Category Archives: SharePoint

Deploying Timer Jobs

Posted on March 6, 2008 by gavinbarron

So I’m working on a Timer Job for SharePoint at the moment, I found that the post that Andrew Connell has made describing the development process is very good, read it here: http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/articles/CreatingCustomSharePointTimerJobs.aspx Anyway I was trying to debug my … Continue reading →

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Version Control is NOT Source Control!

Posted on March 5, 2008 by gavinbarron

Warning: Rant ahead! So a question popped up on the MSDN SharePoint developers forum about how to use integrate WSS and Visual Studio in order to save files edited in Visual Studio direct into WSS including using Check In/ Check … Continue reading →

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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 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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