Posted in Good Links, SharePoint on January 30, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Reserved SharePoint Query string IDs (FeatureId, ListTemplate, List, ID, VersionNo, ContentTypeId, RootFolder, View, FolderCTID, Mode, Type) : http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner/archive/2009/01/30/querystring-parameters-you-should-not-use-in-your-sharepoint-application.aspx
SharePoint Dispose check tool, this tool will analyze assemblies that deal with SharePoint and tried to identify if all SharePoint objects used are correctly disposed: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/SPDisposeCheck
Posted in SharePoint on January 23, 2009| 4 Comments »
The conventional wisdom for moving a SharePoint site collection between farms is to backup the site collection using the stadm -o backup on the source server and then use stsadm -o restore on the destination server.
This approach is very neat and straight forward and works very well in most cases. The problem is with large site collections ( starting from a few GBs); with sizes in the GBs, this process might takes a very long time.
An alternative and much quicker way to backup and restore a site collection is using SQL Server backup and restore for the content database. SQL Server backup restore is way faster than stsadm backup/restore for large site collections.
Here are the steps needed:
Notes:
Posted in Uncategorized on January 19, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Tool to make sure that the feature used by a site collection is already installed: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/WssAnalyzeFeatures
Completely remove a feature from a site collection: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/WssRemoveFeatureFrom .this handles the problems when a site collection has a feature that is not installed (or is corrupt on the farm), in that case, stsadm -o deactivate will fail. This tool comes to the rescue in that case.
Posted in Good Links on January 19, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Presidential inauguration will be streamed using Microsoft Silverlight: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/jan09/01-16PICMSSilverlightPR.mspx
Why Oslo is important: http://dvanderboom.wordpress.com/2009/01/17/why-oslo-is-important/
Posted in Good Links on January 13, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Firebug 1.3 released: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843
Top 25 most dangerous programming mistakes: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001210.html
100 Interview Questions for software developers: http://www.noop.nl/2009/01/100-interview-questions-for-software-developers.html – These are more like conversation starters.
Posted in Good Links on January 12, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Microsoft’s Marketing strategy during the economic tough times: http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/marketing/can_microsoft_sell_value_in_tough_times.html
VSeWSS 1.3 CTP for VS2008: https://connect.microsoft.com/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?SiteID=428&DownloadID=15946
Innovation and entrepreneurship course from MIT Open Courseware: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Sloan-School-of-Management/15-351Spring-2008/CourseHome/index.htm
Building and deploying ASP.NET applications within MOSS 2007 using VS2008 and VSeWSS 1.2 : http://blogs.msdn.com/cjohnson/archive/2008/06/07/updated-building-a-simple-asp-net-page-based-sharepoint-application-in-visual-studio-with-the-visual-studio-extensions-for-wss-1-2-with-visual-studio-2008.aspx
Posted in Tips on January 12, 2009| Leave a Comment »
There was a known problem when trying to add attachments to a customized SharePoint forms. that caused an error saying “This form was customized not working with attachment"
Microsoft has "fixed" this issue with the SharePoint Services infrastructure updates (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953271)
Please note the following to make this fix work:
Posted in Good Links on January 9, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Create a SharePoint Slipstream with latest updates: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/01/08/how-to-create-a-sharepoint-slipstream-using-the-latest-updates.aspx
Tips for a technical presentation: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TipsForPreparingForATechnicalPresentation.aspx
PDC 2008 sessions videos: https://sessions.microsoftpdc.com/public/timeline.aspx
Creative Thinking techniques: http://www.creativethinking.net/WP03_Techniques.htm
Creative Thinking exercises: http://www.creativethinking.net/WP04_Exercises.htm
Posted in Good Links on January 3, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Collection of cheat sheets: http://www.addedbytes.com/cheat-sheets/
More Cheat sheets for developers: http://refcardz.dzone.com/home?page=1
Free E-book about Entity Framework: http://weblogs.asp.net/zeeshanhirani/archive/2008/12/05/my-christmas-present-to-the-entity-framework-community.aspx
Collection of free technical e-books :http://www.freetechbooks.com/ (Note: this is a repository of links to e-books offered and hosted by many different web sites)
Posted in Good Links on January 2, 2009| Leave a Comment »
.NET technical forecast for 2009: http://www.softinsight.com/bnoyes/2009/01/02/NETTechnicalForecast2009.aspx
8 bug trends for the future: http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/archive/2009/01/02/eight-big-trends.aspx
Key software trends: http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/archive/2008/09/17/key-software-trends.aspx
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