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This project contains reference documents regarding SharePoint 2007 topics that I wrote because I couldn't find them in other places.

The ZoneTabs web part provides a group of tabs that control other web parts in a zone, so users can view them in groups rather than scrolling. As a code sample, ZoneTabs illustrates: - Creating a ListView server control - Creating a web part as a composite control - Using cascading style sheets and images to render tabs - Creating an editor part to provide custom configuration options - Using the ASP.NET 2.0 API to manage and control web parts at runtime

This sample is based off my MSDN article on creating custom SharePoint timer jobs (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc406686.aspx). The following is an excerpt from that article: The purpose of the custom timer job is to act as a replacement for the Windows SharePoint Services warmup scripts. Because Windows SharePoint Services is an ASP.NET 2.0 application, pages are compiled from the generic MSIL to native code upon first use. This is known as just-in-time (JIT) compilation. If not performed beforehand, it can cause pages to load slower the first time they are requested. For the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 beta release, Microsoft provided a script, known as the warmup script, that issues HTTP requests to a list of Windows SharePoint Services URLs to force the JIT compilation. Although it is not widely used in a production environment, the warmup script removes the initial load time of a requested page. This is useful for Windows SharePoint Services demonstrations and development. The timer job that is demonstrated in this article serves to replace the warmup script. Releases: >> v1.0 - this is the exact code & compiled timer job from the MSDN article

SharePoint Quick Surveys is a web part and associated graphics handlers that allows users to quickly fill in a survey from a site page and see attractive graphical results in place. The idea of course is to push important survey questions to the user’s home page- perhaps in the right hand bar- rather than making them go to the survey list page to submit a response. The control can be hosted on any web part page and can accept responses for any survey within the same site. The first time the user sees the web part they will be prompted to fill in their responses to the survey. Once they have done this the display will change to show the results in a series of graphics. All questions in the survey will be displayed, so it is probably a good idea to keep the survey short if you want to place it on the home page of your site.

A Visual Studio 2008 project to demonstrate how to deploy SharePoint Application pages, including breadcrumb navigation. Components of the Project: - Custom Application Page (demopage.aspx) - Custom SiteMap (layouts.sitemap.demoapppages.xml) - Feature, scoped to the web application level, that adds a link to the custom application page in the Site Settings page - Feature event handler to trigger the merging of all the sitemap files