New Blog!

For anyone who subscribes, I'm starting a new Blog at rogernoble.com!

The plan is to stop using this one for anything technical. So if you interested in general BI, SQL Server or SharePoint then check it out :)

Abandon All Hope!

I found this today while poking around in Reflector :)

Isolator for SharePoint

Typemock are offering their new product for unit testing SharePoint called Isolator For SharePoint, for a special introduction price. it is the only tool that allows you to unit test SharePoint without a SharePoint server. To learn more click here.
The first 50 bloggers who blog this text in their blog and tell us about it, will get a Full Isolator license, Free. for rules and info click here.

Tony's going away party

Here is some video from the party last week

Sharepoint / MOSS url rewriting

For the current project I'm working on I needed to get rid of MOSS' /Pages - the client wants nicer looking URL's.
I came across this project which is really simple to use: UrlRewriter

Installing it in SharePoint is also really simple, especially since UrlRewiter is already signed. Just simply GAC the assembly, and add the following to the web.config:

<configSections>
<section name="rewriter" requirePermission="false" type="Intelligencia.UrlRewriter.Configuration.RewriterConfigurationSectionHandler, Intelligencia.UrlRewriter, Version=2.0.0.6, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=0573f3650687980d" />
</configSections>
<SharePoint>
<SafeControls>
  <SafeControl Assembly="Intelligencia.UrlRewriter, Version=2.0.0.6, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=0573f3650687980d" Namespace="Intelligencia.UrlRewriter.Configuration.RewriterConfigurationSectionHandler" TypeName="*" Safe="True">
</SafeControls>
</SharePoint>
<system.web>
<httpModules>
  <add type="Intelligencia.UrlRewriter.RewriterHttpModule,Intelligencia.UrlRewriter, Version=2.0.0.6, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=0573f3650687980d" name="UrlRewriter" />
</httpModules>
</system.web>

Finally add this in the configuration section:

<rewriter>
  <if url="^((?!/Pages/|/Style%20Library/|/Style Library/|/_layouts/|/).+)*$">
    <rewrite to="/Pages/$1" />
  </if>
</rewriter>

UrlRewriter uses a regular expressions in order to match and replace the url:
^((?!/Pages/|/Style%20Library/|/Style Library/|/_layouts/|/).+)*$

So this will find all url's that don't start with /Pages/ and add it on.

MCTS!

After a long wait I have finally got my MCP ID!

The plan is to get all the developer and sharepoint certs...

Sharepoint: The object specified does not belong to a list

I had a problem this morning, with a custom control that I am using in PublishingPages and admin pages in the _layouts folder.
The control looks for some custom properties in the current pages ParentFolder. However when checking the SPFile.ParentFolder.Item property in a page located in _layouts it throws an exception - "The object specified does not belong to a list".
My first thought was to check for SPFile.ParentFolder.Item != null, but that didn't work. However by setting a break point I discoverd that folders in the _layouts directory don't exist!

So use: if(SPFolder.Exists) {}