provider
to SharePoint (WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007), with a lot of interesting and
useful features: support the handling of list items, documents,
folders, content types, enumerations usable for choice columns, etc.

The Linq4SP RC1 is available to download now: you can play with it, try the features and abilities, and feel the power of this brand new developer extension.

Just download Linq4SP RC1 here.
To start using it, copy the files to your WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007 server.
The DLL file must be in the same folder as the Generator.

After
starting the Generator, open your site collection and select the sites
to be available in the Linq4SP context. After that you can select the
lists and libraries to be used in your Linq4SP expressions, and finally
generate the context.

As next step include the generated source file and the attached dll to your Visual Studio project and that's it.

Enjoy!

The
documentation is under construction, but you can find a simple CHM help
file in the ZIP package as well. Moreover, there is a sample site as
well as test cases, that can help you in starting to use Linq4SP. I
hope, you'll find them useful.

After your playing with Linq4SP, I'd be very happy if you could send us your questions, opinions or any feedback.

 Feature Complete.

 OK, you've decided to use OBA Composition Toolkit v2 – but how to start?

… You can read the full article on my new blog

After a basic introduction let's see, how you can build a custom search page, and Property mappings. This post will built on traditional method without Infrastructure Updates, but in the next part we'll see the Updates details as well.

… You can read the full article on my new blog.