SharePoint Development on Vista!

Check this out...I found this while wandering around the Bamboo Solutions site...

For those that are looking to do some development w/o virtuals, with the information found at the following blog entry you can now set up your Vista box for SharePoint development. Cool stuff!

How to install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 on Vista x64/x86

- M

Bamboo Chart Plus Bug: Dates as Y-Axis Don't Show

I found this while doing some diligence around the possibility of using this part as a way to display some project (think MS Project) information based on tasks and their dates. In my work I was looking to display a Task's information and it's Due Date and Actual Finish Date as a bar chart, to show the differences of planned vs. actual.

It seems that when you set up the Chart Plus part to have its Y-Axis be Long/Short Date based, the scale shows information in the form of 12/30/1899 for each place on the scale, and not the dates in the source data.

This was duplicated by the Bamboo support team. Incidentally, kudos to them for responding so quickly (2 days) for an issue that came up for an individual (me) using a trial version of their software. Excellent in my book.

- M

MOSS 2007 Best Practices Book Out Now!

3 words: Go get it!

This is a fantastic book written by Ben Curry and Bill English of Mindsharp. It basically speaks to the best practices around designing and deploying a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 implementation (and all of the ins and outs).

Find it at Amazon here.

- M

MCTS: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Configuration

Achieved! :)