Apologies for the downtime..

My hosting provider had a major failure over the Bank Holiday period and as a result my server suffered a lot of downtime. (Refund perhaps?… Bob Hope springs to mind…) Paul.

2011 SharePoint Best Practices Conference UK

11th April 2001 saw the first day of the UK SharePoint Best Practices Conference running at the QE2 Conference Centre in London Westminster. As they’ve proved before, Combined Knowledge have put on an excellent show for us this year, with some of the best speakers from around the world converging on London for three days …

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Mythbusting–Using RBS to exceed the 200Gb Content DB Limit

Mike Hacker of Microsoft US has posted an interesting blog post debunking the myth that you can use RBS to beat the 200GB content database size limit. It’s certainly worth a quick read! http://blog.mikehacker.net/2011/03/29/using-rbs-to-exceed-the-200gb-content-database-limit/

Using SharePoint hosted infopath documents as contents in a SharePoint page.

In a recent project, I was creating a contracts management portal within SharePoint. As part of the contracts request process, the sales team were able to link info path documents that represented each of the service lines that formed the contract. Each of these service line documents (InfoPath forms) formed the basic service outline and …

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Quick Tip of the Day!

I caught this quick tip on Twitter just now, I missed who it was that tweeted, but it’s a great tip and worth keeping in memory! So, If you need to add a web part quickly to a page and like the old 2007 style browser, tack ?ToolPaneView=2 onto the end of the URL to …

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Part 4–SharePoint Retreat–TDD and Unit Testing, the methodology used cont..

The other parts of this series can be found here… SPRetreat TDD – a retrospective (See what I did there? -) Part 1 — SharePoint Retreat–TDD and Unit Testing, the methodology used Part 2 — SharePoint Retreat–TDD and Unit Testing, the methodology used cont.. Part 3 -– SharePoint Retreat-TDD and Unit Testing, the methodology used …

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Part 3–SharePoint Retreat–TDD and Unit testing, the methodology used cont..

The other parts of this series can be found here… SPRetreat TDD – a retrospective (See what I did there? -) Part 1 — SharePoint Retreat–TDD and Unit Testing, the methodology used Part 2 — SharePoint Retreat–TDD and Unit Testing, the methodology used cont.. Part 3 -– SharePoint Retreat-TDD and Unit Testing, the methodology used …

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Part 2–SharePoint Retreat–TDD and Unit Testing, the methodology used cont..

The other parts of this series can be found here…. SPRetreat TDD – a retrospective (See what I did there? -) Part 1 — SharePoint Retreat–TDD and Unit Testing, the methodology used Part 2 — SharePoint Retreat–TDD and Unit Testing, the methodology used cont.. (This post) Part 3 — SharePoint Retreat-TDD and Unit Testing, the …

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Part 1 — SharePoint Retreat–TDD and Unit Testing, the methodology used.

In my last post about the SharePoint retreat, I waxed lyrical about the costs of unit testing and why you may or may not want to get into Unit testing your code. Stepping on from this is how do we go about unit testing a SharePoint project in Visual Studio 2010? What tools do we …

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SPRetreat TDD – a retrospective (See what I did there?)

Not quite sure why I’m up at 6 am on a Sunday morning writing a blog post, certainly the bed was warm and comfy, but my mind is still pretty buzzing from yesterdays SharePoint Retreat sponsored by 21Apps and Content and Code. What’s SharePoint Retreat? Well it’s a room full of geeks trying to improve …

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