Not too long ago I jumped in on a debate about running SharePoint 2010 directly on a Windows 7 laptop for development purposes. One of the main issues with doing this is that all of the services will have a negative impact on the performance of your laptop. I mentioned that I use a series [...]
I read Joel Oleson’s recent blog post called The Great Virtualization Debate: What to do? SharePoint 2010 for Laptops and thought I would chime in with a few comments.
So far my personal preference for developing SharePoint 2010 solutions on my laptop is to install it directly on Windows 7. Unlike running it virtualized I can [...]
Microsoft has replaced the Single Sign-On service in SharePoint 2007 with the Secure Store Service (SSS). With this change also comes a pretty big overhaul of the API set. If you have written any custom applications, web parts or utilities that used the SSO service in 2007 you may be required to rewrite or update [...]
If you are creating a console application for use with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 you need to ensure that your target platform is Any CPU or x64 for your project. If the target is x86 you will receive an error The web application at {url} could not be found when creating a new SPSite object.
To change [...]
I had written a simple web part for SharePoint 2007 that generates a directory listing of all sites a user has permissions to view. This web part makes use of the SharePoint search web service to quickly retrieve a listing of sites which are security trimmed to the logged in user.
I decided to test that [...]
One of the more confusing and incorrectly named settings option for a document library is “manage checked out files”. At first glance you probably think that this feature will allow you to see every file that is checked out and to whom. That was my first reaction and as I soon learned it is the [...]
I am happy to say I am now running SharePoint 2010 Beta on my Windows 7 laptop. I used the handy guide from Microsoft called “Setting Up the Development Environment for SharePoint Server“ for step by step instructions.
There was, however, one small problem. During the configuration wizard I received the following nasty message:
Failed to create [...]
Microsoft just posted Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 on MSDN and TechNet. Time to build up the development machines and start trying out the Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 development integration.
Don’t forget, you can now install SharePoint 2010 on a 64bit Windows 7 machine (or Vista) for development purposes. Make sure you follow the instructions [...]
Organizations that deploy Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for collaboration often find that the number of site collections and subsites grow very quickly. It seems like it doesn’t take long for end users to figure out how flexible and easy SharePoint is for creating simple “applications”. Even with a good taxonomy and solid governance plan [...]
In service pack 2 for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 a new operation called PreUpgradeCheck was introduced for the STSADM command. This operation uses the Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer to identity any issues that will need to be resolved prior to upgrading to SharePoint 2010.
Running the command is simple. At a command prompt type: stsadm [...]