WSS 3.0 Vs MOSS 2007

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is a collaborative enterprise portal that is built upon WSS 3.0. MOSS 2007 allows people, teams and expertise to connect and collaborate. Unlike WSS, SharePoint Server is not free and requires an additional license. MOSS 2007 comes in two versions – Standard and Enterprise.
The main components of SharePoint 2007 are collaboration, portals, enterprise search, enterprise content management, business process and forms, and business intelligence. Previous versions of SharePoint Server included SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and before that SharePoint Portal Server 2001. To preview SharePoint’s new features visit the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 demo.
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is the platform on which all SharePoint Products and Technologies are built. WSS 3.0 is for is suitable for small teams, projects and organizations.
WSS’s project collaboration, document workspace, meeting sub-site, and discussion board features allow individuals and small teams to collaborate and share information online. Past versions of Windows SharePoint Services included Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 and SharePoint Team Services. New features in WSS 3.0 include integrated workflows, RSS feeds, blogs, wikis and ASP-style Web parts. To preview more of WSS 3.0’s new features visit the Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 demo.

What is SharePoint?

SharePoint is an enterprise information portal, from Microsoft, that can be configuredto run Intranet, Extranet and Internet sites. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007allows people, teams and expertise to connect and collaborate. A SharePoint enterprise portal is composed of both SharePoint Portal and Windows SharePoint Services, with SharePointbeing built upon WSS. WSS is typically used by small teams, projects and companies. SharePointServer is designed for individuals, teams and projects within a medium to large company wide enterprise portal.

Dynamic RadMenu Telerik control in sharepoint.

Steps:
1.Install AJAX Extensions and register required web.config entries. For More Details http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/mike/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=3
2.Register following two entries into SafeControls tag of web.config for telerik controls.


3.Register following entry into SafeControls tag of web.config file for code behind file

4.Register following entry into tag of web.config file for telerik control

5.Add following register tag into master page.
<%@ Register TagPrefix="telerik" Namespace="Telerik.Web.UI" Assembly="Telerik.Web.UI, Version=2007.3.1425.20, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=121fae78165ba3d4" %>
6.Replace Master tag with following tag in master page.
<%@ Master language="C#" inherits="DynamicMenuCodeBehind.DynamicMenuCodeBehind, DynamicMenuCodeBehind, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=a8f881868076fc9f"%>
7.Add RadMenu control tag into master page wherever required in master .



8.Change the Skin of RadMenu as per requirement.
9.Create custom list “MenuLinks”
10.Register Telerik.Charting.dll, Telerik.Web.UI.dll and DynamicMenuCodeBehind.dll assemblies in GAC
11.Copy Skins folder into virtual directories folder like “C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\22543”
Prerequisite :
Skins Folder( DownLoadable)
Telerik.Charting.dll
Telerik.Web.UI.dll
ASPAJAXExtSetup

Code Behind:

convert an amount value in Words

Hi ,
Now we have a function in our sql database which can convert an amount value to its "in words " equivalent ..
just as you do while signing cheques ....
how to use ?select dbo.util_fn_AmountToWords(456.75)
will give u and output of:"Four Hundred And Fifty Six And Seventy Five Paise"

To fetch data from gridview to Excel/Doc

private void Export(GridView GridView1) { System.IO.StringWriter sw = new StringWriter(); System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter htw = new HtmlTextWriter(sw); HtmlForm frm = new HtmlForm(); Response.ContentType = "application/vnd.ms-excel" ; Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=SomeFile.doc"); Response.Charset = "" ; EnableViewState = false ; Controls.Add(frm) ; frm.Controls.Add(GridView1); frm.RenderControl(htw) ; Response.Write(sw.ToString()) ; Response.End() ; }

Fetching User Phone number from active directory.

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string path = "LDAP://"; // Path for active directory.
System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry de = new System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry(path);
System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher deSearch = new System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher(de);
deSearch.PropertiesToLoad.Add("mail");
deSearch.PropertiesToLoad.Add("telephoneNumber");
string strUserName = System.Web.HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name;
strUserName = strUserName.Remove(0, 10);
deSearch.Filter = ("(sAMAccountName= " + strUserName + ")");
deSearch.SearchScope = SearchScope.Subtree;
SearchResult results = deSearch.FindOne();
TextBox1.Text = results.Properties["mail"][0].ToString();
if ((results.Properties["telephoneNumber"].Count != 0))
{
TextBox1.Text = results.Properties["telephoneNumber"][0].ToString();
}
else
{
Response.Write("Error: There is no entry in telephoneNumber field of the Active Directory for the current user");
}

}