Archive for November, 2008

Customising SharePoint navigation using OOTB features

If you have ever written a custom site definition, then chances are you have also probably wanted to control the site navigation settings for your new site def as part of the definition (rather than something that must be changed after the site is created, or something that you have to write your own feature [ READ MORE ]

Announcing Isolator for SharePoint : Unit testing for SharePoint made easier

If you have been a SharePoint developer for any period of time, you might know that testing SharePoint applications can be a troublesome experience. Well thankfully there are people out there that are working to make this an easier process, such as the folks over at TypeMock. Here is some info from their web site [ READ MORE ]

Video: Federated Search in MOSS presentation

This is the last in my presentation marathon from the last 7 days, my presentation on Federated Search in MOSS. Its a very high level overview of what you can do with federated search, so what it is, how it works, how you can implement it, and so on. If you have any comments or [ READ MORE ]

IE8 beta 2 authentication issues with host header configured sites

I just wanted to put this one out there to see if anyone else is having the same issue. On my laptop I have got multiple SharePoint sites set up that I am using the host file to point the requests in the right direction (for example I have ’sharedservices’ set up for my SSP [ READ MORE ]

Video: My DevCon Presentations

Here is the video and files for the presentation I did at DevCon. Feel free to leave me any comments below! Also here is a link to the site definition presentation I gave at the Canberra SharePoint User Group in August of this year, its the one I used to fill the last minute hole in [ READ MORE ]

Office DevCon wrap up

After two days of DevCon in Sydney I gotta say that I was pretty impressed with the event. There were heaps of people there from various experiences and backgrounds, from the casual developer, to the power user who doesn’t write code, to the hardcore developers, MVPs and product experts. I got into a lot of [ READ MORE ]

Using the PortalProvisioningProvider

How many times have you been writing a site definition and thought to myself "Wouldn’t it be cool if I could get this thing to set up a few sub-sites when it is created?". Well ask no more, because there is a surprisingly simple answer in the form of the OOTB PortalProvisiongProvider. Basically you go and [ READ MORE ]

DevCon 2008 is almost here

Just a quick reminder for anyone who doesn’t already know – Office DevCon 2008 is on this weekend and I will be making a presentation there on Saturday afternoon. If you are a developer that uses any part of the Office system then you really should get along to this FREE (yes, totally free!) event! [ READ MORE ]

Web part schemas in MOSS

If you have ever exported a web part from a page in a WSS 3 or MOSS site you will have probably noticed that the file extensions for the web parts it spits out are different sometimes. For some web parts you will get a .webpart file, while others will give you a .dwp. Up [ READ MORE ]

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