Paul Liebrand's Weblog

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 [...]