WSPBuilder makes the process of building WSP files extremely simple as illustrated in a previous post. WSPBuilder supports many features including deploying files to the 12 hive as well as deploying assemblies to the GAC or the web application’s bin
Intro to WSPBuilder
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
XCode Intellisense Shortcut
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
SPWeb.EnsureUser
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
Visual Studio Intellisense Shortcut
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