These a application templates are tailored to address the needs and requirements for specific business processes or sets of tasks for organizations of any size. The applications are the first out-of-box custom scenarios for the Windows SharePoint Services platform, though they also provide a starting point for partners and developers looking to build deeper Windows SharePoint […]

The provider model is used throughout ASP.NET 2.0. It is a means of writing each of the technologies used so that new versions can easily be created and plugged in. For example, if you need to access a different database or authentication server, you can create a provider for it. ASP.NET 2.0 will then work […]

Fritz Onion will be doing a web cast series introducing Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 to developers who are currently working with ASP.NET 1.1. During this 15-part series, learn the new features of this platform, which range from declarative data binding to storing per-client profile data, and hear practical advice about how to best incorporate these features […]

Spence has published a nice article discussing the pro’s and con’s of process recycling and how to balance the different recommendations for MCMS and SharePoint and the Connector for SharePoint Technologies: http://www.mcmsfaq.com/2005/08/mcms-apppool-recycling-spark-and.asp

As you convert your ASP.NET 1.x applications to the new ASP.NET 2.0 framework, you may encounter issues related to the changes introduced by the 2.0 framework. In this article, we will look at both the conversion process and some of the common issues you may encounter during a conversion: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/conversionissuesasp_net.asp

Today I have seen another performance problem caused by Site Deployment API. Here Site Deployment was implemented as a Web application. This causes the Site Deployment API to be loaded into the worker process of the application. So far so good. The problem is that Site Deployment requires a significant amount of memory to be […]

[via Mei Ying] Authors often ask for a list of postings that link to a particular posting/channel before deleting or moving it. Here’s a sample that I’ve written to help address this. It’s a simple console application that scans all placeholder content for hyperlink.   Read more…