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How we did it: mavention.nl – Part 3: Search Engine Optimization
A few days after we launched our new website I used my favorite search engine to do a search on one of my fellow-Mavens. I was really surprised to see that in just a few days the first result came from our brand new website! So what is it exactly that we did that gave us such great results in such a short time?
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“The name ‘InitializeControl’ does not exist in the current context” - Visual Web Part (Sandboxed) bug and how to fix it
A while ago Microsoft provided us with Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Power Tools – a set of productivity extensions for the Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Developer Tools. One of the improvements shipped with the Power Tools is the Visual Web Part (Sandboxed) that – as the name says it – allows you to both benefit of the great design capabilities of Visual Web Part while still being able to deploy it to Sandbox. Unfortunately if your Sandboxed Visual Web Part will get too large things won’t be working as expected anymore.
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How we did it: mavention.nl – Part 2a: Dealing with minified files
In the previous part of the How we did it series about our new website I told you about how we optimized our website for performance. One of the optimization techniques that we applied was minifying asset files such as CSS and JavaScript. While minification allows you to decrease the size of files it has one serious disadvantage: it often makes them unreadable. So how did we deal with it?
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Spaarne Ziekenhuis Case Study has been published
Last year we created a brand new website for Spaarne Ziekenhuis – a full-service medical center here in the Netherlands. For the last few months we’ve been working together with Spaarne and Microsoft to publish a Case Study around the solution. Today the Case Study has been published and is available on the Microsoft Case Studies website at .
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How we did it: mavention.nl – Part 2: Performance
In the previous part of the How we did it series about our new website I told you how we implemented the branding in SharePoint 2010. In this part I will share with you some information about how we optimized our website for performance.