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Minifying JavaScript and CSS files made easy with Mavention SharePoint Assets Minifier

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JavaScript file with its minified version selected in Visual Studio 2010 Solution Explorer
Minifying asset files is a known performance optimization technique. By removing all optional characters you can decrease the size of CSS and JavaScript files and make them download faster. Depending on how big your solution is this process might get tedious when done manually and this is exactly where Mavention SharePoint Assets Minifier can help you out. Read more »

Importing documents to Document Libraries with Mavention Import Document Library Contents

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The 'Import Document Library Contents' menu option highlighted in the context menu of a Document Library in Server Explorer
Recently I showed you how you can import Lists and their data into your SharePoint Project using the Mavention Import List Instance extension. As you can imagine supporting list data is only half of the story, so to complete it another extension became available. Find out how to import documents from Document Libraries into your SharePoint project using Mavention Import Document Library Contents. Read more »

Import List Instances and their data with Mavention Import List Instance

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The 'Import List Instance' option in the List context menu
When working with custom Lists you find yourself often redeploying the List and creating some test data to verify that everything is working correctly. Entering sample data may be fun to do once but becomes rather boring after a few times. Find out how to reuse your sample data in the development process using Mavention Import List Instance. Read more »

Cleaning drop folder of Microsoft assemblies when building SharePoint Projects – TFS Build 2010 tip #2

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The 'Remove non-project files' activity highlighted in the build workflow
When building SharePoint Projects using TFS Build 2010 many of standard available Microsoft assemblies are copied to the drop folder. This not only clutters your drop folder but also takes a lot of space on your disk. Find out how to remove all assemblies other than yours when building SharePoint Projects using TFS Build 2010. Read more »

Packaging dependent SharePoint projects – TFS Build 2010 tip #1

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Contents of a SharePoint Package in Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Developer Tools
Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Developer Tools make it extremely easy to separate your solution into logical units and yet package them in a single SharePoint Package (WSP). Although building dependent SharePoint projects using Visual Studio 2010 is straight forward, building using TFS Build 2010 produces slightly different output. Find out how to build dependent SharePoint projects using TFS Build 2010 the right way. Read more »

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