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This post was published to Dan Keeling on SharePoint C... at 12:36:06 PM 7/27/2009 Setup SMTP for your development SharePoint Environments After wrapping up a project recently, a request came up for testing some custom email alerts, and email alerts from Workflow. In the client’s development environment email was enabled, but there were some problems with the workflow. I had been working independently on my own VM, which was not on the domain and was not setup to send emails. So, to better test these things, I setup...

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

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Windows server 2003 with service packs SharePoint SP1 Visual studio 2008 SP1 MSDN documentation Office 2007 SharePoint Designer 2007 VSeWSS 1.3 SPDisposeCheck VSTO SilverLight SDK and tools for 2.0 Windows Live Tools for Visual Studio Ghost Doc Visual SVN Tortoise SVN Debug...

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...

This is a great tool to aide in information gathering and administration in centralized place. If you develop for SharePoint 2007, or are an administrator and have access to a console of a SharePoint server, you NEED to take a look at this tool. http://www.sharepointblogs.com/keutmann/archive/2006/11/03/sharepoint-manager-2007-new-version.aspx Give it a shot.

I know this came out a little while ago, but I thought I would go ahead and post a link just in case. Download It Here This now has support for Visual Studio 2008, which alot of people are starting to work with. I still have my reservations with the use of GUID's in feature names, and limitations on using event handlers and feature receivers while trying to get the template to work.  But one REALLY good thing that comes with this download is the Solution generator, enabling the creation of list templates and site definitions. ...

Visual Studio extensions for Windows SharePoint Services: A MSDN blog post showed up a couple of days ago, listing the new features of 1.1 final and 1.2 preview. You can see it here. From the looks of things, it might actually be a viable solution again, where the support for more than one feature and less "behind the scenes" work is done for you.  For the most part I had given up on using the templates, because I lost a lot of the flexibility I wanted, only when I just needed a simple webpart.  With...

Well I have posted a couple of times and listed this link.  (The link to the newly (August 22, 2007) release of the WSS 3.0 Extensions) I wanted to take a minute to cover the biggest feature in my opition. You can now manage WSP packages... without having an external tool to create a cab, and changing properties generated by VS that you would not consider Production. I opened my blog web part solution that I have been cleaning up, By clicking on View - > Other windows -> WSP View, you get the window...