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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Conferences

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

SharePoint Australian Records Management

March 24, 2008

I was doing some research into InfoPath Forms Server and came across references to UniqueWorld's InfoView and SharePoint Forms product. Following the link took me to a message stating: Unique World Software (UWS) is changing our focus and will shortly be release exciting news about the work we’ve been doing bringing a VERS compliant ‘add-on’ to the Records Management capabilities of Microsoft more...

 

Programmatically deploying an InfoPath Form Library

March 24, 2008

I was finding it hard to find a specific answer on how to write a Solution Package with a Feature that would create a InfoPath Form Library with the associated template working when you click the New button. This approach allows for the most "hands-off" governed approach. Having to publish the form manually from the InfoPath client seemed overkill and error prone. In taking this approa more...

 

STSADM Import: FatalError: Could not find WebTemplate

March 24, 2008

Being new to the environment I'm currently in, I wanted to move some of the Sites into a development VM. I used stsadm -o export to backup the files and then wanted to run stsadm -o import to restore them into my VM environment. I came across this error: [3/12/2008 7:25:11 AM]: Start Time: 3/12/2008 7:25:11 AM.[3/12/2008 7:25:11 AM]: Progress: Initializing Import.[3/12/2008 7:25:12 AM]: FatalErr more...

 

SharePoint stsadm -o import FatalError resolution

March 10, 2008

I was trying to import a Site Collection from one environment to another. I fired of the import command from a backup file created from stsadm -o export command. Then I created a new web application and a new  Blank Site Collection. I then ran the stsadm -o import command but received this error: "FatalError: The specified user [username] could not be found" There wasn't much on this, r more...

 

SharePoint Debugging: No symbols loaded

March 10, 2008

I've been reading a lot of posts on how to get debugging going when attaching to the w3wp.exe process. Disable 'Enable Just My Code' in Visual StudioThis blog post started me off in the correct direction by setting the Tools | Options | Debugging setting correctly. Modify the web.config Furthermore, it prompted me to change the web.config value from debug="false" to debug="true&q more...