The Typemock Insider Blog: Announcing Isolator for Sharepoint : Unit testing for sharepoint made easier (and a free license!)

The Typemock Insider Blog: Announcing Isolator for Sharepoint : Unit testing for sharepoint made easier (and a free license!)

Announcing Isolator for Sharepoint : Unit testing for sharepoint made easier (and a free license!)

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.

SharePoint and 64bit

The next version of MOSS, which I think will be called SharePoint 2010, will be 64bit ONLY.

Bamboo Solutions - SharePoint Analyzer

Bamboo do a lot of Web Parts and I mean a lot. I’ve used a couple of them and have been really impressed.

Bamboo Labs have just released their latest offering. It is not a web part but a desktop (or server) application called SharePoint Analyzer. It lets you get information about your SharePoint farm.

As it is in Beta it is FREE. I hope it stays free.

Check out http://community.bamboosolutions.com/media/p/7160.aspx for full details.

CAML IntelliSense for WSS 3.0 in Visual Studio 2005

Everyone one knows IntelliSense is great. But the worst thing about it is when you are in Visual Studio and you haven’t got it. If you are a SharePoint Developer using CAML (not necessarily by choice) then CAML IntelliSense is going to be useful. The following should enable CAML IntelliSense for WSS 3.0 in Visual Studio 2005.

In note pad enter the following text:



Save the file as CAML.XML in the following directory:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Xml\Schemas\

You should now have CAML IntelliSense when you next load Visual Studio 2005.

Microsoft Certified Master and Certified Architect for SharePoint

Well as I predicted Microsoft have released additional certifications for SharePoint. These are Microsoft Certified Master and Certified Architect for SharePoint. I see them as being taken by those who are already MVPs or those like myself who don’t do enough SharePoint community work to get an MVP but want to prove they know what they are talking about.

Check out http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/master/register/default.mspx for more inforamtion.

SharePoint in the Cloud

It is not clear to me what SharePoint online is. It sounds like it is simply a hosted version of SharePoint. But is it the WSS or MOSS flavour? And don't we already have Microsoft Partners offering hosting SharePoint? Watch this space...