Deployment Tools for Sharepoint

Deployment Tools for Sharepoint
stsdev	generate Visual Studio project files and solution files to facilitate the development and deployment of templates and components for the SharePoint	http://stsdev.codeplex.com/Wikipage
Wspbuilder	WSP) creation tool for WSS 3.0 & MOSS 2007	http://wspbuilder.codeplex.com/Wikipage
SPVisualDev	to develop features and artifacts with Visual Studio 2008 and many more features	http://spvisualdev.codeplex.com/
Share Infopath Forms	Makes infopath forms deployment easy	http://shareinfopathforms.codeplex.com/
Manage configuration modification feature	Feature to manage the configuration modifications	http://features.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Manage%20Configuration%20Modifications%20Feature&referringTitle=Home

MOSS Standard DevelopmentTools

Standard Development Tools for Sharepoint
Reflector	Explore and analyze compiled .NET assemblies, viewing them in C#, Visual Basic, and IL	http://www.redgate.com
GhostDoc	free Visual Studio extension that automatically generates XML documentation comments for methods and properties based on their type, parameters, name, and other contextual information	http://www.roland-weigelt.de/ghostdoc
DumySMTP	Command line utility that simulates a smtp server.	http://.dotnetcode.co.uk/dummysmtp.aspx
CAML Query Builder	will help in build, test and execute CAML Queries	http://www.u2u.be/res/Tools/CamlQueryBuilder.aspx
Fxcop	is a free static code analysis tool from Microsoft that checks .NET managed code assemblies for conformance to Microsoft's .NET Framework Design Guidelines	http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9aeaa970-f281-4fb0-aba1-d59d7ed09772
SPdisposecheck	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	http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/SPDisposeCheck
Resource Refactor	easy way to extract hard coded strings from the code to resource files	http://www.codeplex.com/ResourceRefactoring
SharePointLoggingSpy	allows real time diagnostics of multiple servers in a sharepoint farm using a single console view	http://www.codeplex.com/sharepointloggingspy
WSS/MOSS Log file reader	View, search and filter SharePoint ULS log files directly from within Central Administration	http://www.codeplex.com/wssmosslogfilereader
AD Explorer	use AD Explorer to easily navigate an AD database	http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963907.aspx
XML NotePad	provides a simple intuitive user interface for browsing and editing XML documents	http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=72d6aa49-787d-4118-ba5f-4f30fe913628&displaylang=en
WinDiff	Graphical file comparison tool similar to Beyond Compare	http://www.grigsoft.com/download-windiff.htm
SharePoint Data Population Tool	a capacity planning and performance testing tool that populates data for testing SharePoint deployments.	http://www.codeplex.com/sptdatapop
Resharper	provides solution-wide error highlighting on the fly, instant solutions for found errors, over 30 advanced code refactorings, superior unit testing tools, handy navigation and search features, single-click code formatting and cleanup, automatic code generation and templates,	http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/
Snippet Compiler		http://www.sliver.com/dotnet/SnippetCompiler/
Sandcastle help File builder	used for creating MSDN-style documentation from .NET assemblies and their associated XML comments files.	http://www.codeplex.com/SHFB/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=10445
Sandcastle	Documentation compiler for managed assemblies	http://www.codeplex.com/Sandcastle
CKS	is a set of best practices, templates, Web Parts, tools, and source code	http://cks.codeplex.com/
Fiddler	to inspect allHTTP(S) traffic, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data	http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/
Procmon	Process monitor tool	http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx
Stsadm.webconfig	Make SharePoint web config modifications using a config file, rather than having to hard-code static strings in a class file	http://stsadmwebconfig.codeplex.com/
MOSS Feature Generator	includes Site Columns, Content Types and ListTemplates (including schema.xml and forms)	http://www.codeplex.com/mossfeaturegenerator
Sharepoint Search Serivce Tool	allows a developer to explore the scopes and managed properties of a given SharePoint Search SSP. Also builds queries in either Keyword or SQL Syntax, submit those queries and examine the raw web service results	http://sharepointsearchserv.codeplex.com/Wikipage

How to update items without changing Modified/Modified By

When there are some operations or a clean up to be done on sharepoint site by a system account using a tool then there is always a constraint that it should not leave its traces. I mean the changes should reflect leaving the modified and modified by column values as it is.
So in this case the method SPListItem.Update() should be replaced by SPListItem.SystemUpdate() and followed by SPList.Update() always.
This way the lisitem will not get a new version created but to the existing version with the changes that you have currently and hence no change in Modified and Modified By columns.

How to handle the checkedout items when modifying Sharepoint Listitems

Im sure you might not get what this post is all about by just looking at the title, so i give you with the scenario you might be into and then you can go through the complete post
scenario :
I have a requirement for a tool that should update the metadata(sitecolumns value) of the document library/list items programatically.Everything is pretty clear except about the items that are checked out, that you get when you ponder ;-)
I can get the tool in fly if i ignore the items that are checkedout. So how to deal with the checked out items?After digging into the setttings of the library i thought disabling the version settings would do the trick but i get only the error "you cannot edit the properties when the document is checked out" when trying to edit the items that are already checked out by other user
Though after using the method SPListItem.SystemUdpate() i can do nothing about the checkedout items. More strategically im left with the only option to run the tool/code untill there are no checkedout items i.e i got a scheduled timer job that will run this code/tool untill no checkedout items.
Plz let me know if there is something else that you got working.Thanks!
P.S more about SPListItem.SystemUpdate() here.

Get loginname of the Sharepoint user with username efficently

If you wonder how to get login name with user name programmatically in SharePoint then you are reading the right post.

We can do this by looping all the users of web and get the spuser that matches with the username or by simply using SPFieldUserValue like below,
using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://sharepointcustomization.blogspot.com/"))
{
using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())
{
SPFieldUserValue userValue = new SPFieldUserValue(web, "UserName");
if (userValue.User.LoginName == web.CurrentUser.LoginName)
{
//do something!
}
}
}