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Maybe some of you already noticed, my blog moved to a new location. The new location is http://net.bloggix.com.

For all those people reading my blog, thank you all!! :)

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Thanks :)

Alex

At the blog of Stramit's SharePoint Blog a great article explains how to create rounded header corners for a WebPart by just using CSS styles. 2 cells and 2 styles are used namely: ms-WPTitle and ms-WPHeader.

After

http://blog.spsclerics.com/archive/2005/07/11/5421.aspx

One of my collegea pointed out a link to "patterns & practices Enterprise Library - June 2005" containing the following as stated on the website of Microsoft:

"The patterns & practices Enterprise Library is a library of Application Blocks designed to assist developers with common enterprise development challenges. Application Blocks are a type of guidance, provided as source code, that can be used as-is, extended or modified by developers for use on enterprise development projects. The June 2005 release of Enterprise Library is a minor update of the original version released in January 2005. Enterprise Library features new and updated versions of application blocks that were previously available as stand-alone blocks. All blocks included in Enterprise Library have been updated with a particular focus on consistency, extensibility, ease of use and integration."

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=A7D2A109-660E-444E-945A-6B32AF1581B3&displaylang=en

A must have for every developer :) Thanks Stef!!

Angus Logan has been using AJAX.NET under SharePoint and came accross a "cast exception" when using RegisterTypeForAjax. He explains in his article a solution for this by adding manually the client side references to AJAX.NET.

http://msmvps.com/anguslogan/archive/2005/07/09/56884.aspx

The new Office Business Scorecard Server 2005 Beta 1 is available with the following features and benefits

• Align actions with strategy
• Gain complete insight in context
• Collaborate on business management and action.
• Empower employees to monitor and deliver against key metrics
• Achieve extensible functionality

The Beta software can be downloaded using the following link:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/isv/technology/bss/beta/default.aspx

Rumours says that in the last weeks of july beta 2 will be released. It is worth while waiting for that version to start with :)

 If you use for example a Repeater and you do not want to show some field from the DataSource based on a expression, you could use the following solution. This example hides the year when the year in the DataSource is zero.

<asp:Repeater runat="server" id="rptGroup">
   <HeaderTemplate>
      <table>
   </HeaderTemplate>
   <ItemTemplate>
      <tr><td>
         <asp:Label id="lbl" runat="server" 
            Visible='<%#DisplayYear(DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "year"))%>'>
            <%#DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "year")%>
         </asp:Label>
      </td></tr>
   </ItemTemplate>
   <FooterTemplate>
      </table>
   </FooterTemplate>
</asp:Repeater>

In the code-behind the following method is added:

public bool DisplayYear(object item)
{
   int year = 0;

   try
   {
      year = Convert.ToInt32(item);
   }
   catch(exception)
   {
   }

   return year != 0;
}