Creating scripts to set off a load of stsadm commands have been a common task in SharePoint for a long time. In development and testing environments the need to install, create farm, web applications, site collection and sub sites, in a repeatable manner...

In some projects lately I've been faced with the question about how to unit-test SharePoint code. I've been experimenting with unit testing in Visual Studio 2008 and particularly testing SharePoint code. What do I mean by "SharePoint code" ? I mean...

In the 1. article on Unit testing MOSS I described some of the findings and experience on unit testing SharePoint applications using the TypeMock Isolator framework. In this 2. article I will provide some examples of unit tests. Code under test You should...

Gotten tired of finding the ID of a feature? Here they are: DisplayName Title ID Scope SolutionId AccSrvApplication $Resources:AccsrvWss 1cc4b32c-299b-41aa-9770-67715ea05f25 Farm 7ed6cd55-b479-4eb7-a529-e99a24c10bd3 AccSrvMSysAso Access Services System...

SharePoint 2010 introduces new capabilities regarding Records Management. The most interesting feature, I think, is In-Place Records management (info at the end of this post) which makes it possible to declare documents as records without moving them...

SharePoint 2010 has extended its Document Management (and Records Management ) capabilities considerably. I have looked into the new capabilities and will give you a quick overview about some of them. This post explains the following functionality: Document...

OneNote is a hidden gem in the Office suite. I use OneNote for all my notes during meetings, workshops etc. As described on Office Online   “Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 is a digital notebook that provides a flexible way to gather notes and information...

The unified knowledge base and latest news on Architecture (MS and non MS sources) is at http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture Learn about MS’ Gen-4 Datacenter Vision, the call for papers for the Arc track of TechEd 2009 NA (you still have time to submit...

In certain scenarioes it would be very convenient to create a full Visual Studio web application below a SharePoint web application. This can be when you have a lot of asp.net files which do not have many connections or use of SharePoint functionality...

Some of our team members, including me and Frank Jusnes , were recently responsible for providing recommendations on how to unit test in SharePoint projects, and this is an overview of our findings and experiences. This is the first of two posts on the...

If you ever have gotten stumbled over your features not activating as expected or dependencies not working,  that might have to do with site provisioning order. SharePoint provisions in the following order: global onet.xml SPSite scoped features...

Sometimes when I debug my SharePoint code from Visual Studio, I get the exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException was unhandled   Message=The Web application at http://jl-sp2010/ could not be found. Verify that you have typed the URL correctly....

In January 2008 Microsoft announced the acquisition of the company Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) . FAST is a leading provider of enterprise search solutions. Since FAST is a Norwegian based company (and continues to be a subsidiary of Microsoft based...

This is a good overview and starting point for customizing SharePoint for consumption by mobile devices. From the page: "This section provides information about the kinds of customization that you can make to the pages used for access to Windows...

Save time and money as Virtual PC allows you to maintain the compatibility of legacy and custom applications during migration to new operating systems and increases the efficiency of support, development, and training staffs. With Microsoft® Virtual PC...

As many of you may already know, Jose Barreto is maintaining a complete reference of STSADM operations. The list has now been updated with SP1 changes, and Jose has even underlines them for us. You will find it here .

I am posting the whole KB944105 because we need some more attention on the subject: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944105 INTRODUCTION This article describes two methods to customize the appearance and the behavior of your site collections in Microsoft...

Have you tried to create custom scopes in a SSP ? Guess you expected them to show up in your newly created sites as well, right? Unfortunately, they don't. And you might even run into some more trouble along the way. But let's explore in an ordered fashion...

From Codeplex: Version 3.5.11119.0 2007-11-19 release of the AJAX Control Toolkit targets the official release of .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. AjaxControlToolkit-Framework3.5.zip is the full release package with complete source code to all...

Overview Version 1.1 of the Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services contains the following tools to aid developers in building SharePoint applications: New to Version 1.1 Support for "Web Solution Package" editing View...

These last few days we have become aware of an important limitation regarding variations in SharePoint Server. The thing is that when using variations, web parts need to be inherited from the SharePoint WebPart class (Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages...

SharePoint Designer is the only tool available to edit SharePoint content. For those of us who prefer a life in Visual Studio, this add-in from the.kid seems promising. It offers an explorer pane for browsing SharePoint content, and even allows checkout...

Sharepoint Pedia .com Microsoft has a launched a SharePointPedia, where you will find information and links to content recommended by the SharePoint community. Read more about it on the SharePoint team blog " Announcing SharePointPedia -- community driven...

Sorry to say but it is not supported. You will have to use a 32 bit environment for development and use the output files on a 64 bit deployment. The reason is that even though VS can be installed in a 64 bit environment, it is still a 32 bit application...

To present additional information in the search result will often give a better user experience. The search results web parts can easily be  modified to include meta data stored on e.g documents in MOSS. The meta data is stored via Content Types...