Tag Archives: development

Administrators! Stop before deploying that custom code!

Posted on 06/11/2009 by Alex Angas

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 →

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Showing the bulleted links list view

Posted on 05/08/2009 by Alex Angas

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 →

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Debugging file locking in the GAC

Posted on 29/07/2009 by Alex Angas

Do you ever find that your solution files have been “successfully deployed” according to SharePoint, yet the updated code isn’t taking effect? Perhaps you are trying to debug but breakpoints aren’t being hit when normally there’s no problem. Yet for … Continue reading →

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Programmatically retrieving the name of an SSP

Posted on 14/10/2008 by Alex Angas

This was asked on the new Stack Overflow programming questions site recently (which you should really check out and start using if you don’t already!). Getting the SSP name is something that I’ve needed to do to build the SSP … Continue reading →

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Internal name vs display name

Posted on 13/09/2008 by Alex Angas

Anyone that’s done a reasonable amount of work with the SharePoint object model will soon come across its flaws. The one that I regularly come up against is when working with the SPField object that represents list columns. There are … Continue reading →

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Project Server ItemSwapper control

Posted on 28/07/2008 by Alex Angas

ItemSwapper hasn’t been documented by Microsoft so its behaviour may change between service packs – use at your own risk! With the 2007 version, Project Server is now a SharePoint application. One of the best things about this is the … Continue reading →

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