Author Archives: gavinbarron

Introducing the Cross Site Collection Search Configurator

Posted on November 8, 2008 by gavinbarron

While I was working at Intergen I was alerted to a small issue with configuring search keywords, best bets and synonyms. This simply being that they are set on a per site collection basis and there is no OOTB solution … Continue reading →

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Turn off custom error pages in SharePoint.

Posted on September 21, 2008 by gavinbarron

There are a number of good posts out there that will tell you how to get useful, for a developer, error messages out of SharePoint. Useful things to know while attempting SharePoint Development A solution to “An unexpected error has … Continue reading →

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SharePoint and Agile

Posted on September 16, 2008 by gavinbarron

Go together like a horse and carriage. Well, that’s my take anyway. I’ve been involved on a few SharePoint projects now that have taken a tradition approach, i.e. waterfall style, to the development of the customers desired end product. While … Continue reading →

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SharePoint Bookmarklets

Posted on September 16, 2008 by gavinbarron

A workmate just put me onto a great resource that Zac showed during the Tech-Ed session on Tools and techniques which he presented with Matt. These are a great set of bookmarks that work relative to your current page and … Continue reading →

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Sorting with a Comparison Delegate

Posted on September 5, 2008 by gavinbarron

I’ve just seen the awesome power of delegates, I can’t believe that I’ve never used them all that much before, mostly because I’ve been able to take advantage of using SQL or CAML to do my ordering, hey adding an … Continue reading →

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Difference Disks = Win

Posted on August 15, 2008 by gavinbarron

Huge thanks to Reza Alirezaei for his series of posts on creating your own time bombed VM. After reading that I thought to myself, ‘hey, I could use that technique to keep a set of different VMs across multiple projects … Continue reading →

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Pre-Populate a SharePoint List Instance

Posted on August 13, 2008 by gavinbarron

So, you want to provide a look-up in a SharePoint Site Definition and you’d quite like to provide your users with some options? (i.e. items in the source list) Firstly you’re probably interested in this post from Josh Gaffy about … Continue reading →

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Handy CAB tool

Posted on August 12, 2008 by gavinbarron

Alright, I’ve just had to edit an existing wsp 😐 I won’t go into the why and wherefores, suffice to say that I decided that the easiest way to achieve my end was to extract the contents, edit the necessary … Continue reading →

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National Tour Roundup

Posted on July 31, 2008 by gavinbarron

Firstly thanks to everyone who came along, it was great to meet so many people either using SharePoint out there in the “Real World”™ and others who were just keen to learn more. Further thanks to: Matt Smith for organising … Continue reading →

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National SPUG Tour

Posted on July 15, 2008 by gavinbarron

So Matt Smith of the Christchurch SharePoint User Group has organised a national tour for the various SPUGs that are active here in New Zealand. I’ll be talking in Auckland, Tauranga and Christchurch over the space of a week. The … Continue reading →

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