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Tech Blog is the voice of our development department. Its fairly technical content for technical people. In the development of our products we accumulate quite a bit of knowledge on related technologies and on advanced usage scenarios of our products. All which are shared in this section of our web site.

Editing XSLT templates for Ontolica

Editing XSLT templates for Ontolica

Ontolica uses XSLT templates for appearance customization of its web parts. Hence, it is possible to change the way search dialogs and results are displayed. Creating and editing XSLT templates is easier when using a specialized XML editor.

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Creating a custom list field – Part 2

In this blog I will extend the example from the previous blog, so that the FieldControl will show a nice list instead of the xml string.

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Creating a custom field in SharePoint

In this post I will show how to create a new list field for storing data in a SharePoint list. There are a number of reasons to use custom fields, which includes storing custom objects in a type safe way and storing long lists where performance is essential.

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Creating Custom Reports for Ontolica Search Intelligence

Creating Custom Reports for Ontolica Search Intelligence

One of the major features of Ontolica Search Intelligence (OSI) is its support for creating customized reports. Creating reports for OSI is as simple as creating any other SQL Server reports. OSI exposes various data fields which you can access to create and customize reports that suit your requirements. This article will demonstrate how easy it is to create a custom report using OSI data fields.

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Timers in MOSS 2007 Part 2 - Using a custom timer job

This article builds on the example used in the previous article. "Timers in MOSS 2007 Part 1 - Creating a customer timer job"

There are many ways to add a custom timer job. Both programmatically and using stsadm.exe. I however prefer to use a farm feature and the feature receiver.

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Timers in MOSS 2007 Part 1– Creating a custom timer job

 This article deals with how to create a Custom Timer Job in Sharepoint to perform various tasks. This is part one of two. The second part deals with how such a job can be used.

Once in a while, SharePoint programmers need to make SharePoint perform some recurrent asynchronously task throughout the farm. This could be a simple cleaning of old items in a list or performing complex logic to alert certain users based on certain site content.

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IIS Log file formats overview

This article discusses the different log file formats (W3c Extended Log file format, IIS Log file format, NCSA Common Log file format and ODBC Logging) the Log file format and file naming syntax.

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