Category Archives: Development
SharePoint Retreat SW London–14th May 2011
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
Slide deck from Automated UI Testing at BPC10
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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Tagged Development, Public Speaking, SharePoint, Testing
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Automated UI Testing Tip – Automating deployment to Solutions Gallery
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
SharePoint 2010 ECMAScript – ‘b’ is null or not an object
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
Call for common code – Can we unit test it
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
Setting up SharePoint 2010 CI process with Team City
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
SharePoint Memory Leaks
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
Namespace not updated in SharePoint SPIs
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
Interviewed by Typemock
At the recent SharePoint Conference in Vegas I took a few minutes out to talk to Gil Zilberfeld of Typemock about what 21apps is doing with SharePoint and what I see as the next steps in the community regarding SharePoint … Continue reading
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Tagged SharePoint, Test Driven Development, TypeMock
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TDD Kata – By Example video
Since attending Roy Osherove’s TDD Master Class I have been doing my daily TDD Kata, I will admit I have missed some days but generally I have been keeping up with it and really seeing the benefit. Here I talked … Continue reading
21apps featured in the latest Innovation Games Newsletter! 