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Dundas has a new release for the Dundas Charts for 2007. Check out their website:

"Dundas Chart for SharePoint is a must-have for those looking to add advanced charting functionality to SharePoint 2007 projects.  Based on Dundas Chart for ASP.NET v5.5 technology and optimized for SharePoint, the product provides wide-ranging features and is backed up by Dundas' outstanding technical support.  Dundas Chart for SharePoint is also offered in two editions: MOSS 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services.

Regardless of whether you are implementing charting for internal projects or building data visualization applications for clients, Dundas Chart for SharePoint lets you create superior visualizations from your data without having to use Visual Studio!"

Via Tom Short :

"To help with all the MOSS Architecture diagrams I do, I have put together this fancy  Visio stencil for MOSS architecture diagrams. The Visio stencil includes the following shapes.

 Thanks to Colin B for his Graphics handy work and Matt Groves for making the files available online."

UPDATE: I added the download here: MOSS Servers.zip (823.85 KB)

Via Lars Fastrup, I ran into the SharePoint Solution Installer for SharePoint 2007.

The SharePoint Solution Installer includes the following features:

• Support for all relevant operations:
  • Add solution to the SharePoint solution store.
  • Deploy solution to one or more web applications.
  • Upgrade solution.
  • Retract and remove solution.
• Pre-install system check for the following conditions:
  • WSS V3 is installed.
  • MOSS 2007 is installed (This check can be disabled in config file),
  • User has permission to install solutions.
  • SharePoint database is online.
  • WSS Administration service is started.
  • WSS Timer service is started.
• Implements a work around for the following error conditions:
  • Another solution deployment job never finished and is now blocking for the creation of a new job. Work-around: Delete old job from the list of Timer job defnitions.
  • Timer service is not started: An attempt is made to start it (please note that timer services on other front ends will not be started).
  • Database is offline, which will yield an ugly NullreferenceException from SharePoint offering little clue to the root cause of the problem. Work around: Detect NullreferenceException and display nice error message.
• Display EULA. (Can be disabled in config file). 
• Web application list where user can select the web apps. to deploy the solution to.
• Rollback after installation errors.
• Configurable Product Title.
• Configurable banner image.
• Configurable logo image.

It's been a while since my last post. I promised my wife not to use the internet during our two week vacation to Fuerteventura and last week I've been really busy.

About the vacation, we've been resting a lot after a year of hard work. Rented a car (and camel) and drove all the roads on the island, which was great. Some impressions:

About last week, after DIWUG on Thursday, I did a presentation for SDE on Friday about ECM in MOSS 2007: Site Columns and Content Types (and custom field types). The presentation went ok, and you can download the presentation and features/code.

Thursday the 22nd of March, the next Dutch Information Worker User Group (DIWUG) event will take place in Vianen. This time enterprise search will have focus and it has all the ingredients for an interesting evening. Sign up here.

Check out more details on the website.