If you want to stay informed about whats happening to Sharepoint you should read the SharePoint Team Blog.

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 running Sharepoint on Microsoft Windows Server with MS-SQL and you are getting an error along the lines of “SQLAgent is not allowed to run”, you have to make a small registry change.  Navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/MICROSOFT/MICROSOFT SQL SERVER/SHAREPOINT/SQLSERVERAGENT

Look for the key “GUID” and delete it.

The SQLAgent service should now start up without any problems - but be careful, you're hacking your registry!

"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]

"Microsoft Office Web Parts and Components is a collection of Web Parts, Web Part Page solutions, templates, and data retrieval services that work closely with Microsoft Office 2003 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2.0. These added features are particularly useful for large organizations that have deployed Microsoft Office throughout their organization and that want to take advantage of the enhanced functionality and efficiencies these Web Parts and components provide for their sites."

Download Office 2003 Add-in: Web Parts and Components

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

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Dieser Artikel beschreibt die Architektur von Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services. Sie erhalten Informationen über die Serveraktionen bei Seitenanforderungen von Benutzern und die Reaktion von Windows SharePoint Services. Auch die Funktion von verwaltetem Code im Vergleich zu nicht verwaltetem Code in Windows SharePoint Services und zum Datenbankschema von Windows SharePoint Services wird erläutert.

Die Architektur von Windows SharePoint Services

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