SharePoint Developer Occasional Tips

I recently upgraded from SharePoint 2010 RC1 to SharePoint 2010 RTM on my development machine. Being

This blog formally known as “SharePoint Developer Tip of the Day” is now “SharePoint Developer

The In-Place upgrade mechanism for SharePoint solutions now uses the feature upgrade mechanism to

One of the big sticking points with SharePoint 2007 was that Microsoft failed to adequately address

STSADM still ships with SharePoint 2010 but has been replaced with PowerShell as the preferred

In SharePoint 2010, site templates are now saved as a WSP files. In addition, the new SharePoint

With the coming public release of SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 and the publication of development

Managing features between releases of a SharePoint 2007 solution is tricky business. Here are some

There are a variety of scenarios where features need to be programmatically activated just after a

Here are my personal requirements that I use for applications built on SharePoint. I think they

Resource files referenced directly in ASP pages must exist in the App_GlobalResources of your IIS

Microsoft just announced that the SharePoint Designer 2007 is now free. This is a great little tool

For SharePoint Features deployed into the 12 hive at the root of the feature directory it is

New SharePoint developers can often be confused about farm administration. In the Central

Microsoft designed WSS and MOSS to run on Windows Server 2003 or Windows Sever 2008. This restriction

To create a dependent farm feature that is hidden and will activate only once, use a resource-hidden

What is a resource-hidden feature? It is a feature that is hidden from the user using a loophole in

If you have not already done so. Read “10 Best Practices For Building SharePoint Solutions” by E.

Linking legacy code to your SharePoint application can pose several issues. One of these issues is

It seems that if a user needs to be added to a SPWeb object one should just call SPWeb.Users.Add.

An action state is a state that indicates that an action is being performed. The SPObjectStatus used

The SPPersistedObject.Properties property is a great place to store miscellaneous data and place

SPDeletedConcurrencyException is an exception thrown by the SPPersistedObject Update() method. It

SPUpdatedConcurrencyException is an exception thrown by the SPPersistedObject Update() method. It

I have setup a group to email forward the tips to via Email. It can be found at: http://groups.google

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