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SharePoint Dispose Checker - Even more useful than expected

By now you have probably heard that the SharePoint Dispose Checker has been released. It's an excellent tool for checking you are disposing of your SharePoint objects correctly! I downloaded it this morning as soon as I read about it just to see if...

Published 01-30-2009 7:53 AM by adrh

Yet Another SharePoint Conference Post

Yep, BandWagon.JumpOn();! I'm off to Seattle on Sunday for the SharePoint Conference . Hopefully I'll be able to get in the door at Kells and put some faces to names! I've never been there, but judging by the number of people interested ,...

Published 02-26-2008 7:12 PM by adrh

2008'ified

Actually I've been 2008'ed for quite a while now, but only recently fully 2008'rtm'd! In a recent fit of over-exuberance (somewhat short of the Steve Ballmer opening keynote level mind you), I decided to embark on an upgrade journey. The...

Published 02-26-2008 6:27 PM by adrh

Free SharePoint Business Data Catalog Column

I have decided to release the custom BDC column that I created to the public domain. This custom column type provides a BDC Column type that can be created at the Site Column level and therefore used in Site Content Types. Out of the box this is not possible...

Published 12-21-2007 10:02 AM by adrh

Best Practice : Using disposable objects in SharePoint

I found this article on MSDN via Andrew's post posing the question "So is it best practice to only use C# for SharePoint development?". A good question and one that will have plenty of comment from all I imagine. For what it's worth...

Published 11-14-2007 9:59 AM by adrh

Addendum to the SharePoint Deployment Daylight Savings patch issue

There has been much written about the issue (in particular Joel's Q&A ) with Deploying Solutions on SharePoint 2007 after Daylight Savings started (and ended depending on where you are) this year and I have run into it several times. Most recently...

Published 11-09-2007 9:11 AM by adrh

And now, auto-create Manifest XML

About a day after I posted about Rich Finn's auto-create DDF tool, he completed the story with the Manifest generation! That's pretty fast turnaround! Of course I still haven't managed to make time to try it out, but I will certainly try next...

Published 09-12-2007 9:23 AM by adrh

Auto-create DDF for SharePoint Solutions

A long time ago I said "One day I'd like to automate the generation of the DDF file, perhaps via a macro or XSLT". Well, I never did, but Rich Finn did . Good job Rich, can't wait for the Manifest creation bits! Now if I just had time...

Published 08-30-2007 1:23 PM by adrh

A great resource for MOSS Search - SharePointSearch.com

If you're looking to get info about MOSS Search then SharePointSearch.com is a good place to start. The guys over there are doing a great job of information about aggregating news, information about related products and commentary from a range of...

Published 08-10-2007 11:21 AM by adrh

Enterprise Search - SharePoint Search vs Google

There has been plenty written about the Google Enterprise Search products and their possible competition with Microsoft SharePoint Search technologies and I recently had the need to advise someone on which would suit them best. Obviously, given this is...

Published 08-01-2007 10:04 AM by adrh

Partner Conference Day -1

After a landing I'd rather forget, which might actually be a good one in Denver (lucky I recently learned that modern passenger jets are designed to land at up a to 45 degree angle to the runway!), we arrived in Denver last night (depending on where...

Published 07-10-2007 5:20 PM by adrh

The Dark Side? MOSS on a MacBook Pro!

I may as well admit it, I have been seduced by the power of the Dark Side (that should generate the 5,911 Google hit for that phrase and maybe knock Google off the top few spots in Live Search! ). After much research I decided on one of the new MacBook...

Published 07-05-2007 12:11 PM by adrh

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server's Most Innovative Search Solution

In the middle of all the excitement of the APAC SharePoint Conference, Breakfast Briefings, Partner Conference Prep and product releases, it was announced in June that we at MacroView have won the Quickstart for Microsoft Search Innovative Solution Contest...

Published 06-29-2007 11:56 AM by adrh

The solution to saving properties in Custom Field Types!

I have finally managed to put Anton's code to the test in my own custom field type with great results. The underlying issue is that the Update method does not seem to get called when adding a new field, and because there are a number of initializations...

Published 05-25-2007 6:20 AM by adrh

Adding additional properties to the MOSS People Search

I figured out how to add additional fields from the Profile Import into the People Search today. This requirement occured to me after discussing how this might be done with Aaron Saikovshi at the APAC SharePoint Conference. In this particular case, I...

Published 05-21-2007 8:34 PM by adrh

SharePoint Farm, Virtual Server and Network Load Balancing

I had reason this week to test our WISDOM DMF products operation in a Load Balanced SharePoint environment. The outcome was very successful and surprising easy to achieve, especially given my previous level or Load Balancing - which was VERY limited,...

Published 04-13-2007 5:34 AM by adrh

Adding SharePoint 2007 Search to the Search Providers in Internet Explorer 7

IE 7 allows you to add as many search providers as you like into your search box. While you can add all the usual suspects - Live, Google, Yahoo etc, you can also add SharePoint Search servers: Open IE and drop down the menu on the search box: Click on...

Published 04-12-2007 12:25 AM by adrh

Excluding Content Types from Search Results

I received a question recently about excluding certain items from the search results and thought it was worth a post. There are two main options that I thought of when asked. Firstly, editing the XSL on the Core Results web part that controls the format...

Published 03-28-2007 10:46 PM by adrh

Querying the SharePoint Change Logs

SharePoint 2007 keeps a record of all changes made to data, users, permissions, sites etc in a Change Log which you can access via the object model. This is actually how the indexer figures out what to crawl as part of an incremental crawl. You need to...

Published 03-22-2007 12:15 AM by adrh

SharePoint Alternate Access Mappings

I came across the second part of Troy Starr's Trilogy on Alternate Access Mappings in SharePoint 2007. It's a great series from an Administrators perpective on what they are and why you need them. I recently 'stumbled' upon them when writing...

Published 03-19-2007 10:04 AM by adrh

SharePoint Solution Template

I included a link to a SharePoint Solution Template for VS.Net 2005 in my previous post, which I discovered was a broken link, so I have created my own and you can get it here . It is VERY basic. Just one of our deployment solutions stripped of all the...

Published 03-16-2007 1:22 AM by adrh

SharePoint Solutions Rock!

Been working pretty hard recently to get our 2007 product releases out the door, and one of the things that has made our lives much easier is the Solution Packaging in SharePoint V3. Our application consists of several features, a web service, custom...

Published 03-15-2007 9:02 AM by adrh

Custom Search Web Part

Been a while since my last post. Mostly because we have been working very hard to complete a custom search solution. The requirements for the solutions were: - Data from Treeview controls that is entered into items must be able to be search using the...

Published 02-20-2007 3:17 PM by adrh

Return to Custom Field properties

A while ago I posted about Custom Field Type , wherein I mentioned a problem I was having getting my custom properties to stick when saving a field. I posted a question to the MSDN Forum about this and received a pretty promising response , which goes...

Published 02-11-2007 11:26 PM by adrh

Adding your own Administration Pages to Site Settings or Central Administration

You can make your custom SharePoint Applications look more like a part of the SharePoint environment by adding any Administration Tasks (ie. settings pages) that you might require into the Admin Console or Site Settings areas. To do this you need a Feature...

Published 02-07-2007 9:57 PM by adrh

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