Earlier today I ran across a strange installation problem and I wanted to share my findings…
Author: Maurice Prather
Evolutions Conference: SharePoint & Netduino
Over here in the skunk works division of our company… we’ve been busy the past few months working on some prototypes that will allow us to integrate physical data with the usefulness of SharePoint.
Be sure to specify a category ID for a custom SPDiagnosticsCategory
Every once and while you run into a silly bug that actually takes you a long time to figure out. Some time ago I ran into a problem with a custom SPDiagnosticServiceBase class that only surfaced via PowerShell.
Using PowerShell to create new sites based on site-scoped WebTemplates
WebTemplates are definitely a powerful new construct in our SharePoint 2010 toolbox. WebTemplates definitely come in handy as they can be deployed as sandbox-compatible features.
SharePoint Conference 2011 Wrap Up
This year’s SharePoint Conference was probably one of the most interesting conferences that Microsoft has hosted in the past few years. The attendance was solid and presentations covered the spectrum from 101 fundamentals over all the way over to nitty-gritty details.
Regex for Wiki Page regions
In an earlier post, I briefly touched on the value of creating your own InsertWebPartIntoWikiPage method. Part 1 – solved. Now comes Part 2 – where am I injecting my web part?
Fixing the HTML that InsertWebPartIntoWikiPage generates
Buried deep in the recess of the WebPartPages class, there is a static method that belongs to the WikiEditPage class and its sole purpose is to allow you to insert WebParts into a wiki page.
Options to using Import/Export
Earlier today, Todd Klindt and I had a brief twitter chat. Basically, he ran into some problems with a site that had been run through the wringer with Import/Export. Todd asked a really good question for which the answer requires a little more space than twitter allows. 🙂
Integrating post-processors in SharePoint builds
Have you ever needed to process an assembly prior to having it packaged up for deployment? A classic example of this requirement is using an obfuscator or signing/watermarking tool.