It's no secret that jQuery is one of the most impressive JavaScript libraries out there today. The extensibility and API for programming with jQuery is clean and light. Microsoft is even jumping on the jQuery bandwagon and jQuery will actually ship with VS2010. The merit of jQuery leads me to the topic of this blog post and I will show you my preferred way to bring jQuery to SharePoint for use in Web Parts and Page Layouts.

The Internals of the WSP

There are a few locations in the SharePoint hive that are important to note when deploying script files ...

Having worked with WCF Web services for some time now, I have been presented with many of the caveats surrounding the technology. All in all, WCF is a tremendous platform, but hosting WCF Web services on IIS websites that have multiple host headers seems to be one commonly recurring pain point.

Hosting WCF Web services through IIS is one of the more common host environments for any software written using the WCF stack. Many of you have probably seen or heard of the following error when hosting a WCF Web service (*.svc ):

This collection already contains an address with ...

NOTE: This article is one of a three-part series based on the same code. As such, some of the code in the referenced download is not specifically targeted at this topic. The other two topics are Declarative Databinding of Nested Object Properties to GridView Columns and Dynamic Rendering of Images in ASP.NET.

Another NOTE: The code provided has been written to use the AdventureWorks database for SQL 2005, which can be found on Codeplex here. 

In my previous post, I discussed being able to bind GridView columns directly to properties of nested objects returned via an ObjectDataSource. This time around, I'm ...

When it comes to launching a new website, copy text often comes in last. It’s usually the final element added to the site, long after design mock-ups are delivered, approved, and developed. It’s also typically the item on the bottom of the “what we need to make our site great” list, far below a stunning visual presence and impressive user functionality.

I think this is a mistake.

Don’t get me wrong. An exciting design is the first thing visitors are looking for when they arrive on a website, and without appropriate functionality, users probably won’t stick around. You’ve got to ...

Although this is only part one of a three part series, we should still take a minute to look back and review. Bottom line: the Internet has come a long way. It has completely revolutionized the way that nearly every company does business and proved to the world that it is no mere fad. While the Internet (in some form or another) has been around since the late 1960’s, it wasn’t until the early 1990’s that the World Wide Web as we know it today began to take shape.

 

Where did we come from?

An examination of the Web’s ...