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Comment on Large List Performance by Sharing is caring » Developing for the future? Large lists?

Sharing is caring » Developing for the future? Large lists? — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:25:06 +0000

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Comment on Custom Timer Jobs by Creating Sharepoint Custom Workflow Activity through Visual Studio 2010 « eStarkTechnologies

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 11:49:10 +0000

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Comment on Tools/Downloads by Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:47:03 +0000

Adam

Thanks for the follow up advice . I might bump into you next sat., either at the event or more likely in the pub afterwards!

Comment on Tools/Downloads by adam

adam — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:22:39 +0000

Hi Daniel,
If you’re keen to incorporate unit testing into your SharePoint code then I would say TypeMock is a good way to go. I’ve tried a number of other unit testing tools with SharePoint and whilst they offer some degree of testing, it always felt too abstracted from the SharePoint API. I found using TypeMock meant I could good get much more granular code coverage, testing my calls the API which is what I was looking for. You have to make sure any tests and mocks you setup are right, but that’s the same with any mocking based framework. The fact that TypeMock will generate the mocks for you is a big help. I know some people prefer to provide wrappers around the SharePoint API, and then only unit test those wrappers and assume that the SharePoint interaction works. Personally, I don’t like taking just that approach.
I hope that helps
Adam

Comment on Tools/Downloads by Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:00:41 +0000

Regarding your developer tools. Would your recommend using TypeMock for all SharePoint 2010 and 2012 development both client side and server – I had thought you had prviously listed it here. The reason is I’m putting a new developer rig together and I thought I should inital unit/mock test as opposed to psueodo uint/integration testing would be a good habit to adopt. I am having to write more code these days and I don’t want any nasty surprises down the line.

Comment on Visual Studio Pre/Post Deployment PowerShell for SharePoint by SharePoint Tips | SharePoint Press

SharePoint Tips | SharePoint Press — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 18:07:24 +0000

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Comment on Large List Performance by 5280Major

5280Major — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:48:23 +0000

Fantastic summation. Thank you for taking the time to review the options and the impact. I’ll definitely be adding the ViewFields option along with some sort of paging.

Comment on Custom Workflow – Visual Studio Part 1 by adam

adam — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:41:03 +0000

Hi Paavan,
Yes -using the SharePoint components of Visual Studio requires you to have SharePoint installed locally. A number of the SharePoint artifacts that you can create rely on settings on your site (for example existing Content Types) and there are also parts of the SharePoint OM which is required by Visual Studio.

You’ve got two options really – 1) Install Visual Studio on a development/test SharePoint server (not part of a Production farm!) and develop there, or 2) Alternatively you can also install SharePoint on 64bit Windows 7 and use Visual Studio from there. I wouldn’t typically recommend this approach but if you’re primarily going to be developing Workflow it shouldn’t be too bad. There’s a number of walkthroughs available online if you want to take this approach.

Hope that helps.
Adam

Comment on Custom Workflow – Visual Studio Part 1 by Paavan Reddy

Paavan Reddy — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:33:29 +0000

Do we need to install SharePoint server to configure Visual Studio Sharepoint workflow. I tried to create a custome workflow through Visul Studio 2010 its asking me to install SharePoint server.

Plz advise me.

Thanks
Paavan

Comment on SharePoint Multilingual (MUI) Support by SharePoint MUI Team sites | Software

SharePoint MUI Team sites | Software — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:25:26 +0000

[...] Ensure that you can logon to your site and that you’re able to switch between languages. If you need help with this step, you can check out this post. [...]