Templates and Tools, Web Parts and Packages

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Newsfeeds

Creating an Online RSS News Aggregator with ASP.NET
Learn about displaying XML data in an ASP.NET Web page using the XML Web control to retrieve remote XML data, and about using the Repeater control to emit XML data from a database. With the ever-increasing demands of data sharing among disparate platforms, the use of XML has exploded over the past few years. Realizing this trend, Microsoft made sure to include robust XML support throughout the .NET Framework. For ASP.NET developers, this means that displaying and working with XML data in a Web page has never been simpler. Throughout this article we'll learn about XML and ASP.NET by building an RSS 2.0 syndication engine and an online news aggregator. This article assumes the reader is familiar with ASP.NET and XML. Download RSSAggregator.msi.

Hoover's Portal Windows
Hoover's Portal Windows provide simple, organized, and intuitive navigation within an enterprise information portal (EIP) environment. They allow easy access to the Hoover's Online database of the world's largest, most influential, and fastest-growing companies and industries. Now you can integrate all of the great content that Hoover's provides into your own Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003-based Web site.

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Samples

Simple Web Part (VB .NET)
Demonstrates how to build a simple Web Part using VB .NET.  This is a great starting point for developers who have never built Web Parts before.

XSL Sorting & Filtering Sample
This sample demonstrates how to use the sorting and filtering capabilities of XSL with the XML Data Source Object (XML DSO) to create a basic data-entry Web application that you can customize.

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Templates

Creating Custom Templates Example
Learn how to add custom Web Part Page templates to SharePoint sites by using sample code for the Web Part Page creation form and several sample templates. Use these files to create an modify a customized creation form that can contain an unlimited number of custom page templates with embedded Web Parts.

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Tools and Samples

Business Intelligence Portal Sample Application for Microsoft Office 2003
Business intelligence portal sample application for Microsoft Office 2003 is an integrated, web-based OLAP solution that enables employees in an organization to create and share OLAP/Relational/XML based views, using SharePoint Portal Server, SQL Server Reporting Services, and Office Web components.

Download Document Library Migration Tools
Get tools for migrating content from Web Storage System-based document libraries to SharePoint document libraries. These tools move documents, versions, metadata, folders, and security settings from SharePoint Portal Server 2001, as well as from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 backward-compatible document libraries, to SharePoint Portal Server 2003 document libraries.

Document Library Migration Tools XML Manifest File for SharePoint Portal Server 2003
Understand the format and structure of the XML manifest file that Spin.exe uses to process and load files into SharePoint Portal Server 2003 document libraries based on SQL Server.

SharePoint Migration Utility
This is a quick & dirty Windows app that lets you list libraries and lists in a SharePoint site and export them to files. You can then reverse the process on another site (on the same or a different server) that has the same containers and import the content. This version is a slight update to the original with a few bug fixes and some console tweaks.

Windows SharePoint Services: Usage Blob Parser
Use this sample download to retrieve the daily and monthly usage BLOBs that are processed from the front-end Web servers in a deployment of Windows SharePoint Services.

Windows SharePoint Services Software Development Kit (SDK)- latest
The Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services SDK provides information about the languages, protocols, and technologies used to customize a deployment of Windows® SharePoint® Services. This SDK is part of the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies SDK.

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Web Packages

Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Management Pack Guide
Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 SP1

Windows Media® Player 9 Series Partial Fun Pack 2: Blogging Plug-in
Add more personality to your blog with this plug-in that adds the artist, song, and album name to the Windows Media Player 9 Series title bar on your Web site. Blogging clients like LiveJournal, w.bloggar, Semagic, and others can then easily add that information to your next entry while you compose. Read more about it at: "Blogging to a Different Tune"

Windows SharePoint Services Template Package- Sales
This product shows the great results you can get when you customize a Windows SharePoint Services-based Web site using Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003. This template contains the custom Theme used in creating this site, and detailed instructions and necessary files to allow you to reproduce the look on your own Windows SharePoint Services-based site.

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Web Parts

Developer's Introduction to Web Parts: Sample Code
This is a sample Visual Studio .NET solution containing two custom Web Parts, written in C#. The first Web Part enables users to select a customer and see configurable information about the customer. The second Web Part displays the orders for a single customer. A user can add these Web Parts to a Web Part Page and connect them to each other, so that the second Web Part displays orders for the customer selected in the first Web Part.

Drop Down Navigation Web Part
This Web Part provides administrators with the ability to add  navigation via the selection of a value in a "Drop Down" box. This type of functionality is commonly used to present to end users with a number of frequently performed intranet tasks, for example "I Want To..." or "I Need To".

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