25 May, 2010
Links to some very good training resources for developers of SharePoint 2010:   SharePoint 2010 Reference: Software Development Kit Contains a huge amount of product documentation and examples. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=f0c9daf3-4c54-45ed-9bde-7b4d83a8f26f&displaylang=en   SharePoint 2010 Developer Training Kit Another download of a huge amount of resources covering the entire platform. Contains videos, presentations and demos. http://www.
Read More...22 May, 2010
SharePoint 2010 uses a lot of client side scripts and have now many ways of making sure that this is executed without errors and hang-ups. The method ExecuteOrDelayuntilScriptLoaded makes sure that calls to a library is not executed until said library is loaded. Example: 1: ExecuteOrDelayUntilScriptLoaded(showModal, 2: "sp.
Read More...22 May, 2010
Short tip. How to enable breakpoints and step-through debugging using IE and Visual Studio. I find this very useful for debugging those pesky long SharePoint client script files. You need to first enable script debugging in your browser (list quoted from MSDN): In Internet Explorer, click the Tools menu and choose Internet Options. Click the Advanced tab. Under the Browsing category, clear the Disable Script Debugging checkbox Then add the reserved keyword debugger.
Read More...10 May, 2010
Today I compiled a SharePoint 2010 version of the SPDocGen SharePoint Documentation Generator and am very happy to get farm configuration documentation done automatically. Later on, I also automated my SharePoint installation using the PowerShell based scripted installer AutoSPInstaller which also had the added benefit of supporting offline prerequisite install mode.
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