Wss

There are times, when we, as developers, may have several different iterations of SharePoint installations floating around. Maybe we have a staging installation, development installation, and finally a production installation (which may or may not be administered by us . In cases like this, what is the easiest way to find out the version of [...]

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admin on June 12th, 2008

For those who read my last post you know that the guys over at bamboo solutions created an excellent package that lets you install WSS on vista. Well my first install of WSS on vista went so well I decided I would get Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 installed on vista. Try #1. 1. Downloaded [...]

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While utilizing the SharePoint object model (Microsoft.Sharepoint.dll) is a powerful mechanism for doing administration and custom development tasks, anything you write that uses it needs to run on the server hosting WSS or MOSS. This typically includes webparts which, in general, is not a big deal since they have to be installed there anyway’s. Admin [...]

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admin on June 9th, 2008

The guys over on the WSS team finally announced a new build of visual studio extensions for WSS (VSeWSS) and support for Visual Studio 2008. YES!!! i can finally now uninstall old visual studio 2005 (Well, maybe not just yet). You can download version 1.2 of the extensions here and rock on with Visual Studio [...]

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As I was writing some SharePoint management powershell scripts (to be posted be later) to generate .NET wrappers for each SharePoint WebService I noticed that my script was not creating the workflow.asmx wrapper. Maybe the script is wrong? Nope, looks good there. Maybe I have a messed WSS install, so I fire up good old [...]

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admin on May 28th, 2008

For as long i can remember i have had my main dev machine (Laptop) running some type of server operating system. This has been traditionally because i have been developing for Sharepoint and Citrix and those have never been able to install on a client OS like vista or XP. For me, this has been [...]

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