Mid West MTUG SQL Server 2008 R2

Bob Duffy is coming down to give us a talk about SQL Server 2008 R2 - i.e what it is and then focusing on some of the new business intelligence features. Should be a great talk. In Shannon on Wednesday 2nd December. See the MTUG.IE web site for further details and enrollment.

MOSS Navigation

A requirement of part of a recent customer project was to programmatically remove items from the MOSS Top links in a publishing site.

The code below was quickly developed in a console application to achieve setting a number of pages to be hidden. The names of the pages were read from a simple text file into the string array named “hiddenPages”.

This did the job however it would be better to write such code as a set of reusable STSADM extensions.

Fortunately there is a great blog/ site http://stsadm.blogspot.com/ which has already done this

Details here http://stsadm.blogspot.com/2007/08/site-navigation-settings.html

Mid West MTUG

Martha Rotter from Microsoft gave a great presentation tonight about Sketchflow and silverlight.
Starting with a quick demo of some silverlight sites then moving onto how to create a prototype using SketchFlow followed by some deep zoom demos and a quick look at super preview.
Great technologies and a great speaker.