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SharePoint access checker: http://www.codeplex.com/AccessChecker

SharePoint Debugging and Logging Tips and Tricks : http://andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2008/06/11/SharePoint-Debugging-and-Logging-Tips-and-Tricks.aspx

Make your SharePoint debugging experience a little less painful: http://andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2007/01/25/5855.aspx

Demos debugging .NET apps: http://blogs.msdn.com/tess/pages/net-debugging-demos-information-and-setup-instructions.aspx

Debugging tips for SharePoint: http://blog.thekid.me.uk/archive/2007/07/25/debugging-tips-for-sharepoint-and-wss-exceptions.aspx

Extra SharePoint features on CodePlex: http://www.codeplex.com/features

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to turn it off

   log4net.LogManager.GetRepository().Threshold= log4net.LogManager.GetRepository().LevelMap[“OFF”];

to turn it on

   log4net.LogManager.GetRepository().Threshold= log4net.LogManager.GetRepository().LevelMap[“ALL”];

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SP content deployment wizard source code released: http://www.sharepointnutsandbolts.com/2008/09/source-code-for-sp-content-deployment.html

SharePoint 2007 short courses: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/CR102146081033.aspx

Caching ins SharePoint 2007 : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc298466.aspx

New Version of U2U CAML Query tool: http://www.u2u.info/Blogs/karine/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=d35935e0-8c0e-4176-a7e8-2ee90b3c8e5a&ID=30

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Today Google Released its new browser (Chrome), the beta version can be found at http://www.google.com/chrome

A comic book explains what’s new in chrome and the idea behind it http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/index.html

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SharePoint Server 2007 SDK: Software Development Kit V1.4 (August 2008)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6D94E307-67D9-41AC-B2D6-0074D6286FA9&displaylang=en

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Software Development Kit (SDK) V1.4 (August 2008)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=05E0DD12-8394-402B-8936-A07FE8AFAFFD&displaylang=en

Tips for improving backup and recovery performance (Windows SharePoint Services)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc850701.aspx

Best Practices Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2007

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb736746.aspx

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“Installer Class and Custom Actions” a comprehensive article about custom action and installer class: http://www.devcity.net/PrintArticle.aspx?ArticleID=339

“NHibernate Screencast Series” a series of webcasts about NHibernate

http://www.summerofnhibernate.com/

The Table of contents is:
Session 01: Setup and Basic Usage Pattern
Session 02: Exploring Query Methods and Syntaxes
Session 02a: Exploring Query Methods and Syntaxes (con’t)
Session 03: Exploring INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE Semantics
Session 04: Exploring Transactions and Concurrency
Session 05: Modeling Foreign-Key Relationships in NHibernate
Session 06: Advanced Querying of Child Collections
Session 07: Exploring m:n Relationships, Views, and Components
Session 08: Effective Techniques for Database-Driven Modeling
Session 09: Effective Model-Driven Schemas
Session 10: Stored Procedures, Interceptors and NHibernate Query Analyzer — oh my!

Changing UI Culture on the fly

https://secure.codeproject.com/KB/cs/CultureManager.aspx

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in order to debug an installer custom action, simply put the following line where you want the breakpoint to be 

System.Diganostics.Debugger.Break();

Note that during installation, the process is running under the msiexec process from windows\system32 and thus any path to files are based on windows\system32 and not program files\your app path

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Log4net willl not generate any log files if running under vista with a less-than-admin privilege.

It can not log to C:\ or Program Files for example.

Better change the Log file and use the $TMP environment variable to make log4net put log file in the \Users\user name\… \App Data\Local\Temp where any user has write access.

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MSN Live Messenger API for Addins :

http://blogs.msdn.com/katieblanch/archive/2006/05/11/595765.aspx

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