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SPDX Released into the Wild!

I have finally posted my SPDX open-source project onto CodePlex (http://spdx.codeplex.com). Feel free to use it on your SharePoint projects. Other people and I have used it on 4 projects already and found it stable and useful. SPDX is a development tool that makes it easier to write software that works with data stored in […]

Creating (provisioning) a list instance in SharePoint programmatically using the object model

Provisioning a list instance in the object model is so much better than doing it using CAML. In CAML you must copy a schema.xml file (hundreds of lines of code) from an existing list (say, from the CustomList feature) and then, without understanding the entire code, make changes to it. I don’t know about you, […]

Generating Outlook calendar invitations on the fly using C# and .NET

Recently I had a need to build functionality of generating Outlook calendar events invitations on the fly. Apparently there are two types of calendar invitation files that can be used for that purpose: .vcs and .ics. If a file with this extension is open, an event will be opened allowing the user to review, modify […]