Yesterday I received the following question from someone regarding Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 content type IDs: I need to add another page type [that] inherits from the article page. How do you find the GUID of the article page...
In yesterday's post , I provided a sample walkthrough of the "DR.DADA" approach to developing solutions for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. However, I intentionally left out a few things because a) that post was already getting ridiculously...
In a previous post, I introduced the "DR.DADA" approach to SharePoint development. This post walks you through an actual implementation of a feature -- well, actually two features...
In a previous post, I briefly discussed a simple branching strategy for Team Foundation Server (TFS). This was somewhat of a follow-up to another post in which I briefly referenced a great article titled The Importance of Branching Models in SCM . If...
This post provides a high-level walkthrough of the build and deployment process that I typically recommend on projects that I am involved with. It includes a series of illustrations that capture key concepts at various points in time. Specific parts of...
I started another new project this week. Typically one of the first tasks on any new development project is to create a Development Plan that provides consistent guidelines and processes for the Development team. On this new project, another Microsoft...
In a previous post , I briefly touched on the "DEV-TEST-PROD" triad of environments that I typically recommend (at a minimum) for every organization doing any form of software development. This post describes, in greater detail, the various environments...
In my previous post , I showed how to automatically configure managed properties in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 when activating a custom "Search" feature. In this post, I want to cover a subtle, yet very important, limitation in managed...
As I've noted in a previous post , I typically use feature receivers in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 to automatically configure a "bunch of stuff" that would otherwise be very tedious to perform repeatedly for different environments...
In my previous post , I showed how you can override the hard-coded "application.master" in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 application pages (e.g. /Library/_layouts/viewlsts.aspx). Note that for custom application pages (i.e. those ASP...