April 2008 - Posts

• Versioning Blog Posts in WSS v3 and MOSS 2007

  Complementing the Work Items list that I described in a previous post , we use a blog site (creatively called the "DevBlog") in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 to track the work items that each member of the Development team has committed Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 23, 2008 9:07 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 3 Comments Filed under: MOSS 2007, WSS v3

• A Better Way to Build SharePoint Solution Packages (and CAB Files)

  Up until about an hour ago, I'd been using post-build events on my Visual Studio projects to create SharePoint solution packages (WSPs). However, while this worked reasonably well, this method always bothered me a little because the post-build events Read More... Posted Thursday, April 10, 2008 4:28 PM by Jeremy Jameson | 7 Comments Filed under: MOSS 2007, Core Development, WSS v3

• Memory Leak in SPLimitedWebPartManager (a.k.a. IDisposables Containing IDisposables)

  Back in February, Roger Lamb kicked off his MSDN blog with a great post ( SharePoint 2007 and WSS 3.0 Dispose Patterns by Example ). It provides numerous code samples that demonstrate memory leaks commonly produced when working with the SharePoint object Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 09, 2008 12:00 PM by Jeremy Jameson | 5 Comments Filed under: MOSS 2007, Core Development, WSS v3

• Creating a Site Template in MOSS 2007 that Works in WSS v3

  Shortly after publishing my previous post covering "TFS Lite" for WSS v3 , Dragan Panjkov noted that attempting to create a new site in WSS v3 using the site template that I originally provided resulted in the following error: The template you have chosen Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 08, 2008 7:35 PM by Jeremy Jameson | 2 Comments Filed under: MOSS 2007, WSS v3

• Enumerating Feature Definitions in WSS v3 and MOSS 2007

  There might be occasions where you need to "decode" the feature GUID in Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) v3 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. For these (admittedly rare) situations, I have attached an Excel spreadsheet containing the Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 08, 2008 5:39 PM by Jeremy Jameson | 6 Comments Filed under: MOSS 2007, WSS v3 Attachment(s): MOSS 2007 Feature Definitions.xlsx

• WSUS Clients Failing with Error 0x80244019 After Installing WSUS SP1

  Last week I discovered that many of my servers were no longer updating successfully from my intranet Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) server. Looking in WindowsUpdate.log file, I noticed errors similar to the following: 2008-03-22 18:53:24:377 808 Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 08, 2008 6:04 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 3 Comments Filed under: WSUS

• "TFS Lite" for WSS v3

  In my previous post , I introduced my "TFS Lite" SharePoint site template that I've been using for years as a simple scenario/task/bug/risk/milestone tracking "application" with various projects and customers. In today's post, I'll discuss some of the Read More... Posted Monday, April 07, 2008 10:08 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 7 Comments Filed under: MOSS 2007, Core Development, WSS v3 Attachment(s): TFS Lite - WSS v3.zip

• "TFS Lite" for WSS v2

  [Update (2008-04-07): "TFS Lite" for WSS v3 is now available.] For almost as long as I can remember (okay, not really that long -- but at least as far back as 2003), I've been using SharePoint lists as a bug tracking tool on almost all of the customer Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 01, 2008 6:02 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 3 Comments Filed under: Core Development, WSS v2 Attachment(s): TFS Lite - WSS v2.zip