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 [...]