Archive for the ‘Development’ Category
How we did it: Tag driven Information Architecture using MOSS
Early last year I was involved in developing a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) based Intranet for the Ministry of Transport. This post explains how we utilised the tagging capabilities provided by MOSS to create this award winning Intranet. Continue reading How we did it: Tag driven Information Architecture using MOSS »
How we did it: Fly Buys website
Fly Buys is New Zealand’s leading loyalty programme and is managed by Loyalty New Zealand. Fly Buys members receive points for shopping at participating stores, which they can then use to redeem a variety of rewards from coffee machines to television sets. The Fly Buys website allows members to search for rewards or participating companies, maintain their account information, as well as allowing Loyalty to maintain content and graphics for the site. Continue reading How we did it: Fly Buys website »
Returning approved SharePoint list items from a console application
If you are using the SharePoint object model to return list items, the items are security trimmed based on the rights of the user running the code. In most cases this is great, you don’t have to do any manipulation of the items returned from CAML queries to ensure users only see what they have access to. Continue reading Returning approved SharePoint list items from a console application »
SharePoint development learning’s
Mark Jones has a great article on SharePoint 2007 development and engineering practices that offers some real world learning’s from SharePoint projects. The article is based on his experiences on three MOSS projects and offers valuable insight in what to look for in these types of project. Continue reading SharePoint development learning’s »
Debugging in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Debugging in WSS 3.0 or MOSS is similar to debugging a standard ASP.NET application but there are several differences that can catch you out. In this post I will go through some of the basic techniques you can use to get more information than the “An unexpected error has occurred” message. Continue reading Debugging in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 »
New SharePoint Whitepaper – Working with Large Lists in Office SharePoint Server 2007
Another great white paper for developers and anyone else dealing with large lists in SharePoint, the recently released Working with Large Lists in Office SharePoint Server 2007 white paper provides a great comparison of the query methods available for SharePoint lists. Continue reading New SharePoint Whitepaper – Working with Large Lists in Office SharePoint Server 2007 »
Viewing XML data from XSLT
This post shows how you can easily view the XML that is used in an XSL transform, so you can see the elements that you can use in the display. Continue reading Viewing XML data from XSLT »
Programatically Populating a Document Library
Every now and then I want to populate a SharePoint document library with files for testing purposes. To do this I have created a little console app that will take a template file and upload it x number of times to a document library, generating a unique name each time. At the moment this is a very basic application, but if you need to generate dummy data then it provides a starting place for doing so. Continue reading Programatically Populating a Document Library »
