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Monthly Archives: July 2009
Automatic content provisioning to your SharePoint site
Whether your still testing your future SharePoint site or ready to make a first QA or Prod deployment – you probably need to ship some content and not just empty sites. Even you landing pages pictures will have to be … Continue reading
Posted in MOSS, sharepoint, wss
Tagged content deployment, content provisioning, sharepoint
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SharePoint object model explorer
Decided to share a SharePoint tool with you that have been in my toolbox for a bit and I noticed that haven`t really utilized it to the full extent. As you develop custom apps for Sharepoint: features, webparts, event handlers … Continue reading
Prevent memory leaks in your SharePoint custom solutions
If you developed sharepoint (and not only) custom solutions for a while you already know that disposing SP objects especially large ones like SPWeb and SPSite is a standard practice. Mainly because you don’t want to troubleshooting performance and other … Continue reading
Unit testing your Sharepoint deployment
That`s right, not just custom solutions testing but overall deployment. Unit testing is something that we too often find applicable to individual unit of functionality: a webpart, a feature, an event handler, a web service etc. How do we go … Continue reading
Creating SharePoint site definitions
Let`s start with why do you create site definitions? Can`t you just create a site, save it as a template and then back it up and use the STP every time you need to create new site. Every time you … Continue reading
Posted in MOSS, sharepoint, wss
Tagged sharepoint site definitions, sharepoint templates
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Good read on SharePoint (Architecture, Dev, IT)
Quite often I`m asked about good read on SharePoint; developer, infrastructure, architecture and design books. There are quite few good titles out there and hopefully this will help you whether you`re getting into SharePoint or looking to upgrade your knowledge. … Continue reading
Posted in MOSS, Product Review, sharepoint, wss
Tagged architect books, developer books, infrastructure books, sharepoint books
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Use Alert Framework when sending notifications in your SharePoint custom app
Here is the scenario (applicable to both WSS and MOSS): I have created an application that sends out an alert once user fills out a form (made as a custom webpart). My webpart has few properties that allow admin to … Continue reading
Posted in MOSS, sharepoint, wss
Tagged custom application, sharepoint alerts, sharepoint notifications, webpart
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Presenting at TechDays 2009 in Vancouver this September
All-right, I`m excited to share with you all that I will be presenting at TechDays 2009 in Vancouver Sep 14-15. There is some amazing content to be presented by various local and out of town speakers. Most of the topics … Continue reading
DropDownList in SharePoint WebPart properties
It has been a while since I developed WebParts for SharePoint but in some cases it’s the best solution for the situation. Of course if you’re building a webpart you want to make it configurable using public properties so that … Continue reading
Rendering HTML and Text is your SharePoint webpart/layout page
Here is the scenario: you need to output an HTML or simply text right into your application that executes in ASPX page or a Webpart. In my case I created a webpart that took content of “reusable content” list and … Continue reading
Posted in MOSS, sharepoint, wss
Tagged layout page, rendering html, sharepoint, webpart
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