Contents tagged with General Software Development
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SharePoint Saturday Houston: 9 days and counting
In just over a week, I'll be speaking at SharePoint Saturday Houston. My topic will be Manipulating SharePoint with Client-Side JavaScript; we'll address client-side coding as a whole, look at the Client-Side Object Model, and then dive into a working sample app using the CSOM and jQuery. Come see how easy it is to develop complex solutions for SharePoint 2010 without ever opening Visual Studio.
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SharePoint Client Object Model: Step One
I almost didn't make it out alive. I followed the instructions in every piece of sample code and every forum post by someone who had no idea why their client OM code wasn't working, and my code still wouldn't get past the page load. I kept getting "'Type' is undefined" errors when sp.core.js tried to register the SP namespace.
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Agility in SharePoint: Writing Functional Requirements
SharePoint brings more power than ever to the end user. As usual, this is a double-edged sword. Its utility as a development platform is unmatched, but since many of the development tools are accessible from the browser UI, the dividing lines can get blurred.
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Live Meeting error: malformed email address... or IS IT???
During a remote SharePoint training session this morning, Live Meeting presented one of our instructors with the following gem: "An attendee email address is malformed". This was particularly troubling since a wizard took care of adding all the entries, and they looked correct (even after being sifted through my character analysis tool).
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AgileDotNet in Dallas
This conference was a big hit last time, and now it's better then ever. If you're wondering about how Agile applies to your daily business, or if you just want to see how it looks when it's done right, you owe it to yourself to check out AgileDotNet on April 30th.
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A Quick Primer on SharePoint Customization
This one goes out to all the people who have been asked to change the way a SharePoint site looks. Management wants to know how long it will take, and you can whip that out by tomorrow, right? If you don't have time to prepare a treatise on what's involved, or if you just want to lend some extra weight to your case by quoting a blogger who was an MVP for seven years, then dive right in; this post is for you.
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GAC-blocked: Access denied for assembly _XXXX_
As with most of my blog discoveries, this one was born the hard way: on the ragged slopes of insanity, amid the dying cries of a thousand savage deadlines... much like the fabled Robot al'Thor.
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Hyper-V fun fact
Have you ever needed to back up a VHD with a script? If you have, then you've probably wanted to make sure it copied successfully.
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SPTraceView: One step closer to unscrewing the inscrutable
We still don't have good SharePoint debugging, but today I came across a tool that gets us closer. Essentially it works off of the SP logging mechanism, and alerts you when messages come up that meet your predefined filters. This has the advantage of (a) keeping you from having to go through the log files line by line, and (b) filtering at a higher level, allowing you to keep all that log information rather than excluding some events from being logged.
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PSConfig Part III: Confessions and assumptions
It's happened to everyone. You're supposed to be an expert in your field, and then you go and get tripped up by something insignificant. If you're like me, you think you've already eliminated the offending possibility, and it's only after the client (ack!) checks out your assumptions that you realize your foolish mistake (in this case, it was the assumption that the server's software firewall had nothing to do with the problem... but it did).