Dor Rotman’s Blog

(Via Meron Fridman’s Blog)

This Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services contains the following tools to aid developers in building SharePoint applications:

Visual Studio 2005 Project Templates

• Web Part
• Team Site Definition
• Blank Site Definition
• List Definition

Visual Studio 2005 Item Templates (items that can be added into an existing project)

• Web Part
• Custom Field
• List Definition (with optional Event Receiver)
• Content Type (with optional Event Receiver)
• Module

SharePoint Solution Generator

• This stand-alone program generates a Site Definition project from an existing SharePoint site. The program enables developers to use the browser and Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer to customize the content of their sites before creating code by using Visual Studio.

Download.

The default functionality of search in MOSS 2007 has changed:
From now on, all keywords in FREETEXT searches are linked with an “AND” operator between them. You will only receive results that contain all the words from the query. (The current product documentation is not up to date about this issue.)

This means that:

• Searching for windows server will probably return results
• Searching for windows server nonexistantword will return no results (unless you actually have a document with all of these words :)).

However, it is possible to perform an “OR” search programmatically, so that any item containing one or more of the keywords will be displayed. (Of course that items with more keywords will receive higher ranks accordingly.)

• When using the Object Model: Set the KeywordInclusion property to All Keywords:

  query.KeywordInclusion = KeywordInclusion.AnyKeyword;

• When using the Web Service: Insert the ImplicitAndBehavior element under the Query element and set its value to false:
  

  <ImplicitAndBehavior>false</ImplicitAndBehavior>

Hope this information was useful to you,
Dor.