Trinkit, Thinking Web Solutions

Tech-Ed seems like a distant memory now but it was actually only a week ago. I had an awesome time and already looking forward to next year. Was good to meet up with some the US SharePoint MVPs and Experts. Here is a photo of me and Matt presenting our SharePoint tools session:

Apologies to anyone that has been waiting for the session content but here it goes anyway .....

OFC301 - Creating Content Centric Publishing Sites with MOSS 2007.

• Slide Deck
• Tech-Ed Sample Site Definition(instructions below)
• Minimal Publishing Site(part of the features project)
• The forms lock down feature
• Remove name.dll
• Caching
• ECM Team Blog
• Andrew Connells WCM Book

Instructions on deploying the site definition:

1. Run the install script to deploy solution to your SharePoint environment.
2. Create a new site collection based on the Tech-Ed Publishing Solution
3. If you didn't create the site definition at the root of the site you will need to update some of the Pie images on the content pages
4. For the feature webpart to workyou will need to create the Feature list. Create a list called Features with the columns: Title, Feature Description (multiline text) andSolution Area (lookup on pages list). Then put the listinto datasheet view and copy and create the list items.

OFC303 - Tools and techniques for productive and effective SharePoint development.

General Links: Slide Deck, Matts Blog, Bookmarklets, Dev Shortcuts, SPDevExplorer, Community Kit for SharePoint, Search Community Toolkit, Pod Casting Toolkit, Fantastic 40 Templates, Telerik Controls, Bamboo Solutions, PowerShell (and a guide to get you started)

Microsoft Content: MSDN WSS Portal, MSDN MOSS Portal, TechNet WSS Portal, TechNet MOSS Portal, MSDN WSS SDK, MSDN MOSS SDK, GearUp, Office Online, Developer Intro Portal

Forums: SharePointU, MSDN, TechNet

Aggregate Blogs: MVPs, MS Individuals, MS Teams

And the almighty tools list ........

Build and Packaging Tools

• STSDEV
• AppPool Recycle Utility
• Solution Installer

CAML/Search Tools

• U2U Query Builder
• YACQT
• Search Service Tool
• CAML.NET
• LINQ to SharePoint

Visual Studio Optimisations

• AC's CodeRush Tools
• SPDevMod

Content/Config Replication

• Content Deploy Wizard
• MP Package Explorer
• Cross Site Configurator
• SPS Tips Utility Pack

In-SharePoint Tools

• SP Features
• Smart Tools
• SP Config Store
• Enhanced CQWP

Testing Tools

• Test Data Population
• Imtech Test Content

Inspection Tools

• SharePoint Manager
• SharePoint Inspector
• SP Explorer Client (IE)

Governance/Manageabilty

• SP Governance Tools
• Reporting Framework
• MS Asset Inventory
• MS Monitoring Kit
• SP Admin Toolkit

STSADM Tools

• AC's STSADM
• Imtech STSADM
• Gary LP's STSADM
• STSADM Win

Planning/Design Tools

• MS Capacity Planning
• Visio Shapes

Logging Tools

• SP Logging Spy
• SPTraceView

General Tools

• SharePoint Toolbox
• SharePoint SUSHI

.NET Essentials

• Fiddler
• Reflector
• Sysinternals

Enjoy and see you next year!