May 2008 - Posts

PDC Registration is Open!
29 May 08 07:07 AM

Finally, PDC2008 registration is open. The conference is held in Los Angeles Convention Center, October 27-30 (pre-conference sessions Oct 26). Early bird discount before August 15. I'll be there! Will you? Read More...

Postedby Frank Jusnes | 0 Comments    

Norwegian SharePoint Community, second meeting
28 May 08 11:18 AM

The second meeting in the newly started Norwegian SharePoint Community group (link: here ) were recently held. The meeting was fully booked (just as the 1. meeting), and there were a waiting list to attend. In other words a popular and most welcome initiative Read More...

Postedby Jan Tore Lamøy | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Sharepoint, MOSS, SharePoint development

Hidden features and dependencies
28 May 08 08:12 AM

Have you tried to enable some of SharePoint hidden features to play around with them? That might lead to some unexpected results and is not recommended approach to develop new solutions. This is because of the feature activation/deactivation dependencies. Read More...

Postedby Stian Kirkeberg | 0 Comments    

Troubleshooting SPSite/SPWeb leaks in WSS v3 and MOSS 2007
28 May 08 07:58 AM

Stefan Gossner has published a great article on the subject: In an earlier article I have discussed that all SPSite and SPWeb (and potentially also PublishingWeb) objects need to be properly disposed to avoid memory pressure situations. Roger Lamb has Read More...

Postedby Stian Kirkeberg | 0 Comments    

Site Provisioning Order
28 May 08 07:54 AM

If you ever have gotten stumbled over your features not activating as expected or dependencies not working,  that might have to do with site provisioning order. SharePoint provisions in the following order: global onet.xml SPSite scoped features Read More...

Postedby Stian Kirkeberg | 5 Comments    

Word 2007 as a blog editor
27 May 08 10:45 AM

Word 2007 is an excellent blog editor you can use towards blogs in SharePoint. No worries about uploading pictures you like to add to your blog post. Use Word as you normally do, and then publish it to the blog of your preference. This is how you do it: Read More...

Postedby Thomas Læhren | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Sharepoint, MOSS, Office client

Links
22 May 08 09:11 PM

SharePoint Performance Quick Wins / Tips Enabling SharePoint Intellisense in VS2008 PowerShell for Flexible Iterative SharePoint-based Development Developing SharePoint Solutions in Visual Studio SharePoint Wikis are Awesome, I swear Read More...

Postedby Stian Kirkeberg | 0 Comments    

Filed under: developer, Sharepoint, SharePoint development, Links

Lots of databases, full recovery model, low disk space...what to do?
22 May 08 05:26 PM

I do not much care for having my development databases set to Recovery modell = full. There is really no need for that. The day I need to restore a logfile the environmnet better be a production environment. Unfortunatly SQL 2005 let me set the Recovery Read More...

Postedby Stian Kirkeberg | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Sharepoint, SharePoint development, Content Database, Upgrade, SQL

Microsoft Expression Studio 2 Ships, Advancing Superior Developer and Designer Collaboration
20 May 08 09:39 PM

Press release: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/may08/05-01Expression2PR.mspx Expression Web 2 adds support for PHP and Adobe Photoshop import based on customer feedback. Expression Blend 2, in addition to Silverlight support, adds vertex Read More...

Postedby Stian Kirkeberg | 0 Comments    

Filed under: developer, Sharepoint, MOSS, SharePoint development, Visual Studio, Silverlight, Expression Studio

Dispose patterns by example
16 May 08 10:53 AM

Roger Lamb has posted a great article of dispose patterns. He will also update as new leak guidance are released.   Windows SharePoint Services (WSS 3.0) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS 2007) have some gotchas with serious implications Read More...

Postedby Stian Kirkeberg | 1 Comments    

Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Update
15 May 08 10:54 PM

This update for Microsoft Virtual Server R2 SP1 includes support for the following additional Host and Guest Operating Systems Additonal Guest Operating System support: Windows Vista® Ultimate Edition with Service Pack 1 (SP1) Windows Vista® Business Read More...

Postedby Stian Kirkeberg | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Upgrade, Service Pack, Windows 2008, Vista Virtual PC, Hyper-v, virtual server, virtual pc

Virtual PC 2007 SP1
15 May 08 10:52 PM

Save time and money as Virtual PC allows you to maintain the compatibility of legacy and custom applications during migration to new operating systems and increases the efficiency of support, development, and training staffs. With Microsoft® Virtual PC Read More...

Postedby Stian Kirkeberg | 3 Comments    

Filed under: Windows 2008, Vista Virtual PC, Hyper-v

SmartTools for SharePoint
12 May 08 08:11 PM

A new version of SmartTools is out. You can find it at http://www.codeplex.com/smarttools   Project Description The SmartTools for SharePoint project is a collection of SharePoint extensions to make your life as a SharePoint user, developer or administrator Read More...

Postedby Stian Kirkeberg | 1 Comments    

SharePoint for disasters
06 May 08 03:56 PM

Joel just posted about SharePoint for disasters . I want to widen the audience for this use of SharePoint. I know the Norwegian Red Cross uses a SPS2003 solution, but I do not know how far they have taken it. Have you any other examples of site or preset Read More...

Postedby Stian Kirkeberg | 0 Comments    

Mobile Development in Windows SharePoint Services
05 May 08 08:40 AM

This is a good overview and starting point for customizing SharePoint for consumption by mobile devices. From the page: "This section provides information about the kinds of customization that you can make to the pages used for access to Windows Read More...

Postedby Jon Løken | 4 Comments    

SharePoint formulas in calculated columns
04 May 08 09:06 PM

In SharePoint there is something called Calculated columns in lists, that can do calculations based on other columns. These can be very useful. For more information about the SharePoint formulas check: Overview of formulas and functions: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointtechnology/CH011711541033.aspx Read More...

Postedby Jon Løken | 0 Comments