Archive for December, 2008

How to get TFS to automate your WSP builds with WSPBuilder

UPDATE: If you want to build WSP files with WSPBuilder and TFS then check out my updated post “Use TFS to automate even better WSP builds with WSPBuilder“ Now this is what happens when I have too much time on my hands over the holidays (you would think I would have something better to do, and [ READ MORE ]

Team Foundation Server 2008 and 64-bit – its just not meant to be

My first blog post while I’m on holidays, and its to complain about a big lack of functionality in Team Foundation Server. Basically this all started while I was rebuilding my laptop (still a work in progress, but coming along well) and when it came time for me to install TFS 2008 on the box [ READ MORE ]

Planning to rebuild my dev environment and want second opinions

What does a SharePoint developer do when he is on holiday – well the most common answers would probably involve doing things that in no way relate to SharePoint. But for me, near the top of my list is rebuild the laptop that I use for my development. There are a few things that I [ READ MORE ]

Why I like using site definitions!

I had a bit of a chat with Jeremy Thake yesterday about one of the pages on SharePointDevWiki.com – the discussion of site features vs site templates vs site definitions. I suppose most of the discussion came from the fact that there really wasn’t a lot of discussion on the topic, which was a little [ READ MORE ]

100 people to follow on Twitter

Just a quick post this morning – Joel Oleson has put together a list of 100 SharePoint people to follow on twitter and I ended up making it on to the list (which I thought was kinda cool). Anyway if you use twitter and wanna keep in touch with what the big names in SharePoint [ READ MORE ]

Creating CAML queries that use three or more filters

Just a quick one that a came across today – I have a scenario where I am building a CAML query on the fly based on the part of the site that a user is browsing. Essentially the query will have a number of statements that need to go into an <Or> clause. Now I [ READ MORE ]

Making a context sensitive content query web part

I will start by explaining the picture – after I thought of the title of this blog post the very next thing I thought of was from Conker’s Bad Fur day (which if you haven’t played, go and get it. It was originally released on the N64 but is also on the Xbox and I [ READ MORE ]

Using the delegate control to deploy a web part through features

This is something I had no idea about until a friend of mine, Zak Azeez (don’t say I didn’t give you credit for this one mate!) pointed it out to me when we were discussing how I could best put a predefined web part into the master page of a SharePoint site. He suggested that [ READ MORE ]

New SharePoint development wiki site needs your content!

Big thanks to Jeremy Thake for getting this idea together – A new wiki site has been started that is going to be specifically aimed at SharePoint developers. Essentially what we are looking to do is to bring together all the data that is floating around your favourite search engine and link to it all [ READ MORE ]

Planning on using the SharePoint API in your silverlight app? Better think again

… and the issues keep on coming for my silverlight app! It looks like you can’t reference Microsoft.SharePoint.dll in your silverlight projects (or a lot of other libraries for that matter) because they are not compiled for the silverlight runtime. For those who don’t know, the silverlgiht runtime is essentially just a cut down version [ READ MORE ]

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