Service Pack 2 for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 is available to download

Hi guys,

The much awaited service pack 2 for wss 3.0 and MOSS 2007 is been realsed and is available for download

Here are some of the expected highlights for the SharePoint Area provided by the SharePoint Technical Product Managers:

• Improved Read-only Content Databases
  Whenever a content database is marked read-only, all of the site collections in that database are automatically marked as read-only.
• ECM Performance and Manageability Improvements
  Improved performance and manageability in variations, including STSADM commands for repairing links between source and target pages.
• Improved Index Rebuild Timer Jobs
  SharePoint content databases running in SQL Server 2005 will undergo an automatic index rebuild, which helps stop defragmentation, and stop the database from degrading in performance.
• Upgrade Checker
  This will scan your SharePoint farm in advance of applying SP2 and will provide feedback on the environments readiness to upgrade
• Download Service Pack 2 for WSS 3.0
• Download Service Pack 2 for MOSS 2007
  

New Version Of Sharepoint SDK Available Now

Microsoft has updated the Windows Sharepoint Services SDK and Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server SDK.

You can download the SDK from the below link 

1. Download Windows Sharepoint Services SDK 

2. Download Microsfot Office Sharepoint Server SDK Online

How to use MOSS FEATURE GENERATOR TOOL from Code Plex

MOSS FEATURE GENERATOR is  one of the most useful tool i found on codeplex,  but i found very few articles on how to  use it. This article describes in brief on how to  use MOSS FEATURE GENERATOR TOOL.

Let me describe what moss feature generator does? It helps in creating feature for list document libray  and many more things. It reduces the development effort for creating a feature for a list which as been created using OOB UI. Recently when we had to create a list using feature, all of us know that creating and modifying schema.xml is a pain and time consuming. After seeign this tool on codeplex i was very happy to use it. Given below are the steps to create a list feature.

Step 1. Download the MOSS Feature Generator  Tool from here  and double click CTFeatureCreator.exe

Step 2. Click File->New->Select List Template Feature.

Step 3.  Specify the Site url in the site collection url, select the site from the drop down which has your list for which we need to create feature.

Step 4. Select the list from the items list  and click next

Step 5. You will see a list template defintion window as shown below, specify the path to create feature and Click Create feature button.

Once the feature is generated , copy the feature to Features folder under templates and install and acitvate the feature.

Free SharePoint Designer 2007 Now...

hi guys....

here's a great news for all sharePopint developers.... Microsoft as officialy announced SharePoint Designer 2007  is free download now...Regitration is required to download it,to downlload click here

Nice to see that Microsoft is moving slowly towards Open Source, it has also annoucend ASP.NET MVC as Open Source under MS-PL.The framework, which brings a Rails-like model-view-controller paradigm to ASP.NET, can now be used on Linux.  you can start dowloading it from here