[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...

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...

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...

[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...

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 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...