Archive for June, 2009

My adventures into SharePoint and PowerShell

On the back of some requests on Twitter about me using PowerShell for SharePoint, I thought I would put this post together to talk about where I started and the things I did today in the space of a couple of hours. To start with, I’ll admit that I haven’t done more than look at [ READ MORE ]

Customising the Content Query Web Part’s RSS feed

If you have ever used the Content Query Web Part (CQWP) you will have noticed that it has an option to return an RSS feed for the items it’s returning. This makes it great for things like “Latest News” sections of a website and things like that. But did you know that you can actually [ READ MORE ]

Registrations for SharePoint Saturday Sydney are now open!

If you are planing on coming to SharePoint Saturday Sydney you can now register to attend the event by following the “register” link on our website! We have had a few people put their hand up to present as well, but we still need more presenters! So if you think you have something you want [ READ MORE ]

Use TFS to automate even better WSP builds with WSPBuilder

I’m doing some work with a client at the moment to set up a new TFS environment, and as part of that provide a way to have their new build server spit out WSP files for them. I have already gotten all of their developers (except one, he knows who he is :-P) on to [ READ MORE ]

Announcing SharePoint Saturday Sydney!

It’s now official! Keep your calendar free for the 8th of August because SharePoint Saturday is coming to Australia! For those of you who haven’t heard of SharePoint Saturday here is the description from our website: Join SharePoint architects, developers, and other professionals that work with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for ‘SharePoint Saturday’, on [ READ MORE ]

Canberra SharePoint User Group June 2009 – Creating a build server for SharePoint projects and Implementing an end-to-end accessibility strategy in MOSS

Here are the details for this month’s user group presentation! Hope to see you there! This month we have two presentations. The first will be Chris Rigter presenting about his experience creating a continuous integration build server for SharePoint projects: Chris Rigter has been involved SharePoint Development since 2007 and has experience developing in many [ READ MORE ]

Embedding JavaScript files into your DLL’s

This isn’t strictly related to SharePoint development, as you can do this with any ASP.NET page, but basically the theory here is that you can avoid the need to deploy files (such as JavaScripts, images, CSS sheets, whatever) to your sites by embedding them within your DLL’s. The reason I have been looking at this [ READ MORE ]

Writing a custom trace listener to log to the 12 hive log from the Enterprise Library logging block

I have recently been looking into ways to make use of the Microsoft Enterprise Library 4.1in a client’s SharePoint environment, and one of the places I directed my attention to right away was the logging block. The Enterprise Library stuff makes it easy to configure all sorts of settings in the web.config file to control [ READ MORE ]

How to use the web application and site collection selector controls

If you have ever found yourself poking around the central admin site of your SharePoint farm and wondered “how can I use that web application selector in my code?” then you need to read this one, because you will find like I have that the web application and site collection selectors are very, very easy [ READ MORE ]

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