Ok, thanks to Amazon’s associates stores, I’ve put together a collection of recommended books for those starting down the SharePoint development track. Reg’s Recommended Reading List Take a look! Reg.
Feb 26
SQL Reporting Services. Installing BIDS as an afterthought!
I hit a slight problem with the SQL install on the dev box today. When I first installed SQL, I included a lot of the workstation tools, but I didn’t include the tools required for designing reports in VS 2005. In addition, since I did the install, I’ve put SP2 on the server. So now, …
Feb 19
On the subject of disposal.
I came cross a very good Blogpost by Roger Lamb on he subject of Object disposal within the SharePoint namespace. For anyone even contemplating traversing the object model within Webparts, ASPX pages or workflow, then I would recommend having a very good read!! Roger Lamb’s Object Disposal blog post.. Reg.
Feb 14
Encore en fois.. Home again..
After a very eventful weeks snowboarding, I’m back in Blighty again and once more on the SharePoint development trail. The project suffered a minor set-back as I return from holiday with a broken nose and a re-injured back from a couple of bad falls. Nothing too major, but I also picked up a chest infection …
Jan 16
2008 – Whats it going to bring….
Well 2007 closed down with a rush, I’m not even certain where December went it passed so quickly. On the project front, I had to rush to complete all the changes required by the project manager, and just at the end, scope creep reared it’s head again. In the end, I release only the first …
Dec 20
Spam users..
I’ve just been through and deleted several hundred accounts that have been created by obvious spam users. My spam filters are rpetty good and prevent them posting anything, but they still create accounts…. Apologies if anyone has had their account removed in error, I only deleted the obvious looking ones, but you never know..
Dec 20
Adding business hours….
Part of our workflows have some time critical tasks. In this particular instance, there is a measurable KPI of 12 business hours to respond to an event. The DateTime construct is very useful for date manipulation, but does not appear to provide an easy way to understand Business Hours. So how to go about tracking …
Dec 11
Time flies!
Good lord, Xmas is upon us almost and I’ve not posted in nearly a month. Slacking on my part! but it has been a busy month, the workflow project has been live for sometime now, and as ever there have been a few bugs creeping in that need to be solved. Phase 2 is due …
Nov 13
Conundrum Solved:- Almost..
Well, I’ve fixed the problem with checking for locks, the SPListItem has a reference to the underlying SPFile object. This permits you to use SPFile.CheckOutStatus to check. I have written a long post about how to use this, but for some reaosn the code in it upsets WordPress, so I’ll get a new code add-in …
Nov 08
Conundrum:- Checking item lock status
One of the problems that has reared it’s head recently is workflows dying during an update due to an item being locked. This happens from time to time when the workflow tries to update the item that it’s running on. The upshot of this is, that if I haven’t handled the error with a Try/Catch, …