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Bil Simser has announced a new site for the SharePoint Community: SharePointForge

Immediate plans over the next few weeks as the minions get things moved in include:

• My Site - A place for you to track your own bookmarked sites and projects and generally feel like part of the community
• Project Help and Hosting - A place to put your stuff if you're a developer and want to show it off. Also a place to look for help from other budding SharePoint developers.
• Collaboration and Community Projects - A lot of new initiatives that will encompass the entire community both from a contribution perspective and a benefit one.
  

"If you're an ASP.NET or SharePoint developer, SmartPart for SharePoint is an active project out on Gotdotnet Workspaces that is definitely worth a look. Yesterday, Jan Tielens, one of the workspace owners, released Son of SmartPart v1.0.

Son of SmartPart (download under Releases) enables you to run ASP.NET 2.0 UserControls and WebParts in SPS 2.0! For the attention-impaired, like me, Jan posted an instructive screencast of the setup steps required to use Son of SmartParts on your SharePoint."

[via Korby Parnell]

If you're interested in SharePoint Services you should know the blogs at http://www.mindsharpblogs.com/

Jan Tielens has released Version 1.1 of SmartPart, which is a SharePoint WebPart that allows you to host ASP.NET User Controls inside itself.

This approach simplifies SharePoint Development as much as possible.

Version 1.1 Features:

• custom toolpart support
• access to the underlying web part
• "hidden" custom properties
• various minor improvements

More details on SmartPart 1.1

Asked often, answered seltom completely. 

Microsoft hat eine Checkliste veröffentlicht, die das Testen von selbstentwickelten WebParts für SharePoint Portal Server und Windows SharePoint Services erleichtert.

Gregory S. MacBeth hat in seinem Blog eine Liste von Büchern veröffentlicht, die er für SharePoint-Developer als sinnvoll erachtet. Na dann mal los ;-)

Microsoft hat das SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Training Kit veröffentlicht, welches auf die Bedürfnisse von angehenden, aber auch fortgeschrittenen SharePoint-Anwendern zugeschnitten ist. Erklärt werden tägliche Arbeitsschritte mit SharePoint wie gemeinsames Bearbeiten von Dokumenten oder die effektive Suche nach Informationen mit SharePoint Portal Server 2003.

Der neue MSDN-Artikel "Architectural Overview of Windows SharePoint Services" gibt einen Überblick über die Architektur der Windows SharePoint Services sowie SharePoint Portal Server 2003 - der Artikel gliedert sich wie folgt:

• High-Level System View
• Web Server Topology
• How Requests are Handled in IIS and Through the ISAPI Filter
• Web Part Infrastructure
• Unmanaged Code in Windows SharePoint Services
• Contents of the Configuration Database