SharePoint 2007 Development Wiki Blog

As per my last post, I was shocked at how many were not aware of the SharePointDevWiki.com.

I'm going to get stickers printed for people to add to their laptop lids and also get some T-Shirts printed in hope that people will be walking bill boards during the event in support of the communities efforts and my facilitation of the SharePointDevWiki.com.

My goal is to try and get as many people at the Keynote to be wearing the T-Shirts! So if you're keen to wear one let me know! I think Rob from SharePointPodShow.com also has similar goals!

I need to come up with a slogan for the shirts. Brett Lonsdale from Lightning Tools was the only one that actually came up with one: "finding SharePoint Dev twicky?" which is a clever little twist on words! I had "Legalise WSP Development" borrowed by a TypeMock slogan I've seen "Legalise Unit Testing".
If anyone is interested in sponsoring the production of some cool T-Shirts let me know, we can put a sponsored by bit on the T-Shirts somewhere.

Leave a comment below, or contact me directly.

TOP THIS WEEK

• Deployment Survey
  If you haven't already filled in the survey on how you do Deployment in SharePoint...please please please fill it in! Put a clients hat on and fill it in as if you are them...just need more data ;-)
• PowerShell for developers - Waldek Mastykarz
  Waldek keeps keeping on keeping on with his guidance...this time around PowerShell!
• JOPX on SharePoint 2007 (MOSS and WSS V3 ): SharePoint as a development platform - 7 reasons why I like it ...
  Another great post on SharePoint as a Development Platform!

PODCASTS/WEBCASTS

• Best Practices for Developing SharePoint Web Parts - End User SharePoint
  @toddbleeker is an amazing presenter and just articulates things so well! worth a listen, shame wasn't a proper screen cast :-(
• SharePoint Branding-Episode 29
  These guys just keep pumping out quality podcasts!
• User Adoption - Build It and They Will NOT Come! The MOSS Show
• #BPC09 Users, Profiles and MySites - What Me Pa..Panic?

#SP2010

• The Results are in... Are you Prepared for SharePoint 2010? - SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land
• New Whitepaper - Preparing for SharePoint 2010 - SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land

TOOLS/ENVIRONMENT

• Sezai's - SharePoint - MOSS 2007 & WSS 3.0 - Blog: SPDocGen - SharePoint Documentation Generator
• Quick Tip: Upgrading a bunch of SharePoint .wsp's at one time : The Blog of Doug Perkes
• Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v4.0 x64

SOLUTION PACKAGES

• SharePoint Column Filtered Search Web Part - Home
• SharePoint Url Shortener - it's finally here! « Paul Liebrand's Weblog

DEVELOPMENT

• When Is Read Only Not Read Only? (Content Types) - Windows Live
• Hiding the Sign In link for anonymous access to SharePoint web sites - MOSS Blog
• Aggregating content with the Content Query Web Part (CQWP) : Shared Points for SharePoint...
• Use Integration Services to Import SharePoint List Items to SQL Server « The WorkerThread Blog
• Muhimbi's SharePoint Blog: Microsoft Giveth and Taketh, the mystery of the SPAuditQuery.RowLimit property

DEPLOYMENT

•  MOSS Object Cache Memory Tuning is not an Intuitive Process « SharePoint Interface

ISV/VENDORS

 N/A

WCM

•  SharePoint Design Gallery
• SharePoint Internet presence governance plan (white paper)

SILVERLIGHT

 N/A

OTHER

• Why isn't my SharePoint Environment Social??? - SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land
• Microsoft Productivity Hub Training Site installed on WSSDemo - Ian's SharePoint Blog
• Available For Immediate Download: The Productivity Hub For Microsoft SharePoint Great Training Resource - SocialMedia Talk
• Announcing the Fourth Release of the Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit - Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog

TOP THIS WEEK

• How I Benefit from Native Boot From VHD Reza Alirezaei's Blog
  All the cool kids are doing it! Even me! Love it!
• Pre-filling fields on EditForm.aspx
  Great work by Andy Burns on Event Receivers!
• How to Create Killer SharePoint Applications with Four Simple Techniques
  Some good advice around leveraging the SharePoint Platform from dev perspective
• Server-side Office Development with SharePoint - Things that Should be Easy
  Awesome post on how to use SharePoint as dev platform!
• SharePoint 2007 - 12 Hive System-File Changes: One Feature to rule them all! - Sharad Kumar
  Came up in conversation again (from June), worth remembering in terms of deploying out of box hive files (if you really really have to)

PODCASTS/WEBCASTS

• Todd Klindt's SharePoint Admin Netcast #21
• Todd Klindt's SharePoint Admin Netcast #20

#SP2010

• Arpan Shah Talks 'SharePoint: Past, Present and Future' in His BPC Keynote
  Developer Dashboard, Accessible sites (AA standard)
• Visio 2010: Designing SharePoint (2010) Workflows
  Not sure if he should have posted this...but interesting about another new tool to build workflows
• #sp2010 Microsoft Showcase: Building Solutions on SharePoint
• #SP2010: Introducing the Client Object Model

TOOLS/ENVIRONMENT

N/A

SOLUTION PACKAGES

• Wrap a User Control inside a Web Part using WSPBuilder « Meanderings of a wandering mind

DEVELOPMENT

• jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services - Home
• Generate your own SPBuiltInFieldId class - Waldek Mastykarz
• JQuery and SharePoint - Lookup fields and event lists - Weblog Ton Stegeman MVP
• Muhimbi's SharePoint Blog: Additional 'little known' SharePoint Dispose Guidelines
• SPWeb.Site, should you call Dispose() on it? - Stack Overflow
• Issue 6 - SPThemes and SPSampleData Explained Released Understanding SharePoint Journal
• Getting Your Feet Wet Writing Code For SharePoint - Part 3 of 5
• Getting Your Feet Wet Writing Code For SharePoint - Part 4 of 5

DEPLOYMENT

• WSP Solution deployment - To Share or not to Share that's the question - The Bamboo Team Blog - Bamboo Nation

ISV/VENDORS

N/A

WCM

• Building the initial Master Page - Chaks' Corner SharePoint WCM - Breaking the Ice

SILVERLIGHT

N/A

OTHER

• The Services of the 2007 Microsoft Office System - SharePoint Tips and Tricks, Best Practices and Recommendations
• Microsoft Case Studies: Adecco USA
• Building Records Management Solutions with SharePoint Server 2007
• Sharing ....SharePoint : SharePoint Sessions at TechEd Australia 2009
• SharePoint RFP Guidelines - West Monroe Partners LLC
• Oscar Medina's Blog Building Dashboards Using SharePoint Designer 2007 – Techniques using Linked Data Sources
• SharePoint Learning Kit V1.4 Released : UK Education Group Partner News
• Trends: Do SharePoint right before SharePoint does you wrong
• Zac Smith's SharePoint Blog - SharePoint Search for Public Websites
• BPC: Ben Curry Delivers the 'Top 10 Administrative Bad Practices' for SharePoint

TOP THIS WEEK

• Implementing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Solutions : SharePoint Products and Technologies White Paper
  "oldie, but a goodie"
• Virtual User Group Meeting Featuring a Developer Panel! SharePoint 2007 Weblog » Blog Archive » SharePoint Nation! -
  "this is on tomorrow!"
• Getting Your Feet Wet Writing Code For SharePoint - Part 2 of 5

PODCASTS/WEBCASTS

• Water Cooler Interview with Shane Young Kirk Allen Evans Channel 9
• SharePoint and Code Access Security-Episode 28
• Microsoft Showcase: SharePoint in Plain English

#SP2010

• Preparing Today for #SP2010 Q&A - SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land
• SharePoint 2010: Do you upgrade? - Hans zevenseas SharePoint Blog

TOOLS/ENVIRONMENT

• WSPBuilder and CAS Policies » Andy Burns' SharePoint Blog
• SPTraceView - Easy overview of the SharePoint logs (ULS logs) - Tobias Zimmergren's thoughts on development
• Visual Studio T4 template for SharePoint Solution (DDF) - Waldek Mastykarz
• Christophe Fiessinger's Blog : Solid State Drive/SSD and SharePoint Server, Project Server Demo Image Benchmark

SOLUTION PACKAGES

N/A

DEVELOPMENT

• Security Trim Contents of a Data View Web Part « Rai's SharePoint Blog
• SharePoint Kings: Changing sequence and adding new menu items in SharePoint
• SharePoint Kings: Hiding / Removing Menu and Menu items in SharePoint
• http://www.mannsoftware.com/blog/archive/2009/07/29/user-controls-not-in-the-controltemplates-folder.aspx
• Retrieve XML from List and View and use as RSS
• SharePoint blog list definition (with OPML export) - Home
• Demo Page: SharePoint Web Services jQuery Library « Marc D Anderson's Blog

DEPLOYMENT

• Lessons Learned from Automating a SharePoint Deployment
• Chris O'Brien's blog: Incremental deployment support added to CD Wizard
• SharePoint; from an Engineer's Perspective : Walk the walk that you talk - PART 1

ISV/VENDORS

N/A

WCM

• Chaks' Corner SharePoint WCM - Breaking the Ice - Getting Started
• Maxime Bombardier - SharePoint Architecture & Development : BlobCache, Style Library, and anonymous users

SILVERLIGHT

N/A

OTHER

• Things that Should be Easy: Run STSADM commands remotely
• SharePoint skills in New Zealand
• Change Passwords for SharePoint Accounts - Sharing The Point (SharePoint)
• SharePoint Libraries, Folders and Content Types Oh My! - Bob Mixon
• Survey: 55% Experiencing SharePoint Infrastructure Pain
• Daniel's Windows World : Fun with Windows 7 - VHD Boot and DISM.exe
• Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - Less Virtual, More Machine - Windows 7 and the magic of Boot to VHD
• SharePoint Search Service Tool - Home
• Microsoft's SharePoint Thrives in the Recession - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

TOP THIS WEEK

• Bad Practice #1: Not using Solutions for deploying artifacts to the server(s) - Ben Curry, CISSP, SharePoint Server MVP
  I want to sing this from the rooftops...use Solution Packages pleeeasssseee!
• Getting Your Feet Wet Writing Code For SharePoint - Part 1 of 4
  Very good introduction to SharePoint Development

TOOLS/ENVIRONMENT

• Carsten Keutmann: WSPBuilder Extensions ver. 1.0.6 - (WSPBuilder Version: 0.9.9.0728)
  More info on WSPBuilder releases...great news that Cartsen is busy at work with new version for VS2010!
• SPLibrary - Home
  Great library for List manipulation over web services
• Execute SharePoint timer job using Powershell « SharePoint Tech Blog
  Awesome tips on running SharePoint timer jobs with PoSH

SOLUTION PACKAGES

• Bad Practice #1: Not using Solutions for deploying artifacts to the server(s) - Ben Curry, CISSP, SharePoint Server MVP
  I want to sing this from the rooftops...use Solution Packages pleeeasssseee!

DEVELOPMENT

• Master-PowerShell With Dr. Tobias Weltner - PowerShell.com
  free e-book on PowerShell
• www.superedge.net - Sharepoint, MOSS, .NET and Photography: How to Modify SharePoint List RSS Settings Programmatically
  A great graphical mapping of the web UI of SharePoint and the object model! awesome way to learn links
• www.superedge.net - Sharepoint, MOSS, .NET and Photography: How to apply custom permissions to a list in SharePoint
  Great explanation of security around SharePoint Lists
• Leveraging ASP.NET User Controls in SharePoint development - Waldek Mastykarz
  Nice explanation of leveraging ASP.NET controls
• Security Trim Control « Rai's SharePoint Blog
  A great reference on Security Trimming Controls
• jQuery Web Parts for SharePoint - Home
  Some great work around jQuery
• Dirty Words: Retrieving a list item's attachments

ISV VENDORS

• Webtrends for Microsoft SharePoint
  worth a read...

WCM

• Real World Branding with SharePoint Server 2007 Publishing Sites (Part 1 of 2)
• Microsoft Case Studies: Ferrari S.p.A.

SILVERLIGHT

• Calling the Enterprise Search web service from Silverlight 3 - Corey Roth - DotNetMafia.com - Tip of the Day

OTHER

• Case Study of High Availability for SharePoint Server by Using Virtualized Environments and Database Mirroring
• Making changes to SharePoint the quick and dirty way (Ghetto Deployment) - Corey Roth - DotNetMafia.com - Tip of the Day
• Getting People to Participate in Your SharePoint Site - SharePoint for End Users
• Kimberly L. Tripp Database Maintenance Best Practices Part I - clarifying ambiguous recommendations for Sharepoint
• SharePoint 2010 Visio Workflows and Nintex
• Improving SharePoint Performance
• Microsoft Office 2010 #office2010
• SharePoint vs Alfresco vs Nuxeo Sirius Corporation plc
• SharePoint can have Wildcard searching... » Andy Burns' SharePoint Blog
• Becoming A SharePoint Professional - Resources To Help You On Your Way - SocialMedia Talk

Top This Week

• SharePoint Deployment survey
• Building a Knowledge Blogging System in SharePoint - brainlitter.com :: Ramblings from the Victoria SharePoint Trenches
• Automatically add 'Search As You Type' to every SharePoint page using Infuser
• Storing SharePoint List meta data without adding an column

#SP2010

• I think everyone is too busy playing in their private betas to blog about #SP2010 *sigh*

Tools/Environment

• Things that Should be Easy: Creating 64-bit Virtual Machines
• Unit Testing SharePoint in a 64-bit Environment

Solution Packages (WSP)

• Building and Packaging SharePoint Solutions - Eli Robillard's World of Blog.

Development

• SharePoint Developer Productivity Tip #3 - Easy CAML Queries - Elumenotion Blog
• Assembly Binding Log Viewer - Ayman El-Hattab's Blog
• How to troubleshoot file upload problems in SharePoint - Todd Klindt's SharePoint Admin Blog
• SharePoint multiple prompt fix  SPMike.Blog()
• Using ASP.NET Profiles in a SharePoint FBA Site
• Update: ItemCheckingIn Event and Detecting a Major Document Version
• Working with Association Data in MOSS Workflows

ISVs/Vendors

• New release of MuSH, 'TinyURL' for SharePoint v1.1.0.1
• Writer & PR Man: Jason!: Alert Handling for SharePoint® using Mobile Entree®
• Home - Welcome to the Accessibility Community Portal for SharePoint
• 'Massage' SharePoint into submission using Muhimbi's SharePoint Infuser Muhimbi's SharePoint Blog
• Axceler PinPoint Download
• WebCon Security Report Web Part - WebCon Solutions

WCM

• Adding Themes the supported way! - Robin  zevenseas  SharePoint Blog

Silverlight

• SharePoint 2007 Content Migration, A Case Study
• Integrating Silverlight 3 in SharePoint 2007 « Karine Bosch's Blog
• Calling the Enterprise Search web service from Silverlight 3

Other

• Your First Presentation - SharePoint or Otherwise
• Wrox Press: Real World SharePoint 2007
• #SP2010 CMIS and SharePoint 2010 details are hard to find  CMS Report
• Legal Technology - 10 Things SharePoint Can Do for Your Firm

Top This Week

• SharePoint's Branding Limitations, Part 1 - SharePoint Magazine
  An awesome set of articles on Branding even showing the source broken up in Firebug Toolbar!
• SharePoint; from an Engineer's Perspective : MOSS Pre-Installation Health Check
  Awesome blog post on great way to check the health of your farm!
• Copy Sharepoint SPD workflows in a few minutes « Sharepoint applied
  Yes SPD workflows have some limitations, but this seems like a nice workaround to one of the show stoppers!
• SharePoint Logging Library By Ayman El-Hattab - Home
  A very nice SharePoint Logging Framework all wrapped up ready for you to use

#SP2010

Very quiet this week after people being shut down from talking about it in lead up to Las Vegas Conference ;-(

• #sp2010 Controversial SharePoint 2010 Issue Now Free
  Really worth a read!
• #sp2010 Microsoft switching SharePoint to claims-based authentication - Network World
  Interesting take on what's to come...
• #SP2010 - SharePoint 2010 List Throttling
• #SP2010 - LINQ for SharePoint
• #office2010 - Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering : Office 2010 Application Security

Tools

• SharePont Alert Import/Export Tool - Home
  A great example of a simple solution to a simple problem by Readify's Brian Farnhill

Solution Packages (WSP)

• Adding SharePoint class resources to your feature using WSPBuilder - Dennis van der Stelt
• Best Practices: Developing Content Types in SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
  Some important reminders that just keep coming up about Content Types and upgrading existing ones via WSPs
• André Vala : SharePoint 2007 Deployment: Overview
• SharePoint - Overview to creating a Solution Package - Tech Talk with Brett Maytom

Development

• Want to configure Timer Jobs ? - Robin - zevenseas -SharePoint Blog
• Use Alert Framework when sending notifications in your SharePoint custom app - Yaroslav Pentsarskyy's SharePoint and .NET adventures
• Use the LayoutsPageBase class when creating SharePoint Application Pages
• SharePoint: Creating HttpHandler for user profile images - Gunnar Peipman's ASP.NET blog
• Microsoft Certifications : Developer Certification Changes
• CFSharePoint...Yes! - singularityconcepts.com - the web redesigned
• ToolTask for VSeWSS 1.3 (Feb 2009 CTP) Command-line - Windows Live

WCM

• SharePoint's Branding Limitations, Part 2-SharePoint Magazine
• SharePoint's Branding Limitations, Part 3 - SharePoint Magazine
• SharePoint's Branding Limitations, Part 4-SharePoint Magazine
• Maxime Bombardier - SharePoint Architecture & Development : Experiences on using a single farm for developers (WCM)
• Restoring Production MOSS 2007 Publishing Sites Into Development

Silverlight

• Integrating Silverlight 3 in SharePoint 2007 « Karine Bosch's Blog
• SmallWorkarounds: Integrating Silverlight 2.0 with Sharepoint MOSS2007

Other

• The Master Blog : Introducing the Newest Microsoft Certified Masters for SharePoint!
• Legal Technology - 10 Things SharePoint Can Do for Your Firm
• C3 Associates -> Content + Context = Collaboration » Five Features SharePoint 2010 Needs to Be a True ECM System
• An Introduction to SharePoint - SetFocus Technical Article Series
• Automate iFilter and PDF Indexing support to a SharePoint Farm
• Email, Discovery and SharePoint: 3 Key Document Management Issues
• SharePoint Governance for Education

No surprises that #SP2010 is the big hitter again this week. Also seems everyone is quiet...no doubt a lot of the MVPs are quietly off playing with SharePoint 2010 and it'll be nuts once it goes public after conference...I'm sure they are all drafting lots of posts to pull traffic to their blogs

Important

• June Cumulative Update Packages Ready for Download
  Yes, SP2 is probably still on your TODO list, but now there is the June CU too!
• Idealware: Why SharePoint Scares Me
  Good to see SharePoint from an outsider
• SPList.RootFolder causes Dispose Problem
  Anyone using RootFolder really needs to bare this in mind! Also check out When to Dispose SharePoint objects.

#SP2010

• What's Up? NDA or NOT? Office 2010 Technical Preview vs. SharePoint 2010 Technical Beta - SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land
  Read this before posting anything about #SP2010
• First look at SharePoint 2010 for Developers « FredSpace
• SharePoint #SP2010 Feature Versions and Upgrade Support
• Creating SharePoint 2010 workflows with Visio 2010
• InfoPath Team Blog : What's New in InfoPath 2010?
• Tomblog » Blog Archive » The Road to SharePoint 2010: Hidden Titbits (IT Pro Video)
• Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering : Microsoft Office Backstage (Part 1 - Backstory)
• What are you hoping for in SharePoint 2010?: Public Request!
• World Partner Conference Keynote web casts

Development

• Chaks' Corner Item Level Permission for Document Libraries - Release v1.0.0.0
  Great work by Chaks on a new project in CodePlex
• Inconvenient Content Query Web Part vs. Lookup fields with multiple values - Waldek Mastykarz
  @waldekm just keeps delivering the goods!
• El Blanco's Office 2007 Blog: Interrogate the Document Version within the ItemCheckingIn Event Receiver?
  Can anyone help this guy?
• PowerShell script to report SharePoint version number - Improved! - Blogging about SharePoint
  Great work by Michael on this!
• A MailServer For Win2k8-Based SharePoint Dev
  With the issues of SMTP/POP3 in Windows Server 2008, I think this is the best approach so far.
• SharePoint Kings: Understanding SchedulePicker class and using it as control
  SharePoint Kings keep coming up with these great posts...not sure what projects they're working on but they're surely pushing the platform!\
• jQuery to Fix 'Image Web Part' « Nick Hadlee's Blog on SharePoint, web stuff, development and other unrelated drivle...
  Some handy tips around jQuery for the Image Web Part

Architecture

• Whitepapers - KnowledgeLake, Inc.
  "Scaling SharePoint® 2007: Storage Architecture" had an update in June 09, well worth a read!

WCM

• The Forrester Wave: Web Content Management for External Sites, Q2 2009
  Interesting background on where SharePoint sits in Forrester's eyes in WCM playing field
• Adding CSS links to your SharePoint pages or code... » Andy Burns' SharePoint Blog
• Hiding Empty Content Areas in SharePoint 2007 Publishing Sites
  @AndrewConnell keeps helping out in the WCM space, great tips here

Presentations

This area just highligts some of the great presentations I've found this week

• Tips and Tricks for Improving SharePoint 2007 Performance-Episode 27
• Eric Shupps #SharePoint Presentations
• Best Practices SharePoint Deployment and Management (presentation). - SharePoint Saturday Ozarks « Wading Through
• Slides and Code Samples from my Enterprise Search Talks at SharePoint Saturday Ozarks - Corey Roth - DotNetMafia.com - Tip of the Day
• Turning Choas into Order - SharePoint Saturday Toronto Session Materials
• David Chappell - The Microsoft Application Platform: A perspective Matthijs Hoekstra Channel 9

Others

• New MOSS SP2 bug .. continued and problem solved! - Robin zevenseas 
• Information Worker Competence Center - Achieving Business Success with your Collaboration Infrastructure (white paper)
• Things that Should be Easy: Getting paid for your SharePoint software, part 2
• Equilibrium MediaRich for SharePoint Accelerates Marketing and Fundraising Efforts for Feeding America
• Business Data Catalog and SalesForce

Ok, so I've managed to start breathing again over the excitement of the Sneak Peak of SharePoint 2010...but also of being on the Office 2010 Technical Preview too (more to come!).

What's hot on Wiki

• Why don't ASP.NET developers use WSS?
• Solution package development tool comparisons
• SharePoint Development Integrators - Handover Quality Checklist
• Accessing list items using the object model
• Building a SharePoint Development Environment
• Site Features vs Site Templates vs Site Definitions

SharePoint 2010

Technical Preview

• SharePoint 2010
  "Sneak Peak" at SharePoint 2010...lots revealed
• Developer Changes in SharePoint 2010
  My opinion on what was peaked at
• Oh good they got rid of the SharePoint 2007 Pie...oh crap they replaced it with a SharePoint 2010 Pizza
  My opinion on the new SharePoint Pie...Pizza...thing...
• Preparing for Upgrade to SharePoint 2010 Today
  Joel's presentation on preparing your environment for SharePoint 2010
• Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Protocol Documentation
  Some hard core documentation on SharePoint 2010 protocols
• SharePoint Products and Technologies: 2010 (Technical Preview) Developer Documentation
  Some Developer documentation on SharePoint 2010

SharePoint 2007

Environment

• PowerShell Script to Disable Loopback Checking - Blogging about SharePoint
  Everyone's biggest headache, now got the Panadol Rapid cure
• Yet more reasons to use ReSharper
  Some nice commentary on 64-bit support with debugging
• SharePoint Automation Source Code – Home
  Gary LaPointe has put his code up on CodePlex for all his awesome tools!

Deployment Governance

• #SharePoint 2007 SP2 Preupgradecheck rocks the earth – use it now for health check!
• Governance Configure Customise Code
• Managing Risks in Sharepoint 3 - Solutions and Features Deployment - Tommy Segoro - SharePoint Blogs / SharePoint University
• JOPX on SharePoint 2007 (MOSS and WSS V3 ): Why you would want access to the sourcecode for custom developed SharePoint solutions

Data

• Extracting and Loading SharePoint Data in SQL Server Integration Services
• Managing Lists and Libraries with Thousands or Millions of Items - SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land

Object Model

• Measure 48,000 times; Cut once.
• SharePoint Automation: Custom SharePoint 2007 Site Collection Creation Page
• Programmatically figure out the Email address of a list » Andy Burns' SharePoint Blog
• Using the object model to access and change RSS settings on a SharePoint list - Tobias Zimmergren's thoughts on development

Client Side

• Setting SharePoint Form Fields Using JavaScript

Security

• Best Practices for Elevated Privilege in SharePoint - Windows Live

Webcasts

• Preconf 'SharePoint 2007 development with .NET Framework 3.5' tracks recorded at TechDays 2009 Belgium
• Best Practices for Web Content Management Development, Presented by Paul Stork - A BPC Video Exclusive - The Bamboo Team Blog - Bamboo Nation
• Beginning SharePoint Development Available Now! Understanding SharePoint Journal

Interop

• Use Windows Azure as your SharePoint Records Center
• ColdFusion SharePoint Integration - Forta.com

Other

• SharePoint as a Platform for Mobile Applications - Effortlessly Extend SharePoint Functionality to iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile & More - The Bamboo Team Blog - Bamboo Nation
• "Conference" Room Manager for SharePoint « Tony Rockwell's Blog
• SharePoint Version numbers are different in "Site Settings" and "Central Admin".. What? - James Milne
• Embed Developer Notes Inside Your InfoPath Forms - Windows Live
• Inconvenient Page Title element - Waldek Mastykarz

• [completely biased] How ASP.NET Developers can leverage SharePoint webcast
  @jthake (me) presents on the findings from the collaborative efforts on the SharePointDevWiki.com page...a huge thanks to the community on this!
• SPTDD: SharePoint and Test Driven Development, Part Two - Eric Shupps
  @eshupps continues the discussions around TDD referencing big guns like Sahil Malik and Andrew Woody! More TDD here
• JOPX on SharePoint 2007 (MOSS and WSS V3 ): The ten commandments for SharePoint development
  @jopxtwits Great great great post! You must all abide by them!
• Introducing the Content Monster Web Part by Todd Baginski & Andrew Connell
  @andrewConnel and @toddbaginski show off their latest creation!
• Re-using SharePoint controls - Robin
  @robinmeure just keeps pumping out quality posts! Some great code + screenshots of useful controls available to you in SharePoint
• SharePoint Automation: Setting List Properties using STSADM
  @glapointe has been quiet, but this stsadm command is a corker and you can look at the code to see how he's leveraged the API...great resource!
• Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : How We Did It: BDC Meta Man Web Edition
  @nickswan & @brettlonsdale have shown that rich interfaces are possibly in SharePoint moving the BDC MetaMan directly in! Great job guys and awesome lessons learnt!
• SharePoint Automation: Deploying SharePoint Files Not Handled by the WSP Solution Schema
  @glapointe provides a great way to deploy files to the SharePoint farm web application directories that are not supported by WSPs schema!
• Everything Microsoft. : 5 things you should know about SharePoint 2007 Records Center
  Records Management is really the poor untalked of citizen in SharePoint, this area is going to rise to surface in next version as ECM is pushed harder and taken more seriously in "v2.0" for SharePoint of Records Management 
• SharePoint Search-as-You-Type with jQuery - Jan Tielens' Bloggings
  @jantielens "Mr SharePoint jQuery" (well one of them) keeps showing off how "sexy" you can make SharePoint More on jQuery here
• JOPX on SharePoint 2007 (MOSS and WSS V3 ): SharePoint - It's all about making the right choices and decisions - When to use custom site definitions.
  @jopxtwits more debate on custom site definitions, which has been collaborated on here too. More on Site Definitions here.
• The ordering of your CAML query matters... « The Art of SharePoint Evolution
  Great little trap to watch out for in CAML!
• SharePoint PowerShell PowerPack v1 Feb 2009 – SharePointforAll
  More PowerShell goodness provided by Quest for PowerShellGUI. More on PowerShell here.
• AvePoint Introduces Free Tool for Item-Level SharePoint Restores from SQL Server and DPM Backups
  Another AvePoint getting on the "free" bandwagon...keep them coming ISV's! Very valuable
• SharePoint Governance
  Some huge SharePoint MVPs have gotten together to produce this site along with some big commercial companies too...be interested to see where this goes...
• Office Sustained Engineering : Office hotfixes to be delivered on a defined schedule in the form of Cumulative Updates
  Yes SP2 has just come and now Cumulative updates are here to keep your Admins busy, be aware of the changes!

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Development Environment

• Tip: Convering your Virtual PC 2007 disks to Windows Virtual PC (on Windows 7) - Tobias Zimmergren's thoughts on development
  Saved a few of my colleagues today playing with the new VPC stuff in Windows 7!
• Logging everything that is going on when an assembly loads using CThru - But it works on my PC!
  Some nice looking stuff here in terms of being able to trace your application flow
• Sanjay Narang's thoughts on SharePoint : Should I Build my application in SharePoint vs. ASP.net
  Some great conversation is going on here and also in more depth on this [wiki] ...I encourage people to submit their thoughts on this!
• Downloads of my SPTechCon Boston Sessions - The SharePoint Farmer's Almanac
  A great take on SharePoint from an Admin perspective...good way to explain this if your a dev talking to an admin

• SPElements - SPListConstraints: List Constraints add-on SharePoint
  Got shown this by @omarbesiso, haven't had a chance to look deeply into it...but notable just for what it's trying to achieve. Much like SLAM.
• Sahil Malik on Silverlight in Sharepoint -dnrTV
  Sahil has been busy with webcasts and podcasts recently...this one on Silverlight which he seems to be focussing on lately
• CoDe Magazine - Article: SharePoint Applied: SharePoint 2007 Ninja Debugging
  A register only article *sigh* but some good content in there on debugging. Should also check out the SharePoint Development Debugging.
• SharePoint Check Calendar Availability Custom Column (Beta) - Home
  Some awesome clever goings on in this code to check availability before saving calendar entries in SharePoint!
• My adventures into SharePoint and PowerShell « Brian Farnhill
  Brian has been busy learning PowerShell, good discovery post...should also check out wiki section.
• SPCodeSnippets By : Ayman El-Hattab - Home
  Some nice snippets for Visual Studio, some are available with VSeWSS, but more comprehensive in this
• SharePoint BDC Part 1: Getting Started with the Business Data Catalog - Tobias Zimmergren's thoughts on development
  Some more love in the BDC space usually focused on by Lightning Tools folk.

WCM / UI

• Guest Blog by HiSoftware's Founder Robert Yonaitis - Preventing Compliance Errors Before They Happen for the Web Content Scenario in MOSS - The Bamboo Team Blog - Bamboo Nation
  A very hush hush area about Accessibility in SharePoint...
• Sample MOSS 2007 WCM site now available - Adventure Works Travel
  Please please please take the time to check out the Adventure Works content!
• Automatically add themes to the SPThemes.xml file » Andy Burns' SharePoint Blog
  Nice way of deploying Themes in SharePoint
• WSS 3.0 NavBar 2.0
  A cool way to get navigation to work better in WSS 3.0
• Person.aspx Navigation - Becky Bertram's Blog
  A discovery post on modifying My Site navigation (we've all been there sigh)

Testing

• Testing SharePoint Workflows using TypeMock Isolator (Part 3) - But it works on my PC!
  Some nice code on using TypeMock to test Workflow
• [Small steps for testing, big steps for SharePoint testing ]
  Andrew talking about Testing SharePoint

SharePoint 2010

• Erika Ehrli : MSDN Office Developer Center - Pre Office/SharePoint 2010 Update
  The place to bookmark for 2010 info
• What we know or can infer about SharePoint 2010 - as of June 23, 2009 - Blogging about SharePoint
  The rumour mill kicks off again for vNext
• Preparing for Upgrade to 2010 Today - Part 1 Preupgradecheck - SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land
  Joel talks about prepping your environment for 2010

Agile

• [TDD and SharePoint is it worth doing? ]
  Andrew just keeps on doing what he does best...

Mobile

• PKS Mobile Services Pack and PKS Player for iPhone « The General Theory of RIAtivity
  Some awesome stuff going on with PKS recently!

InfoPath

• Submit this Form InfoPath - Kathy Hughes, MVP
  Good read on InfoPath from Australian MVP

Admin

• Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : Service Pack 2 Update.
  Yes, there is a fix for SP2 mishap
• UK SharePoint Team : How to incrementally deploy SharePoint MySites
  Some guidance on deploying My Sites
• Example Solution Architecture: Twynham School Learning Gateway
  Always get asked about architecture of Site Collections etc. This is a great example

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!

• SharePoint Saturday Sydney (8th August)

  @BrianFarnhill et al are organising Australia's first SharePoint Saturday. @DanielBrownSA is also organising one in Adelaide too.

• Winsmarts SharePoint WCF Support

  @SahilMalik has gotten around to releasing on CodePlex the Solution Package with a feature to activate WCF for SharePoint. Great work! I'm making a grand assumption that SharePoint 2010 will have this as default, so always good to get comfortable with it now.

• Providing Application Diagnostics - patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance

  Some great guidance on Tracing & Logging in SharePoint via the Microsoft P&P team!

• Managing SharePoint Configuration- patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance

  Some great guidance on configuration management by the Microsoft P&P team and referrals to some awesome Community solutions for configuration management in SharePoint

• Securing SharePoint List/Document Library Views Seems (sort of) Possible with jQuery

  @PaulGalvin has presented a solution to get round that sneaky business requirement that always seems to come up around securing views on a SharePoint List using jQuery.

• patterns & practices Web Client Software Factory - Release: Guidance to enable Unity in a SharePoint App

  I have been playing with IoC recently and found this great post on the P&P site explaining how Unity can be integrated with SharePoint

• Ian's SharePoint Blog - Testing SharePoint Kerberos Configuration

  @IMorrish published this, not always a development concern, but a great little tool to test Kerberos configuration in an environment.

• Guest Blog by HiSoftware's Founder Robert Yonaitis - Customizing the Page Editing Toolbar to Include Content Validation for the Web Content Scenario in MOSS - The Bamboo Team Blog - Bamboo Nation

  There has been a few of these types of articles published, but I like this one as it puts some more weight around accessibility in a WCM solution!

• SharePoint Solution Deployment Strategies - Dare I say Best Practices?

  LOL the dreaded "Best Practices" slogan...but some good guidance within this article on what you should deploy using Solution Packages with some different scenarios depending on the size of the project.

• SaurabhKV : SharePoint 2007 Development - Build Processes

  Covering off another approach to SharePoint Development Solution Packaging like VSeWSS, WSPBuilder and STSDev.

• MOSS How to ...: Create a Report from an Analysis Services 2008 Database and deploy it in SharePoint 2007

  A great walk through of how to set up a report in a reporting services environment from start to finish!

• I got tired of attaching debugger to w3wp.exe. And you? - Life of a Hungarian SharePoint Geek

  Another nice little addition to attaching the debugger whilst doing SharePoint development...everyones favourite past time!

• New FREE Enhanced Discussion Board View for SharePoint - SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land

  @JoelOleson published information on a new Solution Package that makes Discussion Boards useable...as the out of the box ones simply don't cut the mustard.

This week has been action packed with posts!

• Six ways to store settings in SharePoint by Wicton Wilen
  Great post on methods of configuration...also on the wiki too at Environment Configuration approaches

• YouTube - Beginning SharePoint Development (Part 1 - IISSetup - HD)
  A new series of web casts for SharePoint Developers

• Bill Baer : Alternate Access Mappings and Windows Powershell
  Some cool PowerShell goodness to manage Alternate Access Mappings

• Erwin van der Valk's blog: Practicing patterns : Using interfaces and base classes in different assembly using vsewss 1.3
  Some interesting findings from Erwin with regards to separate dlls for interfaces and a limitations of VSeWSS and a nice workaround

• stsadm.webconfig
  Rich Finn (project founder of SPSource) has started a new project to make managing web.config files using SPWebConfigurationManager even easier!

• Templates-based menu control for SharePoint - Waldek Mastykarz
  Not sure where Waldek gets the time to keep coming up with this stuff...but great information regarding accessibility of Menu controls in SharePoint

• WCF and SharePoint: context != context - Waldek Mastykarz
  More from Waldek on WCF and SharePoint and issues he found on context

• SaurabhKV : SharePoint Performance, Stress or Load Testing
  Some interesting findings on SharePoint Performance etc.

• The Content Query Web Part « Path to SharePoint
  Awesome set of links on the Content Query Web Part!

• How to: Programmatically read the ChangeLog in PowerShell
  Some interesting PowerShell to read the changelog with SharePoint

• Account Names, SharePoint Setups, Server 2008 and Cheese
  Great post by Bill Simser with advice on accounts and setups for SharePoint

• Don't use LocalHost when Developing for SharePoint
  Some great advice from Rob Bogue on using localhost with SharePoint Development

• Granularity of SharePoint Features and Solutions
  A shout out from Francis on how people break down features and solutions

• SharePoint Branding Build Test Checklist
  Some thorough notes on what to check when branding SharePoint

• Debugging your code execution for anonymous users in SharePoint
  Some great tips from Tobias Zimmergren on debugging with anonymous SharePoint sites

• Beginning SharePoint Development in Next USPJ Issue - What Are Your Concerns?
  Bjorn is planning his next USPJ and would like to know your gripes...also check Where to start with SharePoint Development

• A tiny cute SharePoint calendar (Part I)
  Nice "tiny calendar" for SharePoint!

• [Build WSP's at the start of the project and just get it over with!]
  Read and obey ... WSP's rule!

• Stsadm Technical Reference for SharePoint Server 2007
  If you've been on the moon all week...TechNet are dabbling with Silverlight...ohhh ahhhh

• SharePoint Groups vs. Active Directory Groups
  A great comparison between AD groups and SharePoint groups!

• MOSS 2007 - Capture direct view clicks
  Liam just keep delivering! This one is awesome and records click throughs within SharePoint

• Wrapping Your Head Around the SharePoint Beast: The Importance of the SharePoint Community
  Great post on SharePoint community

• Writing a custom trace listener to log to the 12 hive log from the Enterprise Library logging block
  Great post by Brian Farnhill on logging

• SPDX: Object-Relational Entity-Class Generator for SharePoint Lists.

  SPDX makes it easier to write software that works with data stored in SharePoint Lists. It generates strongly-typed entity classes based on the List or the Content Type definition, enabling use of InstelliSense and virtually eliminating run-time errors. It is developed in C#.

• This Week in SharePoint with Joel - Broadcast 02
  Mark and Joel have started doing these webcasts...now on iTunes (awesome!)...great way to keep up with End User related SharePoint posts...and then come here and get the Dev related ones too

• SPExLib Release: These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things « Solutionizing .NET
  Some great extra stuff added to this library which I can see growing into something all SharePoint Developers will use. I've got some bits I will add when I get some time too! Great job for those who have contributed so far! If you've got stuff, go contribute too!

• SharePoint Designer 2010: Preview? What Preview? by Furuknap
  Some interesting pics of the new SharePoint Designer 2010 UI

• SharePoint Form Field Assistant - Home
  I don't know where he gets the time...but this little beauty rocks! The screenshots speak for itself!

• Video: SocialMedia Samurai - SharePoint Use For Public Websites - SocialMedia Talk
  Nuff said about Michael without saying anything, this new series is a must watch!

• CodeProject: Shared Navigation for SharePoint Site Collections. Free source code and programming help
  A common issue with having to split Sites using Site Collections to break out content databases into chunks to get round limitations of one site collection, is the shared navigation...this code project approach shows a way to resolve this.

• Why We Build WSPs and Option Explicit - Blog - Robert Bogue (MVP)
  This is music to my ears! And from an MVP...so please please listen!

• Chris Johnson : How we demo...
  Interesting information on how Microsoft Product Team demo their SharePoint stuff!

• SharePoint can have Wildcard searching... » Andy Burns' SharePoint Blog
  Some interesting collation of research on wildcard searching...one of the most common requirements I get from my clients!

• CodeProject: WSS Picture Thumbnails Web Part. Free source code and programming help
  Another great addition to CodePlex for SharePoint

• Confluence and SharePoint Wikis « Blog @ JodieM.com.au
  Some interesting comparisons between Confluence and SharePoint