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Why doesn't my ActionsPane appear when I create a new document form a VSTO enabled template?
11 August 08 07:47 PM | Richard | with no comments
When you are using a VSTO enabled Word Template inside a SharePoint custom content type you have to be careful which actual .DOTX file you use within the SharePoint custom content type. DO NOT - use the .DOTX from your VSTO Visual Studio project directory...
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Moving the document store in TFS
07 August 08 03:50 PM | Richard | with no comments
I have at last got round to moving the location of the WSS sites used by our TFS server from the WSS instance running on our TFS Application Tier (AT) to our main 64bit MOSS 2007 server farm. A job I have been putting off for ages. I decided that there...
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Bug tracking with TFS
06 July 08 11:37 PM | Richard | with no comments
I have posted in the past about my efforts to write a user facing bug tracking interface for TFS to integrate with our SharePoint based customer portal. I have had some mixed success , but the end point is that I am just not happy with what I have written...
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Developer Edition for Sharepoint
30 May 08 10:37 AM | Richard | with no comments
There has been a good deal of discussion on Blogs and Forums as to if there is a need for a developer edition of Sharepoint (WSS3.0) so you can develop against it under Vista. Historically your options were: Run W2K3 on your client PC - licensing issues...
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Sharepoint is like a shelf that is too short.....
15 February 08 08:52 PM | Richard | with no comments
You have all these books to put on a shelf and as you put one on at one end another one falls off at the other. You just can't get them all on at the same time. What do I mean by this? Sharepoint has many features and with these come limitations due...
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TFS WebParts in a 64bit SharePoint environment
04 January 08 04:20 PM | Richard | 1 comment(s)
In my post on using TFS WebParts in Sharepoint I provided a proof of concept set of source to allow work items to be viewed and edited within 32bit SharePoint 2007. However I hit a problem that our live SharePoint is running 64bit and the TFS API is only...
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TFS WebPart for viewing workitems in SharePoint 2007
19 December 07 10:47 PM | Richard | 3 comment(s)
I have been trying to get a simple means for our clients to log faults into our TFS system whilst inside our MOSS2007 based customer portal. I had been suffering from two major problems as my previous posts mentioned. However, I now have some solutions...
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Microsoft SOA Conference Day 1
30 October 07 08:32 PM | Richard | 4 comment(s)
After a couple of days in the Washington state my body has caught up to a manageable time zone (somewhere east of Denver I think, but that is close enough) just in time for for the start of the Microsoft SOA 2007 conference . The keynote for me highlighted...
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TFS Webpart in MOSS2007
13 July 07 05:17 PM | Richard | 2 comment(s)
Introduction I said I would post again when I had something to show in my TFS WorkItem webparts project, well here it is. I have created a pair of web parts, one to list all the work items and the other to display the details of a given item. For testing...
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Another stupid way to waste an hour or two.....
10 July 07 09:53 AM | Richard | with no comments
When developing SharePoint add-in try to remember if you put a previous version of the DLL in the GAC or not. I have just wasted a couple of hours trying to work out why a new version of a DLL is not being read from a site collection's bin directory,...
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First thoughts on using the TFS API inside Sharepoint 2007
08 July 07 10:46 PM | Richard | with no comments
I have been looking at writing some SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) web parts to show information about TFS workitems. This turned out to be a bit more complex than expected. I wrote a ASP.NET 2.0 webpart using the TFS WorkItem Tracking Web Project on Codeporject...
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