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[Update – 9/2/2009] I have released the first public version of my SharePoint URL Shortener. Please read the following blog posts for more information: http://paulliebrand.com/2009/08/28/sharepoint-url-shortener-its-finally-here/ http://paulliebrand.com/2009/08/29/sharepoint-url-shortener-codeplex-site-has-been-published-and-is-live/ http://paulliebrand.com/2009/09/01/sharepoint-url-shortener-feature-highlight/ I am soliciting feature requests on Twitter for the first version of the “TinyUrl” for SharePoint feature I’ll am developing. If you do not want to post them [...]

Update – 7/2/2009 The Office 2007 hotfix (KB970950) is now available to download: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970950 The specific bullet that resolves this problem states the following: “When you view folders that are listed under My SharePoint Sites in the Open dialog box or the Save As dialog box in a 2007 Office application, you are prompted for [...]

Typemock has announced a product for unit testing SharePoint. “Microsoft SharePoint 2007 is a browser based collaboration and document management platform for software and web development. Unit-testing SharePoint applications is only possible with Typemock Isolator. Isolator is the only tool that can ease unit testing large and complex application like SharePoint. With the ability to [...]

The second part of my article, Introduction to SharePoint Feature Stapling – Part 2, has been posted on www.SharePointMagazine.net. Hopefully you find this information useful. Please check it out of you have a free moment.

A recent update to one of the utilities I use on a regular basis prompted me to write this post which I have been wanting to do for a long time. Carsten Keutmann develops SharePoint utilities that I consider essential to my administration / development toolkit. The utilities I am talking about is SharePoint Manager [...]

[Updated – 8/30/2009] For those of you who have not seen it yet, my SharePoint URL Shortener has been released.  Please see the following posts for more information: http://paulliebrand.com/2009/08/28/sharepoint-url-shortener-its-finally-here/ http://paulliebrand.com/2009/08/29/sharepoint-url-shortener-codeplex-site-has-been-published-and-is-live/ [Updated – 4/13/2009] As you have probably seen by now I was unable to get the TinyUrl like feature for SharePoint posted by my self [...]

The first part of my article, Introduction to SharePoint Feature Stapling, has been published. Give it a read if you have a moment.

If you could request one feature or enhancement to SharePoint what would it be?  Here are a couple examples I could think of: Expiring Permissions – Being able to set a time limit on when the permissions will expire for a user on an item. Bring back the “Up” button! – The “up” button was [...]

As many SharePoint developers know the toolbars are very customizable via features. However, if you ever tried to add a custom control too the NewMenu you may have been plagued by the mysterious blank control: The elements.xml of this feature looks like this: 1: <CustomAction GroupId=”NewMenu” 2: Location=”Microsoft.SharePoint.StandardMenu” 3: ControlAssembly=”NewMenuSample, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=9860eb616e81cf1b” 4: ControlClass=”NewMenuSample.SampleNewMenuItem” [...]

One question that I hear time and time again is “How do I move our work in SharePoint from development to testing to production?” Traditionally when it comes to development, most organizations have a development, testing, and production environment. These environments are normally used in a standard development lifecycle (“SDL”); developer codes, it gets implemented [...]