Author Archives: gavinbarron

VSeWSS – Depolyment Gotcha!

Posted on March 5, 2008 by gavinbarron

So I’m using VSeWSS on a project at the moment and have just discovered something that I should share. The setup.bat file that is generated to deploy the solution (.wsp) file to your development box is not perfect for use … Continue reading →

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Composing multiple criteria CAML Queries

Posted on March 4, 2008 by gavinbarron

OK, so I’ve been writing a pile of CAML queries recently. Now there is the fantastic U2U CAML Query Builder tool which you can use to write your CAML for you, however I’m from the school of though that I … Continue reading →

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SharePoint Conference 2008

Posted on March 4, 2008 by gavinbarron

My colleagues Chandima and Brendan are currently in Seattle for SPC 2008. Keep an eye on their blogs for updates!

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CAML Query with dynamic date evaluation

Posted on February 23, 2008 by gavinbarron

Wow, it’s been over a week since ODC2008 and I haven’t posted, how slack of me. It’s been a busy week talking about a lot of the cool things that I saw at ODC and cutting a lot of code. … Continue reading →

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Office Dev Con Day 3

Posted on February 14, 2008 by gavinbarron

Slow day today. Attended a session by Dave Marcus from K2 on InfoPath, LoB and SharePoint integration and Business Process Management using the K2 products. Andrew Connell’s session “Building High Perfomance Solutions on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007” had a … Continue reading →

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Office Dev Con: Attendee Party

Posted on February 14, 2008 by gavinbarron

Wow! That was wild! Hosted at the San Jose Tech museum, which was quite interesting for a bunch of tech head geeks. We arrived to be greeted by a lady on stilts and a host of other performers including a … Continue reading →

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Office Dev Con Day 2

Posted on February 13, 2008 by gavinbarron

There were two keynote speakers this morning. Rajesh Jha who spoke about the new Office Live Small Business offering, the idea here is to provide a suite of hosted of services that provide WCM, contact management and online sales systems … Continue reading →

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Office Dev Con Day 1

Posted on February 12, 2008 by gavinbarron

The first day started out with a Keynote talk from Bill Gates, he spoke very well, as you’d expect of someone of that calibre, he showed his sense of humour well by showing the “Last day at work” video. Bill … Continue reading →

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Off to Office Dev Con

Posted on February 8, 2008 by gavinbarron

I’m just about to leave the office to catch my flight to San Francisco. I’m passing through there on my way to Office Dev Con in San Jose, California 😀 I’ll be updating my blog over the course of the … Continue reading →

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Debug > Start New instance

Posted on February 7, 2008 by gavinbarron

Ok, so you learn something every day. Currently I’m working on a project where I have a number of separate component systems. In particular there is suite of services exposed over HTTP that are consumed by a couple of other … Continue reading →

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