Category Archives: Development

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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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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Posted on July 14, 2008 by gavinbarron

I have been memed. How old were you when you started programming? 10 How did you get started in programming? I was a fresh faced young thing of 9 when my sister and I received a Commodore64 for Christmas. Incredibly … Continue reading →

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Method Names of Excellence!

Posted on June 30, 2008 by gavinbarron

Just had a great giggle and a shudder after my workmate Henrik showed me some code that is the latest check-in for a project, and I assume running on a site out there. Inside the same class we have methods … Continue reading →

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Paul Andrew from the SharePoint Team in Wellington New Zealand

Posted on June 20, 2008 by gavinbarron

Chan has just announced that Paul Andrew is going to be visiting us here in Wellington, New Zealand and presenting to the SharePoint Users Group 🙂 This special event will be held in Xero offices 5pm Friday 27 June 2008. … Continue reading →

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SharePoint Navigation Elements: How to Code with them.

Posted on May 27, 2008 by gavinbarron

I’m a pretty regular poster over on the MSDN SharePoint dev forum and one of the things that I see pop up every so often is questions about how to interact with the Navigation components that are built into SharePoint. … Continue reading →

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User Guide for VSeWSS 1.1 released

Posted on May 13, 2008 by gavinbarron

Microsoft have just released the full version of the user guide for VseWSS 1.1. For a little more information, read Paul Andrew’s blog post: http://blogs.msdn.com/pandrew/archive/2008/05/12/announcing-visual-studio-extensions-for-sharepoint-developer-user-guide.aspx Download if from: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=A8A4E775-074D-4451-BE39-459921F79787&displaylang=en Also, take a look at the authors 😉

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Which version of VSeWSS is installed?

Posted on April 11, 2008 by gavinbarron

I’ve just had  phone call from a colleague of mine asking if I knew how to tell which version of VSeWSS was installed on the machine he was using. All you need to do is pull up the About Visual … Continue reading →

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