Category Archives: Development

Dilbert requirements

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Andrew Woodward

Twitter surfaces some great content and this Dilbert cartoon looking at the way requirements are formed… © Douglas Adams – http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1994-09-22/ I like to thinks that we have a much better approach to requirements gathering at 21apps with out Requirements … Continue reading →

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Software Architecture for “SharePoint” Developers

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Andrew Woodward

At 21apps we are always looking to inspire people to change the way they work. By using and promoting techniques within the SharePoint Community from agile development, TDD, Gamestorming to new views on governance. We hope that we are doing … Continue reading →

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SharePoint Retreat SW London–14th May 2011

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Andrew Woodward

There have been a few really good SharePoint Retreats, the idea behind them is to get people actually coding during the day rather than watching others present.  The reason this that you only really learn by doing and as has … Continue reading →

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Slide deck from Automated UI Testing at BPC10

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Andrew Woodward

Slide deck from my Automated UI Testing of SharePoint 2010 with Visual Studio 2010 presented at the Best Practices Conferences in Washington DC in August 2010.  

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Automated UI Testing Tip – Automating deployment to Solutions Gallery

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Andrew Woodward

As part of the 21SCRUM development project I implemented build verification testing using Visual Studio 2010.  21SCRUM has a great suit of unit tests for the core logic,  it has some integration tests (although I would like more) but I found a lot … Continue reading →

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SharePoint 2010 ECMAScript – ‘b’ is null or not an object

Posted on May 24, 2010 by Andrew Woodward

I had to post this quick article as its one of those can’t see the wood for the trees. I had been trying to do a simple call back to the server to display some information about a list item. getStory: … Continue reading →

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Call for common code – Can we unit test it

Posted on March 15, 2010 by Andrew Woodward

One of the challenges with unit testing SharePoint projects is the need to fake the calls into SharePoint.  If you are a regular reader of my blog you will have seen examples of how I have been doing this using … Continue reading →

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Setting up SharePoint 2010 CI process with Team City

Posted on February 22, 2010 by Andrew Woodward

In this article and screen cast we will discuss the idea behind the CI process and focus on the technical tricks that we need to make in order to get this working for a SharePoint 2010 project using Team City … Continue reading →

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SharePoint Memory Leaks

Posted on February 8, 2010 by Andrew Woodward

Normally I refrain for doing simple reposts of other people blogs,  however having read the post SharePoint’s Sasquatch Memory Leak by Todd Carter I just had to help get the information out to as many people as possible. We are … Continue reading →

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Namespace not updated in SharePoint SPIs

Posted on January 30, 2010 by Andrew Woodward

Firstly what is a SharePoint SPI? No it’s not another new version, it’s a generic term that is used to describe a SharePoint Project Item within the context of a Visual Studio project. Visual Studio 2010 has introduced a lot … Continue reading →

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