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Shane Perran posted 10 very very nice SharePoint Designer 2007 Screenshots!! I love that toolbox.

Few days ago, in my company developed a new control to replace the navigation control that appears in the left in SPS. You know, the "CategoryNavigationWebPart" control. Our control looks much better, and has a nice feature: sub-levels. If an area has a child, it´s visible in the control. If the area has a child but the user doesn´t have permission, it´s invisible to him and of course can´t access the area.
We tested and developed the control in our test portal, *but*, when we deployed it into the production server everything worked fine, except the security feature: The area was still visible in the control even if the user doesn´t have access permissions. In fact, if the user click the item menu of this area, the "you don´t haver access permission blah blah" message was displayed. That feature was the main reason of our control.
At first we thought it was a bug, but we checked everything was OK, then we realize that production portal was a SP1 level but our development portal is SP2!.
I wasn´t sure if the SP2 install will fix the error, so I searched for the changes in SP2 and there is nothing about security. Even if there is nothing about area security en SP2, that was the only difference with our dev portal, so we installed SP2 and guess what? That solved the problem. I still don´t know what is the exact difference between SP1 and SP2 about area security, but if you have a similar problem, please check the portal service pack level.

Today was the end of my humble vacations, and back to work.
As I told some weeks ago, I was looking for some time to try ReGhost.NET because in our development portal, many many pages were unghosted.
The installation is quite simple, just install in your Sharepoint portal and you´re done. Next, is time to run the application. First is required a SQL Server instance running to select then what "_SITE" database you are going to look for unghosted pages. After that, you will see a listing with all the unghosted pages, and who you should "blame" for that.
In our case, the portal has the company "branding", so we use an area template to have the same look & fell across the different areas. Because that, the same page (the default.aspx from the template) was listed many times and, at least for me, at the beginning looks confusing. Sadly, there is no way to know to "which area" correspond the unghosted page. So, if for any reason you want to keep an unghosted page, you're out of luck unless you know who to "blame". An area in the portal was created and unghosted by my boss doing some tests, because that, I knew to which area correspond the unghosted page.
Well, ReGhost.NET works great, there is no doubt about that. Just try it, tell me if you want your experiencies.
Maybe needs improvement:
- UI.
- Know to which area corresponds the unghosted page (I don´t know if that is possible).
- Some better docs.
Kudos to Matthew Cosier.

I told myself: "You are not going to blog on your vacations". Well, i´m still on vacations, but this blog post worth a look. It describes Sharepoint (specially WSS) more focused in development than document management. And of course, with support for WWF .
Great news.

Korby Parnell blogs about some Sharepoint goodies on Gotdotnet. Interesting stuff, specially ReGhost.NET. I'm sure i'll trying it soon in our development portal (you know, that little portal where you do all kind of nasty things ;)). [Via Mike]