Design and Development performance considerations from NZSPC and AUSPC

Here's my slide deck from the presentations I did at the New Zealand Sharepoint Conference. Also I persented the same topic at the Australian SharePoint Conference with Brendan Law (http://twitter.com/#!/FlamerNZ)
Both conference's where absolutely fantastic , and definately on my list of events to try and attend again next year !

Design and Development performance considerations

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I'm Speaking at the Aus and NZ SharePoint Conferences

The Australian and NZ SharePoint conferences are fast approaching and the speaker line is really great.

I'll be heading along to be involved as well, will post some more details on that shortly as soon as I get a chance !

For more detail on AUS check here http://www.sharepointconference.com.au/AU2011/SolutionPages/AllSpeakers.aspx
Also for NZ http://www.sharepointconference.co.nz/NZ2011/SolutionPages/AllSpeakers.aspx

Definately worth attending if you can.

Adding referenced dll to deploy to GAC using SharePoint template in VS 2010

For a bunch of people this is an old tip by now , but have been asked about it a couple of times this weeks so figured it was worth posting :)

When creating a SharePoint solution using the visual studio SharePoint 2010 project type it is not immediately obvious how to add a referenced dll so that it gets deployed as part of the wsp to the gac, here are the steps to do it.

Double click your mouse on the packaging node.

Click on advanced:

Click add, you can choose to pick an existing assembly or in the case shown below output from a project.

As you can see from the add window you have the ability to select deployment location , safe controls entries etc if needed.

Also a quick tip, if you a referencing an assembly it's also likely that you don't need another assembly being produced which is created by default by the template. Make sure you click on the project node and select the include assembly in package option to false.

Wow , I'm a Microsoft MVP

Today my official certificate and MVP award arrived. I'm absolutely thrilled to be recognised by Microsoft for my contribution to the user community and am looking forward to doing even more this year !
Also it was extra great that a couple of other fellow Aussie SharePoint Community members Jeremy Thake and Chris O'Connor also got awarded at the same time.

SharePoint Events Coming Soon !

The next round of SharePoint Saturday Australia events are happening soon. I'm assisting with organising Melbourne which is set for October 30th and I will be presenting in Sydney on August 7th, plus there is also Canberra in between. They are shaping up to be huge so definitely jump on the site here and register to attend and/or present.

Also in August I'll be presenting at Tech.Ed Australia which is in the Gold Coast, August 24-27th in the SharePoint track. There are heaps of great presentations lined up across all different types of technology, plus a lot of networking opportunities absolutely worth getting along to attend if you can.

Also a little further away from home is the South East Asia SharePoint Conference. It's in Singapore on October 26-27th. I'm probably not going to get along to it, but the Australian Conference organised by some of the same people was awesome so I'm sure this one will also be great ! Details here

Australian SharePoint Conference Presentation

I really enjoyed attending the SharePoint Saturday Conference in Sydney recently, looking forward to next year which is already being planned.
I presented at two sessions and have uploaded the slides for these here:

• Building Workflows for SharePoint 2010 with SharePoint Designer and Visio - http://www.slideshare.net/laneyvb/building-workflows-for-sharepoint-2010-with-sharepoint-designer-and-visio
• Maximise the benefits of a SharePoint platform using metric based governance - http://www.slideshare.net/laneyvb/maximise-the-benefits-of-a-sharepoint-platform-using-metric-based-governance

Plus I also lucky enough to sit in on the ask the experts panel with Arpan Shah , Todd Bleeker , Paul Swider and Mark Rhodes

Jeremy Thake recorded the session and has uploaded it here http://www.sharepointdevwiki.com/display/SPPodCasts/2010/06/22/SPWebCast+020+-+Ask+the+Experts+at+Australian+SharePoint+Conference

Also checkout the other great recorded sessions he has hosted up on sharepointdevwiki

Australian SharePoint Conference - Register Now

The site collection could not be restored.

I ran into an issue the other night doing some reorganising of site collections in a production wss 3.0 instance. I was moving sites from one web application to another using backup and restore (mergecontentdb's only works in the one webapp).


On one particular site when running stsadm -o restore I received
"The site collection could not be restored. If this problem persists, please make sure the content databases are available and have sufficient free space"
Based on the error message I did the usual checks and discovered there was no issue with free space.

Then I looked at the site collections listing page which gave me a clue.The site I was trying to restore was already listed there but when I tried to load it the site didn't work. I've seen similar behaviour when a previous restore has stopped part way through.
To resolve I did the following:

• Detach and Reattach each of the content db's , this removed the site collection listing from CA but the error still occurred
• I then ran stsadm -o databaserepair against the database's and it removed a bunch of orphaned records.

After that I was then able to restore the site without issue. So it looks like that error message can mean a previous partial restore of the site exists in the content databases already and needs to be cleared.