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Entries for March, 2009

Sitemap Protocol

When you are developing an internet facing SharePoint site you want search engines too completely and correctly crawl your site. A sitemap protocol (xml sitemap) can help you with that problem. A Sitemap Protocol allows you to inform a search engine about the available urls (pages) on your website that need to be crawled. In [...]

Bulk deletion of SPListItems (SPListItemCollection)

A few days ago I had to develop a TimerJob that deletes a large number of items from a SharePoint list. My first idea was to iterate trough the list items and then call the delete method of the items that needed to be deleted. Doing this was a major performance set back because it [...]

TimerJob status stays Initialized 0%

Last week I was developing a custom TimerJob for SharePoint. For the development of the TimerJob I used the MSDN documentation that is written by Andrew Connell: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc406686.aspx This article really points out everything when you are developing your first TimerJob. I followed the article and I almost read all the code sections so that [...]

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

For some time now I have been following information about SharePoint 14 that finds its way to blogs or news sites. In that time I have found a large amount of information that I would like to share with you. A few weeks ago Microsoft announced that the new version of SharePoint will be known [...]

February Cumulative Update Uber Package

In my post a week ago I announced that the February Cumulative update was available for download but it could only be used by users who had the December Cumulative update applied. Microsoft said that they would create an uber package and it is available know: February Cumulative Update Uber Package for Windows SharePoint Services [...]