Waldek Mastykarz - Innovation Matters | SharePoint Server MVP

Recently I published a new extended version of the Content Query Web Part. I extended the SharePoint 2010 version of CQWP with support for paging the results which is one of the things that our customers ask for very often. But that’s not the end of the extensibility possibilities of the CQWP. In this version I extended the Imtech Content Query Web Part even further by adding additional capabilities which make working with the CQWP even easier. Introducing: Imtech Content Query Web Part v14.2! Read more »

The popularity of SharePoint as a developer platform is growing every day. In fact it’s getting so important that the Visual Studio Gallery has just recently launched a separate category for SharePoint Tools. Check it out: Read more »

In case you haven’t noticed, Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate has been published to MSDN yesterday. Although it hasn’t been that long since the last release, the RC is improved… a lot! Read more »

One of the coolest and probably most frequently used Web Parts in SharePoint 2007 was the Content Query Web Part (CQWP) – a great control that allowed you to display content aggregations to the users. Although it was pretty awesome, it had some serious drawbacks like for example the lack of a paging mechanism – something that almost every single Web Content Management project that I worked on required. Three years later in SharePoint 2010 the CQWP got a facelift and shipped with some seriously cool features like slots and the Content to Content concept. Unfortunately still no sign of paging. So what if you want to create an aggregation of your content and page the contents? Do you have to create a custom and bad performing Web Part? Not really… Introducing Imtech Content Query Web Part v14! Read more »

For the last few months I’ve been working with the new Visual Studio SharePoint development tools. The results? A few extensions that make developing SharePoint 2010 solutions a little easier. Read more »