I ran across a blog entry with a consolidated list of links to the SharePoint 2007 planning worksheets. These are good starting points for your discovery, analysis, and design and are provided by Microsoft. I would suggest tweaking them to meet your organizational needs. http://itfootprint.wordpres... TechNet provides a consolidated list of planning worksheets for SharePoint 2010. http://technet.microsoft.co... Technorati ......
On Monday the PnP team released the 2nd drop of the SharePoint 2010 Guidance. Included is an example of a sandboxed solution, which is a good list aggregation scenario related to SOW’s (statements of work) and estimates across a number of sub-sites. I am VERY excited about the work that is being done and guidance documentation and code that will be released soon. You will also begin to see tests utilizing Moles for “detouring” or “mocking” as well as examples of tests using several different unit ......
This past week I was reminded of the “fun” in which hosting an application within SharePoint can present. We are developing a custom application for our client in which some areas must reside within a SharePoint environment. We did quite a bit of our development in this first iteration within a web application in order to pull things together and present the client with a working end-to-end “prototype.” The architecture is composed of several layers all of which will be “in process” communications ......
Any of you ever installed a distributed multi-machine system? How did you do it? Did you use an off-the-shelf (OTS) product such as WISE or InstallShield? Well, my company was faced with this decision last year. Here is my story, but I'd like to hear yours. The company that I work for recently released our newest product that is a highly distributed Windows system with tons of C++ COM dlls, DCOM proxies, Registry entries, message queues (MSMQ), Services, .NET Interop, and lots of databases (including ......