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“Best Practices” for SharePoint customizations/development to easily migrate to new SharePoint versions

Do you know of any documents that describe “best practices” for SharePoint customizations (especially custom developments) in order for these customizations/code (for example web parts, event ...
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Sharepoint Development Process Best Practices

I would like to ask some simple questions regarding the best practices of Sharepoint 2010 development process. 1) I am supposed to maintain and add new sites to an already installed Sharepoint site. ...
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Best way of getting SPWeb in Event Receiver [Best Practices]

what would be the best way of getting SPWeb and List in context below, specially when list title can be different for different cultural websites, private bool ...
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How to run a popup window from code behind in web Part writen in C#

I must run a popup worning when somebady exceeded a something walues. I try a Sharepoint Modal and javascript, but I don't know how to run something from behind code to run javaScript, or Sharepoint ...
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Use SPQuery.RowLimit also on large lists with small query results?

I frequently read one should use RowLimit on SPQuerys on a large list, especially with more than 2000 items. Best Practices: Common Coding Issues When Using the SharePoint Object Model: An ...
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Setting up sites with lists and custom content types

I am creating a proof of concept at work. It will be creating a web applciation with a site collection in it. The site collection will have 1 or 2 custom content types and a few lists set up. I will ...
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SharePoint 2010 - Best practices: how to handle assemblies [Discussion]

There is a discussion which has been going on for serveral years when programming for SharePoint. In Visual Studio you can add a SharePoint solution, which will be converted to a .wsp file to deploy. ...
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Using SharePoint for an appraisal/360 process

We are thinking of using SharePoint 2010 for an appraisal/360 process. The workflow is simple. HR Create appraisal for users User fills it in Manager fills it in User accepts appraisal Manager ...
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WebPart where to store a connection string

I have a webpart that connects to an external DB. I need somewhere to store the connection string. It is possible for this data source to change but would always be the same for the site collection ...
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Sharepoint backups - Development image

I'm looking into creating an image of a SP 2010 development environment. I would like to avoid operations like restoring the image of the virtual machine (the environment is on a virtual PC) and opt ...
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Things to “get right” to succesfully develop Sharepoint solutions

Lets face it, SharePoint 2010 is a big ecosystem. You need to know the GUI, the administration options, the data model, have programming skills, know the API, know how it works internally etc etc. I, ...
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Setting SPWeb.AllProperties on WebPart Install

I have a WebPart where I need to set a custom property in SPWeb.AllProperties. How can I on install check to see if a property is set? If it is not set I want to set it. Or is it best just to do this ...
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Best practices for creating a shared code library for SharePoint projects

I have several projects for SharePoint 2010 (mostly they are separate solutions built each to separate wsp's) in active development. And I have a similar tasks in these projects (logging, ...
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Storing custom properties for a SharePoint Site

Let's say you are building a Project Management solution where each Project equals one site (SPWeb object). Each project has it's properties like: Project Manager, Budget, Customer, Description, ...
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Cache SP Objects or custom class?

Just wanted to see what the consensus on this one is… If you make a call to the OM to return a SP object e.g. SPListItemCollection, and then want to cache the results (to improve subsequent ...
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SharePoint Custom Module Development and Deployment

Good Day, We're working on custom module (Information Management System) for SharePoint. The project file of this module is a Class Library which contains User Controls. The User Controls was based ...
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What is the best practice handling “Save Conflict” SPException? [closed]

What is the best way to work around the SPException thrown when updating an SPListItem recently edited by another process? Is this a good approach? What can be done to not to lose the update data? ...
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Unit testing web parts

I've read the articles from Andrew Woodward (21Apps) trying to get started with unit testing on WSS, but when I try something more advanced, like Webpart connections, I don't know how to start ...