Archive for category Development

Intro to WSPBuilder

Posted by Michael Bowersox in Development, SharePoint on January 18, 2009

WSPBuilder is a tool for building web solution (WSP) files to deploy out to a SharePoint farm.  It is free, open source, and available on CodePlex here: http://www.codeplex.com/wspbuilder.  It is a tool that, in my opinion, every SharePoint developer should be using.
So what is a WSP file?  WSP files are web solution files.  Essentially, they [...]

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XCode Intellisense Shortcut

Posted by Michael Bowersox in Development on December 29, 2008

One thing that I had been struggling with while developing software with XCode was the lack of an Intellisense-like feature that is found in Visual Studio.  XCode does have a nice code completion feature, but that didn’t solve the problem of viewing what members belonged to an object.  Luckily I found out that you can [...]

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SPWeb.EnsureUser

Posted by Michael Bowersox in Development, SharePoint on December 13, 2008

Suppose you need to perform some actions on a SharePoint user such as role assignment, but you are unsure if the user exists within the site you are currently working with.  One solution, which I have always used, is to check for the existence of the user within the site and if they do not [...]

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Visual Studio Intellisense Shortcut

Posted by Michael Bowersox in Development on December 6, 2008

I have been using Visual Studio since version 6, but never took the time to actually find out what the shortcut to bring up an Intellisense dialog is.  Turns out that hitting Ctrl+J will bring up Intellisense for the current token.  So two key strokes later I had this:

Simple and just what I was looking [...]

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