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• Server Controls Case-Sensitivity in Page Layouts?

  I came across this in late 2007, and forgot to blog about it. Just catching up, and wanting to post it for reference. While working with page layouts in MOSS, a few of use sometimes encountered a strange message when we requested the page: Only Content... Posted Jul 27 2008, 11:15 AM by Sherman with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint, Page Layouts

• Visual Studio Extensions for WSS 1.2 - Too Bad I Can't Use Them

  (Not in my native Windows environment anyway.) I have a few spare moments at work right now. I've got Windows Server 2003 x64 with a local installation of SharePoint as my development environment. (You can debate the merits of this v. using a VM,... Posted Jun 17 2008, 02:55 PM by Sherman with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Development Process

• Registering a CSS File in SharePoint

  I have a custom publishing site definition. It was, of course, based off the default publishing site definition. I re-organized some features around, and added custom versions of required features just so I could control everything a little more to my... Posted Jun 16 2008, 02:26 PM by Sherman with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Web Parts

• ContentTypeID Syntax/Structure

  There is a more efficient way to do content type IDS than we have done in the past: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa543822.aspx Say we wanted to inherit from "Page", our content type used to look something this (I've split up... Posted Feb 06 2008, 12:24 PM by Sherman with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Coding Best Practices, SharePoint, XML Schema Files

• Custom Web Parts can "break" Variations process.

  Ok, the title is vague, but there's only so much I can put in a title, right? As per MSDN's documentation for the Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages class and Andrew's post on v3 web parts , we should now inherit from System.Web.UI.WebControls... Posted Oct 24 2007, 09:39 AM by Sherman with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Object Model, Web Parts

• PortalSiteMapProvider Properties: IncludePages, DynamicChildLimit

  The PortalSiteMapProvider class is the base provider used by the four default "CMS" SiteMapProviders: GlobalNavSiteMapProvider CombinedNavSiteMapProvider CurrentNavSiteMapProvider CurrentNavSiteMapProviderNoEncode That is, all of these SiteMapProviders... Posted Oct 22 2007, 04:51 PM by Sherman with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Object Model, Navigation

• SPFormContext

  Argh, Sezai beat me to this post about SPFormContext and SPControlMode by a few hours! I have to admit my sentiment is the same as his - I'm super stoked to have found this class . Oftentimes, we need some code to execute, but only in the "published"... Posted Aug 29 2007, 01:30 PM by Sherman with | with 16 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Object Model

• Improving Performance: BlobCache

  When a SharePoint is application is created, a web.config file is created in the application folder you specified. One of the entries inside the SharePoint element is BlobCache. By default, it looks like this: <BlobCache location="C:\blobCache"... Posted Aug 21 2007, 03:25 PM by Sherman with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Performance, Caching

• Planning for Performance

  This isn't in my area of expertise, but a co-worker of mine (thanks Carmen!) alerted me to this, so I figured I should put it here for safe keeping. It's an article that describes the capacity limits for MOSS 2007. Plan for software boundaries... Posted Aug 17 2007, 02:37 AM by Sherman with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint, Infrastructure, Architecture, Planning

• SPSite vs. SPWeb

  We had a discussion amongst the developers in our group recently: what is an SPSite, what is an SPWeb, and what is the difference? Which once should I work with in my code? Looking at MSDN for the SPSite class , we see this description: [SPSite] Represents... Posted Aug 17 2007, 01:06 AM by Sherman with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, SPWeb, SPSite, Object Model

• MSDN Link: SharePoint Best Practices - Disposing WSS Objects

  Might as well dive right in and make the inaugural posting useful... Anyone who's done some development work with SharePoint probably already knows about this article, but I wanted to place it here for reference: Best Practices: Using Disposable Windows... Posted Aug 02 2007, 01:28 PM by Sherman with | with no comments Filed under: Coding Best Practices, SharePoint, Object Model, Memory Leaks