The other day I had a problem in a SharePoint application. I have created a couple of web part pages but in these pages the Quick Launch menu on the left side disappeared. After some searching I found a blog post describing how to get it back. The reason is that the page templates have empty content placeholder included.
Empty placeholders that you may want to remove are:
• PlaceHolderLeftActions
• PlaceHolderPageDescription
• PlaceHolderBodyRightMargin
• PlaceHolderPageImage
• PlaceHolderLeftNavBar
• PlaceHolderNavSpacer

However, the post describes how to open the page in SharePoint Designer and remove the placeholders. I would rather not do that since that will change the templates for all Web Applications on that server. Instead I chose to create new custom page templates withoug those specific placeholders.

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Friday was the second day of the SharePoint Advanced Development seminar with Shannon Bray.
We went deep-diving into feature development, the Business Data Catalog, Enterprise Search and WCF Web Services. Just as in my previous post this is me cleaning up my notes and also a way to know where I have them. I hope you'll find use for it, even if there are no code samples it may give you some good pointers on where to start.

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Today and tomorrow I'm spending my time in AddSkills seminar SharePoint Advanced Development with Shannon Bray. Shannon is a well-known SharePoint expert and Microsoft's SharePoint MCT. The seminar is focused on real-world problems. We also got the book "Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0" by Ted Pattison and Daniel Larson which is supposed to be one of the best books on SharePoint development.

This blog post is my way of cleaning up my notes and a place to keep them to look back at when I need to.
I don't have any demonstration code in this post, that will have to wait until future posts when I try some of these things out.

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