Monthly Archives: February 2011

Is an MCPD: SharePoint Developer 2010

Well I’m pleased to say that I am now a MCPD: SharePoint Developer 2010 – having just passed the 70-576 exam. I can honestly say this one was trickier than the 70-573 (MCTS SharePoint 2010, Application Development). The content itself isn’t particularly difficult but it certainly keeps you on your toes! Advice for studying for… Read more »

PowerShell and SharePoint…playing nice?

One of the challenges we’ve always faced with SharePoint is deploying configuration changes. As developers we can write a feature that deploys the same code each time we deploy - whether that be to our development, test, UAT, production and any other environment you can imagine. How do you handle “just login to Central Admin and change… Read more »

Large Lists in the CMS

In my last post we looked at some of the options available to developers in order to overcome the 5000 items limit in SharePoint. But there’s still a question around what can be done in the CMS view of list. Before we start, there’s something to note here with the list threshold and that is… Read more »