SharePoint Thoughts

This blog will stay here, but I’m in process of moving all my posts over to my Spiffy new SharePoint based blog.

Check it out as well as my new website, where I can host my own demos.

http://www.sharepointevolved.com

and

http://www.sharepointevolved.com/blog

See you there,

-Isaac!

Using the compact Framework, I ran into this error when creating a web request to a webservice, not using a web reference.

I added:

hwr.AllowWriteStreamBuffering = true;
hwr.PreAuthenticate = true;

and this resolved the issue.

DropBox, is a multi-platform, folder synchronization software. It handles synchronizations and updates efficiently and in the background. From what I can tell, the service is very fast, updates are processed within seconds of changing a file on the originating machine, from there its dependent of bandwidth to update the other locations where your DropBox is synchronized. Notifications from the system tray (in Windows) lets you know when files have been updated or modified, either by yourself or someone you’ve shared folders with.

This is good for small code projects, where Team Foundation Server is overkill anyways. You can share your Visual Studio project with a select number of people who can also work on the same project as you. There isn’t a sense of Checking IN and Checking OUT as there is in TFS, but there is conflict resolution and revision history for your files.

DropBox has versions available for Windows, Mac, as well as Linux, but you can also access your files through a web interface if you don’t have DropBox installed on the machine you need to access a file from.

The best part about this service is that its free, 2Gb with the free service level, with plans if you need more space. This should be more than adequate for any small project needing code backup as well as synchronization. The data ends up on Amazon’s S3 service and is Encrypted.

If you want to try it out yourself, see
www.getdropbox.com

DropBox Benefits for Code Management:

Fast - Uses Amazon’s S3 Service for fast transfers

Redundant - Using the S3 Service, its backed up on the Dropbox Servers as well as your client machine(s)

Team Friendly - Share Your Project Directories with your Team, have them make changes to your code or add their own

Revisions - View file revisions via their web interface

Multi Platform - Have Cleint/TeamMate that doesn’t use Windows, not a problem, Linux and Mac versions are available

These benefits aren’t just limited to .Net projects, but good for many other types of development.

Chris O’Brien makes an argument for using Solutions and Content Deployment for scenarios that Features may just not cut it. One instance is content updates using features on multiple machines can be troublesome at best. Read More at his blog, and see why he advices using Solutions in some cases.

http://www.sharepointnutsandbolts.com/2008/09/sharepoint-dev-strategies-it-not-all.html

Ian at www.wssdemo.com has a great demo getting the VisiFire libraries to work with SharePoint and Silverlight http://www.wssdemo.com/Pages/graph.aspx

Patrick Tisseghem over at U2U suddenly passed away, and is sorely missed in all corners in the world. He was one of the first blogs I read when I was getting started with SharePoint. Very thoughtful, and I had hoped to meet him some day. Best wishes.

Jan Tielens’ blog about the subject.

http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2008/09/05/patrick-tisseghem-passed-away.aspx

Ian over at www.wssdemo.com has a good set of guidelines to get Virtual Earth set up using the Dataview Web Part and the Virtual Earth API.

Find more information here: http://www.wssdemo.com/Blog/archive/2008/09/05/sharepoint-virtual-earth-web-part-without-deploying-any-server-code.aspx

Serge Luca is over halfway through on a Step By Step tutorial on Creating Workflows for SharePoint.

You can find this first of this 20 part series here : http://sergeluca.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8A06D5F2F585013!859.entry

http://graegert.com/?p=505

A link I don’t want to forget. Steve Graegert has a great post outlining the use of SPPropertyBag to make custom application pages to look like SharePoint application pages.