Announcing the WSRP Toolkit for SharePoint and Two Screen Casts Demos

On December 15th, the SharePoint Team at Microsoft announced the release of the Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) Toolkit for Office SharePoint Server 2007. The WSRP Toolkit for SharePoint provides sample code for producing WSRP conformant data from SharePoint lists and libraries. External portal platforms (e.g. BEA AquaLogic Portal, IBM WebSphere Portal, SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal etc.) can then render SharePoint data natively through their WSRP consumer portlets. The Toolkit is available now for download from the MSDN Code Gallery.

The WSRP Toolkit for SharePoint consists of the following assets:

1. Visual Studio sample projects that demonstrate two different approaches to producing WSRP conformant output from SharePoint lists and libraries
2. A whitepaper that provides details on the different architectural approaches of the two WSRP producer samples
3. Screen casts showing the two WSRP producer samples in action

The Toolkit demonstrates possible methods of exposing SharePoint data through the WSRP interface. The announcement also includes two screen casts to show the configuration of the two WSRP samples.

Document management with Sharepoint

Daan De Brouckere posted a great article on how to use SharePoint as a document management system. He discussed the basics of

• Document management
• Version control
• Metadata
• Security
• Workflow
  

A very useful article to get you started in that direction. You can read the article here.