I'm working on an ASP.Net application that requires the entry of a date and time. The user interface needs to resemble Outlook's appointment form, where the date is entered separately from the time. The date box has a button to display a pop-up calendar, and the time has a dropdown that displays the work day in half-hour increments. Both boxes can be entered manually.

Matt Hawley of Excentrics World has just what I need: a Calendar pop-up and a Time Picker. Thank you Matt!!

A word of caution, however. The time picker returns the users entry/selection as a date data type. This included both the date and time. The date part is today's date, which may not be what you want...

Best Practices for Developing Web Parts for SharePoint Products and Technologies

MS has a page to help find information in their blogging community. (Microsoft Community Blog Portal).

This is huge.

Thanks to a co-worker (no blog) for this one.

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.