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 – you probably are not sure what property to use best to get your logic runing the best way. Everytime I wanted to find out values of properties or see what particular SP object property stores – I`d open my standard Console App and access it directly and try to capture whatever I was after. Well, there is a neat tool on codeplex called SharePoint Manager that allows you to connect to any site collection and drill down through its objects. If you have subwebs – you can drill down deeper until you find whatever you`re after. In some cases you can even change properties right through this tool.
You can get to things like alerts, lists, webs, fields, content types, users properties. Great for debugging and configuration. Download it and explore it … it will take you few minutes but will save hours later.
Cheers!
