Filtering with Web Part Connections

SharePoint connected filter WebPart help is nicely available with example on EndUserSharePoint

Hide WebPart at run time

In one of my project we had a requirement to hide the WebPart based on the logged in user's department-id. We are not able to use Audiance Targeting to achieve this cuase we were getting user's department id using webservice from 3rd party system only.
What I did, I wrote my custom RSS Viwer WebPart with custom field. And Thanks to SharePoint Developer Center, I found a solution to hide the webpart at runtime very easily.
See the Code Snippet below.
protected override void OnPreRender(EventArgs e)
{
if(your condition)
HideWebParts();
}

private void HideWebParts()
{
if (this.WebPartManager.DisplayMode != System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.WebPartManager.EditDisplayMode
&& this.WebPartManager.DisplayMode != System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.WebPartManager.DesignDisplayMode)
{
for (int i = 0; i <>
{
if (WebPartManager.WebParts[i].Title == this.YourCustomWebPartName.Title)
{
WebPartManager.WebParts[i].AllowHide = true;
WebPartManager.WebParts[i].Hidden = true;
} } } }

Twitter Search WebPart

A very good article on Twitter Search in SharePoint with screen-shots from Woody on EndUserSharePoint.
Read more...

How to implement Live Chat

I am just going through SharePointKing's blog site after a long time and I found he has implemented a good feature to chat with him. I love this and he also describe the way to achieve this.

Create your own RSS Viewer

A total No-Code Solution below from Laura Rogers.

12+ killer freebie SharePoint add-ons

SharePoint's popularity as a collaboration tool has exploded. So the time was right to look at add-on products for expanding its usability, management and customization. It was surprised, but happy, to find that many add-on tools for SharePoint is free. A good article I found which also talks about the area which I have decided to target. Click this or this to read more.

For a quick reference I am listing down all 12 free add-ons here as well.
AJAX Control Toolkt
Silverlight Control Toolkit
Podcasting Kit for SharePoint
Community Kit for SharePoint
30 Extra Features for SharePoint-2007
SharePoint Learning Kit
SharePoint Tool Basket
SmartTools for SharePoint
Role-Based Templates for MySite
SharePoint Branding Tool
Imtech Mobile SharePoint
Colligo Reader

The SharePoint Manager 2007 is a SharePoint object model explorer. It enables you to browse every site on the local farm and view every property. It also enables you to change the properties (at your own risk). This is a very powerfull tool for developers that like to know what the SharePoint holds of secrets.

Chart, Print, SlideShow, BulkAction etc... WebParts for Free

Today I am searching for some free available WebParts and I came across SPElements.
There are couple of WebPart are available on the site for free....

Chart:Flash chart WebPart.
Print: Print lists & calendars from the 'Actions' menu
SlideShow: Beautiful Slide show (image rotation) WebPart
BulkAction: Add bulk actions such as bulk delete & bulk approval.
RSS Ticker: RSS Ticker/scroller WebPart.
List Constraint: List constraints feature: list size constraint, unique field constraint & foreign keys
ListAnyView: Display SharePoint list from any site in any site.

AJAX Enable Tabs Web part in Sharepoint

First I would like to thank Mehul Bhuva and Bob German for their wonderful article.
We have a requirement of having Tabs for the webpart on a homepage, and I found this wonderful article on how to implement AJAX Enable Tabs WebPart

Controlling Single Web Parts with CSS

I often get questions about how can a particular web part be branded separately from all the rest or be branded by type. For example you want every Contacts list to have a green header bar instead of a tan header bar. Or perhaps you want a column of web parts on a page to look different than the main area that contains other web parts. Thanks to Heather I found the answer...

Add user ratings and rich HTML comments to SharePoint pages

Tony Bierman's Community Content web part and Top Rated Content web part allow user to quickly rate a page's content and easily add rich HTML comments to SharePoint 2007 pages. Using these web parts, your anonymous users can rate the page content's quality and logged-in users can submit their own comments using a rich HTML interface.

Embed Video and Audio files in the SharePoint Environment

This article was written in reference to:
How to add a movie player to MOSS
Video streaming in SharePoint

Customize Search Control in SharePoint

This example shows the basic process of creating and implementing a delegate control candidate to use for the search box that is displayed on site pages. The control specifies alternate text and an alternate image file to use for the search box in Web sites where you activate the control.

Free WebParts

Free SharePoint Web Parts (3rd Party)

SharePoint Web Part for Google Search

One of our client is insisting us to implement Google Search on their Internet based SharePoint Site.
Here I found one link which help to implement Google Search within your SharePoint site.

Data View WebPart example

Although, the Data View Web Part is not part of the Web part galleries via WSS or MOSS, it is nonetheless one of the most important and useful webparts available. Just recently I had a real world business request and the DVWP came in handy.
Pat Iovanella has provided very nice example on that

Employee of The Day Slide Show

Some time very clear and easy requirement pinch us for developing a new webpart as lake of knowledge of all the OOB WebParts or some don't care attitude caused that.
The requirement I came across is showing the employees on the portal's home page.
We found the easy steps to do that.

1. Convert each slide to a .jpg image (can be done very easily using PowerPoint 2007)
2. Create a Picture Library named ‘Meet the Team’
3. Upload the images to the ‘Meet the Team’ library
4. Move to the page where you would like the slide show link created
5. Insert the ‘This Week in Pictures’ web part onto the page
6. Modify the Shared Web Part
7. Change Image Library Name from “This Week in Pictures Library” to “Meet the Team”

Implement MAP using SharePoint List

Option-1
Example of how we can implement MAP using SharePoint Lits
How to build same page?
Some more help on this...
Option-2
Using this web part you can display points and locations on a Google map and get directions to an from that point. You can either manually enter an individual point or select a list from your Sharepoint site that holds the information that is required - ie. a field for the Buidling Name, its Longitude and its Lattitude.

Poadcasting Toolkit for SharePoint

The PKS is an accelerator for social media, using podcasting and social networks to deliver the next-generation knowledge management solution. Built on top of Office SharePoint Server 2007 and using Silverlight 2, the PKS delivers an integrated experience with a wide variety of podcast-capable devices including computers, iPod mobile digital devices, Zune digital media players, and Windows Mobile-based phones. For more information about how PKS can be used in your company, please see the following resources:
Announcing open source Podcasting Kit for SharePoint - the power of social media for the enterprise
Visit GetSharp, 3Sharp’s external implementation of PKS to see a live site in action
Download PKS for free at Codeplex

Organisation Chart or My Site in SharePoint

A good webpart available for free on Codeplex which help you to display your organisation chart.
A very good presentation is also available which help you to understand how MySite works.

User Control in SharePoint

If you want to use UserControls in SharePoint web parts you can use SmartPart
But you can also build a web part that load a UserControl yourself