Resource Page DescriptionThis project was created from a session presented by Andrew Connell (www.andrewconnell.com/blog) and Todd Baginski (www.toddbaginski.com/blog), both SharePoint MVPs, at TechEd North America 2009. The session, OFC405, proposed an alternative to the Office SharePoint Server 2007 Content Query Web Part (CQWP) available within Publishing sites. The CQWP is very powerful and flexible, but can not aggregate content outside the current site collection.
The TBAC Content Monster Web Part (CMWP) for SharePoint aims to not just address this challenge but also to extend it and provide more flexibility. Specifically, the Content Monster Web Part allows users to select a deployed Content Monster provider and display the results.
* TBAC stands for Todd Baginski Andrew Connell
Looking to get started building providers?Creating a provider is fairly straightforward. To get started, download two of the releases for this project:
Content Monster Web Part which is the Web Part that also contains the interface you'll need to implement as well as the registration Feature receiver; the other thing to download is the
Content Monster Sample Provider. This sample should show you the ropes of how to create a custom provider for use by the Content Monster Web Part.
Project Status & PlansThe current downloads available were those that were presented at TechEd 2009 by AC and TB. We consider these early CTP releases and plan to add a considerable amount of functionality before a true beta release. Features we plan to add include:
- robust caching
- support for custom Web Part Editor Parts
- better error and exception handling
- code refactoring and optimization and