Creating an Enhanced Rich Text Field in your SharePoint Content Types

When creating custom content types inside your features or site definitions you need to specify field definitions to define your custom fields. I was trying to create a Enhanced Rich Text field within my Content Type but was struggling to find the ...[Read More]

Published: Jan-20-09 | 8 Comments | Link to this post

Back on Twitter

After giving up on twitter a while back I've decided to give it another go so I have signed up for a new account (I couldn't get my old one back). If you want to follow me my username is leejdale. I am using the Twitterific client application for O ...[Read More]

Published: Jan-19-09 | 0 Comments | Link to this post

Best Intranets of 2009 show dramatic increase in the use of SharePoint.

I read an article today over at http://www.useit.com/alertbox/intranet_design.html which details the 10 best intranets of 2009 (or should that be 2008?). The article had an interesting excerpt which outlines the growing use of SharePoint in the top ...[Read More]

Published: Jan-16-09 | 2 Comments | Link to this post

New Gadget: Sony eBook Reader PRS-505S

Often I need to carry around large reference books for work which means lugging around 600 pages of SharePoint information in my backpack every day. I've been wanting to try out an eBook reader for a while so started to look around the web for the ...[Read More]

Published: Jan-15-09 | 0 Comments | Link to this post

Microsoft release CTP of Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint

Microsoft announced a new release for the VS 2008 extensions for SharePoint on Monday and finally amongst the new features is x64 support! I do all my MOSS 2007 development on an x64 box and couldn't make use of the handy extensions for Visual St ...[Read More]

Published: Jan-14-09 | 4 Comments | Link to this post