Johnny's RIA Corner

Social SharePoint project on Codeplex updated! by johnnyt

My Codeplex project, Social SharePoint, just got updated with the Silverlight Twitter Trends web part. Go check it out at http://socialsharepoint.codeplex.com/ .

Working with SharePoint 2010 User Activity NewsFeed by johnnyt

I was recently tasked with creating an application that once used will add an entree to the user's activity feed. The activity feed is a fun and social feature (one of many) of SharePoint 2010, and its purpose is to present a feed of actions that the user or his colleagues performed on the site. You can see how the activity feed looks on the following screen shot, taken from my local SharePoint development environment : Now hopefully that got you excited enough to read on ;) We are going to build...

SharePoint Social Networking project on CodePlex by johnnyt

Last week i presented a session on the Israeli SharePoint user group about the ribbon control in SharePoint 2010. One of the things i showed in that session was a ribbon tab built for sharing and bookmarking links from the organizational intranet with other users using many providers such as Twitter, Facebook, Google, Reddit and others. The tab generated a lot of excitement in the audience so i decided to make it an open source project on CodePlex and in time add other social networking projects...