SharePoint Dispose Checker Tool

This one was a long awaited from Microsoft. They have released "SPDisposeCheck" which looks at the code in SharePoint and confirms that there are no memory leakages or extra memory consumption. As we are all aware of, this has been an issue since long going un-noticed into the deployment. So let's use this tool to run our projects through this checker before we go for any deployments.

Visit the MSDN code page and download SPDisposeCheck

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Web Development Helper

This is a good one!!!

We as a Web Developer may want to leverage this awesome HTTP sniffing tool.  This tool is a great asset when doing web client development like Flash, Silverlight, AJAX, and other likes.  As a Microsoft developer we have these two tools, and they are free :-) Fiddler and Web Development Helper.  I’m getting to like this Web Developer Helper.

It actually sits is your browser.  So you just need to turn it on and  get an explorer bar at the bottom showing all that you need.

Take a look at it.

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Windows 7 for you !

Last week, Windows 7 beta was made available to all for download and install.

Just to let you know that the 32-bit version is also available now in "Hindi", the Indian National Language. Though, it is not yet included in the list of 64-bit, but let us keep our finger's crossed to hear sooner than later from Microsoft. To help you find and install with the instructions you may find them at the Windows 7 Team Blog.

I'll try to install sometime during this week-end.

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Using LINQPad

LINQPad lets you interactively query SQL databases in a modern query language: LINQ.

LINQPad supports everything in C# 3.0 and Framework 3.5:

• LINQ to SQL
• LINQ to Objects
• LINQ to XML

LINQPad is also a great way to learn LINQ: it comes preloaded with 200 examples from the book, C# 3.0 in a Nutshell.

Want to look at a preview of How LINQPad looks like, here it is:

Download LINQPad

Figuring out the SQL Server Version Number

I was about to install the SP2 from SQL Server when things started to give me woes with all sorts of issues. I wanted to uninstall and then tried to figure out the version and what SP did I have, when I realized, how difficult some little things could be. You can figure this out in two different ways:

#1 In SQL Server Management Studio Object Explorer when connected to the instance.

#2 By executing the query SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('ProductVersion') against a Database Engine instance.

The following table shows the version numbers that correspond to versions of SQL Server 2005:

Version Number   SQL Server Version

9.00.1399   SQL Server 2005 (initial version)

9.00.2047   SQL Server 2005 SP1

9.00.3042   SQL Server 2005 SP2

ISO mounting tools

If you need to mount the iso images (and several others from the list below), you may want to try this freely available tool from :

http://www.disc-tools.com

It has a DAEMON Tools that enables you to use your CD/DVD images as if they were already burned to CD/DVD.

DAEMON Tools Lite supports the following image types:
b5t (BlindWrite images)
b6t (BlindWrite images)
bwt (BlindRead images)
ccd (CloneCD images)
cdi (DiscJuggler images)
cue (Cue sheets)
iso (Standard ISO images)
mds (Media Descriptor Files)
nrg (Nero images)
pdi (Instant CD/DVD images)
isz (Compressed ISO images)

MCM and MCA certifications for MOSS

Do you already posses a MCTS for MOSS/WSS 3.0.
Getting to feel repetitive after the completion of the two successful years with MCTS.
Here's something new for you to try out.

Microsoft is introducing the Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) and Certified Architect (MCA) for SharePoint.
Cool...so there is lot more to be explored yet and of course to keep you busy in the business.

So, interested !!!
Read the MSDN blog entry below:

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/11/10/introducing-the-microsoft-certified-master-and-certified-architect-for-sharepoint.aspx

Funny SharePoint video

Huh uuuhhh, quite funny !!!
A song about SharePoint, just view to enjoy.

I found this one on YouTube.........Hope you are able to view this. :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P9QlojtrWs&feature=related

Get ready for the MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 Service Pack 2

I found this looking around the details of some InfoPath Form Server Patches. Thought of posting here to spread the information to a more larger MOSS user-groups.

http://blogs.technet.com/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2008/10/22/announcing-service-pack-2-sp2-for-the-2007-microsoft-office-system.aspx

Setting up the Favicon in a MOSS site

I had this requirement of displaying an icon in the address bar of the browser, whenever I try to visit the MOSS web site. I knew it was to be a simple solution hence started looking around if someone had already posted this, and I found this.
The posting at this web site: http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mossman/archive/2008/01/18/favicon-s-in-a-sharepoint-master-page.aspx
really talks about a simple solution of inserting a single line of code within your Master page in the head section and placing the .ico files in the appropriate folder.
I placed my Favicon.ico in the images sub-directory and inserted this code:
(rel="shortcut icon" href="/images/favicon.ico" ) within the opening and closing "link" tags, in the .master page just above the closing "head" tag, published and check-in the master page and there you go.

Here is one catch though.
- IE6 still wasn't displaying this icon, only if you add the site to your favourites it displays in the menu item. Not sure about this, does anyone has a resolution to this.
- IE7 and FireFox did that instantly, but of course, you need to close and open a new browser.

But anyways, that worked !!!
Thanks to Mossman.