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.

Whitepapers

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)
More...


Podcasts

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

Latest Posts

Approved Page Layouts not showing in PublishingWeb

June 11, 2008

Had a "great" morning this morning involving releasing to our SharePoint 2007 Production environment which has been in place for nearly 18 months now - 6 server farm. Our UAT environment was built by myself last month which "matches" Production as closely as possible in terms servers etc. but it's been hard because the documentation of how Production built is incomplete. So more...

 

Solution Development for SharePoint 2007 Part 8

June 9, 2008

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8 OK, so there's plenty of hype at the moment for ASP.NET developers to "leverage the platform"...being SharePoint and a really flash (I mean silverlight) interface for them to click around on with the title "Do Less. Get More. Develop on SharePoint". This made me cringe after the last couple of weeks I've more...

 

Solution Development for SharePoint 2007 Part 7

June 7, 2008

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8 "Event Receivers and Page Creation" In the last week or so I've been doing a lot of work with creating pages with content on it automatically based on event receivers firing when items are created on Lists. To follow on with the TV show Schedule scenario when a new schedule is created, I want to create a page in t more...

 

Solution Development for SharePoint 2007 Part 6

June 7, 2008

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8 So far I've shown you guys how to deploy web parts and add them to pages with all of the related files. What I haven't shown you is how to deploy these things in a UAT or Production environment where STSDEV in Visual Studio won't be available. So how should it be done? Well there are a few approaches, but by far the newest more...

 

Solution Development in SharePoint 2007 Part 5

June 7, 2008

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8 So the next part in my series will basically show you how to deploy a Content By Query Web Part (CQWP) and also it's associated elements. The screenshot below shows the structure of my project file now. The Solution package can be downloaded here.   Deploying the Content By Query Web Part As I mentioned in my previous more...

 

Solution Development in SharePoint 2007 Part 4

June 6, 2008

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8 Adding extra assemblies to your Solution Just had to post about this because it's been driving me crazy. I've got various Solutions now that have been built using STSDEV 1.3 in Visual Studio 2008. There are common classes I've been using and was scratching my head to get the dll to deploy with the solution and was hacking more...

 

Solution Development in SharePoint 2007 Part 3

June 4, 2008

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8 As promised I've uploaded the 3rd webcast to show how Chapter 3 is implemented. I've also posted the sample code below for you guys to pick and chose as you please. Click here to watch the webcast (NEW 32MB swf - 40mins) . The .zip of the solution can be downloaded here. Site Collection Feature.xml <?xml version=&quo more...

 

Solution Development in SharePoint 2007 Part 2

June 3, 2008

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8 "Previously on 'Prison Break'...I mean 'Solution Packages for Developers'" My blog got quite a few extra visitors over the last couple of days since writing about SharePoint Development and "doing things the right way". A few people have been giving me "gentle" and "subtle" hints to more...