Roger Lamb's Microsoft Application Development Blog

Blog Post Revised 12/13/2010 Overview SharePoint Server development has some gotchas with serious implications that every application developer needs to be intimately familiar with before deploying into production farms.  In particular, Microsoft...

Download location: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/spdisposecheck Update Summary: I’m happy to announce SPDisposeCheck v14.0.4762.1000 was updated and released today 12/13/2010. SPDisposeCheck is a tool that helps developers and administrators...

Chances are that by now if you have been developing on the Microsoft SharePoint Office Server (MOSS) 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 Object Model (OM) for any length of time you are aware of the importance of when to (and when not to) call...

I have recently been working directly with the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) Product Group as well as several Subject Matter Experts in the Microsoft Services field to help clarify some Dispose edge cases which have been causing...

Below I put together a quick reference of the known SharePoint properties and methods that you do not want to call Dispose against when developing SharePoint applications (AKA “ Do Not Dispose Guidance ”). Please check back on this blog post as I will...

Paul Andrew (Microsoft SharePoint Product Group) announced the SPDisposeCheck utility at the Tech·Ed EMEA Developers Conference today. The SPDisposeCheck command line utility will be released soon (North American Winter) and will recursively scan any...

Today the Microsoft SharePoint Product Team announced the SPDisposeCheck utility here and also at Paul Andrew’s blog here . You can download the free SPDisposeCheck utility in the MSDN Code Gallery http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/SPDisposeCheck . The SPDisposeCheck...

The following edge case applies to MOSS 2007 (and not WSS 3.0). When using the following pattern the property Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.PersonalSite requires a Dispose() call before leaving scope if you use the property in your code. Below...

PublishingWeb.GetVariation() method returns a PublishingWeb object which which needs to be explicitly Closed() as shown in the following code sample. For a complete list of all the updated SharePoint Dispose() guidance please see SharePoint 2007 and WSS...

There is a new GUI utility published today to Microsoft.com/downloads for x32 and x64 environments which should help cut down the ping pong performance related troubleshooting discussions between IT staff, support, and developers regarding the SharePoint...

Find up-to-date guidance about how to write Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 applications and customizations that perform well, avoid common pitfalls, and best use the features of the SharePoint object model. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office...

Go check out the cool new TechNet interactive online Silverlight application which allows you to quickly browse and filter STSADM commands with links to the documentation. Stsadm Technical Reference for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Stsadm Technical...

MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 December 2008 Cumulative Update (CU) Blog Updated 12/17/08 The Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog Announced the December Cumulative Update (CU) for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. From this point (December...

Paul Andrew just announced on the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog that a new Community Technology Preview (CTP) version of the Visual Studio extensions for SharePoint 1.3 (VSeWSS 1.3) is now publically available on Microsoft Connect site. New Features...

Congrats to Chris Keyser and all the authors/contributors for shipping the updated Version 2 of the SharePoint Developers Guidance.. must have free resource if you are doing development with SharePoint. Guidance for building collaborative applications...

Whether or not you were one of the lucky ones to attend the sold out SPC ‘09 conference in Las Vegas last week you should download and review the 10 developer Hands On Labs (HOL’s) in anticipation to the public beta of SharePoint Server 2010 due out in...

Check out this must read MSDN article for all SharePoint developers http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg604045.aspx Published: February 2011 Learn how to plan and manage Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 projects...

Todd Carter has recently discovered a significant memory leak with MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 which can quickly lead to Out Of Memory conditions under load even if you are following all of the Dispose() guidance rules within your code. Note this leak does...

  Check out Eric White’s excellent blog post SharePoint Developer Building Blocks: Technologies for Creating SharePoint Applications which will soon become a MSDN Whitepaper.  It’s a great resource if you are jumping into SharePoint 2010 development...

I recently attended the The Great SharePoint Adventure 2010 workshop from Critical Path Training in Tampa , Florida and would strongly recommend this 5 day workshop for all developers looking to sharpen their skills in SharePoint 2010 software development...