January 2009 - Posts

• Automate SharePoint Dispose() code reviews with SPDisposeCheck

  Today the Microsoft SharePoint Product Team announced the SPDisposeCheck utility here and also at Paul Andrew’s blog here . You can download the free SPDisposeCheck utility in the MSDN Code Gallery http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/SPDisposeCheck . The SPDisposeCheck Read More... Posted Thursday, January 29, 2009 9:23 PM by Roger Lamb | 3 Comments

• SharePoint 2007 PublishingWeb.GetVariation() Method Leak

  PublishingWeb.GetVariation() method returns a PublishingWeb object which which needs to be explicitly Closed() as shown in the following code sample. For a complete list of all the updated SharePoint Dispose() guidance please see SharePoint 2007 and WSS Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 28, 2009 11:27 PM by Roger Lamb | 1 Comments

• SharePoint 2007 UserProfiles.PersonalSite Property Leak

  The following edge case applies to MOSS 2007 (and not WSS 3.0). When using the following pattern the property Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.PersonalSite requires a Dispose() call before leaving scope if you use the property in your code. Below Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 14, 2009 6:31 PM by Roger Lamb | 2 Comments

• try / finally using() SharePoint Dispose()

  Chances are that by now if you have been developing on the Microsoft SharePoint Office Server (MOSS) 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 Object Model (OM) for any length of time you are aware of the importance of when to (and when not to) call Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 14, 2009 9:13 AM by Roger Lamb | 7 Comments

• CTP of VSeWSS 1.3 Announced – Now installs on 64bit OS

  Paul Andrew just announced on the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog that a new Community Technology Preview (CTP) version of the Visual Studio extensions for SharePoint 1.3 (VSeWSS 1.3) is now publically available on Microsoft Connect site. New Features Read More... Posted Monday, January 12, 2009 9:24 AM by Roger Lamb | 0 Comments