Spencer has provided an article with some nice steps to setup MCMS 2002 with SP2 with VS.NET 2005 and SQL 2005. Just a small correction: the point that the steps he provided will prevent the VS.NET 2003 problem from happening. The problem only occurs...

Arpan Shah , Product Manager for MCMS and SharePoint has written a nice article on his blog about how to get ready for Office "12": http://blogs.msdn.com/arpans/archive/2005/11/24/496759.aspx He quoted me a couple of times pointing to my blog. For...

[Via Korby Parnell ] If you're an ASP.NET or SharePoint developer, SmartPart for SharePoint is an active project out on Gotdotnet Workspaces that is definitely worth a look. Yesterday, Jan Tielens , one of the workspace owners, released Son of SmartPart...

[Via Lawrence Liu ] Well, the Office “12” Beta 1 Technology Preview Program has officially started , and 10,000 lucky customers and partners are in the process of downloading the bits from our BetaPlace site. Already, the early press coverage has been...

Arpan is currently presenting at IT Forum in Barcelona and has a couple of sessions on MCMS and SPS futures. Here is his first blog entry on this: http://blogs.msdn.com/arpans/archive/2005/11/17/494143.aspx

Currently we have a couple of known issues with MCMS 2002 SP2: DCA complains about missing priviledges when selecting a database when SQL authentication is being used Our current findings show that this issue is caused by the fact that the DCA now...

Breaking changes are changes in either the .NET Framework (runtime breaking changes) or Visual Studio (design/compile/project upgrade) that make certain application and development scenarios behave differently from the version 1.0 and 1.1 .NET Frameworks...

[Via Mark Harrison ] From the Microsoft Anti-Malware Engineering Team blog ... We have analyzed this software ( Sony DRM Rootkit ), and have determined that in order to help protect our customers we will add a detection and removal signature for the...

[Via Angus and Patrick Tisseghem] Last week I mentioned the new book 'Advanced Microsoft Content Management Server Development' from Andrew Connell, Angus Logan, Lim Mei Ying and Stefan Gossner. If you want a taste of it, go here and download chapter...

As Office 12 will leverage Windows Workflow Foundation as Workflow engine it might be interesting to see the differences between Biztalk Server (the other Workflow product shipped by Microsoft) and Windows Workflow Foundation. Brian Loesgen has provided...

Now after MCMS 2002 SP2 has been released I would like to point you again to an article series I have written earlier about MCMS 2002 and ASP.NET 2.0: ASP.NET 2.0 and MCMS - a first look ASP.NET 2.0 and MCMS - The easy way to site navigation...

[Via Andre Kieft ] Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services Step by Step http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=761f1eac-2eb4-428b-86f0-bbc995913771&DisplayLang=en Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services Inside Out Chapters...

[Via MikeKim ] Read the November 2005 IIS Insider column on TechNet, which covers the following topics: Compressing Files Other Than HTML and Plain Text Protecting Static Content Without Using Windows Authentication ...

I just uploaded the pictures I took during my vacation with my girlfriend Michaela last week during our vacation in Cairo (Egypt): http://www.stefan-gossner.de/FotoGallerien/Kairo2005/fullscreen.html (you need to click on the "Bitte hier klicken" button...

[Via Mark Harrison ] The November Community Technology Preview of Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0 is now available to download .

Running a system with MCMS 2002 SP2 is a little bit more tricky than running one with the previous versions. Especially when it comes to VS.NET integration: VS.NET developer tools It is not possible to install the MCMS 2002 developer tools on a...

Together with SP2 three KB articles have been released with information about Service Pack 2: 906142 - How to obtain the latest Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 service pack 906145 - Content Management Server 2002 Service Pack 2 installation...

The message was that MCMS 2002 SP2 will be available "short after the release of VS.NET 2005". And the product team really managed to release SP2 today. Be aware that SP2 can only be installed after installing SP1a. So if your system is currently on SP1...

Advanced Microsoft Content Management Server Development Lim Mei Ying , Stefan Goßner , Andrew Connell , Angus Logan This book has the most in depth-coverage of important MCMS development topics found anywhere. Each author of...