I'm very happy to announce that the latest version of StsDev 2008, Version 2.0, is now available for download.   What Changed? StsDev 2008 V2 is now a composite of several capabilities and no longer requires a stand alone executable to perform ...[Read More]

After following Scott Gu's 8 part blog on Silverlight and using it to get a feed from Digg I decided to try out my own Silverlight project. Since I use Twitter, not nearly enough, I thought it would be fun to have a little application that can rea ...[Read More]

After creating my first Visual Studio Template Item I decided that creating another would be interesting as well. Since I had already done the feature receiver I didn't feel that creating the web part item template would be as interesting, so I de ...[Read More]

I recently ran across a very well done video, except the developer was using VB and I'm a C# person, about how to create your own Visual Studio 2008 Item Templates. After watching the video I decided to play around with the StsDev2008 projects and ...[Read More]

So I readily admit that I am often a code junkie, if I can do it in code then I will. However, I have started to look for tools and solutions that let me code less, drag and drop more, and generate solutions that look better faster.     I have ...[Read More]

How many users can ECTS Handle? This has become a common question for a couple of my clients, to which I really don't have a good answer. However, with my clients we have found significant issues when attempting to use the User Manager web part ...[Read More]

This is the third blog in a series addressing how to use ECTS in a real world deployment. I first wrote a blog about how to install ECTS (External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint) in a "real world" environment, basically extending a ...[Read More]

I have been maintaining and enhancing the stsdev project from codeplex and it is now been released back to the CodePlex Community as STSDev 2008 (http://www.codeplex.com/stsdev2008).  Here I am working on documenting the changes/bug fixes we have ...[Read More]

STSDev 2008, MicroLink LLC's codeplex project, is now a publicly available CodePlex project. STSDev 2008 is a more production ready version of the original STSDev project created by Ted Pattison and his team. We have taken their code, corrected se ...[Read More]

After a little time, and some help from the STSDev 2008, I finally got a web part that uses my companies logo as its web part catalog icon.  Here is how to do it using STSDev 2008. Add the IMAGES folder to your RootFiles/TEMPLATE path in your w ...[Read More]