Azure DevOps and Visual Studio Awesomeness

New Features You’ll Find In This Release You can download the release here.  · Support for developing and deploying on 64 bit (x64). ·         New menu commands within Visual Studio o        Package – package the solution but does not deploy. o        Retract – retracts and deletes the active solution from SharePoint. o        Quick Deploy §           Copy to […]

  Microsoft Office SharePoint Online is a collection of Web-based tools and technologies built on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 that help you store, share, and manage digital information within your company. This white paper (35MB) describes the customization (or extensibility) capabilities that are supported with the Standard offering of SharePoint Online. In this guide […]

I came across this while developing workflows in SharePoint.  The SharePoint 2007 environment I develop in is MOSS 2007 w/SP1 and the Infrastructure Update and when a workflow was created with the following activities all processing would stop and the workflow would not wake up. What was happening is the workflow would enter the While […]

I was recently tasked with the job of replacing a K2.NET 2003 Workflow that used some Word Automation to merge some data together and produce a document.  The C# code that did the automation ran on a x32 SharePoint 2007 Server but did not function whatsoever on the x64 platform, and besides server-side automation is […]

I recently had a requirement where a user had to be added to a group as part of a SharePoint 2007 Workflow but the users accounts were stored in a SQLMembershipProvider and LDAPMembershipProvider as opposed to a Windows Domain. The trick is you have to append the name of your provider to the users login […]

Three new important updates were released on July 15th that affect SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Project Server 2007, Search Server 2008, Search Server 2008 Express and Project Professional 2007. The Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297) applies to: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 Microsoft Search Server […]

I had created a .ascx control as a footer for a SharePoint MasterPage which displayed the date the page was changed and it worked great.  It was great until I created a user account (Forms Based Authentication) with “Read” access and when the account logged in I would get an “Error: Access Denied”, this error […]

This is a great tip from Kirk Evan’s blog. I hated shelling out to the command prompt to do that, even though the new ctrl-shift right click “Copy as Path” in Windows Explorer made it easy to get the full path to the .dll to paste to the sn –Tp command.   Technorati Tags: Microsoft […]

This is a demo I did during my SharePoint 2007 presentation at the Ottawa Federal User’s Group June 17th.  If you are looking for the slide deck you will find it here. There are a few things you’re going to need to get started: Visual Studio 2008 Web Deployment Projects Windows SDK for Windows Server […]

In case you weren’t aware that SharePoint 2007 shipped with an LDAP Membership Provider, I recently had a requirement to use it and so I thought I would post the steps to implement it.  The LDAP membership and role providers got some love in SP1 when Microsoft added the connectionUsername and connectionPassword attributes to support […]