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Entries for January, 2009

Disposing of SharePoint Objects (SPDisposeCheck tool Finally Available!)

On the internet you can find several excellent articles on the various design patterns for disposing of SharePoint or WSS objects. Some of these objects can cause serious memory leaks if you don’t use them correctly. Normally you have to take care of three different objects: SPSite, SPWeb and Publishing. There are a couple of [...]

Virtual Earth WebPart

After reading a post on the blog of Wesley Bakker I thought by myself maybe it is fun to create a webpart in which we can load a map from Virtual Earth. And so I did I began with creating a webpart with certain properties so that you can also add a location and a [...]

Search Results on a Internet Facing SharePoint Site

When you crawled a SharePoint site everything on that site will become visible on the search results page of your search center. If you have an internet facing SharePoint site you do not want to see list views or other background pages in the search results. These pages can be filtered out from your search [...]