While developing a sandboxed solution in SharePoint 2010 using the Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint developer tools it happened that I wasn’t able to deploy the solution using F5. The error message wasn’t exact on how to solve the problem. [More]

Maybe this was easy for everyone else but I have to admit that this wasn’t easy for me. As you may know I have developed a tool for SharePoint 2010 Site Provisioning in order to enhance the SharePoint development process which wasn’t able to programmatically create folders and subfolder in a document library or list. So while I tried to change this I had a lot of trouble to achieve my goal. [More]

Content Generator is a professional site provisioning tool that allows the automatic creation of SharePoint content and structure including list items, documents, lists, pages, sites and sub site collections. With an easy to use editor, jobs and templates it enables you to recreate content on different SharePoint farms. Content Generator gives your software engineers the ability to develop in a - real world - environment which is similar to your customers’ information architecture. Development and quality assurance can be done in a more efficient way. [More]

SPDisposeCheck is one of the most important tools for SharePoint development since it checks custom solution using the SharePoint object model for possibly memory leaks and reports them to you. The tools has been updated December 2010. [More]

Since a long time I planned to use the SQL Server Sample Databases in order to enhance my SharePoint development environments with kind of real world example data. These data includes online transaction processing scenarios, a data warehouse and business intelligence scenarios. [More]

The fourth part of my SharePoint 2010 developer learning is about SharePoint 2010 workflows. It’s basically available in SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 and offers you to electronically recreate business processes. [More]