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Well a co-worker sent me this link, so I thought I would go ahead and post it.Microsoft has released Tech Prev. SharePoint 2010 developer documentation.I will post back when I have more time to read through it.http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=94afe886-3b20-4bc9-9a0d-acd8cd232c24&displaylang=en

http://www.SharePointGovernance.org is launching soon, starting a community of SharePoint developers and architects to help our peers out. Already having several MVPs and other GURU's signed up, it should be a nice place to give best practices, pains, and general governance relating to SharePoint 2007 and 2010 when it comes out.Check there frequently, it should be publically open soon.Dan

April 2009 – Microsoft released the Service Packs for WSS and MOSS, but also several other MS Office products. You can see the list here This includes SharePoint Designer, Office Products, Project, MOSS, WSS, etc.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=baa3ad86-bfc1-4bd4-9812-d9e710d44f42 Thanks for the post: (Saw a tweet about it) http://sharepointblogs.com/marwantarek/archive/2009/04/02/sharepoint-designer-is-free.aspx

I ran across this again the other day, and thought to blog it in case I needed to look it back up again. When you need to get a list of the installed languages on a SharePoint farm, there is a static collection: SPRegionalSettings.GlobalInstalledLanguages Which returns a SPLanguageCollection.  Loop through it to get your languages and codes. See this MSDN page. Cheers!

I saw a tweet from @andrewconnell about this, and he posted (Original Post) and I totally agree, this has been talked about for a while, and several MVP’s mentioned it, and said we would see it soon, a long time later we finally have it. Basically, the rules for SP objects that are not automatically disposed are wrapped into a tool, to run against your code, and make sure you have no memory leaks. Go get it here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/SPDisposeCheck

Free Webinar sponsored by Colligo, so it will be a little bit of a sales pitch, but should also have some good content. 7 Ways To Get More From Your SharePoint Deployment Now THURSDAY - February 19, 2009 8:00 AM PST 11:00 AM EST 4:00 PM London 5:00 PM Paris You can register for free here

So, about 2 weeks ago, VSeWSS 1.3 CTP was released. All the facts are here.  So I thought I would give it a shot again, I had basically abandoned the 1.2 version, due to restrictions.  Now some of these things have been fixed, but not all of them.  I think… well, I will continue to use the Solution Generator to create List definitions, etc. that I put into my own projects.  One big problem still, you have to run it on a machine with SP on it.  I like to develop on my host OS, and depending on where...

I am currently working on a custom expiration policy, the client wants to expire(recycle) documents after 1 year, with a 3 month window for a workflow to notify the document owner, and user who last modified the document, of its expiration. The user(s) can simply click extend in a workflow form and update the list item's last modified date to extend the item expiration for 1 more year. Those are the loose requirements. There are SEVERAL options here, there is a custom Retention Formula, Custom Action, and as always a Workflow. The basics, go to Site...

Andrew Connell mentioned this site in a podcast, it is a must see! http://www.microsoft.com/click/sharepointdeveloper/html/