Via Angus,
Son of SmartPart has been released!
Watch a screen cast by Jan which explains how to deploy it here.
You can now develop ASP.NET 2.0 user controls and use them within SharePoint! How awesome is that?
Here is an example on how you can create a user control with Visual Web Developer 2005 and get it displaying in a WSS site.
The book that Andrew Connell, Angus Logan, Stefan Goßner, and Mei Ying have been working on is now available!
You can check out a free copy of chapter 5 here, which talks about how to search MCMS with SharePoint Portal Server 2003! Nice work everyone!
I have released the first version of my ReGhost.NET application which is now available for download here.
So what is ReGhost.NET?
ReGhost.NET is a SharePoint Community project that I am currently running which allows you to easily ReGhost those unwanted pages that are being served from the database without needing to access the SharePoint databases directly with Enterprise Manager, or installing any web parts. This simple desktop application can run locally on the front-end web server, or any other location that has appropriate access to the SharePoint SITE database. The tool will present a list of unghosted pages, and allow you to safely ReGhost them with ease. For more information about what ghosting/unghosting is, please see this MSDN article.
Current features in this release include:
- Listing ghosted items from selected database instance
- ReGhosting your selection of Ghosted Items
- Seeing who is to blame for the UnGhosting of the page (Really handy for Sys-Admins 
).
Enjoy!
For those interested in Enterprise Library 2.0 – this just came in via email. They will be conducting a webcast on the 8th 
So what’s this Configuration Source thing meant to be? Why do you have so many kinds of factories? How can I reuse the instrumentation capabilities in my own app? What’s different in the new Configuration Designtime? Get the answers to these and many more questions at the Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0: Core Architecture webcast. It’s on this coming Thursday, December 8th at 10:00am US Pacific Time / 18:00 UTC. Register now to view the webcast live (this is best if you want to ask us questions), or as always it will be available on demand from the next day.
Details here: Enterprise Library Core Architecture Webcast
