Recently I came across another very interesting coding pattern which is very similar to the interesting SPSite leak I showed a couple of days ago. public void workOnArea(Area area){ if (area.Web != null) { string url = area.Web.Url; area.Web.Dispose(); }} On a first look the code look ok, right? Ok, no try/catch blog […]
Today I have updated my Content Deployment – Best Practices article with additional common problems.
[via Paul Andrew’s blog] SPDisposeCheck is a tool to help SharePoint Developers follow memory management best practices when using the SharePoint API with IDisposable objects including SPSite and SPWeb. This tool is not supported by Microsoft and is recommended to be used on Developer workstations and not on production SharePoint Server installations. It was released […]
[Updated on February 22nd, 2010 – adding additional values for WSS 4.0] Today I have been working on a support case where customer experienced exceptions in sharepoint when passing in specific query string parameters which are evaluated by his web parts. The URL looked similar to this: http://servername/Pages/MyPage.aspx?ID=<number> The problem here is caused by the […]
Today I came across a very interesting coding pattern: public void enumSiteCollection(SPSiteCollection spSites, int min, int max) { for (int i = min; i<max; i++) { if (spSites[i] != null) { DoSomething(spSites[i]); spSites[i].Dispose(); } } } On a first look the code look ok, right? Ok, no try/catch blog […]
In the past I have released several blogs about the various problems that can occur with Content Deployment. As it is often hard to find the right resource I have now decided to compile the different known issues into one large article: Content Deployment – Best Practices
In the past I have released several blogs about the various problems that can occur with Content Deployment. As it is often hard to find the right resource I have now decided to compile the different known issues into one large article: Avoiding common problems Problem 1: Mixing deployments with and without retaining object […]
Lots of articles have been written in the past which outline the importance of proper dispose for SharePoint SPSite and SPWeb objects in custom code. One important topic which hasn’t been discussed very often till now is how to avoid missing a dispose in case that an error occurs during execution of custom code. Roger […]
A common error I often see is that customers are mixing incremental and full deployment when deploying a site collection. E.g. use incremental deployment every day and full deployment once a week – just to be sure (maybe because they do not trust incremental?) The problem is that incremental and full deployment do not deploy […]
The Content Editor Web Part as we ship it in WSS and MOSS always stores URLs as absolute Links. That will cause problems as soon as you are extending a web application to multiple IIS websites or when using Alternate Access Mapping (AAM) to support multiple zones. In these situations the CEWP will return the […]
I just noticed that we have published a couple of KB article about a new tool named Pre-Upgrade Checker which will ship with WSS 3.0 Service Pack 2. Based on the information in the KB articles this tool will allow you to verify if your current WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 site structure will be […]
As discussed by the Office Sustained Engineering group cumulative updates for all Office Products including WSS 3.0 and SharePoint 2007 will be released every second month. Yesterday we released the so called December Cumulative Update. There is a chance to the way we will release cumulative updates from now on. In the past we shipped […]
