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Someone recently asked about test plans and how to test components during development so you can be comfortable they'll perform well when hosted on large farms. The short answer is that you want to create the best simulation you can, and that means creating a test farm as close to production as possible, and testing scenarios with patterns and data as close to production as possible. With mission-critical apps the test environment should be identical with production, but in most cases it won’t be...( read more ) Read More...
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In my last post I described a strategy for: Planning SharePoint Solution Packages . In this post we'll construct a sample solution template, use that template to construct a real solution, package this as a WSP, and finally (once you have many WSPs) wrap the entire process with a routine to automate the build. You can download the sample code from the WSPSolution project on CodePlex. Let's get started. The strategy uses Visual Studio 2008 to build the assemblies and WSPBuilder to generate SharePoint...( read more ) Read More...
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What's Here Welcome to my list of SharePoint 2007 Resources! This is a hub for SharePoint 2007 and WSS 3.0 Resources with two advantages: All resources are hand-picked and vetted for quality, and each topic contains a with hand-tuned search designed to return the latest content which you can then filter further to find what you need. R eference [ Search Results ] Wikipedia: SharePoint . Microsoft: SharePoint Server Home Page . Microsoft: Social Computing Home . KBAlertz . Receive free alerts whenever...( read more ) Read More...
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SharePoint architects and developers often wonder how best to design solution packages for long-term ease of use, especially through upgrade cycles. In a survey of SharePoint developers I found a range of strategies from one monolithic WSP to hold everything, up to practically one per feature which resulted in as many as 50 WSPs for a project. The variance depended on the developer's goals for maintenance. Application vendors want to keep things simple for admins, so a single solution per product...( read more ) Read More...
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This is a heads-up about two exciting TSPUG sessions coming soon: next week on May 27 and next month on June 17. Next Wednesday Bill Brockbank ( Navantis ) is leading a set of "Quick Hits"- these are 15 minute presentations by members on a variety of topics. Details of these micro-sessions will follow on the recently relaunched (and not entirely complete) TSPUG.com . While we're on the topic, kudos to Bill and his team for relaunching our site! Then in June we're exciting to have Max Yermakhanov...( read more ) Read More...
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I'm in Montreal for SharePoint Summit 2009 , thinking about the session I'm delivering on Tuesday afternoon. The goal is to distill all the useful knowledge that you won't learn anywhere else, or at the very least, not all in one place. And none of it is in existing SharePoint books or articles. At least none that I know of, but I'd love to be surprised. The abstract (Ctrl-End to the bottom of this page ) follows the conventional Problem, Opportunity, Solution, Benefits, Agenda model, but it's probably better to lay the cards out and say "here's what you're going to learn" and the best way to do that is to give you all of my sources here, before the start of the session and long before the final slide cleverly...
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Attendees of the Wednesday March 25 edition of the Toronto SharePoint User Group will navigate the wonders of Document Life Cycle in SharePoint using K2 BlackPearl . Our own Bill Brockbank will verily demonstrate how K2 can be used to manage the governance, authoring and editing of a document library with nothing up his sleeves except K2's BlackPearl. From there Bill will reveal the magic of multi-level approval before deeming a work as final and published. Magical stuff indeed. Bill Brockbank is a Microsoft SharePoint Server MVP and an experienced Solutions Architect with over 25 years of experience in software and hardware design. With such a wealth of industry knowledge, Bill is adept at envisioning practical solution architectures, problem...
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The topic for tonight was suggested during the most recent Toronto SharePoint camp - How to structure SharePoint solutions in Visual Studio, and automate the build and WSP generation. Building SharePoint Solutions (WSP) is the most painful part of the development process. In this session attendees will learn how to take the pain away for SharePoint 2007 by structuring Visual Studio Solutions for easy management, and by automating the build and WSP creation. Presented by me, Eli Robillard with corrections, improvements and miscellaneous heckling by Bill Brockbank and you. See you there! If you can make it tonight, please RSVP (just a formality), so that Susie can determine how much pizza to order. Location: Nexient Learning @ 2 Bloor Street West...
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A giant shout-out to the organizing committee, volunteers, sponsors and attendees of this year’s Toronto SharePoint Camp , what a great day! Chairman Bill Brockbank was pretty raspy (and full of Buckley’s), so I was the “voice” for the opening, and facilitator of the speaker round-table and raffle, but these things don’t happen without great people and planning. Everyone did a great job to be proud of. We had well over 200 attendees for 20 sessions delivered by 19 speakers including 5 MVPs representing a variety of specialties. Feedback was phenomenal ( here's the first review from the wild ) with a lot of comments like “greatly exceeded expectations” and “I can’t believe you guys can offer this for free.” There were a few benefits we didn...
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