I'm compiling a web site in Visual Studio 2008 and have an unsuccessful build. OK, nothing unusual yet; compile errors seem to follow me around more often than not. The Error List window presents a number of errors, but two things are out of the ordinary: The Error List does not show an... [More]

Warning: This is a very long post (as in several megs!). The information provided here will aid you in the installation of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS 3.0) in a sandbox environment, aka, Virtual PC. The information will also work as a guideline for installing Microsoft Office SharePoint S... [More]

As I was manually installing the Fab 40 Application templates and sites for SharePoint 2007 in my development environment, I did what most lazy developers do: What could I do to automate the process of installing all the templates? Then it hit me. Why not just iterate through the file system and c... [More]

I have the good fortune of working for Tronox, a company that allows me quite a bit of latitude when it comes to setting up my development environment. With SharePoint 2007 looming on the horizon for us, and as the lead for our SharePoint deployment, I was allowed to requisition a proper environme... [More]