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[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.

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 [...]