Web Application Testing: WatiN

Testing is part of our lifes (or should be) as it is one important task during developmant phase. Unit tests have automated the validation of the business and data access layers, but the interface layer has always been a pain in the neck do implement with automated processes. The Watin tool/framework appears as an interesting …

Design and build sites for Office SharePoint Server 2007

A new guide is available from Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog, "... the Office SharePoint Server 2007 content teams for the IT pro, developer, and site designer audiences have combined efforts to write and publish a new online guide: Design and build sites for Office SharePoint Server 2007. This guide is aimed at developers, …

Sharepoint Capacity Planner Tool

Part of the System Center Capacity Planner 2007, there is a module available specific for Sharepoint infrastructure: Sharepoint Capacity Planner Tool. This tool will help you plan the hardware and Microsoft supported physical architecture for a Sharepoin installation. Get it from here. You will also need the System Center Capacity Planner 2007.

Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint

The Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint is source code and guidance for developers describing how to use Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies together in business applications and Internet Web sites. SharePoint applications that use Web Parts can now be built using Silverlight user interface elements. This capability enables a fresh look at data …

Creating a site map for WSS/MOSS

Creating a site map can can take you some time and effort, depending on how fancy you need it. In Sharepoint you have the object PortalSiteMapDataSource that will feed the site structure, so all you nedd is something to consume it and render a visible presentation of the structure. This can be achieved in several …

Sharepoint Sitemap Generator

This is something I find useful! A SiteMap generator feature with source code. Great work!

WorldWide Telescope

Being astronomy one of my hobbies, I was very excited to read that Microsoft was launching the Worldwide Telescope project. This will allow to travel the sky based on the images of the best/largest telescopes. I don't know if you ever peeked through a telescope before, but anything beyond our solar system are simple black …