Most SharePoint developers I know have SharePoint installed locally on their machine for development (or through a VM). It has become a pretty standard practice to create a new SharePoint solution and package everything up into a WSP for deployment to...

When customizing SharePoint 2010 MasterPages you often don’t want certain content placeholders to show up on the page. You should not delete or comment these elements out but instead set the visible=”false” attribute on the content placeholder. Upon creating...

This may be somewhat obvious but took me a few minutes to figure out what had happened. I have been developing sandbox solutions on my development box for a project I'm working on and was at the point of uploading some of the WSP's to the staging SharePoint...

When you upgrade your beta SharePoint 2010 environments to RC0 or higher (mostly this is people on Windows 7 development machines -- I recently upgraded to the 4741 build) you need to ensure you install the new Windows Identity Foundation assemblies if...

Like many others, I have SharePoint 2007 installed on my Windows 7 (RTM) box for custom development tasks; however, I also have Office 2010 Beta 2 installed on my machine of which has caused me a problem when attempting to run psconfig after installing...