Friday June 5 2009
My project this
week has been migrating a system from SharePoint 2003 to SharePoint
2007 - like many things in SharePoint, this is something that is either
very easy or very hard.
The first challenge was getting prescan
to work. Prescan kept ...
Monday May 4 2009
I have been working with SharePoint 2007 since the first beta came out. The tools and methodologies available for development have improved a lot since then, but I still see a lot of organisations that haven't quite got a handle on how to use ShareP...
Monday May 4 2009
Recently I have been doing some work for a large bank with some rather restrictive policies on their SharePoint environment - no custom code can be installed. SharePoint Designer used to be an option, but with some changes to VPN settings I'm limite...
Thursday February 12 2009
I've just got back to Sydney after two months away. I've talked to a couple of places about new SharePoint contracts - I'm not looking for that sort of thing actively, but I'm open to the right offer.
What I notice has changed since last year is ...
Wednesday January 28 2009
Today I finally got around to setting up a decent way of handling code blocks on my blog - some of my earlier code listings looked pretty awful if I didn't put enough work into the formatting.
I'm now using SyntaxHighlighter from Google Code. It ...
Tuesday September 23 2008
One of the clients I work with has a policy of not allowing any custom code. This is because the SharePoint environment is shared by 40,000 users and poorly designed code could cause serious performance issues - understandable, but no less inconveni...
Friday September 19 2008
Here's an error that caused a lot of frustration over the last couple of days:
Failed to apply template TemplateName.stp to web at URL SharePointSiteName, error The template you have chosen is invalid or cannot be found.
This is a typicall...
Thursday September 18 2008
My current SharePoint project involves setting up lists in the browser then packaging them as features for deployment. To export the lists we are using SharePoint Solution Generator (the one good part of VSeWSS). This works well as a one time proces...
Sunday May 25 2008
While randomly looking through the incoming searches on my blog, I came across a post from Bamboo Solutions - How to install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 on Vista. Hacking the installer to allow SharePoint development without building a VM ...
Thursday May 22 2008
The workflow I have been working on includes some delay activities. It was difficult enough getting them to run at all using the ManualSchedulerService (I think UseActiveTimers fixed that issue), but now that I get into some more complete testing ...