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Already since a long time I’ve been thinking about a web part that would search-as-you-type using SharePoint’s search engine. The idea behind this concept is that while you’re typing a query in the search box, asynchronously the query is already executed and the results are being displayed. Every time the query is changed, the results will be updated dynamically. This will allow users to see the results without going to the Search Results page, and even more: they don’t have to go back to alter their query. In such a scenario you want to avoid full page postbacks of course, so…

Later on this week, on Friday May 29th, I will be presenting two sessions at the Developer Days in The Hague (The Netherlands). I'm pretty excited to be there, not only because it's always lots of fun to speak at this event; but there's lots of cool SharePoint 2007 stuff (IMHO) packed in my presentations:Getting Started with .NET 3.5 in SharePoint (more info)Abstract: Since the introduction of SharePoint 2007 lots has changed in the .NET world: version 3.0 and 3.5 of the .NET Framework have been released, which include technologies such as WCF, Silverlight and Linq. This session will focus on…

When working with the out-of-the-box SharePoint web services, it may have happened to you that the Web Service response contained the following exception embedded in the XML:Exception of type 'Microsoft.SharePoint.SoapServer.SoapServerException' was thrown.The security validation for this page is invalid. Click Back in your Web browser, refresh the page, and try your operation again.Error code: 0x8102006dUndoubtedly this exception is quite strange in the context of a web service call; there is no Back button you can click. But in my cases the exception was just plain wrong, the issue had…

If you have read some of the previous posts on this blog related to using jQuery in SharePoint 2007 sites, you probably know that it’s perfectly possible to make call the out-of-the-box SharePoint web services by making use of Javascript running in the client’s browser. This opens up a huge stream of possibilities from which I already covered some of them on my blog. A very important piece of information you need if you want to make a call to a web service is of course the URL of the web service. Figuring out this URL seems to be more trivial than it actually is. My first idea was to use…

In my previous post I explained how you can make use of the Lists.asmx web service of SharePoint, to load list items by using the jQuery Javascript library. The example discussed in that post is simple and easy to understand, but very, very boring. Let’s try to do something useful with that technique: display fancy, unobtrusive notifications for open tasks, when a user visits a SharePoint site. The screenshot below shows the result, but it’s static. In real life the user would see the yellow boxes popping up, and after a couple of seconds they would disappear again (they don’t block the…