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Today the public beta of SharePoint 2010 is released and everyone started blogging about SharePoint 2010. I am still preparing a Virtual Machine because the beta does not fully works on a Windows Server 2008 R2 installation and I had prepared a virtual
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More and more resources are coming available for starting development with SharePoint 2010. Today I received a link from MSDN Flash with some cool new developer resources. After watching the presentations you can even test your skill by answering a question.
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When I was reading and searching information about SharePoint 2010 on the internet I found I really helpful page in the Microsoft download to get started with development for SharePoint 2010. On the page a 10 Hands on Labs for you to try out in
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A few weeks ago I tried to set up a SharePoint farm that uses Kerberos authentication. I always thought it was just a setting in SharePoint but infect it is much more than that. What is Kerberos Kerberos is a computer network authentication protocol,
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It can occur that you want to add a property to the property collection of the user profile store by using a feature. If you want to use a feature you would have to create a feature with a FeatureReceiver. In the FeatureReceiver you would have to implement
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When I started developing for SharePoint two years ago I was thrown in a big black hole and started to develop webparts by hands on experience. In the first couple of weeks I found out that your webpart could inherit from System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.WebPart
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A few days ago I had to develop a TimerJob that deletes a large number of items from a SharePoint list. My first idea was to iterate trough the list items and then call the delete method of the items that needed to be deleted. Doing this was a major performance
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Last week I was developing a custom TimerJob for SharePoint. For the development of the TimerJob I used the MSDN documentation that is written by Andrew Connell: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc406686.aspx This article really points out everything
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In my post a week ago I announced that the February Cumulative update was available for download but it could only be used by users who had the December Cumulative update applied. Microsoft said that they would create an uber package and it is available
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A while ago I posted a SharePoint Backup script so that it is possible to schedule a SharePoint Backup. I had to make some adjustments to the script because it contains small errors. The adjustments I had to make were: When you perform multiple differential
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On the internet you can find several excellent articles on the various design patterns for disposing of SharePoint or WSS objects. Some of these objects can cause serious memory leaks if you don’t use them correctly. Normally you have to take care of
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Did you ever have a problem with your mysite? Well we did! The customer wanted a Citrix webpart on their mysite. I did not recommend it but still they wanted it. The performance off the mysite fell down the roof and we had to disable the mysite so we
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When you are developing for SharePoint it happens that you have to check the SharePoint logs for errors. For one of my projects I had to check the log files on a regular basis and I found it horrible to read those files. If you try to read some of these
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In SharePoint 2007 you are able to write custom event handlers for a document library. Some of the different events you can rewrite are: ItemAdding: Before an item is added to the list. ItemAdded: When an item is added to the list. Besides these item
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On several sites there are postings about tools you could have on you SharePoint development VPC. That’s why I thought lets post what I have got on my development VPC. If you do not have a Virtual PC with SharePoint you can take a look at the following
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