This solution contains no resources scoped for a Web application and cannot be deployed to a particular Web application

Good information from Jeremy Jameson on running STSADM commands to load a solution that just puts files into the hive…
http://blogs.msdn.com/jjameson/archive/2007/06/17/issues-deploying-sharepoint-solution-packages.aspx

Slick way to access Web Part Maintenance page.

Ever add a web part to a page that totally hoses the page up and results in a generic “Error on page” page?  If you’re lucky, the bad web part will still allow the page to load and give you a link to the web part maintenance page to remove the web part in question [...]

“An unexpected error has occurred”. Hey SharePoint, how about some more info..

I, like many others I’m sure, am very tired of seeing this generic error on a SharePoint web part page.  Not only is it not helpful, it’s insulting.  Why would I want to know that an unexpected error has occurred but not be able to see anything describing what the problem is?  Anyway, I found [...]

SharePoint Development – The Easy Way (STSDEV)

Being a “newbie” to developing web parts, page templates, etc. for SharePoint… and trying to figure out all the xml files needed to package code for deployment was getting a bit frustrating.  Not to mention, trying to find a “standard” way of doing it for our dev team seemed daunting.  Along comes STSDEV.  STSDEV is a proof-of-concept [...]

Branding a SharePoint 2007 publishing site

There are many blogs out there covering the topic of branding a site using master pages, CSS, and themes.  My task is to brand our corporate extranet site for our business partners.  The nice part is I already have a style guide to follow that was created as part of our customer-facing site.  The not [...]

My SharePoint Links

Below is  a list of links that I have found useful in my working with SharePoint.  This list doesn’t include blogs that I follow on the topic as those are listed in my Blogroll.
General Links
Resources & Tools for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007
SharePoint on MSDN
SharePointPedia – Tons of useful, searchable articles and links
What Not To Store [...]

Registering a web part in SharePoint 2007 –

After struggling with this a couple different times, I’ve decided it’s worth documenting how to do this so I don’t have to go through the pain again.  Basically, once you have your web part compiled (See Mart Muller’s blog entry on how to create a web part) you need to:

Add the web part assembly (the [...]