My name is Steve Gaitten.  I am the Director of Online Operations at Bamboo Solutions, a leading provider of Web Parts & Solutions for SharePoint.  It’s an honor and a privilege to have a chance to appear on one of my favorite sites about SharePoint, SharePoint Buzz.  Kanwal has done an incredible job of creating a community and a valuable ...[Read More]

An In-Depth Look at Developing Mobile Applications With Mobile Entrée Custom development for SharePoint can mean many things.  Workflows, master pages, business data catalog implementations, forms services, reporting capabilities, the list goes on and on.  Since 2003, the staple of custom SharePoint applications has been the custom WebPart.  Mobi ...[Read More]

What is Branding?From our prespective, Branding helps you identify a company, product or service through the use of consistent logo, colors and text. Branding is the successful attempt to symbolicly embodiment of all the information connected to a company, product or service. [source: wikipedia]It's really that simple; however, it's the succes ...[Read More]

Check out the following posts by Waldek Mastykarz on using tables for layouts and other resources that give more information on this subject better way to obtain field values of an SPListItem using TryGetValue extension method tool to help SharePoint developers to deal with disposable objects in custom code Google has published Search Engin ...[Read More]

There's a new SharePoint Webcasts For Internet Site Development Series starting today. Be sure to register! MSDN Webcast: SharePoint Products and Technologies for Internet Site Development: Getting Started (Level 100) - Tuesday, December 2, 2008 - 11:00 A.M.–12:00 P.M. Pacific Time Set up an environment for developing Microsoft SharePoint Prod ...[Read More]

For more information on the next version of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, subscribe to our SharePoint Buzz RSS Feed.     UPDATE: Microsoft has just announced the SharePoint 2009 14 Conference in Las Vegas! Many of us are still trying to master SharePoint 2007 (version 12) but that does not mean we don't want to know what Microsoft ShareP ...[Read More]

Want to allow users to search / lookup employees through the Active Directory? The Employee Lookup webpart, for a SharePoint 2007 publishing portal, does not work right out of the box - as it needs to be configured. As I continue learning and start sharing my experiences with the SharePoint community, I thought I'd share my notes on how to get the ...[Read More]