Developer Ramblings

Have you heard, there is this thing called LINQ, it’s all the rage these days. ;) I think everyone has at least one post about LINQ on their blog, so here is my contribution, with a SharePoint twist of course. Using LINQ to query and display all list titles of a given SharePoint site. Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite _site = new Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite("http://spdev"); [Read More]

Why is it, that we cannot provide a single place for employee’s to get all of their applications? This is a question that I have been wrestling with for the past few years, and as more and more technologies crop up, this problem gets worse. If we think about it, the application classification determines where the user has to go launch (or see) the application. For the purposes of this posting I will group applications into three distinct groups Locally installed applications. These are applications that are on the users device and are typically launched from the user’s start menu... [Read More]

While utilizing the SharePoint object model (Microsoft.Sharepoint.dll) is a powerful mechanism for doing administration and custom development tasks, anything you write that uses it needs to run on the server hosting WSS or MOSS. This typically includes webparts which, in general, is not a big deal since they have to be installed there anyway's. Admin utilities, on the other hand, are typically where using the OM it starts to become a pain (just ask any server admin to give somebody server/console access because they have to run a certain tool and you will start to see the problems that this... [Read More]

The guys over on the WSS team finally announced a new build of visual studio extensions for WSS (VSeWSS) and support for Visual Studio 2008. YES!!! i can finally now uninstall old visual studio 2005 (Well, maybe not just yet). You can download version 1.2 of the extensions here and rock on with Visual Studio 2008! -Update: Well, my jubilation was short lived, I guess this version does not support 64bit versions