VSTS Rangers shipped BRDLite on codeplex

The Build Release and Deploy (BRD) Lite is a set of build process reference templates that allows you to quickly setup a real-world build process in your environment. It leverages extensions from Community TFS Build Extensions, which provide capabilities for your Team Foundation builds such as automatic compile, build version number customization, build packaging, code signing, basic deployment functionality, and environment configuration file management into your Team Foundation builds.

The “Lite” comes from a build template that you or your Build administrators can use “out of the box” for most scenarios. Of course, you can always customize and extend as needed.

 

 

Project landing page: BRDLite on Codeplex

Read more here: Rangers blog.

Sharepoint 2013 grab bag (capabilities and features)

When a new wave comes along, I usually scout for all the information I can get my hands on. learning from others is a great source, especially in a great community as Sharepoint has built up (quite frankly one of the most share willing community I have ever met). Going forward i came upon a very interesting technet page that contains an interesting collection of information, from an overview of the new version of Sharepoint, to the recommended migration process. You can find the page at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/fp142374.aspx.

MS has heard the field and produced a much better documentation for 2013 than in previous versions, so in short, go read it!

Have a great weekend!

2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

The numbers reflect the low activity of a highly defying year. Recovery mode on

Just for fun, here is the automated report:

Here’s an excerpt:

4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 15,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 3 Film Festivals

Click here to see the complete report.

Office Visio Stencil – KooL models

Its here and quite useful IMHO (In My Humble Opinion), as models are a big help either to provide easy visualization of complex systems, or just for you to read easily after an all nighter, with a pair of fat tired eyes. This VSS has a bunch of lovely visio stencils for you to create your models and proposals. Nice, simple, good looking and… free

Get it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35772

Big project = long silence

Yep, its been quite a while since my last regular blogging activity. This last year and a half has stressed time like an event horizon. I will soon come back to blogging on my favourite topics: SharePoint (2013 is here, lets start rockin’), Visual Studio ALM Rangers: wazuuup?, Azure, Office 365 and …. stuff
Write to you soon! (I promiss)

Back into action

Long time since my last decent post (don’t get your expectations too high, this one will not be decent either), I’m plotting a new set of info based on my recent reentry in the Sharepoint world. These articles will be mostly on the migration process from 2007, where I will try to focus on the main sore points I came across while migrating a 2007 Sharepoint intra/extra/internet platform to the current 2010 version. Write you soon

SharePoint Diagnostics Studio

The SharePoint Diagnostics Studio available in the SharePoint 2010 Administration Toolkit v2.0, presents server diagnostic information in a visual and structured way that enables Developers and IT Professionals to quickly diagnose and act upon intermittent performance, reliability and functionality problems in a SharePoint 2010 environment – surfacing every request, across every machine, remotely, with minimal permissions.

The SharePoint Diagnostics Studio gathers and consolidates Event and Diagnostic (ULS) logs in addition to information from the Usage database and presents it through a graphical user interface supporting clarity and a single view into issues impacting a deployment.

For more information see http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog/Pages/BlogPost.aspx?pID=971.

SPUGPT: 1st public meeting

Finally SPUGPT (SharePoint User Group PorTugal) is moving and joining some of the best Sharepoint Developpers in Portugal. Main goal: join efforts, trade experiences and build a community that can help each other in the developing of solid, stable and professional solutions in Microsoft Sharepoint (any flavour).

IMHO (In My Humble Opinion) these groups are one of the most interesting tools you can come up with. If you can get sufficient momentum, of course .

The community is meeting in an open session next Saturday (8th May), at 9:30 GMT at Tagus Park, Oeiras, portugal. The event is free but the seats are limited, so register yourself in the community portal (see below) ASAP to receive the official invitation.

Join us if you will/can. Note: all presentations will be in Portuguese. 

Check for more information on the community initiative at its site (PT) http://www.sharepointpt.org.

Hope to see you on Saturday!

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While developping pages or application pages with code behind (not inline, but class based) keep in mind the protection level of the class.

By default a class’s protection level is “private”. Thus, the overridden methods will not be available.

Set the class as public and the problem will be solved.

Cheers.

Congratulations to the first Sharepoint MVP: André Lage

After a dedicated path of projects and serious community contribution, André Lage (http://aaclage.blogspot.com/) got the MVP title as a 2010 boot strap (http://aaclage.blogspot.com/2010/01/sharepoint-mvp-award.html).

Congratulations on a well deserved acknowledgement.