Innovation Matters

Essays on AI, developer tools, and thoughtful software.

  • Displaying Features' version in the Site (Collection) Features Overview

    For each solution we develop for our customers we reuse a set of internal components we have developed – a kind of baseline library. As we use it we fix some errors and add some new functionality. To distinguish the different releases we modify the version of the assembly containing all the logic and the feature version as well. While working on several projects at the same with different project teams we found it quite difficult to check the assembly version each time you want to be sure you are using the latest version. That’s when I have decided to modify the page displaying Site and Site Collection feature and extend it with displaying the version of each feature stored within the feature.xml file.

  • SharePoint Programmatically: Managing Solutions

    Managing SharePoint 2007 Solutions programmatically isn’t a daily-matter: some of you might even participate on quite a few projects without even coming close to it. As I have worked with it recently a bit I would like to share my findings with you.

  • Using .NET Custom Attributes for release documentation

    During the last Dev Days in the Netherlands I’ve attended to Francesco Balena's presentation on .NET Reflection. It was definitely interesting and it has inspired me to take a closer look at it. After a while I came on the idea of using .NET Reflection for generating release documentation for .NET applications and assemblies. It would once and for all solve the problem of updating the release notes stored in a separate file and getting sure all the changes have been put there.

  • Imtech Tools moved to CodePlex

    As we've realized we have quite a few community tools we want to share, we figured out it would make it all easier to have a central file/release store. What's more, as we're busy with setting up a TFS development environment we have chosen for CodePlex as our main storage. From now on you can download all our community tools @ . All the links for our tools have already been edited.

  • Bugfix: Imtech Solution Setup (Free SharePoint Tool)

    A while ago I've published the 1.1.0.0 version of Imtech Solution Setup - a small tool which allows you to add the selected solution to the Solution Store and deploy it to Web Application of your choice - and all that using a Windows GUI. Today, while using the tool for a release of a Solution of one of our products for a demo we gave for Microsoft, I’ve found out that the Solution Setup doesn’t work properly. In spite of updating the Solution package it still deployed the old version of it.