SharePoint 2007 Development Wiki Blog from July, 2009

• [completely biased] How ASP.NET Developers can leverage SharePoint webcast
  @jthake (me) presents on the findings from the collaborative efforts on the SharePointDevWiki.com page...a huge thanks to the community on this!
• SPTDD: SharePoint and Test Driven Development, Part Two - Eric Shupps
  @eshupps continues the discussions around TDD referencing big guns like Sahil Malik and Andrew Woody! More TDD here
• JOPX on SharePoint 2007 (MOSS and WSS V3 ): The ten commandments for SharePoint development
  @jopxtwits Great great great post! You must all abide by them!
• Introducing the Content Monster Web Part by Todd Baginski & Andrew Connell
  @andrewConnel and @toddbaginski show off their latest creation!
• Re-using SharePoint controls - Robin
  @robinmeure just keeps pumping out quality posts! Some great code + screenshots of useful controls available to you in SharePoint
• SharePoint Automation: Setting List Properties using STSADM
  @glapointe has been quiet, but this stsadm command is a corker and you can look at the code to see how he's leveraged the API...great resource!
• Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : How We Did It: BDC Meta Man Web Edition
  @nickswan & @brettlonsdale have shown that rich interfaces are possibly in SharePoint moving the BDC MetaMan directly in! Great job guys and awesome lessons learnt!
• SharePoint Automation: Deploying SharePoint Files Not Handled by the WSP Solution Schema
  @glapointe provides a great way to deploy files to the SharePoint farm web application directories that are not supported by WSPs schema!
• Everything Microsoft. : 5 things you should know about SharePoint 2007 Records Center
  Records Management is really the poor untalked of citizen in SharePoint, this area is going to rise to surface in next version as ECM is pushed harder and taken more seriously in "v2.0" for SharePoint of Records Management 
• SharePoint Search-as-You-Type with jQuery - Jan Tielens' Bloggings
  @jantielens "Mr SharePoint jQuery" (well one of them) keeps showing off how "sexy" you can make SharePoint More on jQuery here
• JOPX on SharePoint 2007 (MOSS and WSS V3 ): SharePoint - It's all about making the right choices and decisions - When to use custom site definitions.
  @jopxtwits more debate on custom site definitions, which has been collaborated on here too. More on Site Definitions here.
• The ordering of your CAML query matters... « The Art of SharePoint Evolution
  Great little trap to watch out for in CAML!
• SharePoint PowerShell PowerPack v1 Feb 2009 – SharePointforAll
  More PowerShell goodness provided by Quest for PowerShellGUI. More on PowerShell here.
• AvePoint Introduces Free Tool for Item-Level SharePoint Restores from SQL Server and DPM Backups
  Another AvePoint getting on the "free" bandwagon...keep them coming ISV's! Very valuable
• SharePoint Governance
  Some huge SharePoint MVPs have gotten together to produce this site along with some big commercial companies too...be interested to see where this goes...
• Office Sustained Engineering : Office hotfixes to be delivered on a defined schedule in the form of Cumulative Updates
  Yes SP2 has just come and now Cumulative updates are here to keep your Admins busy, be aware of the changes!

Ok, so I've managed to start breathing again over the excitement of the Sneak Peak of SharePoint 2010...but also of being on the Office 2010 Technical Preview too (more to come!).

What's hot on Wiki

• Why don't ASP.NET developers use WSS?
• Solution package development tool comparisons
• SharePoint Development Integrators - Handover Quality Checklist
• Accessing list items using the object model
• Building a SharePoint Development Environment
• Site Features vs Site Templates vs Site Definitions

SharePoint 2010

Technical Preview

• SharePoint 2010
  "Sneak Peak" at SharePoint 2010...lots revealed
• Developer Changes in SharePoint 2010
  My opinion on what was peaked at
• Oh good they got rid of the SharePoint 2007 Pie...oh crap they replaced it with a SharePoint 2010 Pizza
  My opinion on the new SharePoint Pie...Pizza...thing...
• Preparing for Upgrade to SharePoint 2010 Today
  Joel's presentation on preparing your environment for SharePoint 2010
• Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Protocol Documentation
  Some hard core documentation on SharePoint 2010 protocols
• SharePoint Products and Technologies: 2010 (Technical Preview) Developer Documentation
  Some Developer documentation on SharePoint 2010

SharePoint 2007

Environment

• PowerShell Script to Disable Loopback Checking - Blogging about SharePoint
  Everyone's biggest headache, now got the Panadol Rapid cure
• Yet more reasons to use ReSharper
  Some nice commentary on 64-bit support with debugging
• SharePoint Automation Source Code – Home
  Gary LaPointe has put his code up on CodePlex for all his awesome tools!

Deployment Governance

• #SharePoint 2007 SP2 Preupgradecheck rocks the earth – use it now for health check!
• Governance Configure Customise Code
• Managing Risks in Sharepoint 3 - Solutions and Features Deployment - Tommy Segoro - SharePoint Blogs / SharePoint University
• JOPX on SharePoint 2007 (MOSS and WSS V3 ): Why you would want access to the sourcecode for custom developed SharePoint solutions

Data

• Extracting and Loading SharePoint Data in SQL Server Integration Services
• Managing Lists and Libraries with Thousands or Millions of Items - SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land

Object Model

• Measure 48,000 times; Cut once.
• SharePoint Automation: Custom SharePoint 2007 Site Collection Creation Page
• Programmatically figure out the Email address of a list » Andy Burns' SharePoint Blog
• Using the object model to access and change RSS settings on a SharePoint list - Tobias Zimmergren's thoughts on development

Client Side

• Setting SharePoint Form Fields Using JavaScript

Security

• Best Practices for Elevated Privilege in SharePoint - Windows Live

Webcasts

• Preconf 'SharePoint 2007 development with .NET Framework 3.5' tracks recorded at TechDays 2009 Belgium
• Best Practices for Web Content Management Development, Presented by Paul Stork - A BPC Video Exclusive - The Bamboo Team Blog - Bamboo Nation
• Beginning SharePoint Development Available Now! Understanding SharePoint Journal

Interop

• Use Windows Azure as your SharePoint Records Center
• ColdFusion SharePoint Integration - Forta.com

Other

• SharePoint as a Platform for Mobile Applications - Effortlessly Extend SharePoint Functionality to iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile & More - The Bamboo Team Blog - Bamboo Nation
• "Conference" Room Manager for SharePoint « Tony Rockwell's Blog
• SharePoint Version numbers are different in "Site Settings" and "Central Admin".. What? - James Milne
• Embed Developer Notes Inside Your InfoPath Forms - Windows Live
• Inconvenient Page Title element - Waldek Mastykarz

No surprises that #SP2010 is the big hitter again this week. Also seems everyone is quiet...no doubt a lot of the MVPs are quietly off playing with SharePoint 2010 and it'll be nuts once it goes public after conference...I'm sure they are all drafting lots of posts to pull traffic to their blogs

Important

• June Cumulative Update Packages Ready for Download
  Yes, SP2 is probably still on your TODO list, but now there is the June CU too!
• Idealware: Why SharePoint Scares Me
  Good to see SharePoint from an outsider
• SPList.RootFolder causes Dispose Problem
  Anyone using RootFolder really needs to bare this in mind! Also check out When to Dispose SharePoint objects.

#SP2010

• What's Up? NDA or NOT? Office 2010 Technical Preview vs. SharePoint 2010 Technical Beta - SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land
  Read this before posting anything about #SP2010
• First look at SharePoint 2010 for Developers « FredSpace
• SharePoint #SP2010 Feature Versions and Upgrade Support
• Creating SharePoint 2010 workflows with Visio 2010
• InfoPath Team Blog : What's New in InfoPath 2010?
• Tomblog » Blog Archive » The Road to SharePoint 2010: Hidden Titbits (IT Pro Video)
• Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering : Microsoft Office Backstage (Part 1 - Backstory)
• What are you hoping for in SharePoint 2010?: Public Request!
• World Partner Conference Keynote web casts

Development

• Chaks' Corner Item Level Permission for Document Libraries - Release v1.0.0.0
  Great work by Chaks on a new project in CodePlex
• Inconvenient Content Query Web Part vs. Lookup fields with multiple values - Waldek Mastykarz
  @waldekm just keeps delivering the goods!
• El Blanco's Office 2007 Blog: Interrogate the Document Version within the ItemCheckingIn Event Receiver?
  Can anyone help this guy?
• PowerShell script to report SharePoint version number - Improved! - Blogging about SharePoint
  Great work by Michael on this!
• A MailServer For Win2k8-Based SharePoint Dev
  With the issues of SMTP/POP3 in Windows Server 2008, I think this is the best approach so far.
• SharePoint Kings: Understanding SchedulePicker class and using it as control
  SharePoint Kings keep coming up with these great posts...not sure what projects they're working on but they're surely pushing the platform!\
• jQuery to Fix 'Image Web Part' « Nick Hadlee's Blog on SharePoint, web stuff, development and other unrelated drivle...
  Some handy tips around jQuery for the Image Web Part

Architecture

• Whitepapers - KnowledgeLake, Inc.
  "Scaling SharePoint® 2007: Storage Architecture" had an update in June 09, well worth a read!

WCM

• The Forrester Wave: Web Content Management for External Sites, Q2 2009
  Interesting background on where SharePoint sits in Forrester's eyes in WCM playing field
• Adding CSS links to your SharePoint pages or code... » Andy Burns' SharePoint Blog
• Hiding Empty Content Areas in SharePoint 2007 Publishing Sites
  @AndrewConnell keeps helping out in the WCM space, great tips here

Presentations

This area just highligts some of the great presentations I've found this week

• Tips and Tricks for Improving SharePoint 2007 Performance-Episode 27
• Eric Shupps #SharePoint Presentations
• Best Practices SharePoint Deployment and Management (presentation). - SharePoint Saturday Ozarks « Wading Through
• Slides and Code Samples from my Enterprise Search Talks at SharePoint Saturday Ozarks - Corey Roth - DotNetMafia.com - Tip of the Day
• Turning Choas into Order - SharePoint Saturday Toronto Session Materials
• David Chappell - The Microsoft Application Platform: A perspective Matthijs Hoekstra Channel 9

Others

• New MOSS SP2 bug .. continued and problem solved! - Robin zevenseas 
• Information Worker Competence Center - Achieving Business Success with your Collaboration Infrastructure (white paper)
• Things that Should be Easy: Getting paid for your SharePoint software, part 2
• Equilibrium MediaRich for SharePoint Accelerates Marketing and Fundraising Efforts for Feeding America
• Business Data Catalog and SalesForce

Top This Week

• SharePoint's Branding Limitations, Part 1 - SharePoint Magazine
  An awesome set of articles on Branding even showing the source broken up in Firebug Toolbar!
• SharePoint; from an Engineer's Perspective : MOSS Pre-Installation Health Check
  Awesome blog post on great way to check the health of your farm!
• Copy Sharepoint SPD workflows in a few minutes « Sharepoint applied
  Yes SPD workflows have some limitations, but this seems like a nice workaround to one of the show stoppers!
• SharePoint Logging Library By Ayman El-Hattab - Home
  A very nice SharePoint Logging Framework all wrapped up ready for you to use

#SP2010

Very quiet this week after people being shut down from talking about it in lead up to Las Vegas Conference ;-(

• #sp2010 Controversial SharePoint 2010 Issue Now Free
  Really worth a read!
• #sp2010 Microsoft switching SharePoint to claims-based authentication - Network World
  Interesting take on what's to come...
• #SP2010 - SharePoint 2010 List Throttling
• #SP2010 - LINQ for SharePoint
• #office2010 - Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering : Office 2010 Application Security

Tools

• SharePont Alert Import/Export Tool - Home
  A great example of a simple solution to a simple problem by Readify's Brian Farnhill

Solution Packages (WSP)

• Adding SharePoint class resources to your feature using WSPBuilder - Dennis van der Stelt
• Best Practices: Developing Content Types in SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
  Some important reminders that just keep coming up about Content Types and upgrading existing ones via WSPs
• André Vala : SharePoint 2007 Deployment: Overview
• SharePoint - Overview to creating a Solution Package - Tech Talk with Brett Maytom

Development

• Want to configure Timer Jobs ? - Robin - zevenseas -SharePoint Blog
• Use Alert Framework when sending notifications in your SharePoint custom app - Yaroslav Pentsarskyy's SharePoint and .NET adventures
• Use the LayoutsPageBase class when creating SharePoint Application Pages
• SharePoint: Creating HttpHandler for user profile images - Gunnar Peipman's ASP.NET blog
• Microsoft Certifications : Developer Certification Changes
• CFSharePoint...Yes! - singularityconcepts.com - the web redesigned
• ToolTask for VSeWSS 1.3 (Feb 2009 CTP) Command-line - Windows Live

WCM

• SharePoint's Branding Limitations, Part 2-SharePoint Magazine
• SharePoint's Branding Limitations, Part 3 - SharePoint Magazine
• SharePoint's Branding Limitations, Part 4-SharePoint Magazine
• Maxime Bombardier - SharePoint Architecture & Development : Experiences on using a single farm for developers (WCM)
• Restoring Production MOSS 2007 Publishing Sites Into Development

Silverlight

• Integrating Silverlight 3 in SharePoint 2007 « Karine Bosch's Blog
• SmallWorkarounds: Integrating Silverlight 2.0 with Sharepoint MOSS2007

Other

• The Master Blog : Introducing the Newest Microsoft Certified Masters for SharePoint!
• Legal Technology - 10 Things SharePoint Can Do for Your Firm
• C3 Associates -> Content + Context = Collaboration » Five Features SharePoint 2010 Needs to Be a True ECM System
• An Introduction to SharePoint - SetFocus Technical Article Series
• Automate iFilter and PDF Indexing support to a SharePoint Farm
• Email, Discovery and SharePoint: 3 Key Document Management Issues
• SharePoint Governance for Education