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Wednesday, June 24, 2009 7:53 PM

SPG Continuous Integration builds not run on instance of SharePoint

Our Continuous Integration builds are run on a build server that has the necessary SharePoint assemblies, but with no installed instance of SharePoint. Licensing issues aside, this causes an interesting problem when unit tests are developed on dev boxes
Posted by fcheung | 2 Comments
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 7:52 PM

Using Typemock Isolator for Integration Tests

Yeah, I know. Typemock Isolator is great for unit testing against API’s that are hard to mock, but this last iteration, I found a new use for Typemock Isolator. I worked with our test team to develop a set of integration tests that are run by MSTest and
Posted by fcheung | 1 Comments
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 7:52 PM

What happened to my SPContext?

This last iteration, we ran an interesting issue when services that we request through the SharePointServiceLocator depend on SPContext.Current. This seemed like a reasonable dependency assumption. We consume these services in feature receivers. They
Posted by fcheung | 0 Comments
Friday, June 05, 2009 5:34 PM

Stack Overflow when building up SiteMap structure

In iteration 10, we wrote HierarchicalConfigSiteMapProvider that builds up a tree of sitemap nodes based on xml retrieved from the hierarchical ConfigManager. Being a newbie with SiteMapProviders, I overwrote BuildSiteMap calling a simple recursive method
Posted by fcheung | 2 Comments
Friday, June 05, 2009 3:57 PM

Granularity of SharePoint Features and Solutions

In our SPG v1 guidance we discussed packaging site elements into features. This is particularly important if you are using the Visual Studio extensions for WSS. We found that whenever you add a site element into a VSeWSS project, a new feature is created
Posted by fcheung | 1 Comments
Tuesday, June 02, 2009 7:54 AM

SPG v2 Iteration 10 Drop

Iteration 10 is complete and the drop can be downloaded here . In iteration 10 we mainly concentrated on refactoring, code cleanup and reusable assets. We will continue refactoring and scrubbing the code in the remaining iterations but please take a look
Posted by fcheung | 1 Comments
 
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