November 2008 - Posts

Announcing SharePoint Site Configurator Feature on CodePlex
28 November 08 10:32 AM

It is an pleasure to announce the second of our two new SharePoint projects on Codeplex.com: Project Description SharePoint Site Configurator Feature is a small framework for taking care of all configurations, settings and featurestapling you need for Read More...

Postedby Stian Kirkeberg | 2 Comments    

Filed under: developer, Sharepoint, SharePoint development, Codeplex

Announcing SharePoint PowerShell Deploy on CodePlex
28 November 08 10:31 AM

It is an pleasure to announce the first of our two new SharePoint projects on Codeplex.com: Project Description SharePoint PowerShell Deploy is a set of PowerShell files to help you build, deploy, upgrade and destroy a SharePoint farm. It can be used Read More...

Postedby Stian Kirkeberg | 2 Comments    

Filed under: developer, Sharepoint, SharePoint development, Codeplex, PowerShell

TypeMock for SharePoint!
27 November 08 05:35 PM

My colleague Tommy wrote a post about unit testing SharePoint applications a few weeks ago. I must admit that this is something that I have considered hard to apply to my SharePoint projects, and have therefore avoided it (with a very bad conscience). Read More...

Postedby Frank Jusnes | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Sharepoint, Testing, TypeMock, TypeMock Isolator

SharePoint and PowerShell - practical tips
14 November 08 12:04 PM

Creating scripts to set off a load of stsadm commands have been a common task in SharePoint for a long time. In development and testing environments the need to install, create farm, web applications, site collection and sub sites, in a repeatable manner Read More...

Postedby Stian Kirkeberg | 12 Comments    

Microsoft Cuts Prices for Visual Studio 2008 Tools
14 November 08 11:55 AM

Microsoft cuts prices on the VS packages. For more details see: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Microsoft-Continues-to-Delight-Developers/ Read More...

Postedby Stian Kirkeberg | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Studio

Microsoft sponser norske IT-gründere
14 November 08 11:51 AM

Programmet BizSpark skal bidra til å akselerere nyskaping og nytenkning i norsk programvareindustri. – Gründerprogrammet skal redusere barrierene for å realisere gode ideer og legge grunnlaget for flere norske internasjonale suksesser Read More...

Postedby Stian Kirkeberg | 1 Comments    

Supported browsers in SharePoint
14 November 08 11:48 AM

From time to time questions about crossbrowser support comes up. The answers can be found at Technet under " Plan browser support ". There is also a blog posting from the SharePoint team on the subject: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2006/07/19/improvements-in-web-browser-compatibility.asp Read More...

Postedby Stian Kirkeberg | 2 Comments    

SPDisposeCheck tool for SharePoint Developers
13 November 08 02:45 PM

SPDisposeCheck is a tool for analyzing your code and discover SPWeb objects that haven’t been properly disposed. I have been using it for a while and it has been very useful. Just run it from the command line, providing the assembly to be analyzed as Read More...

Postedby Frank Jusnes | 2 Comments    

PDC Sessions available
12 November 08 07:22 AM

I just got a tip from my colleague that the PDC sessions are available at www.microsoftpdc.com . So now everyone can see all the great stuff that some of us had the pleasure of experiencing in LA a couple of weeks ago. These are a few of recommendations Read More...

Postedby Frank Jusnes | 2 Comments    

Microsoft patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance Nov 08 release
06 November 08 12:40 PM

The patterns & practices group just released their November 2008 version of their SharePoint Guidance. It “helps architects and developers design, build, test, deploy and upgrade SharePoint intranet applications”. The package contains technical guidance, Read More...

Postedby Øyvind Nordnes | 2 Comments