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Aardvark is a new kind of tool that lets you tap into the knowledge and experience of friends and friends-of-friends. It reminds me of the old IRC channels you would join to ask questions on relevant technologies, just a thousand times better.
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Scott Samuels on November 1st, 2009

Recently I have been working creating a series of Site Definitions for one of my employer’s client’s. The tool of choice (the best of a bad bunch?) for this is the SharePoint Solution Generator 2008, bundled with the Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. The tool comes fitted with a few ‘gotchas’ [...]

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Scott Samuels on June 23rd, 2009

SPChangeQuery is a great little function that queries the SharePoint change log for changes to site content. Be careful when using the SPChangeQuery on newly created sites as certain content may get picked up in your query that is garbage to you. This includes a bunch of “add” change types on lists that get initialized [...]

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