Waldek Mastykarz - Innovation Matters | SharePoint Server MVP | ISSN 2210-9390

Recently I got the task to develop a Web Part which would aggregate the contents of a couple of RSS Feeds, sort them descending on the publishing date and display the top n of them. Thinking about how the whole thing could be done, I have found out that there are multiple methods to get things done. The Web Part was supposed to work on an Internet site so I decided to have a closer look at the performance of the various methods. Read more »

While working with Control Adapters in either ASP.NET or SharePoint 2007 you will quite often want to intercept the output of the parent control and modify it before rendering. As retrieving the output is the same for each and every control I have created the following code snippet: Read more »

Extension Methods are a new feature of Visual Studio 2008. They basically allow you to add new methods to already existing classes. You could for example introduce a new method: String.IsValidEmailAddress() which would validate whether the given string is a valid e-mail address. Scott Guthrie has written some more information about the Extension Methods in Visual Studio 2008. Read more »

A while ago John, Martijn and myself have won the Rock My Website competition. John has mentioned this earlier in one of his posts. Read more »

…if you are developing a Webrichtlijnen compliant website in ASP.NET or let’s say in… SharePoint 2007! Read more »