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Category Archives: SharePoint
Developing for a load balanced SharePoint environment
If you are going to deploy to a load balanced environment, a big plus is being able to develop in one. Unfortunately a lot of us don’t have that luxury! Here are some key points to help out. Managing state … Continue reading
Tailoring SP2010 p&p logging to your application
Back in our last post, we saw an intro to the logging power found in the SP 2010 patterns & practices library. Now, let’s make it our own. Defining your own areas and categories The out-of-the-box behaviour is fine, but … Continue reading
Intro to SharePoint 2010 patterns & practices – Logging
Microsoft’s patterns & practices library for SharePoint 2010 contains plenty of useful information and tools. One of the simplest things you can start using right now is its logging functionality. Check out these handy features: Log to both the ULS … Continue reading
Analysis of the Oracle Hyperion Web Part
This is a post I originally wrote in July 2009 and never got around to properly completing. Because of its age I considered binning it altogether however a quick web search seems to turn up that nothing has changed for … Continue reading
Why it’s an exciting time to be part of SharePoint Overflow!
SharePoint Overflow started as one of the first Stack Exchange sites (running version 1.0). It’s also been one of the most successful. We’ve been able to attract some fantastic contributors including several MVPs and our traffic stats have continuously increased. … Continue reading
Administrators! Stop before deploying that custom code!
Even with no development knowledge, there’s a simple and quick tool that SharePoint administrators can run before deploying a solution package or web part to get some idea on whether it could cause instability your farm! It’s SPDisposeCheck and is … Continue reading
Query Demo Web Part
A question recently came up on Stack Overflow about querying data from multiple SharePoint lists and binding the results to a GridView control. I realised there were some types of SharePoint queries I hadn’t explored, and that it would be … Continue reading
When alerts don’t work ‘by design’
I’ve just spent many fruitless hours trying to find a bug in my code that has been causing minor but visible pain for a number of users – and it was never even there. You would think after spending several … Continue reading
Showing the bulleted links list view
A user recently took quite a shine to this lovely bulleted view of links in the list view web part: They wanted all of their existing links list to be changed over to use this view. What makes this case … Continue reading
Explorer View breaks after IE8 install on Windows 2003
Since installing Internet Explorer 8 on my Windows Server 2003 development machine I’ve been unable to use Explorer View, with the error: Please wait while Explorer View is loaded. If Explorer View does not appear, your browser may not support … Continue reading
