Tag Archives: Development

SPDisposeCheck – the tool every SharePoint developer needs

At long last Microsoft have announced publically the excellent SPDisposeCheck tool.   This tool will examine your IL level components and report any possible areas where you may have the potential for a leak due to objects not being disposed of … Continue reading

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Why SDLC is always needed in SharePoint projects

Adam Buenz is a scarily clever guy;  if your into improving your development approach and work with SharePoint you have to spare a few minutes to read and digest this. Quote: The point I am trying to drive home is … Continue reading

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Search Server 2008: Federate sites that do not support OpenSearch

This is the first of two posts covering how you can provide Federated Search to web sites that do not support the OpenSearch requirements of Search Server 2008. Part 1. How to federate to a site that does not support … Continue reading

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InfoPath Forms in a Web Part – now on SoapBox

I posted recently on how Soapbox was reporting my uploaded videos as “Copyright Violation”.   Well someone was listening or they have improved things as it’s now available for all to enjoy,  if you didn’t watch the YouTube one that is … Continue reading

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InfoPath forms in a WebPart

This demo shows how to enable the InfoPath Form Viewer WebPart and configure it to show your InfoPath forms. This is the second part of my presentation at the SharePoint User Group UK meeting in Telford. The presentation covers Adding InfoPath … Continue reading

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In WSS V3 Lookup fields are made easier to code against.

Many of you WSS V2 developers will have come across the “1#;Some text” value that lookup fields return. Some of you will have added code to you own utility classes to parse them to give the ID and Field values. … Continue reading

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Spoilt today with two SharePoint developer tips!

It is always good to read little tips and tricks that help make things easier. Today I read two Configuring IntelliSense with CAML Files When Developing for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 – by Ted Pattison on MSDN, IntelliSense is so … Continue reading

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"Test Driven" SharePoint Development

Spender Harber posted a recent article “Test Driven” SharePoint Development …a first stab at providing some guidance for those looking to implement SDL approaches to SharePoint, and a call to action for the developer community to adopt “Test Driven” SharePoint … Continue reading

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SharePoint Nested Tasks!

I am really excited to be working with some recent but very deserving Microsoft MVPs in the form of Ishai Sagi and Liam Cleary on the SharePoint Nested Tasks project. Ishai has confirmed that Lawrence Liu has asked that the … Continue reading

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Working through Agile Web Development with Rails – Part 4

..continued from part 3 Section 9 Playtime – Page 139 The last task is to add a link to each item and remove it from the cart. It is suggested that you do this in a non-Ajax way first and … Continue reading

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