IISAPP.vbs was a nice script that listed the applcation pools running in a box. This information is quite usefull, namely for debugging processes. The command is no longer available in the most recent versions of the OS, bu there is a work around: appcmd.
open a command prompt and run “c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\appcmd List WP” and you’ll get a list of running application pools with the corresponding process IDs.
Have fun debugging! 
Being a senior consultant in the Information Worker area, Sharepoint and development are my middle names on a day-by-day basis. Every year I actively work on 15 to 20 projects, most of them in different clients, with different teams.
As most of you, I simply feel repetitive work is a serious waste of time and resources, for which I don’t have a miracle cure, but I do have a couple of what I like to call good practices, that help me reduce repetitive work and thus elevate my productivity levels to a reasonable self-satisfying level. Here are some of them:
This pretty much covers my main project day life with Visual Studio and TFS 2010!
Now, if you want to have some fun, check out the new wave of Visual Studio 2011 coming out. New EDI, TFS and the TFServices are better than ever. Also the VS ALM Rangers team has shipped a new set of projects ready for the new platforms that are really worth wile. Here are some links for your greedy thirst for coding fun :
No GO And have fun 
It has been made available the Azure version of the Microsoft TFS (Team Foundation Services), also known as TFS Services preview. You can create a free account with a live account and use it in your projects. For the time beeing it is free. I don’t have an idea of the business model of this offer, so don’t crussify me if it changes from free to something else .
Acess it at http://www.tfspreview.com
BTW, I’m already using it with several projects and my feeling for it is that it is great! Source control is stable. Remaining available features are quite stable. Other features should be released over time.
Cheers!
Yesterday (Sept 15th), the latest version of IE was out on the street. First impressions: Fast and very clean. Your bars are all disabled onfirst load. You will have to enable them IF you really need them.
With a little smaller memory print and a rendering engine that really is faster than IE8.
This browser is HTML 5 enabled and there is where all the fun will be in the time to come
Very worthwile taking a peak: http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/
I don’t know about you, but I like to have my tools handy
With this in mind I suggest the approach described here: http://www.sharepointdevwiki.com/display/public/How+to+integrate+SP+Dispose+Check+into+Visual+Studio+Solutions.
Simple and neet.
Although a feered tool for a loto f sharepoint developers, IMHO it hás its use and gives you he chance to have a multi-disciplinary team integrated in the same development process. Anyway, if you like it/need it, you can now get I for free from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=baa3ad86-bfc1-4bd4-9812-d9e710d44f42.
If you are developing for Sharepoint, chances are that you are using Visual Studio J. So do I. Having a couple of free time, I was looking for some addins to help me get rid of some boring or repetitive tasks. Take a look at codeplex (www.codeplex.com) and to http://www.visualstudiogallery.com. You will find some valuable addins for your daily routines. I’ll try to post my favorite ones soon.
Recently I had to store some user information that made sense to be present in the use profile. The plot got thicker as I added the FBA (Forms Based Authentication) variable to this formula. Why? Because out of the box the only way to create the profiles is to import them from the active directory. Although you can find connector for LDAP, and BDC they only work in append mode to add extended information to the already created profiles.
Don’t panic! there’s a solution for this. The trick is to create the profiles through object model. There is a project in codeplex called “MOSS 2007 Profile Import Tool“, that provides you with the source for a connector. The implementation is based on a command line tool that can be called on demand or included in some scheduler mechanism. It is up to you if you want this flavour or for example, want to have some fun with sharepoint timer jobs .
No big news here, but can keep you from throwing some time out the window, trying to find out why the FBA profiles aren’t available.
I came accross a great post that realy reflects the Sharepoint day-by-day: debugging. You can find it at
http://blog.thekid.me.uk/archive/2007/07/25/debugging-tips-for-sharepoint-and-wss-exceptions.aspx
Take a GOOD look at it. Follow any links to tools you don’t know yet.
Great post!
since 30/Aug, tehre is a new version of the SDK for WSS & MOSS.
Here is the information about it:
.. from the original post (http://blogs.msdn.com/randalli/archive/2008/08/28/just-published-wss-and-moss-sdk-1-4-download-and-online-msdn-library-8-29-2008.aspx)
The August 2008 update is version 1.4 and reflects feature enhancements that were part of the recent Infrastructure Update. For more information on SharePoint Products and Technologies updates, you can start here on TechNet.
If you are only writing code that utilizes the Windows SharePoint Services platform, you can download the WSS SDK. However, if you want the superset of all documentation and samples, you should install the MOSS SDK, and then you’ll get all the platform and technology information as well. You don’t need to download both, but you will need to uninstall all previous versions.
Note The SDK 1.4 downloads are full releases that include all previous tools and documentation.
The SDK updates in 1.4 include:
You can also update the Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint Services. Here is the link to the installer: VSeWSS 1.2. The extensions were updated on 7/1/2008 and now work with Visual Studio 2008!
Don’t forget to download the user’s guide: version 1.1
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