A major part of my daily work is to debug code either in Visual Studio or WinDbg. Visual Studio has nice benefits when it comes to live debugging of managed code. As this is very convenient I often choose this tool for that specific scenario. But Visual Studio has some characteristics which make debugging managed […]
Yesterday we released the Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012. The Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 provide broad and deep support, ranging from new templates to new designers to a whole host of integrated lifecycle tools. They enable developers to create, edit, test, debug, package, and deploy apps for Office and SharePoint, […]
One day out and we already have received feedback about a problem with SPDisposeCheck. 😉 Here are the details: Code like the one below is not recommended as it disposes the RootWeb – that is correctly identified by SPDisposeCheck! public void DND_RootWeb() { using (SPSite siteCollection = new SPSite(“http://intranet.contoso.com“)) { […]
We are happy to announce the release of a new version of SPDisposeCheck! SPDisposeCheck is a tool that helps developers and administrators check custom SharePoint solutions that use the SharePoint Object Model helping measure against known Microsoft dispose best practices. This tool may not show all memory leaks in your code and may produce false positives […]
With SharePoint 2007 the DLLs in the 12-hive\ISAPI directory (e.g. Microsoft.SharePoint.dll) showed up on the .NET tab in Visual Studio which allowed easy adding of these references to your projects. If you install SharePoint 2010 you will notice that these DLLs are no longer listed on the .NET tab which means that you have to […]
