When deploying a web application across your organizations hosting environments you need to make sure you make the correct modifications to your web.config on each environment. Currently with Visual Studio 2008 this means hand modifying each web.co ...[Read More]

Microsoft is really improving the tooling support for Sharepoint developers in the next release of Visual Studio including being able to "F5" debug from inside Visual Studio and VS handling all the package deployment, process attaching, ap ...[Read More]

So Microsoft has officially announced the next version of Visual Studio and the .Net Framework over on the MSDN site at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/cc948977.aspx . I'm sure all us developers can't wait to see what the next vers ...[Read More]

For an application I'm working on I needed to be able to get all site collections for a given server URL. So for example if I had a web application at http://localhost how can I enumerate through all the site collections on that web application? H ...[Read More]

A requirement I came across recently was to write a tool to set a site’s locale from US to UK using the object model.  Because I potentially needed to do this for hundreds of sites I opted to write a small command line tool that can be scripted to h ...[Read More]

So I haven't been around blogging for a while due to having a little downtime and finishing up a project I've been working on. I've just started a new project which involves migrating a very large SPS 2003 implementation to MOSS 2007. Hopefully I'l ...[Read More]

I'm currently working on a project the requires the use of WebParts to allow a user to construct custom reports by dragging and dropping WebParts into WebPartZones. I needed to dynamically create these WebParts on the fly and add them to the page ...[Read More]

The trouble with using some of the built in .Net controls like LoginControl and TreeView is that they render their output in tables and as we know tables should only be used to display tabular data not control the layout of a web page. If we wanted ...[Read More]

Every good developer should understand the basics of how Threads and Processes work on the platform they are writing applications for.  For us it’s the Windows operating system and using the .Net Framework it’s even easier to harness the power of Mu ...[Read More]

I'm working on a project at the moment that requires a navigation menu built with ASP.Net 2.0. The requirements dictate that the navigation elements should be configured in an XML file. This sounded perfect for the ASP.Net siteMap provider so I set ...[Read More]