The files referenced in the August Intranet Journal article: Using a Custom Web Page Template for Easy Content Entry

I noticed today that Google Maps now has a hybrid view that puts street names over the satellite view.

This article made me laugh out loud:

"In fact, hockey has been fixed, in that veterinarian sort way."

"But since this lockout was all about the 10 or so hard-line owners and their unleashed commissioner getting what they wanted at all costs, hats off to them. Preferably with their heads inside, true, but you get what you can at times like this."

Ray Ratto - ESPN.com

The lastest article in my SharePoint series is available on IntranetJournal.com

Customizing the Quick Launch in a WSS Team Site
This month, Paul provides a solution to automate the linking of documents in a Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) document library to the Quick Launch navigation feature.

The article discusses a custom web part. The web part and its source code are available for download.

"The purpose of the SharePoint Utility Suite is to provide a packaged collection of Tools and Utilities showcasing the rich Object Model that is delivered with the SharePoint Product and Technologies SDK (which includes Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 and SharePoint Portal Server 2003). This package includes code and tool examples that SharePoint Developers and SharePoint Administrators might find useful."
http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/downloads/components/detail.asp?a=724

Thanks to Jessica Gruber

This post is mostly a duplicate and is provided as a reference for others who stop by later.  Thank you to all who participated!

Andrew Connell started us off with good comments (re-posted on his blog).

Arpan Shah found the article entertaining, rather than informative.

Bil Simser would like Mr. Drips to call reality.

Robert Scoble has some ideas.

Maurice Prather has "Five things worth mentioning"

JOPX on SharePoint

The SharingPoint

Ed Brill (IBM)

Daniel McPherson: Only Five Things Wrong with SharePoint

Amanda Murphy discusses the vision

Bil Simser gets us turned around and discusses some positive features of SharePoint.

"Wish List" post by Larry Borsato

Thoughts about the community and the team from Patrick Tisseghem.

Eli Robillard: response to article and discussion of weaknesses.

In response to a post in the ASP.Net forums, here is a routine to upload a file to a document library.

Sub ProcessPostedFile(ByVal fileUpload As HtmlControls.HtmlInputFile)
    Try
    ' get the filename and stream
    Dim fn As String = System.IO.Path.GetFileName(fileUpload.PostedFile.FileName)
    Dim stm As System.IO.Stream = fileUpload.PostedFile.InputStream
    Dim contents(CInt(stm.Length)) As Byte

    stm.Read(contents, 0, CInt(stm.Length))
    stm.Close()

    ' get the library path
    Dim docLibPath As String = Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings("DocUploadPath")
    ' first, get the site containing the library
    Dim site As SPSite = New SPSite(docLibPath)
    Dim web As SPWeb = site.OpenWeb
    ' then get the folder
    Dim docFolder As SPFolder = web.GetFolder(docLibPath)

    ' delete the file if it exists
    Dim docFile As SPFile
    Try
        docFile = docFolder.Files(fn)
    Catch ex As Exception
    End Try

    If Not docFile Is Nothing Then
        docFolder.Files.Delete(fn)
    End If

    ' save the file
    docFile = docFolder.Files.Add(fn, contents)

    Catch ex As Exception
        Context.Trace.Warn(ex.ToString)
    End Try
End Sub

File containing the web part described in my Intranet Journal article series.

DocLibQuickLaunch.zip (13.4 KB)

Only Five Things Wrong with SharePoint

Well, thats what I think the headline should have been. <sly grin>