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SharePoint Best Practices conferences

I'm very pleased to have been selected to speak at the Best Practice conferences in San Diego in February and in London in April. I'll be doing a session on what you need to look out for when branding search UI and another the benefits of automating...

Published 12-16-2008 11:53 AM by BenRobb

HowTo: Display parts of a page to anonymous users only

My ex-colleague Chris O'Brien (prolific blogger at http://www.sharepointnutsandbolts.com/ ) has a good post on some of the hidden gems in the SharePoint web control libraries ( http://www.sharepointnutsandbolts.com/2008/03/great-controls-to-be-aware...

Published 06-20-2008 10:54 AM by BenRobb

Using MSBuild to manage deployments in SharePoint - Part 3

This is the third part of a series of posts around using MSBuild for deployments of SharePoint applications, and in this post I introduce a custom MSBuild task to perform a custom Export of content from my Development environment. Creating a custom MSBuild...

Published 04-25-2008 2:34 PM by BenRobb

Using MSBuild to manage deployments in SharePoint - Part 2

This series of blog posts is taken from a session I delivered at the SharePoint Conference 2008, in March. See here to read part 1. Part 2 - Using MSBuild to perform simple deployment tasks SharePoint solutions quickly start to have lots of different...

Published 03-11-2008 7:03 PM by BenRobb

Using MSBuild to manage deployments in SharePoint - Part 1

This series of blog posts is taken from a session I delivered at the SharePoint Conference 2008, in March. Part 1: Why would you want to have build automation in SharePoint Solutions ? For simple solutions, where you have little custom code, and a single...

Published 03-10-2008 2:07 PM by BenRobb

Announcing AC's VS CodeRush/Refactor Tools for SharePoint Devs

Andrew Connell has just announced some new tools for SharePoint developers to get their teeth into - these are top tools for people who need to build their own feature files from scratch: "I finally got sick of writing feature.xml after feature.xml...

Published 08-22-2007 8:47 AM by BenRobb

MVP

Got word on Sunday that I received the MVP award for MOSS. Thanks to those that nominated me...I appreciate it! And congratulations to Bob Fox, who has had his renewed, and Andrew Woodward (fellow UK SP User Group member) who has also received his. [I...

Published 07-03-2007 10:01 AM by BenRobb

How do you tell whether your code is executing in Edit mode?

Answer: SPControlMode currentControlMode = SPContext.Current.FormContext.FormMode; SPControlMode can be in one of 4 states: Display Edit Invalid New Very useful if you are having to write code which has to be aware whether or not it is executing in edit...

Published 05-15-2007 1:18 PM by BenRobb

Cross list queries: SPSiteDataQuery vs. walking the OM tree

Recently I had a requirement to do some cross list queries. The scenario was this: I had a list at the root of my site collection, and a content type (inheriting from Article Page) which had a lookup field using this list. I had a design requirement to...

Published 05-15-2007 8:48 AM by BenRobb

Using ProjectProperty to render the Title of the current SPWeb in a Page Layout

Just a quick one today: In a wonderful bit of consistency in naming convensions, the way of getting properties about the current site (SPWeb) is by using the ProjectProperty web control: <SharePoint:ProjectProperties Property="Title" runat...

Published 04-20-2007 11:19 AM by BenRobb

How to create an img tag relative to the current Site Collection

I was creating a master page today which was going to be deployed to a farm with many site collections, and I needed to reference an image which was in the local Style Library directly. An easy task if your site collection is at the root of a web application...

Published 04-20-2007 11:04 AM by BenRobb

Gotcha in SPFieldType

So I was playing with some examples of exporting some site columns, wrapping them into features and then installing them on a new box. All straightforward except when it came to publishing webs. The SPFieldType enum has a number of options, none of which...

Published 12-11-2006 1:42 PM by BenRobb

TechEd Europe

I'll be there next week - looking forward to catching up with some of the SP community there. Anyone else going?

Published 11-01-2006 8:58 AM by BenRobb

Commerce Server vs MOSS

Mei Ling has written a great blog about getting Commerce Server 2007 working with MOSS. This has been on my list of things to look at for a while, and something that has been bugging me since I first looked at MOSS way back at PDC last year. There does...

Published 10-23-2006 10:10 AM by BenRobb

Developing in a v3 world – part 2

Continuing the discussion about how developing projects in a WSS v3 or MOSS world is different to traditional .NET development, in this post I am going to discuss the mechanics of controlling quality and consistency within your projects. The central issue...

Published 10-17-2006 7:45 AM by BenRobb

Developing in a v3 world – part 1

WSS v3 / MOSS moves us to a brave new world of software development. In my opinion it is a major shift for large and medium sized dev houses. This series of posts examine some of the challenges likely to be felt by these companies. 1. Who do you need...

Published 10-05-2006 11:01 AM by BenRobb

How do you get SharePoint Designer to open a website which is using Forms Authentication as its Authentication Provider?

This has come up in a number of newsgroups, beta and public, and I’ve found a solution to this. The basic problem is that SP Designer expects to be authenticating using Windows Auth, and this means that you get access denied errors when connecting to...

Published 10-03-2006 7:09 AM by BenRobb

Building HedKandi.com

Lawrence Liu (Community Lead, Sharepoint Products and Technologies) asked me to write a guest blog entry for the ECM Team blog [http://blogs.msdn.com/ecm]. The introduction is below, the main body is here . In the past, most SharePoint developers would...

Published 10-02-2006 6:58 AM by BenRobb

What content placeholders do you need when customising master pages in MOSS?

When customising master pages, or starting from scratch, it is useful to know what the out of the box pages require in terms of Content Placeholders. If you get this wrong, you will get an error like this: Server Error in '/' Application . Cannot...

Published 08-14-2006 4:46 PM by BenRobb

About time...

A number of people have told me that its about time I started blogging about all the shiny new stuff I’ve been playing with lately. Firstly, though, a bit about me: I’m a technical consultant for a UK based MS Gold Partner, cScape , who I’ve been with...

Published 08-14-2006 4:42 PM by BenRobb

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