November 25, 2008
I was recently on a client site where they have spent the best part of a year going through the process of making the decision and getting approval to purchase Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Edition. Part of that presales process actually included attending one of my discussions on Enterprise 2.0 along the lines of "Facebook for the Enterprise" with a 15 minute segme
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November 24, 2008
As any seasoned SharePoint Developers will point out, SharePoint has come along way in the Development journey since it's beginnings in 2001 to what it is today. It has still got a long way to go for a variety of reasons, some of which I have covered in my 8 part series. vNext Hype There is much hype surrounding Visual Studio 2010 starting to be spun by Microsoft after PDC with regards for its
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November 24, 2008
Testing SharePoint was always an issue, because SharePoint has number of classes that are sealed and/or does not have public constructors. SharePoint's API consists heavily of sealed classes and classes with internal constructors. None of existed unit-testing frameworks provided ability to mock such classes.
Guys from TypeMock (http://www.typemock.com) did fantastic work, providing really powe
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November 12, 2008
I'm building a completely new farm with all the latest patches and when I create the SSP it lets me create individual Application Pools for MySites and the SSP itself and I can confirm creation which gives me the lovely spinning icon: And it just sits there for 10 minutes...I didn't want to close it so I opened another window with Central Administration. Finding the error The SSP link in Q
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November 12, 2008
1: 11/12/2008 10:00:40 8 INF Creating connection string for config db SharePoint_Config server SOMSQL01\SQLMOSS
2: 11/12/2008 10:00:40 8 INF Creating connection string for admin content db SharePoint_AdminContent_c6b34e10-9f32-4fae-bfc1-50b489e58913 server SOMSQL01\SQLMOSS
3: 11/12/2008 10:00:40 8 INF
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November 11, 2008
So the SharePoint Team Blog announced two new certifications around SharePoint. The Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) and the Microsoft Certified Architect. Resources We were having discussions internally about this at Readify just today and what we look for in an individual. There was hot debate around whether we should mandate configuration and administration skills for a SharePoint Developer/
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November 11, 2008
New Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Development tools were announced at TechEd EMEA last week. Paul Andrew discusses what features will be available. You can actually provide feedback on the current Visual Studio Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 v1.2 at the Visual Studio Gallery site which Paul also announced in October this year. I have noticed that Ishai Sagi made a comment that he
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November 10, 2008
SharePoint Guidance : P&P The new SharePoint Guidance was released last week. There's a whole CodePlex source control project that covers how the team have implemented particular areas Leveraging the SharePoint Platform. They have taken a Contoso scenario to show how the solution could be implemented using the SharePoint platform. It covers off so far: Content types Custom actions C
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November 7, 2008
I've had a request from @julioc for my Solution package that deploys: Site Collection Feature InfoPath Form Automatically to Central Administration Forms Templates Site Feature InfoPath Form Library Provisioned by a Feature Includes the Form Content Type automatically hooked up to it
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November 6, 2008
So I had a SharePoint Bat Phone call today about a client of Readify's that had created a Survey in WSS 3.0 with two simple questions and wanted it to be viewed on a Windows Mobile Device. They were aware that SharePoint had a out of the box Mobile view of all it's pages. It's one of the top 10 reasons to use SharePoint from the marketing site. The MSDN homepage for SharePoint Mobile Development
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November 3, 2008
So I've noticed a few people now are starting to post their favourite daily/weekly links: Michael Gannotti EndUserSharePoint.com Steve Pietrek Bamboo There's also a community one called SharePointPedia that Lawrence Liu tried to get running but I think with the ease of some of the other tools out there it never quite made it. I'm currently subscribed to over 350 RSS feeds covering SharePoin
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