SharePoint 2007 Development Wiki Blog from Jun 30, 2009

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Development Environment

• Tip: Convering your Virtual PC 2007 disks to Windows Virtual PC (on Windows 7) - Tobias Zimmergren's thoughts on development
  Saved a few of my colleagues today playing with the new VPC stuff in Windows 7!
• Logging everything that is going on when an assembly loads using CThru - But it works on my PC!
  Some nice looking stuff here in terms of being able to trace your application flow
• Sanjay Narang's thoughts on SharePoint : Should I Build my application in SharePoint vs. ASP.net
  Some great conversation is going on here and also in more depth on this [wiki] ...I encourage people to submit their thoughts on this!
• Downloads of my SPTechCon Boston Sessions - The SharePoint Farmer's Almanac
  A great take on SharePoint from an Admin perspective...good way to explain this if your a dev talking to an admin

• SPElements - SPListConstraints: List Constraints add-on SharePoint
  Got shown this by @omarbesiso, haven't had a chance to look deeply into it...but notable just for what it's trying to achieve. Much like SLAM.
• Sahil Malik on Silverlight in Sharepoint -dnrTV
  Sahil has been busy with webcasts and podcasts recently...this one on Silverlight which he seems to be focussing on lately
• CoDe Magazine - Article: SharePoint Applied: SharePoint 2007 Ninja Debugging
  A register only article *sigh* but some good content in there on debugging. Should also check out the SharePoint Development Debugging.
• SharePoint Check Calendar Availability Custom Column (Beta) - Home
  Some awesome clever goings on in this code to check availability before saving calendar entries in SharePoint!
• My adventures into SharePoint and PowerShell « Brian Farnhill
  Brian has been busy learning PowerShell, good discovery post...should also check out wiki section.
• SPCodeSnippets By : Ayman El-Hattab - Home
  Some nice snippets for Visual Studio, some are available with VSeWSS, but more comprehensive in this
• SharePoint BDC Part 1: Getting Started with the Business Data Catalog - Tobias Zimmergren's thoughts on development
  Some more love in the BDC space usually focused on by Lightning Tools folk.

WCM / UI

• Guest Blog by HiSoftware's Founder Robert Yonaitis - Preventing Compliance Errors Before They Happen for the Web Content Scenario in MOSS - The Bamboo Team Blog - Bamboo Nation
  A very hush hush area about Accessibility in SharePoint...
• Sample MOSS 2007 WCM site now available - Adventure Works Travel
  Please please please take the time to check out the Adventure Works content!
• Automatically add themes to the SPThemes.xml file » Andy Burns' SharePoint Blog
  Nice way of deploying Themes in SharePoint
• WSS 3.0 NavBar 2.0
  A cool way to get navigation to work better in WSS 3.0
• Person.aspx Navigation - Becky Bertram's Blog
  A discovery post on modifying My Site navigation (we've all been there sigh)

Testing

• Testing SharePoint Workflows using TypeMock Isolator (Part 3) - But it works on my PC!
  Some nice code on using TypeMock to test Workflow
• [Small steps for testing, big steps for SharePoint testing ]
  Andrew talking about Testing SharePoint

SharePoint 2010

• Erika Ehrli : MSDN Office Developer Center - Pre Office/SharePoint 2010 Update
  The place to bookmark for 2010 info
• What we know or can infer about SharePoint 2010 - as of June 23, 2009 - Blogging about SharePoint
  The rumour mill kicks off again for vNext
• Preparing for Upgrade to 2010 Today - Part 1 Preupgradecheck - SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land
  Joel talks about prepping your environment for 2010

Agile

• [TDD and SharePoint is it worth doing? ]
  Andrew just keeps on doing what he does best...

Mobile

• PKS Mobile Services Pack and PKS Player for iPhone « The General Theory of RIAtivity
  Some awesome stuff going on with PKS recently!

InfoPath

• Submit this Form InfoPath - Kathy Hughes, MVP
  Good read on InfoPath from Australian MVP

Admin

• Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : Service Pack 2 Update.
  Yes, there is a fix for SP2 mishap
• UK SharePoint Team : How to incrementally deploy SharePoint MySites
  Some guidance on deploying My Sites
• Example Solution Architecture: Twynham School Learning Gateway
  Always get asked about architecture of Site Collections etc. This is a great example