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Introduction: Enterprise Search is one of the most compelling features of SharePoint Server 2007. The out-of-the-box capabilities can drastically improve end users’ experience in retrieving relevant information. The same capabilities are available for custom SharePoint applications through dedicated APIs. There are three ways to create and run search queries against the SharePoint API, each with specific advantages. A description of each approach follows. Keyword Search Queries Search Web Service List Query API (SPQuery Class) Keyword Search Queries: This is the most straightforward approach. Once you specify in your code what keywords to look for, you can just run that query and start retrieving results. For its simplicity, the keywords-only approach comes with limitations. In particular you will not be able to define comparison constraints in the query. Search Web Service: SharePoint Server 2007 exposes most of its search functionalities as a web service. You can reference this web...

Open SharePoint Designer. On the File menu, click New, point to SharePoint Content, and then click the Page tab. Double-click Master Page to create a new master page. Click Design to show the master page in design view. You should see header and left margin areas and several content placeholders in the master page. Click Code to show the master page in code view. Copy the Code into the Master Page. On the File menu, click Save As, provide a unique file name with the .master extension, and then save the file to the master page gallery (/_catalogs/masterpage) in your site collection. Cheers...

Introduction One of the first tasks that you must complete when configuring a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Web site is to create one or more master pages. A master page contains references to elements that you can share across multiple pages in an Office SharePoint Server 2007 site, such as navigation, search controls, logon controls, and banner images. A master page can also contain the cascading style sheet (CSS) and ECMAScript (JScript, JavaScript) references that define the overall look and feel of your site. Commonly, every site—and therefore every page—in your site collection uses the same master page to present a consistent user experience across the entire site collection. Depending on your needs, you can use a different master page for one or for all of the sites in your site hierarchy to distinguish the various areas of your portal. Master Page Galleries When you provision a site collection in Office SharePoint Server 2007, the system creates a master page gallery ...