If you have been watching our progress on our What's New Web Part then you already know we are steadily improving the product with each new release. This week we will release our most recent updates, which include those familiar Windows SharePoint Services style Context Menus. We have spent a considerable amount of time adding Context Menus to the web part...

If you have ever had the need to locate the icon that Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or MOSS 2007 uses to represent a specific List Item you have probably come across the method MapToIcon of the SPUtility class in the Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities namespace. A quick search on your favorite search engine will confirm that there a few Blog posts...

One of the newest features of our What's New Web Part is what we call "Extended Columns". These extended columns are a collection of the most popular Content Type specific columns used throughout the default List definitions in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. By utilizing these extended columns you may now configure the What’s New Web Part to display Content Types...

If you develop web parts for WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007 long enough, sooner or later you will likely create a web part with more user configurable properties than you care to code. And if you are not careful, your web part will have to carry a hefty payload of embedded markup used to display all of those web part properties in the ToolPart. But have you really...