Debugging tips for SharePoint developers – Solving “Unknown error occurred”...
I spend some time helping the community by answering questions and suggesting solutions. Quite often people get the familiar SharePoint "unknown error occurred" message and get stuck for lack of...
View ArticleYouTube Video Series Posted
As you’ll know if you follow my blog, I just announced that the next issue of Understanding SharePoint Journal will deal with beginning SharePoint development. You may also know that I have posted...
View ArticleSPList.RootFolder causes Dispose Problem
I recently wrote an extension method to several built-in SharePoint objects to allow easier setting and getting of custom properties. You may or may not know that SPList objects do not contain a...
View ArticleSPDisposeCheck in Visual Studio
One of the comments I have gotten from the latest USP Journal issue is that running the SPDisposeCheck is awkward because you have to do it via command line. That’s not necessarily true, there’s an...
View ArticleShared SQL Server for SharePoint? Watch Out!
I just encountered a weird problem. When trying to run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard and connecting a server to an existing farm, the whole config wizard crashed when we...
View ArticleDo-It-Yourself SharePoint Tools – SPSiteLister
A while back, I wrote about my philosophy on using SharePoint tools, and how I preferred to create my own tools. A total of 1 reader wrote to me at furuknapgmail.com and asked if I could provide some...
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