AllowWindowsClientInstall

<Setting Id="AllowWindowsClientInstall" Value="True"/> That is the magic line. It will allow us to install SharePoint Foundation/Server 2010 on Vista and Windows 7 (both x64). The only missing part is the public beta 🙁 Setting Up the Development Environment for SharePoint Server: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee554869%28office.14%29.aspx

SharePoint 2010 news

SharePoint Services are now “SharePoint Foundation 2010” SharePoint Foundation 2010 General Reference on MSDN Any much more… But there are plenty of other bloggers out there (at the SharePoint Conference). A good place to start with their posts is here: http://www.planetsharepoint.org/

SharePoint Conference – Keynote

For all of you who can’t attend the Conference live: The keynote will be streamed live. Go to http://www.mssharepointconference.com and join the keynote…

Work in progress…

Da wird er schon noch reinwachsen. Und wenn nicht, dann wird er vielleicht auf der SharePoint Konferenz dabei sein 😉

Getting started with Silverlight development

Tim Heuer has written 7 posts about Silverlight development. So if you haven’t started with Silverlight but plan to, have a look at his post series. Part 1: Really getting started – the tools you need and getting your first Hello World Part 2: Defining UI Layout – understanding layout and using Blend to help Part 3: Accessing data – how to get data from where Part 4: Binding the data – once you get the data, how can you use it?

CodePlex project

Today I’ve created a CodePlex project for some of my SharePoint developments. Interesting to see what I’ve done so far 🙂 The link is http://renehezser.codeplex.com/ Webparts [Access Fileserver Data via SharePoint][3] [Display all my alerts][4] [Webpart to show Sitecollections/Subwebs][5] [TagCloud Webpart][6] [Display a single ListItem][7] Custom Fields [Upload Files and Images][8] Features [.NET 3.5 and Silverlight][9] Control Adapter [Navigation for Wikis][10] Event Handler [Picture Library and Exif data][11] [EventHandler which sends an Email for new/changed items][12] Tools

Develop your own Windows Service

Writing a Windows Service is very easy. Deploying it with a Setup is an easy task as well. But be careful what option you set for the failure behavior! In my case I installed the service with “Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset”. Do not use critical as ErrorControl value. It will force a reboot of the server, if the services fails to start. Fortunately booting with “Last known good configuration” worked for me and I could uninstall the service…

Disable Loopback Check?

A while ago Microsoft released an update, which prevents that you can log on locally to a website which has a FQDN. To resolve issues with e.g. the crawling a KB article has been published. You receive error 401.1 when you browse a Web site that uses Integrated Authentication and is hosted on IIS 5.1 or a later version You can disable the loopback check completely, or just for the used FQDNs.