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How to: Create a SP2007 Site Collection Template in VS2008 in XML only

So, the other day, I got a curious request. I was to provide a new site collection template, a custom template, that would be using no code whatsoever. The client did not want to deploy custom code to their production server. I had never created a site collection template before. Let alone one that would [...]

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Posted on 21st September 2011No Comments
How to: Deploy/Retract solutions to SharePoint through spsadm

So, everything is just fine when you use the DEPLOY command through Visual Studio to deploy your code to your SharePoint platform but how to do you deploy with the sdsadm? It turns out, it’s not that hard after all. Just follow the steps below to deploy or retract a solution: 1. Add the solution [...]

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Posted on 15th August 2011No Comments
SharePoint 2010 vs SharePoint 2007

SharePoint 2010 is in many ways superior to its predecessor, the 2007 version. Both for the user and the developer, the 2010 version offers services and tools out of the box (OOTB) that were sought after in the previous releases. 1. Language Integrated Query (LINQ) With the new LINQ provider, a relational database table can [...]

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Posted on 9th September 2010No Comments