Recently I have been working on a Google Maps integration for SharePoint and one of the desired capabilities was to include items from SharePoint lists on the map.  The solution was not going to leverage the AJAX .NET capabilites and would instea ...[Read More]

I'm very happy to announce that the latest version of StsDev 2008, Version 2.0, is now available for download.   What Changed? StsDev 2008 V2 is now a composite of several capabilities and no longer requires a stand alone executable to perform ...[Read More]

There are a few bloggers that I regularly read, but thanks to a twitter post I found one that I had missed.  This blog is from "The Kid" (a UK developer) about debugging in SharePoint.  This provides some great information/details about ...[Read More]

I finally have a little time while some code I developed is being tested to take a look at the "new" technologies Microsoft has released. Since my experimentation of Azure flopped, I didn't have a supported system, I decided to turn my a ...[Read More]

I am happy to announce the release of our ECTS Extensions to CodePlex.  This extension provides a bit of a performance boost especially to the User Management capability in ECTS.  ECTS provides a forms based authentication schema for SharePoint ...[Read More]

After creating my first Visual Studio Template Item I decided that creating another would be interesting as well. Since I had already done the feature receiver I didn't feel that creating the web part item template would be as interesting, so I de ...[Read More]

I recently ran across a very well done video, except the developer was using VB and I'm a C# person, about how to create your own Visual Studio 2008 Item Templates. After watching the video I decided to play around with the StsDev2008 projects and ...[Read More]

So I readily admit that I am often a code junkie, if I can do it in code then I will. However, I have started to look for tools and solutions that let me code less, drag and drop more, and generate solutions that look better faster.     I have ...[Read More]

Being one of the Sr. Developers on a project, and being responsible for Code Review and a part of the Configuration Management team I recommended we use some versioning of our assemblies. I stand by this decision on the versioning as I do believe ...[Read More]

SharePoint provides a very nice method of sending email, SPUtility.SendEmail.  The main issue is that there is no documentation, but I did find another blog that provides some documentation. ...[Read More]