September 2009 - Posts

• Finding the Content Type ID in MOSS 2007

  Yesterday I received the following question from someone regarding Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 content type IDs: I need to add another page type [that] inherits from the article page. How do you find the GUID of the article page to Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 30, 2009 4:45 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: MOSS 2007

• "Web-Enabled" Projects and F5 Debugging with SharePoint

  In yesterday's post , I provided a sample walkthrough of the "DR.DADA" approach to developing solutions for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. However, I intentionally left out a few things because a) that post was already getting ridiculously Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 29, 2009 8:07 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: My System, MOSS 2007, WSS v3, Debugging

• Sample Walkthrough of the DR.DADA Approach to SharePoint

  Update 2009-11-18 I discovered that using relative paths in the DDF file is not compatible with Team Foundation Build. Refer to the following post for the updated DDF file and corresponding modifications to the project file: Building SharePoint WSPs with Read More... Posted Monday, September 28, 2009 7:38 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: My System, MOSS 2007, WSS v3

• Build and Deployment Overview

  This post provides a high-level walkthrough of the build and deployment process that I typically recommend on projects that I am involved with. It includes a series of illustrations that capture key concepts at various points in time. Specific parts of Read More... Posted Saturday, September 26, 2009 10:40 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: Core Development

• Best Practices for SCM and the Daily Build Process

  In a previous post, I briefly discussed a simple branching strategy for Team Foundation Server (TFS). This was somewhat of a follow-up to another post in which I briefly referenced a great article titled The Importance of Branching Models in SCM . If Read More... Posted Saturday, September 26, 2009 10:12 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: Core Development, TFS

• Debugging Symbols -- They're Not Just for Debug Builds Anymore

  I started another new project this week. Typically one of the first tasks on any new development project is to create a Development Plan that provides consistent guidelines and processes for the Development team. On this new project, another Microsoft Read More... Posted Saturday, September 26, 2009 7:20 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: Core Development, Debugging

• Development and Build Environments

  In a previous post , I briefly touched on the "DEV-TEST-PROD" triad of environments that I typically recommend (at a minimum) for every organization doing any form of software development. This post describes, in greater detail, the various environments Read More... Posted Friday, September 25, 2009 6:57 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: My System, Core Development

• No HTML Markup in MOSS 2007 Managed Properties

  In my previous post , I showed how to automatically configure managed properties in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 when activating a custom "Search" feature. In this post, I want to cover a subtle, yet very important, limitation in managed Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 23, 2009 7:35 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: MOSS 2007

• Configuring Managed Properties in MOSS 2007

  As I've noted in a previous post , I typically use feature receivers in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 to automatically configure a "bunch of stuff" that would otherwise be very tedious to perform repeatedly for different environments Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 23, 2009 6:09 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: MOSS 2007

• "Inheriting" the Master Page from the Current Site Context in MOSS 2007

  In my previous post , I showed how you can override the hard-coded "application.master" in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 application pages (e.g. /Library/_layouts/viewlsts.aspx). Note that for custom application pages (i.e. those ASP.NET Read More... Posted Sunday, September 20, 2009 8:58 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: MOSS 2007, WSS v3

• Overriding Application.master in MOSS 2007

  Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 includes a variety of out-of-the-box master pages. Many are provided primarily as samples (e.g. BlueBand.master) and serve as a starting point for creating your own master page. There's also default.master Read More... Posted Sunday, September 20, 2009 8:35 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: MOSS 2007, WSS v3

• MOSS 2007 Master Page Comparison

  This morning I came across an old (June 2007) Excel spreadsheet that I created back when I was working on the Agilent Technologies project. The spreadsheet lists the various placeholder elements in both application.master and default.master for Microsoft Read More... Posted Saturday, September 19, 2009 6:56 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: MOSS 2007

• Faceted Search in MOSS 2007 and the MSSDocProps Issue

  Many customers deploying Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 often have a requirement to provide some kind of "faceted search" feature that allows users to quickly and easily narrow their search results. Before I ever knew the commonly accepted Read More... Posted Friday, September 18, 2009 7:34 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: MOSS 2007, Infrastructure

• Comparing Source Code Branches

  During the more than three years I spent helping Agilent Technologies migrate their Internet site from their legacy, proprietary platform to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, we unfortunately never used Team Foundation Server (TFS). Instead, Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 16, 2009 6:54 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: My System, Core Development, Visual Studio, TFS

• The "Jameson Datacenter"

  Back in a post from February 2008, I first referred to the "Jameson Datacenter" while discussing one of the servers running in my basement. Since then I've referenced my home lab about a dozen times in different posts but never provided significant details Read More... Posted Monday, September 14, 2009 6:53 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: My System, Infrastructure, Virtualization

• Expression Web, My MSDN Blog, and (Now) Team Foundation Server

  In case you haven't picked it up from some of my previous posts, I became somewhat of a "Web standards zealot" back in 2006 while creating a "community site" for a local organization of mental health professionals and attorneys that help children and Read More... Posted Saturday, September 12, 2009 8:17 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: My System, Web Development, TFS