Microsoft announced a new release for the VS 2008 extensions for SharePoint on Monday and finally amongst the new features is x64 support! I do all my MOSS 2007 development on an x64 box and couldn't make use of the handy extensions for Visual St ...[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]

Forms Based Authentication is an attractive option for companies running MOSS 2007 because it means you can give partners and external clients access to your Sharepoint sites without having to give them a full blown Windows domain account, the only ...[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]

Developing SharePoint solutions on a virtual machine has always been a pain personally, my laptop has 2GB of RAM so running MOSS and Visual Studio on a virtual machine with 1GB of RAM has always been a problem. I have always hoped that sometime soo ...[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]

Microsoft has announced their first release of the SharePoint Administration Toolkit over at the SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog. This toolkit provides some cool new features which some MOSS 2007 admins might find very handy.  One ...[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 came accross this article on MSDN about disposable WSS 3.0 objects. I recommend anyone working with the SharePoint object model to give this article a thorough read. The article outlines the fact that the two main classes in the object model SP ...[Read More]

Deploying web parts into MOSS 2007 isn't exactly straight forward and after looking around the web for a while it became apparent that there is no 'standard' way for deploying them. I looked at a few different options and found that creating a S ...[Read More]