Tag Archives: Development

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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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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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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SharePoint 2010 – Health Analyzer is awesome

Posted on January 10, 2010 by Andrew Woodward

Being mainly focused on development aspects of SharePoint 2010 I haven’t spent as much time as I perhaps should have looking at the new features that have been added to make Administrators lives easier.  Having just upgraded one on my … Continue reading →

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SharePoint 2010 – Have to Extend to have Multiple URLs

Posted on December 31, 2009 by Andrew Woodward

I think this was a best practice in SharePoint 2007, but was one that you could get away with.  You have internal and external URLs that will be used to access the same web application.   Internally for historical or vanity … Continue reading →

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Which Build Servers in SharePoint – The Results

Posted on October 11, 2009 by Andrew Woodward

The numbers are in and I think this small sample really gives a good view as to the way people are approaching their SharePoint development projects. Numbers taken from a one week poll asking people which build servers they used … Continue reading →

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My Dev Rig – The story so far

Posted on July 25, 2009 by Andrew Woodward

Having worked for more years than I can remember as a consultant I have lived on my laptop,  everything I do is on the laptop including all of the development.   My current, and have to say the best one ever … Continue reading →

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