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Writing testable SharePoint code: New Zealand and Australian SharePoint Conferences
This year I was lucky enough to be invited back to present at the New Zealand and Australian SharePoint Conferences, this time on “Writing Testable SharePoint Code”. As promised in my sessions here is the slide deck and, more importantly, … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Development, SharePoint, Visual Studio
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Whitespace: Silent Killer!
Today I went hunting in an XML file for an erroneous double space I knew was there. I was horrified to see all those extra spaces there!!! Now this Visual Studio 2010 instance is just running the default setup with … Continue reading
Posted in Deployment, Visual Studio
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VS 2010: Missing Source Control Icons
So I’m working on a project with a number of other developers at present. However every so often when another developer adds files to source control when they are added to my local solution they appear unbound to source control … Continue reading
Visual Web Parts for SharePoint in the Sandbox
Get ‘em while they’re hot! Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Power Tools plus a sandboxed compilation to ensure you’re not accidentally calling outside of the allowed set of types and members.
Posted in Deployment, Development, Sandbox, SharePoint, Visual Studio
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TFS 2010: Add to security groups from outside of the current domain
If you’re a SharePoint developer like me, chances are that the dev server you’re working on is joined to a different domain from your corporate identity. Now this makes it tricky to add users to your TFS Security Groups from … Continue reading
Posted in Security, TFS, Visual Studio
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National SPUG Tour
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
Posted in Deployment, Development, General, SharePoint, Tools, Visual Studio, VSeWSS
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Microsoft SharePoint Team Announces the VSeWSS version 1.2!
Excellent! Now all you SharePoint developers out there using VSeWSS who are itching to start using Visual Studio 2008 can do so :o) Read the full details in a posting the SharePoint Team Blog from Chris Johnson (another kiwi flying … Continue reading
Posted in SharePoint, Tools, Visual Studio, VSeWSS
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User Guide for VSeWSS 1.1 released
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 😉
Posted in Development, SharePoint, Visual Studio, VSeWSS
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VSeWSS 1.0 and solution.xml
So, I have a project that I’m still working on that is using VSeWSS 1.0 project templates. I just got bitten by an issue I knew about from prior experience 😐 With this version VSeWSS creates a file called solution.xml … Continue reading
Posted in Development, Visual Studio, VSeWSS
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VSeWSS – Depolyment Gotcha!
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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