Archive for the ‘Free tools’ Category
On 2nd April Microsoft announced that SharePoint Designer is no longer available as part of volume licencing, but as a free download. This is great news since SharePoint Designer is a great tool for working with SharePoint and non-SharePoint sites. Click here to see the video interview with Tom Rizzo
or more importantly:
click here to download [...]
I was already writing about the problem of SharePoint filtering out the embed code for Flash content and a workaround to this issue.
There were some questions in the comments and also maybe the instructions weren’t quite clear, so I’ve made a screencast showing the entire process.
Sorry [...]
This is an update to one of my older posts – SharePoint 3 is bound to host headers – I was explaining the problem how the SharePoint binds itself to one host header and a simple trick to avoid this. There is a better way to add another host header to the web application:
On the [...]
Recently I wanted to add some text descriptions to the "NewForm.aspx" and "EditForm.aspx". I remembered a trick Pedro Serrano showed me some time ago. It works for SharePoint 2.0 and SharePoint 3.0.
All you need to add to the page are the ?PageView=Shared&ToolPaneView=2 parameters.
This opens the Task [...]
This is a reply to PsychedEric in my post about QueryString. To use params from URL in an XSLT data view is quite simple. Once you have the data view inserted, display the options of the Data View and click on Parameters.
Next click the button “New Parameter” and enter a name for it. Then [...]
Yesterday evening my laptop with Vista already got too slow for normal work that I started to think about reinstalling. But instead I decided to use the performance tools in control panel and I made serious maintenance plus I turned off some features like visual styles.
An improvment in performance was immediate. And then suddenly [...]
The third in the series of tools for web developers is for the ones that don’t want or don’t have the option to install any software or addons and just need a quick access to a tool for inspecting DOM
1. Mouseover DOM inspector v. 2 – MODIv2
This thing is pure JavaScript, DHTML and CSS so [...]
In my previous post I’ve presented a tool that I find very useful when debugging display, creating javascript related to HTML DOM, etc. The tool is intended for Internet Explorer. The FireFox users aren’t deprived of such tools either. There are two tools available:
1. Web developer toolbar for Mozilla Firefox
It offers quite a wide array of tools for [...]
Recently I was fixing on one server an installation of Windows SharePoint Services that has gone wrong. Even though we’ve had SQL server 2005 installed correctly, WSS3 installed its own Windows internal database (##SSEE) and started using it. I thouhght a simple uninstall and reinstall of WSS would do the trick. But it didn’t. After [...]
I’m already using it to write all my posts for this blog. It has many improvements and features, so I recommend it. Amongst many others, one of them is also the support for blogger tags. You can download it from Windows Live writer website, but the link is misleading. Don’t click on the big Download [...]


