Category Archives: SharePoint

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SharePoint Retreat London (part 1 of 3)

Posted on July 12, 2010 by Andrew Woodward

Part 1 – SharePoint Retreat Part 2 – What a day! Part 3 – Going forward Only a couple of months ago myself (@AndrewWoody) and James (@draken) were talking about ways we could help development practices in the SharePoint community. … Continue reading →

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Error in PortalCrawl Web Service when crawling people in SharePoint 2010

Posted on July 8, 2010 by Andrew Woodward

Today I found a little problem when working with preconfigured server farm.  The farm had all the user profile services working and there were profiles with data – but no users were returned from search. A quick look at the … Continue reading →

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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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SUGUK West Midlands

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Andrew Woodward

It’s been a long time since we last had a SUGUK event in the west midlands.   Steve Eyton-Jones has taken on the responsibility for getting things moving and helping to grow the community here and he’s kicking things off with … Continue reading →

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Introducing SharePoint Retreat

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Andrew Woodward

We are proud to announce the world’s first SharePoint Retreat! The first event is taking place in London on Saturday 10th July. Don’t delay places are filling up fast with a limit of 16 people.   The aim of SharePoint … Continue reading →

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SPEvo Session – Developers Intro to Service Applications

Posted on April 14, 2010 by Andrew Woodward

Did you hate SSPs in SharePoint 2007? Have you heard about the new Services Architecture in SharePoint 2010? Did you attend Andrew Connells session at SPC09 and came away wondering why 1+1 was so complex? Do you want to go … Continue reading →

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SPEvo Session – Unit Testing SharePoint

Posted on April 14, 2010 by Andrew Woodward

If you have been following my blog, twitter feeds and perhaps visited previous sessions I’ve done, then you will know that I am a very big advocate of Unit Testing – and have made it a personal goal to raise … 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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