Innovation Matters
Essays on AI, developer tools, and thoughtful software.
SharePoint developer bookmarklets updated
Recently I've been working quite intensively with the SharePoint developer bookmarklets. SharePoint is really infamous of way too many clicks required to accomplish various things. Having shortcuts to the most commonly used functionality within one click saves really a lot of time.
Manage Checked Out Publishing Pages (OCDCheckedOutPages StsAdm command)
Structured and repeatable deployment of SharePoint solutions is very important for preserving scalability and maintainability of the solution. Furthermore it allows you to keep track of the deployed components what is very important if you want to provide your customers with support for your solution.
Inconvenient SPWeb.GetFile(string)
Recently I've been working on a piece of code which would obtain an instance of SPFile using either a GUID or the server relative URL. You don't have to search long to find out that the SPWeb provides a method to do that: GetFile(String). According to the WSS v3 SDK it should return the file object located at the specific URL.
Consistent development of Master Pages, Page Layouts and User Controls in MOSS 2007
Page Layouts form the presentation layer in Publishing Sites of MOSS 2007. In fact they are very close to the Web Forms as we know them from ASP.NET except that Page Layouts in SharePoint don't contain any content.
How to do it: RSS aggregation (merging multiple XML files using XSLT)
In my previous article I have presented you a little test case I have made for testing the performance of various data merging approaches. Using an XSLT based method turned out to be the best performing way of merging multiple XML files.