An interesting problem today. A SP List is being used to track responses to an invitation. For this event, an entry only needs to be created if the invitee wishes to attend, so the only required field is the name. The typical list processing is a bit overkill, since typing the name is not really necessary, and the the Attending field is always yes.

It seems that I need to wrap a call to the web service or object model. There is no built-in RPC method to insert/update a list item.

I'm working on a project to update a web site using the design from a professional design firm. I've been given a 30-page PDF of page mockups, plus 10 HTML files.

I hope to blog the process, similar to the WSS Diary I did.  Look for the Design Translation category.

A service to send pings to a lot of services...

I've previously pointed to a web site that will convert a C# snippet to VB.  It stumbled on this code, so I had to RTFM (!!!).  Since it involved more than a few minutes, I'm posting it for future reference:

if ( dataSource is IEnumerable )

Converts to

If TypeOf dataSource Is IEnumerable

As a fellow 40+ year-old, I was happy to see Dave Andreychuk pull a Ray Bourque.

Microsoft Webcasts Tech·Ed 2004 Series

http://www1.msteched.com/content/webcasts.aspx

Again yesterday, Microsoft released updates to the SDK. These new versions don't seem to be much different from those released recently, except the default installation path is under Program Files. It seems the integration with Office is occuring at the documentation level as well.

There are two different downloads:

• SharePoint Products and Technologies 2003 SDK
• Windows SharePoint Services 2003 Software Development Kit (SDK)

The first one is a superset of the second, adding information about Portal Server.

Kent Sharkey posted the regex code necessary for ASP.Net to recognize Firefox & Netscape 7.1.

If I understood regular expressions, I would provide the update for Safari.  But I don't, so instead I'll provide you with the User Agent strings for the various versions.

This SDK also includes new documentation for the Web Part Page Services Component (WPSC),

Download here.

From John West, Principal Consultant with Microsoft:

Default Security Rights

The TechNet article John cites:

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies: Technical Overview

I added an article to my SharePoint blog that describes Setting the DisplaySize on a Text Field.

When the form for a list is displayed, the input box for a single-line text field is always big -- regardless of the max length specified for the field. Why?

I don't have the answer, but I did hack a work-around. Most of the code necessary to display a different size box is already part of the product, so it's a relatively benign hack.

Details later...