If you try http://news.google.nl/ you get a different language than the dutch one Everytime I refresh I get a different language.

What do you think, is it a viral, or a bug?

Update: It’s solved

Check it out at www.technetmagazine.com/issues/2007/06/.

Displaying the document URL in a document library column

One of my readers (Joel) sent me an email with the following question:

I am trying to do something that I think should be simple in SP: display the URLs of Word docs in a doc library. I can send the URL as a link in an e-mail, but I can’t figure out how to display the URL in the public view. Please help.

Content Query Web Part xsl for showing the xml

I keep forgetting this, and I think I had to figure it out from scratch at least 4 times allready, so I may as well blog it.
The thing is - last time I figured it out I wanted to blog about it, and then saw that someone beat me to it - Heather Solomon already wrote about it in her blog, and I seem to remember someone else wrote a similar script.
The thing that throws me off every time is realizing that the XML that the content query web part builds for each item has the values in the attributes. So what you need to do is write xslt code to display the attributes.

Heather’s article says exactly how to modify the files, so if you need that kind of help, go there now. Below is the code that I am using (slightly modified):

Plotting Your Data Using Virtual Earth

My name is Jon Campbell – I’m a developer for the SharePoint Designer team. My main job is to work on all things data oriented in SharePoint Designer. Today I thought I would share a tip on how to take your data views to the next level by combining some custom XSL transforms on the server with JavaScript on the client. Specifically, this post will go through the steps of how to make a data view that will show a set of points stored in a data source, such as a SharePoint list, on a map using Virtual Earth.

SharePoint Series / InfoPath BDC Creator - Open Existing BDC Files

One of the most interesting things of the InfoPath BDC Creator is the ability to edit your own files, in order to change some elements or add new sections, etc.

This can be achieved by adding the necessary Processing Instruction in order to open with InfoPath based on the Tool template.

How to set user permissions programmatically?Getting an Image thumbnail from WSS 3.0

I recently needed to have thumbnails for some images that we uploaded to SharePoint for display in a thumbnail library.  I couldn’t find any documentation on how to get a thumbnail for an image.  So I fired up Fiddler opened up the script and figured out what the hundreds of lines of JavaScript was doing behind the scenes.

Sneak Peak - SharePoint CardSpace Provider

I wanted to give everyone a quick sneek peak at what the CardSpace provider I am working on is shaping up to be. Its not real fancy right now, and is currently in testing with two companies I know that were interested in getting their SharePoint implementation up with CardSpace. Here is a large screenshot of it:

Your First InfoCard WebPart (CardSpace WebPart Example)

As discussed in a previous post, I was talking about a current client I am working with where we developed a bunch of ASP.NET 2.0 WebParts that are related to InfoCard management and provisioning used within SharePoint 2007. Some of this WebParts were strictly for interrogating the InfoCard properties in order to understand what was really going on beyond the scenes with SharePoint and InfoCard interaction. There are a bunch of ways to display the things that InfoCard is doing (such as claims), but there were some very specific things that I was interested in that I wanted to display in SharePoint that revolved around trying to understand what properties where doing what, claim interaction, etc. etc. etc.

Increased performance for MOSS apps using the PortalSiteMapProvider

Performance is usually top-of-mind for any web site deployment, including MOSS.  If you’re writing code that deals with SharePoint items, and you’re deploying that code to a site with even moderate traffic, you should consider using the PortalSiteMapProvider for increased performance.  In this post, Chris Richard takes us through the feature and describes how it can be leveraged.  Take it away Chris!

Customize the “NewForm.aspx” page for a SharePoint List

Creating a SharePoint list is hella easy. Point and click - and bingo - you have a form to type in and maintain your data in a structure you specified, and you can then create various views on the data collected. But what if you wished to customize either the “New” form, or the “Update” form etc? In this blogpost, I will demonstrate how to customize the New form for the announcements list. Create an announcements list on your favorite sharepoint site.

Moodle Web Parts for SharePoint 2007 released

When I last wrote about the Moodle integration with SharePoint, it was only with SharePoint 2003.

The new web parts developed to help you to integrate Moodle into a Learning Gateway based on SharePoint 2007 have been released, and are now fully available on the CodePlex Moodle page, our “open source project hosting website”.

CardSpace and SharePoint Threshhold

I was talking to a co-worker today after a code review, whom is going through my code currently for the CardSpace authentication provider pieces. We talked a little bit about some things that he had found, and about our general CardSpace experience. Mostly, we talked about the inefficiencies / bottlenecks of some of the stuff I had written (object disposal drives me nuts!).

Partner workflow solution for MOSS: Nintex Workflow 2007(tm)

Nintex Workflow 2007â„¢ extends Microsoft SharePoint 2007 to provide advanced workflow capabilities via a graphical web based interface embedded within SharePoint. Nintex Workflow empowers users across the organization to automate business processes, review workflow activities and automate common SharePoint administrative tasks.

Object reference not set to an instance of an object with custom workflow

A few months ago I was experiencing a rather annoying bug, a ‘Server Error in ‘/’ Application’ when using my custom workflow on a publishing pages document library in MOSS 2007. The issue was: If my custom workflow is applied to a publishingpage, when the user enters the document library and selects ‘Edit Properties’ or opens the page for editing the server error pasted below occured. When check out is disabled on the document library the error does not occur when editing properties, However the user still cannot edit the page through ‘Edit Page’.

Custom List Feature

I though creating a Custom List that is implemented as a Feature would be really easy, but as usual Sharpoint had other plans for me. Anyway after spend a lot of time I managed to get it working, I have created an article page with an example of how to create a Custom List Feature. You can view the article here http://www.sharepointblogs.com/martinbailey/pages/create-a-custom-list-feature.aspx

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Sizing and Configuration Tool

HP ActiveAnswers for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server provides the information you need to bring the benefits of an intranet portal to your business. Whether you’re planning, implementing or managing a SharePoint Portal Server solution, HP ActiveAnswers provides expertise and resources that can significantly reduce the time and complexity typically associated with delivering the benefits of a flexible, business-relevant portal site to your employees….

MOSS 2007: Does everyone make this mistake with extended web sites?

As part of my quest (still unresolved) to see how I can manage to persuade the Central Admin site to use a different Application Pool (or even to see which one it IS using so I can maybe change what’s using that), I tried to see if Extending a Web Application could help.

It didn’t of course but I did see the useful information that this is what you would use if you wanted to have a second “version” of a site (for say Extranet) in which the content was the same but the access rights different.

MOSS 2007: Oddities with the order of Administrative Tasks

As I wade through the massive quantity of things that a MOSS 2007 installation seems to think that you need to do before you can actually start using the darn thing (and wishing I was back in relatively simple WSS-land until I realise that I actually like challenges [my chess “career” was laden with me getting into terrible positions and then waking up and fiddling my way out of them - until that is I reached the heights of the Hungarian Premier League (board 5 for the two of you who care) when that wasn’t quite good enough].

Technorati Profile

IBM simulates business software in 3D game

IBM on Monday introduced a three-dimensional video game that puts a businessperson in a virtual office with the task of constructing a more efficient company.

The game, called Innov8, is meant to address a lack of skills in understanding and improving a company’s internal business processes.

Process improvement is a critical component to service-oriented architectures (SOA), a way of designing software as a series of interlinked, modular business services. The software for modeling and running this modular software is called business process management, or BPM.

Virtual World Population: 50 million by 2011

When technology analyst group Gartner recently asserted that “80 percent of active Internet users (and Fortune 500 companies) will have a ‘second life’, but not necessarily in Second Life” by 2011, a lot of people jumped the gun and assumed 8 out of 10 of all Net users would be in a virtual world in four short years. Not exactly, Gartner Chief of Research Steve Prentice tells us. “Firstly,” says Prentice, “this statement refers to ‘active’ Internet users– a subtlety missed in much of the subsequent reporting.”

Here come Virtual World Intranets… Seriously

Online worlds on the Internet? That’s so last month ago. Judging by recent initiatives from Sun and IBM, the latest trend is a corporate-controlled, business-centric virtual world architected for internal use only– call it the intranet metaverse. In Sun’s case, it’s MPK20, a “a virtual 3D environment in which employees can accomplish their real work, share documents, and meet with colleagues using natural voice communication.”

A Chinese Virtual Currency Challenges the Yuan

“A Wall Street Journal article reports that China’s fastest-rising currency isn’t the yuan. It’s the QQ coin — online play money created by marketers to sell such things as virtual flowers for instant-message buddies, cellphone ringtones and magical swords for online games. In recent weeks, the QQ coin’s real-world value has risen as much as 70%. It’s the most extreme case of a so-called virtual currency blurring the boundaries between the online and real worlds — and challenging legal limits. A Chinese Internet company called Tencent Holdings Ltd. designed the payment system in 2002 to allow its 233 million regular registered users to shop for treats in its virtual world. Virtual currencies are in use in many countries — but nowhere have they taken root more deeply than in China.”