Attending a local event such as Code Camp, Day of .NET or something similar can be a great way to keep up-to-date on technologies you don’t work with everyday. These events are usually one day, free of charge and contain a lot of great information. I attended our local version put on by Chris Woodruff. I attended the Sharepoint session put on by Rick Kierner My current role has me doing a lot of Sharepoint / WSS, among other technologies. Mostly what I’m doing is infrastructure and administration, attending the Day of .NET event introduced me to the developer side. Here are some links mentioned.
http://www.heathersolomon.com/blog/articles/148.aspx
Rick Kierner
http://rickdoes.net
40 templates available from MS.
http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/templates.mspx
WSP Builder on codeplex
http://www.codeplex.com/wspbuilder
Looking for a place to start (Download the VPC)
www.Mssharepointdeveloper.com
Sharepoint dev wiki
http://www.sharepointdevwiki.com
Sharepoint logs
http://tinyurl.com/3ng88v
I was glad to see Sharepoint has rich logging capabilites, IISLogs (component I wrote) can handle and process logs to keep things under control. Sharepoint has the ability to automatically clean up logs (which is great!). However, if you want to keep a few weeks around and zip them up, IISLogs can do the trick. IISLogsLite 2.0 can handle .log files.
Thanks again Chris, Bill Miller and speakers for putting on a great event.
Cheers,
Steve Schofield
Microsoft MVP – IIS
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