Aaron Robertson-Hodders SharePoint Blog

SharePoint Dispose Checker - Even more useful than expected

Aaron Robertson-Hodders SharePoint Blog — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:53:00 GMT

By now you have probably heard that the SharePoint Dispose Checker has been released. It's an excellent tool for checking you are disposing of your SharePoint objects correctly! I downloaded it this morning as soon as I read about it just to see if...(read more)

Yet Another SharePoint Conference Post

Aaron Robertson-Hodders SharePoint Blog — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:12:00 GMT

Yep, BandWagon.JumpOn();! I'm off to Seattle on Sunday for the SharePoint Conference . Hopefully I'll be able to get in the door at Kells and put some faces to names! I've never been there, but judging by the number of people interested ,...(read more)

2008'ified

Aaron Robertson-Hodders SharePoint Blog — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:27:00 GMT

Actually I've been 2008'ed for quite a while now, but only recently fully 2008'rtm'd! In a recent fit of over-exuberance (somewhat short of the Steve Ballmer opening keynote level mind you), I decided to embark on an upgrade journey. The...(read more)

Free SharePoint Business Data Catalog Column

Aaron Robertson-Hodders SharePoint Blog — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:02:00 GMT

I have decided to release the custom BDC column that I created to the public domain. This custom column type provides a BDC Column type that can be created at the Site Column level and therefore used in Site Content Types. Out of the box this is not possible...(read more)

Best Practice : Using disposable object in SharePoint

Aaron Robertson-Hodders SharePoint Blog — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:59:00 GMT

I found this article on MSDN via Andrew's post posing the question "So is it best practice to only use C# for SharePoint development?". A good question and one that will have plenty of comment from all I imagine. For what it's worth...(read more)

Best Practice : Using disposable objects in SharePoint

Aaron Robertson-Hodders SharePoint Blog — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:59:00 GMT

Addendum to the SharePoint Deployment Daylight Savings patch issue

Aaron Robertson-Hodders SharePoint Blog — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 23:11:00 GMT

There has been much written about the issue (in particular Joel's Q&A ) with Deploying Solutions on SharePoint 2007 after Daylight Savings started (and ended depending on where you are) this year and I have run into it several times. Most recently...(read more)

And now, auto-create Manifest XML

Aaron Robertson-Hodders SharePoint Blog — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:23:00 GMT

About a day after I posted about Rich Finn's auto-create DDF tool, he completed the story with the Manifest generation! That's pretty fast turnaround! Of course I still haven't managed to make time to try it out, but I will certainly try next...(read more)

Auto-create DDF for SharePoint Solutions

Aaron Robertson-Hodders SharePoint Blog — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:23:00 GMT

A long time ago I said "One day I'd like to automate the generation of the DDF file, perhaps via a macro or XSLT". Well, I never did, but Rich Finn did . Good job Rich, can't wait for the Manifest creation bits! Now if I just had time...(read more)

A great resource for MOSS Search - SharePointSearch.com

Aaron Robertson-Hodders SharePoint Blog — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:21:00 GMT

If you're looking for to get info about MOSS Search then SharePointSearch.com is a good place to start. The guys over there are doing a great job of information about aggregating news, information about related products and commentary from a range...(read more)

Enterprise Search - SharePoint Search vs google

Aaron Robertson-Hodders SharePoint Blog — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:04:00 GMT

There has been plenty written about the Google Enterprise Search products and their possible competition with Microsoft SharePoint Search technologies and I recently had the need to advise someone on which would suit them best. Obviously, given this is...(read more)

Partner Conference Day -1

Aaron Robertson-Hodders SharePoint Blog — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 06:20:00 GMT

After a landing I'd rather forget, which might actually be a good one in Denver (lucky I recently learned that modern passenger jets are designed to land at up a to 45 degree angle to the runway!), we arrived in Denver last night (depending on where...(read more)

The Dark Side? MOSS on a MacBook Pro!

Aaron Robertson-Hodders SharePoint Blog — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 01:11:00 GMT

I may as well admit it, I have been seduced by the power of the Dark Side (that should generate the 5,911 g**gle hit for that phrase and maybe knock g**gle off the top few spots in Live Search! ). After much research I decided on one of the new MacBook...(read more)

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server's Most Innovative Search Solution

Aaron Robertson-Hodders SharePoint Blog — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:56:00 GMT

In the middle of all the excitement of the APAC SharePoint Conference, Breakfast Briefings, Partner Conference Prep and product releases, it was announced in June that we at MacroView have won the Quickstart for Microsoft Search Innovative Solution Contest...(read more)

The solution to saving properties in Custom Field Types!

Aaron Robertson-Hodders SharePoint Blog — Fri, 25 May 2007 11:20:00 GMT

I have finally managed to put Anton's code to the test in my own custom field type with great results. The underlying issue is that the Update method does not seem to get called when adding a new field, and because there are a number of initializations...(read more)