Welcome to my blog on all things SharePoint and .NET. I have a range of articles that will interest you if you've made it as far as visiting my blog. I currently live in Perth, Western Australia and am a Independent Sharepoint Consultant. I founded the SharePointDevWiki.com and help facilitate the Perth SharePoint User Group.

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Solution Development in SharePoint 2007

This series was inspired by the chatter amongst SharePoint blogs on the best ways to approach customisations in SharePoint using Solutions.

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8

Leveraging the SharePoint Platform

This series was inspired by a discussion had with Andrew Coates at a Perth SharePoint User Group meeting. This then turned into a 6 part series on Arno Nell's SharePointMagazine.net web site.

Initial post - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6

Webcasts

I have recorded various web casts that I present at User Groups or just on a specific topic by request:
How ASP.NET Developers can leverage SharePoint webcast
SPSource Webcast: Reverse engineer Lists to ListTemplates and much more
SharePoint Development with Unit Testing webcast
Perth SharePoint UG Web Cast on approaches to deploying artefacts (SPSource)
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Podcasts

I have been interviewed about Leveraging the SharePoint Platform by the SharePoint Pod Show: listen here .

Latest Posts

Working with SharePoint 2007 logs

February 27, 2008

The SharePoint 2007 logs are by default found in the 12 Hive: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\LOGS\ I found this article here on throttling MOSS logs to pick and chose what you want. The interface in the Central Administration is not the best in terms of drop downs...would have been a lot easier if it was just all check boxes and power options to select all more...

 

SharePoint 2007 ContentTypeID's

February 27, 2008

Had some "great fun" with SharePoint over the last few days, basically when I copied some code on creating a Content Type to test in my environment. I noticed that the Content Type wasn't available on a Form Library and looked at the Parent Content Type in the user interface and noticed it was Item and someone told me it needed to be Form. I couldn't see a property to set what the Paren more...

 

Content Query Webpart fun!

February 21, 2008

I've been poking around an existing web part and have been having real troubles in pulling fields from a SharePoint List. I found this article extremely useful and basically found that this XSLT snippet saved me hours of debbugging:<xsl:for-each select="@*"> P:<xsl:value-of select="name()" /> </xsl:for-each> This basically outputs all the fields being par more...

 

Solution stuck on 'Deploying' status

February 19, 2008

Have spent some time looking around trying to work out how to change a Solution that is in 'Deploying' status to anything else. You can only Retract a solution when it is deployed. I found an article here which mentions the stsadm command 'canceldeployment' where you have to pass in a timer job guid. Anyway, another post showed me how to find this guid with the stsadm command 'execadmsvcjobs'. Al more...

 

Access Denied to Master Pages and everyone using Site Administrator Account!

February 19, 2008

We have a fairly big team of developers working on a MOSS 2007 implementation. I'm always dubious of everyone using the Site Administrator account in any environment, be it Dev, Test or Prod, to make changes to Master Pages. If something goes wrong, we can't go and ask the person that made the change as multiple people would use the account. I found a thread online which walks you through givi more...

 

The project type is not supported by this installation

February 19, 2008

I've just come on board at a new mining organisation in Perth, WA called CITIC Pacific Mining as the Senior SharePoint Consultant. As with all new client sites, when you rock up it's interesting to see how different everything is. Especially as this project started over 18 months ago when MOSS 2007 was extremely new and documentation and the community was no where near its saturation now. I ca more...