Robert Bogue has written an article titled Troubleshooting Web Parts and Deployment that discusses STSADM and WebPart CAB files. Very helpful for WebPart developers and administrators. Thanks Rob!

Mike Fitzmaurice has the most definitive list of new items.

The latest article in my series on IntranetJournal.com has been posted.

Reading and Writing RSS with SharePoint
A popular request for intranets is inclusion of current news or sports headlines. Microsoft addressed this request in its Online Web Part gallery with some Web Parts that display content from MSN. These Web Parts provide the basics from a single provider. On today's Internet, there are many other choices for information. This month, I will review a few different solutions for including part of this vast information on a SharePoint site.

Sometimes, it seems that the .MDB file will live forever. I recently had to convert some DDL so it would work against the Jet data engine. (Jet does not use ANSI SQL.) In the depths of the MSDN archive was a very useful reference series: Fundamental Microsoft Jet SQL for Access 2000. This page links to two more -- titled Intermediate and Advanced.

If you are using active generation of templates, here is a build script that invokes CodeSmith:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="unicode"?>
<project name="nant" default="compile" xmlns="http://nant.sf.net/schemas/nant.xsd">
 <property name="CodeSmith" value="cs.exe" />

 <target name="compile" depends="genruntime" description="Compile entire solution">
  <solution solutionfile="src\project.sln" configuration="release">
   <webmap>
    <map url="http://localhost/ProjectWeb" path="src\ProjectWeb" />
   </webmap>
  </solution>
 </target>
 <target name="genruntime" description="Generate O/R Classes for the runtime library">
  <exec program="${CodeSmith}" basedir="tools\codesmith" workingdir="src\ProjectWeb.Runtime">
   <arg value="/t: Templates\ClassGenerator.cst" />
   <arg value="/ps: ORClasses.xml" />
  </exec>
 </target>

This script was influenced by Mike Roberts' article How to setup a .NET Development Tree. (Thanks Mike!) I use a property to alias the CodeSmith command (cs.exe) because I kept thinking csc (which compiles C# code).

Eli has updated his SharePoint Resources page.  Thank you for a very helpful site.

Do you have an ASP.Net application that will run in an Application Pool with a specific identity? Before you enter the user account in the Identity tab of the Application Pool properties dialog, you should add the account to the local group IIS_WPG. If you forget, you get permission issues. And permission issues are the hardest to fix, imho.

(I am sure you can guess why I am blogging this...)

While in the process of setting up a WSS site, I couldn't remember how to configure the Announcements list to allow the entry of hyperlinks in the announcement body. I have to admit that I went to Google first. Fortunately, Mike Walsh's FAQ site is at the top of page two!

Thanks Mike!!