Webparts News & Articles

SharePoint news from the big players has bloomed since the launch of Microsoft's (news, site) 2010 version. But what of the smaller devs offering those practical point solutions that could be so useful? Let's take a look.

Recently, Ephox, a provider of authoring software for web content, announced the latest release of its online rich text, WYSIWYG editor, EditLive!

Everyone loves to make their software easy for the non-technical user. Probably, because the non-technical user is usually the one making the decisions. If we make them think that they could “quickly” and “easily” do anything, they feel more empowered.

We previously posted a tip sheet on Getting Started with SharePoint WebParts. Kindly supporting us in these endeavors, our dear friends over at MSDN have published a chapter from the book Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Inside Out.

There are several ways to skin the Webparts deployment cat, each with a few pluses and minuses. Thanks to Mark Harrison we have have a quick and pragmatic list of the options, complete with instructions.

For those of you leveraging one of the best pieces of "free" software on the market today, here's a welcome resource.

Microsoft has released the SharePoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit, the definitive resource for administering, customizing, and othewise rendering useful SharePoint products (SPS and WSS).