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Visual Web Parts for SharePoint in the Sandbox
Get ‘em while they’re hot! Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Power Tools plus a sandboxed compilation to ensure you’re not accidentally calling outside of the allowed set of types and members.Filed under:...
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Data import and ‘old’ dates
Running a data importing tool my team had developed I ran into this little gem: “Unhandled Exception: Microsoft.SharePoint.SPInvalidPropertyException: Date Times before 1/1/1970 are not supported”....
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SharePoint Search: Custom Managed Property Woes
So I was working on some custom search interfaces that my team had built and was getting the infamous “Property doesn’t exist or is used in a manner inconsistent with schema settings”. Now usually this...
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Create a Document Set in Code
I have a solution where we need to create custom Documents Set via code, luckily there are some good samples out there. However I ran into a strange piece of behaviour. My Document Sets were appearing...
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VS 2010: Missing Source Control Icons
So I’m working on a project with a number of other developers at present. However every so often when another developer adds files to source control when they are added to my local solution they appear...
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Setting up Visual Studio 2012 for SharePoint 2013
VS2012 Update 1 is great it adds the Microsoft Fakes framework for stubbing out SharePoint dependencies and other really useful tools for SharePoint development. If you’re using Visual Studio 2012 you...
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Writing testable SharePoint code: New Zealand and Australian SharePoint...
This year I was lucky enough to be invited back to present at the New Zealand and Australian SharePoint Conferences, this time on “Writing Testable SharePoint Code”. As promised in my sessions here is...
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Practical Guide to Public Facing sites
This year I presented a second session at the New Zealand SharePoint Conferences, on “A Practical Guide to Public Facing web sites”. As promised in my session here is the slide deck. Filed under:...
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SPDisposeCheck: Do not use for SharePoint 2013
I like many SharePoint developers out there I am user of SPDisposeCheck. My team and I use this as in our Continuous Integration builds as one of our quality checks on to determine if our code is...
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Name ActiveX controls for public sites AKA go away name.dll prompt
So, I use Chrome, there I said it. They say that admitting you have a problem is the first step to solving it. Anyway when I’m browsing the web using what is, in general, a pretty good browser I’ll...
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MVPComCamp: PowerShell Automation for Everyone
Last weekend around the world there was a global series of events hosted by Microsoft known as MVPComCamp. I was one of the people to present here in Auckland, New Zealand. I was speaking on a topic...
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Don’t get burned by Redis ConnectionMultiplexer; A sample wrapper
Every had a latent bug go undetected and then jump up and bite you? Yeah, not the nicest feeling. I’ve been working on a pretty interesting project that now makes use of Redis to provide a caching...
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VS 2010: Missing Source Control Icons
So I’m working on a project with a number of other developers at present. However every so often when another developer adds files to source control when they are added to my local solution they appear...
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Setting up Visual Studio 2012 for SharePoint 2013
VS2012 Update 1 is great it adds the Microsoft Fakes framework for stubbing out SharePoint dependencies and other really useful tools for SharePoint development. If you’re using Visual Studio 2012 you...
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SPDisposeCheck: Do not use for SharePoint 2013
I like many SharePoint developers out there I am user of SPDisposeCheck. My team and I use this as in our Continuous Integration builds as one of our quality checks on to determine if our code is...
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Name ActiveX controls for public sites AKA go away name.dll prompt
So, I use Chrome, there I said it. They say that admitting you have a problem is the first step to solving it. Anyway when I’m browsing the web using what is, in general, a pretty good browser I’ll...
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Migrating questionable date strings
I’ve been having a lot of fun with data migration lately /s Anyway I have an evil source database that has free-form strings that allegedly represent dates. I look at this data and think to myself,...
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The future of SharePoint development is cloudy
I’ve seen the future of SharePoint development and it’s decidedly cloudy. And that’s a good thing, no, that’s a great thing for the health of the SharePoint developer community. A few months back I was...
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Minimal path to awesome–VSTS Release Management and Classic mode Azure Website
I’ve been doing a whole lot of work with Visual Studio Team Services, formerly Visual Studio Online, and making heavy us of the Release Management feature as I discussed recently on the Microsoft Cloud...
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Slot switching Azure Website from VSTS
In my last post I covered off how to set up a simple release process that deploys to an Azure Website in classic mode. That process involved an explicit web deploy to each slot. What might be useful...
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