It seems every week more and more great content appears! These could almost become daily Coffee break posts!
WSP
- Carsten Keutmann: Beginning SharePoint Development (Bonus part #3 WSPBuilder overview)
Hot off the press! Carsten has released a fix for an installation issue with WSPBuilder! This man is the shining light of all things SharePoint Dev Tools! - Planning SharePoint Solution Packages (WSPs) - Eli Robillard's World of Blog
Eli has done a great job of articulating the most generic way of breaking up WSPs...which is a question commonly asked of me. - UK SharePoint Team : Modifying out-of-the-box SharePoint files
Yes guys, don't modify out of the box 12 files...but if you do...read below... - SharePoint 2007 - 12 Hive System-File Changes: One Feature to rule them all! - Sharad Kumar
This is a really nice concept...creating a backup on replacing a 12 hive file. I tend to just have backups of 12 Hive files for each major release SP1, Infra Updates, SP2 etc and use file diff...but another nice approach. - John W Powell : Automate SharePoint Solution Builds with Visual Studio Extensions For Windows SharePoint Services (VSEWSS) 1.3
Some TFS goodness with VSeWSS - Use TFS to automate even better WSP builds with WSPBuilder « Brian Farnhill
And some more TFS goodness with WSPBuilder
Environment
- How to effectively manage your SharePoint Environments, deployments and customsations with solid governance, solution packages and source control by Phil Whicklund
Very good presentation on Configuration Management - Zac Smith's SharePoint Blog - Installation accounts for a dev/test server
Completely agree with this...have a read...catch things as early as possible...security is always last thing to remember...before Reports that is
- Connecting to SharePoint 2007 Web Services using a Service Reference in Visual Studio 2008 - Windows Live
Nice little reminders on SharePoint Web Services with WCF from April - A new approach to solve SharePoint's painfully slow spin-up / start-up time for first request - Muhimbi's SharePoint Blog
Application Pool taking AGES to start up...check this post out! AWESOME! - Securing Application Pages in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Updated advice on MSDN on securing application pages
API
- Performance of various methods to retrieve one list item - Waldek Mastykarz
Waldek does it again with a thorough post on different methods of retrieving a list item - Steve Fox : Retrieve SharePoint List Data with XLINQ using VS 2010 Beta 1
Some cool future stuff with XLING in VS2010
Agile Development
- Measuring velocity is not enough - Agile Sharepoint development by 21apps and Andrew Woodward MVP
Andrew is sharing his experiences with TDD...really looking forward to this book once it's published! - Doing Agile in a Team of One - Day 2 and the End of Sprint 1 - Agile Sharepoint development by 21apps and Andrew Woodward MVP
and another one..
WCM
- Top Sharepoint Sites - Sharepoint Gallery Sharepoint Showcase
Great new site...kind of competing against Ian Morrish's www.wssdemo.com excellent resource, but worth a mention! - Chris O'Brien's blog: My checklist for optimizing SharePoint sites
Probably the post of the week for me! Great stuff by Chris on optimising SharePoint...again always the last thing people think of! - SharePoint RTE breaks in IE8 when in editing mode - Waldek Mastykarz
Waldek raises some issues with Rich Text Editor in IE8
- Building Public Facing SharePoint Site - SharePoint Saturday Chicago Session Recap - George Durzi
George Durzi presents some great stuff around WCM - Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : How We Did It: SharePoint.Microsoft.com
AN interesting case study on the new shiny SharePoint.Microsoft.com site
Cloud
- Microsoft Online Services Team Blog : SharePoint Online IPD Guide Published
Some more information on SharePoint for the cloud
Misc
- SharePoint Social Computing - Enterprise Social Software
A new site released today focusing on SharePoint and Social Computing...interesting to see where this goes... - Guest Blog by BlueThread's Rob D'Oria - Why is that BLOB in My SharePoint Database? - The Bamboo Team Blog - Bamboo Nation
Good explanations on BLOB architecture in SharePoint...the most used weapon by other Vendors to combat SharePoint - SharePoint Designer 2007 Governance: Options for selective lockdown? - Sharad Kumar
Lock it down! Uninstall it! It's growing on me, but the source code it manipulates isn't - Tony Testa's World - What are my options for forums in SharePoint?
Some good advice around Forums in SharePoint...because lets face it...the Discussion Board sucks more than the Wiki's!
