Just rambling about SharePoint

As I was reading the Sharepoint 2010 Architecture Overview article, specifically on the code execution and access constrains on sandbox solutions section. I started to think is Microsoft pushing us to think and develop solutions in the cloud? I would say so. If you take a look at the development constrains for the SharePoint Online, their similar to the development constrains for SharePoint 2010 sandbox solutions. The more that read about sandbox solutions and cloud computing within the context of Microsoft, the more I get confused on with Microsoft's direction for SharePoint. Seems like to me that the cloud is the future, but my concern with this and its always been my concern is with security. Are companies trusting and hosting their highly sensitive data to cloud providers such as Microsoft? I'm curious on your thoughts about SharePoint Online, cloud computing in general and the future for SharePoint..


 

Powershell: Start-SPAssignment

Hey readers, today while I was researching powershell cmdlets for a deployment script that I was writing, I came across Start-SPAssignment. Basically it allows you to assign a variable to a list of objects and provides you the ability dispose of those objects at any time in the script. You can assign a list of objects, like your SPSite, SPWeb objects and dispose of them when you no longer need them.  Pretty cool...I see this being very useful in memory intensive powerhsell applications..

Lesson Learned #1 - SmallSearchInputBox Delegate Control

This week, while I was working on a SharePoint branding project I came across an issue where my custom master page was braking the OOTB Page Approval workflow page. For hours I was banging my head, comparing my custom master page with other OOTB master pages and then finally I saw difference. Since one of the project requirements was to move the SmallSearchInputBox delegate control towards the top where the Ribbon Server control lives, I forgot to wrap the PlaceHolderSearchArea control around the delegate control. My guess is that some page layouts implement the PlaceHolderSearchArea control.


Lesson Learned !!!!!