The SharePoint 2007 Test Data Population Tool(SPTDataPop) is available as a command-line executable utility which generates test data in a jiffy. This tool might be useful for performance and load testing for your project.
Microsoft is now offering its Office SharePoint Designer 2007 for free. As of today it selling for $200+ on on Amazon.
Here is the download link on Microsoft for SharePoint Designer 2007.
You might end up with this requirement quite often to set your custom page as a welcome page for site/subsite instead of default.aspx provided by SharePoint.
Its quite a tedious job to set up default pages manually when you have more than 10 site/subsites. Its pretty easy to do it programmatically. Here is how:
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At times we want to delete all the items from a SharePoint List. Here are some excellent solutions to delete all the SharePoint list items efficiently.
Below is the PurgeList method from Keith Richie which does an excellent job of Purging items in a list. Here is a CodePlex tool and one more solution to [...]
Content type does not contain a column, or field. It only contains a reference to a site column or field. Therefore you should create a site column before you can add it to the content type definition.
The SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard from Chris Obrien is a excellent tool for SharePoint 2007 content deployment.
There are situations when we want to create empty site collection, like when your content deployment job is failing due to conflicting content. In these cases STSADM.EXE comes handy.
STSADM.EXE is the only means to create a completely empty site collection.
Here are some really useful SharePoint tools available at CodePlex. I have tried some of these tools while others in the list seems to be popular and worth checking.
CodePlex is Microsoft’s open source project hosting web site.