Windows Sharepoint Service - 1

Why we need a sharpened?
All these time we have traditional ways of sharing information through meetings, docs, assigning task, maintaining contacts, lists, lots of things, version controlling, and many more. Most of the things are available in content management systems. For version controlling we can go for some free tools like CVS and Microsoft Visual Sourcesafe. How to get everything in integrated. How to create sites and share information without programming knowledge. Yes everything is possible if you are ready click Next, Next , ....button (All are wizard). All the above the interfaces is in web. You can administer the site from anywhere in the network.

What is the history behind Sharepoint?
Initially it was started as Sharepoint team services - > STS in 2001
It was based on IIS arch. It was a stateful server. Very difficult to maintain web farm.
Customization was difficult. It was using ISAPI extensions and it was developed in ASP

What are the highlights of sharepoint?
Document sharing
Versioning
Web URL
Administration
Area, Topics
Personal sites
Audiences
SSO (single sign on)
Site search
Integration with biztalk
Indexing...... and many more

Is it licensed?
The basic version is absolutely free and it is just 34MB (Windows Sharepoint services) WSS. About 60% of SPS is made free through this.
and Sharepoint Portal service is a licensed.

What are the requirements?
Windows 2003
IIS 6
.Net 1.1
MSDE / Sql server

Hit a server side page through XMLHTTP...

Wanna hit a server side page without submitting the main page…

function DoCallback(url, params)//GENERAL FUNCTION...

{

var pageUrl = url + "? + params;

var xmlRequest = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");

xmlRequest.open("POST", pageUrl, false);

xmlRequest.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");

xmlRequest.send(null);

return xmlRequest;

}

Usage of the abovesaid function…

var xmlRequest = DoCallback("ClinicalDocument.aspx", "AddFavor=true”);

var resText = xmlRequest.responseText;

this function with hit the server side page… without postback of the main page…

try it out…