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Twitter Rollup Webpart

by Christopher Pettigrew on July 2, 2011 in SharePoint 2010, Visual Studio 2010, Webparts with No comments
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Today i am releasing the beta version of my Twitter Rollup Webpart.  Do you have a favorite Celebrity or user / group that you enjoy following via twitter.  Now you can surface multiple twitter accounts into a single webpart and utilizing Jquery Accordion you can view the one you are most interested in and collapse the rest.

The webpart currently uses twitters json service to retrieve the values it needs to display the tweets.  If you have any suggestions, problems or praise please let me know either via a comment on this post or email me using the contact page.

Codeplex Link : http://lifeinsharepoint.codeplex.com/releases/view/48201

Chris

SPTwitter – Internal Twitter Application for Teams

by Christopher Pettigrew on June 25, 2011 in Sandbox Solutions, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, Visual Studio 2010 with 2 Comments
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I have been looking around the web at new applications and came accross the TeamTalk for SharePoint 2010 by ZevenSeas.  They released a no code (server code) site template for internal twitter team talks.  I thought that the concepts was fantastic and simple to implement, so i decided to create my own version using Visual Studio 2010 and Utilise SharePoint 2010′s new Sandbox Solutions.

My Solution which is now on the LifeInSharePoint Codeplex page is a sandbox solution which deploys content types, list definitions, and contains three webparts which you can place anywhere on the page / site.  The Solution is designed so you can install the solution on multiple Webs and they will work individually.

The release at the moment is a beta release and any comments, additions and recommendations would be fantastic.  I will be implementing a “Re-tweeting” functionality as well as a SharePoint Server version which links in with user profiles for a more enhanced experience.  Like i said, its still work in progress, but please feel free to try it out.

Chris

Downloads

Direct WSP Download Link : http://lifeinsharepoint.codeplex.com/releases/view/47786

Update: Now Includes webpart fix and Re-Tweets

Visual Studio 2010 – SharePoint (There are no Content Types in the Project)

by Christopher Pettigrew on May 26, 2011 in SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, Visual Studio 2010 with 3 Comments

I came across this error when trying to create a new list definition based on a content type that i have defined in my project.

I was so confused as to why this suddenly started happening, i thought i may have been when i placed my solution into source control, however after 5 hours of testing, re-writing the code again thinking that my project was broken it suddenly clicked what had happened.  Basically you cannot place a SharePoint Project into a Solution Folder.  Doing this causes Visual Studio to loose its ability to locate your SPI’s in your project.  Removing the project from the folder and back into the root of the solution fixed the problem.

I hope that this helps people save many hours of lost time like i did.

Chris

ICS Solutions – Dip into SharePoint 2010

by Christopher Pettigrew on December 16, 2009 in SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 with No comments
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ICS Solutions CTO Symon Garfield and SharePoint Developer Nick Lloyd-Jenkins presented a guest speaker session at the FASTforward Summit in London on the 1st December 2009.  It was here that ICS Solutions launched one of the first commercial 2010 websites.  The new website uses many of the new technologies in SharePoint 2010 and makes special use of the new Client Object Model for displaying content through the rich UI of Silverlight 3.0.

The Dip into SharePoint 2010 site contains invaluable information on SharePoint 2010 from training materials to reference materials to gear up organizations and technical professionals.  The site also gives users the ability to sign up for a free SharePoint 2010 Site collection with 25mb of storage for evaluation.  To signup for this free site collection click the link below.

http://www.dipintosharepoint2010.co.uk

Coming soon will be explanation on how the website was built from the developer who built the site….me.

SharePoint 2010 BETA 1 – Released to MSDN Subscribers & Partners

by Christopher Pettigrew on November 17, 2009 in SharePoint 2010 with No comments

The much anticipated public beta of the new SharePoint 2010 hit download servers today.  To access this log into your MSDN subscription and click the download links.  Happy Downloading.

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