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Sharepoint datalayer

deyaert — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:24:01 GMT

I was spending some time discovering design patterns. When searching for the decorator pattern, I also aimed to retrieved results for SharePoint. This way I found a nice site about a datalayer for SharePoint.

It's based on extension methods and generics. It wraps the SPListItem class, and adds some new "custom" functionality. That way, by using the wrapper, you can access your SPListItem objects more strongly typed.

Use firebug in IE

deyaert — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:17:10 GMT

I've found an interesting article where they explain how you can use Firebug (Lite) in IE.

Use firebug in IE

It can come in handy sometimes to fine tune javascript...

Sharepoint on Redmond Developer News

deyaert — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:49:58 GMT

Seems that SharePoint rocks nowadays :-)

Last year, the SharePoint business unit surpassed 100 million licenses and $1 billion in total revenue, according to Microsoft.

And as read on the Redmond Developer News site, with the coming of Visual studio 2010:

"Microsoft has been scaling up our guidance, and our application and tools, really, really fast," Andrew says, noting that Visual Studio 2010 will fully integrate SharePoint development support.

That is something to look forward... :-)

Unit Testing and SharePoint

deyaert — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:47:31 GMT

I've been looking around for sometime, but never found some good information about it. Well, today, I've found some interesting articles (It's not really that new, the article is dated September 15 2008).

It seems that there's a possibility for Unit Testing with SharePoint, you can do it with TypeMock.

The article is found here.

Here are some other referenced articles that might be interesting.

Unit Testing SharePoint
Beginners guide to TDD Webpart development
Sharepoint typemock wrapper (on codeplex)

Gonna try some of these articles. Hope it's worth it.