SharePoint Express: January 2009

Friday, January 30, 2009

SharePoint Dispose Checker Tool

A new must have tool has been released by Microsoft! This tool is called SharePoint Dispose Checker Tool. This tool analyzes your assemblies and helps to identify potential memory leaks.

This tool was made to help you to check your assemblies that use the SharePoint API so that you can build better code. It provides assistance in correctly disposing of certain SharePoint objects to help you follow published best practice. This tool may not show all memory leaks in your code.

Please review the MSDN article on using Deploy in SharePoint applications here.
The SPDisposeCheck tool can be downloaded here.

Roger Lamb maintains a nice blog for the SPDisposeCheck team here.

Monday, January 26, 2009

SharePoint Skinner

A great tool for customizing and branding a SharePoint Web Site or portal is SharePoint Skinner.
It is a desktop application which enables you to visual edit the css for your SharePoint and save it as a SharePoint Theme. It is very easy to use and very productive. You should read more about it on its tutorial here: http://www.elumenotion.com/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=4
You will find it on CodePlex too: http://www.codeplex.com/SP2007Skinner