Tuesday, February 19, 2008. Always use CAPS in content type IDs. Content type ID in the typical form looks like 0x01. A good practice is to place GUID in CAPS only.

Error and exception handling is very important in creating a robust and high quality system and more importantly for trouble shooting. Error and exception handling must be done correctly so that potential issues with the system can be diagnosed quickly. Check objects, values, properties etc before using them so that unexpected exceptions are not thrown.

The life and times of three developers attempting to beat sharepoint into submission. Specifically, SharePoint 2010 business intelligence. No big deal, except that after either of those events SharePoint pages load very slowly the first time around. That really slows me down on labs and annoys me.

Switch out the SharePoint 2013 Site Actions gear icon for something more flexible. Changing or removing the seemingly unchangeable options in SharePoint 2013 Site Actions. Effective Use of the EditModePanel in SharePoint Page Layouts with Complex Designs. One of the hidden gems in SharePoint is the EditModePanel.

Saturday, July 11, 2009. The guidelines contained here should be used in all SharePoint development as a standard to ensure consistency, performance, and security. O FXCOP is a Microsoft developed utility that checks code against a set of rules. FXCOP should be run on all code, and is available for download from.