Recently I’ve been searching for a way how to make SQL side of Sharepoint nice and clean. Thanks to Todd Klindt, I’ve been able to achieve this without any serious problem.
In his article it’s pretty nicely described the process how to get rid of the GUID from the name of the configuration database who, as all you know, gets created in the installation process and we have no control in the beginning to change its name.
Todd’s Klindt article: “Get the GUID out of SharePoint databases”
In this blog post, Erika Ehrli announced start of a series of posts that will guide you through the most interesting 2010 features and resources available for developers.
Now starts by introducing the top places/content which recommends if you want to learn more about Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 development.
http://blogs.msdn.com/erikaehrli/archive/2010/02/08/what-s-new-for-developers-in-office-2010-and-sharepoint-2010.aspx
Jeff Dalton: Adventures In SharePoint Land : http://sharepoint.nailhead.net/2010/02/unhandled-exceptions-that-can-crash.html
His team discovered some nastiness with unhandled exceptions inside their custom SharePoint code. Specifically they found that unhandled exceptions inside of SharePoint.Publishing.LoginRunningOperationJob can result an IIS Application Pool crash.
The reason is because this class puts the delegate code onto a separate thread that when aborted can leave the Application Pool in an unstable state. Which can (and does) result in an Application Pool recycle (which is bad for very large SharePoint sites that take a few minutes to spin-up).
So you need to make sure that your delegate code is wrapped in try/catch and do NOT throw the error from inside your catch (same as unhandled exception).
Summary: Walk through how to customize the Content Query Web Part (CQWP) in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to query content across multiple sites in a site collection and display the results in any way that XSL can support. Learn how to get similar results when customizing the CQWP does not meet your needs. (20 printed pages)
Robert Bogue, Thor Projects
January 2010
Applies to: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Download the code samples that accompany this article: SharePoint Content Query Web Part Examples
Contents
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff380147.aspx