I was in a SharePoint governance meeting at one of my customer sites yesterday and the group is thinking of enforcing some rules as far as SharePoint solution packages go. I kept saying during the meeting “Inspect the manifest file so that you can view what files are going to be installed on the server and where they … Read more
I had phone meeting with a potential new customer last Thursday and the customer said that he was watching the news about a lunatic who crashed a plane into the IRS building. The news didn’t hit the place I was working at yet so I didn’t know what was going on. But as we talked … Read more
Using VSeWSS 1.3 with Visual Studio 2008, when you create a new Web Part project, you can edit the Web part properties and descriptions using the WSP View. The typical Solution Explorer in VS 2008 looks like the following when working on a Web part project: In order to see the manifest.xml or feature.xml file, … Read more
In my previous post, I listed the sessions that I attended on SharePoint Saturday. Michael Lotter’s session was about building and deploying custom SharePoint Application Pages. Out-of-the-box pages suffice for more SharePoint users. But at some point, your customers or organization will want to add custom ASPX pages into SharePoint. This topic is relevant to … Read more