SPUserPoll – SharePoint poll web part version 0.2 with charts released

January 17, 2009   19:59

Today I released version 0.2 of SPUserPoll at CodePlex which includes the brand new .NET 3.5 Chart control.

This poll web part for SharePoint gives you the ability to present the poll results with a colorful bar, column, pie or doughnut chart.

Enjoy the new version and feel free to provide me with wishes, comments, ideas and tips to improve SPUserPoll.

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Connect the RSS web part with a SharePoint list or other advanced feed

January 14, 2009   19:26

I wrote this blog to give a possible workaround for RSS Web Part problems with certain feeds.

Did you ever try to connect a list feed to a SharePoint RSS feed web part? Well, I did, and it doesn’t work. The web part returned me a redirect error on public Internet sites and an authentication problem on secure Intranet sites.

The RSS web part is not able to handle secure RSS connections. After some debugging the problem of the redirect error was found in the fact, that certain RSS feeds are trying to return a cookie, which a web part normally does not accept. Because the cookie is not set, the RSS generator keeps redirecting the download request.

The cookie and authentication problems do not only apply to the SharePoint list feed, but also to a lot of other feeds on the internet.

The work around

To get correct RSS feeds in the standard SharePoint RSS feed web part, I’ve chosen to develop a small “proxy” handler to access the feed in Visual Studio.
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