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ExtensionAttribute Visual Studio Item Template
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.
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Imtech SharePoint Developer (Free SharePoint Tools)
While working on numerous SharePoint projects I have noticed that there are particular settings I'm using and locations I visit quite often. Tired of the manual labor I have decided to wrap it all up in a SharePoint solution: Imtech SharePoint Developer.
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Content Query Web Part vs. Custom Aggregation Web Part
During the Office Developer Conference 2008 I have attended a great presentation on high performance SharePoint 2007 solutions by Andrew Connell. And although I've heard a few times before that if you care for performance of your solution, and obviously you should if you're responsible for delivering Internet-facing Publishing Sites in SharePoint 2007, it became clear to me once again: one of the best aggregation solutions out there you should use is the Content Query Web Part... or isn't it?
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Windows Live Writer Plugin: Imtech MSDN Reference plugin
If you are a .NET developer and blog about your challenges using Windows Live Writer this plugin is definitely for you. What it does is it picks up the selected text and creates automatically a link to the right page at the on-line MSDN reference. The plugin works both with selected text but it allows you to type the object name in its dialog window as well.
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Which mime-type to use in SharePoint 2007?
Recently I have written an article about the doctypes and SharePoint 2007. My conclusion was that if you're striving to deliver a standards compliant web site built upon SharePoint 2007 you should be using the XHTML doctype. As if delivering an XHTML compliant web site in SharePoint 2007 wasn't challenging enough, there are multiple mime-types which can be used for XHTML compliant web pages.