Mike Walsh is continuing to share his excellent knowledge of SharePoint Team Services with his equally great
WSS FAQ site. Steven Collier [MVP] pointed out this useful contributon by Edwin:
SPSFAQ090248 - How to List of All Known Subscriptions for a Given Workspace, so thanks for that Steven!
And check out James Edelen's blog, he has written some code for exporting files out of SharePoint 2003 called
SPExport Beta 1.5 as well as an Event viewer Web Part.
I've a new
Knowledge Base Article too.
SPSFAQ080269 - Excellent Windows SharePoint Services FAQ site.
The New Subscription Page Incorrectly States That You Receive Notifications When a Subfolder Is Created in a Folder that You Subscribe To (
822826)
SPSFAQ090248 - How to List of All Known subscriptions for given workspace
I'm serious, it's not that hard to do SharePoint 2003 web parts, really! Just do the following and if you follow the steps you'll have done your first Web Part for v2 and be confident you can do more.
1. Install
Visual Studio.NET and the
Web Part Templates. Do your coding in C# it's not hard and it sounds cool and you'll be paid more.
2. Read James Edelen's articles on
MSD2D.com. Look in the
web parts section of Tips. They are excellent, on just getting your feet wet creating a new project, putting in some code, building your web part and getting it installed via a CAB file onto the SharePoint Server. Thank you so much for writing these James!
3. Have a look at these
online seminars on MSDN. They'll get you using the SharePoint OM to do the old favourite 'hello world' but also useful stuff.
4. You are now ready for the SharePoint OM (Object Model) in the SDK. Start somewhere like
returning lists of subwebs and
listing and copying files. This really has a lot of useful examples to get you writing real world useful web parts.
5. A final note, keep in mind if you install the technical refresh of WSS after you have developed some web parts, you'll need to make some changes to your code, check Adam Macaulay's tip on
MSD2D.com for pointers. And another thing I've found: you need Windows 2003 server RTM for the WSS refresh, but I didn't need it for the SPS refresh which refreshes WSS anyway! Go figure.
