Monthly Archives: October 2006

Named templates allow for templating the output of a supporting field control from a centralised template. It’s not necessarily meant for html reuse on page layouts, but it would do the job. You’d really only want to use it if … Continue reading →

Thanks to the order in which CSS files are registered and then rendered by the CssLink control, our good friend core.css (/_layouts/1033/styles/core.css) will always override your background color with background-color:#FFFFFF; (line 7). Usually I’d recommend using !important to keep the … Continue reading →

I’ve been looking at SharePoint 2007 from a Web Content Management perspective, and the first thing I want to know is how do I customise the HTML output. When displayed to the end user, rendering is validating XHTML should not … Continue reading →

I recently posted on the MOSS TechNet Forums on how I might change the default (WelcomeLinks.aspx layout) to something else. A few more days of mucking around led me to the answer. Turns out the idea is that you save … Continue reading →

Visual Studio .NET 2003 will not be supported under Vista. Sounds a bit harsh, doesn’t it? It’s true, though, as Somasegar recently confirmed on his blog. While I think that’s pretty weak effort (with the bugginess of VS.NET 2005), I … Continue reading →