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This blog posting about creating custom property editors for Sharepoint 2007 Web Parts was really helpful today: blog link.  The article is a how to, in good detail, on how to inherit the Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.ToolPart class.  Thus allowing a developer to add additional, and much needed, functionality to the web part property pane.  (English language clarification here: pane is a completely different word than pain but in the context of Sharepoint web part property pane it means the same thing.  Until you customize it!).  Sadly, after discovering this technique, someone came over to tell me that they changed their mind on the web part feature and wanted something completely different.  Oh well!  I learned something new today and I have a feeling there will be a need for this in the future.

Last night I was at the Portland, OR install party for Visual Studio 2008.  There wasn't any beer.

All the attendees did get a free t-shirt and a premier copy of Visual Studio 2008!  (While supplies last).  There were presentations from several heavyweight developers that live in the Pacific Northwest.  Scott Hanselman did his talk on ASP.Net MVC stuff.  (Cool if you are into that sort of thing).  Chris Sells heckled him with questions that kept him on his toes.  There were presentations on LINQ, PLINQ, and Silverlight 2.0 (1st Qtr '08).  I think I saw Rory Blyth there too but he was busy heckling Chris...heckling Scott.  They promised XBoxes would run in the back room but the presentations were interesting enough.

There was free food too which was good.  Nice choice for catering the event.  But the one thing I have to say should change is the bad naming convention for Corrilian's crapeteria..."The Byte".  Ug!

Party on PADNUG!!