More on SharePoint 2010

Came across this blog on SharePoint 2010.

ItemAdded - setting values - Microsoft recommendation

If you wish to set property values in an ItemAdded event in SharePoint - you need to create a separate thread that sleeps 10 seconds and then set the value. SharePoint is obviously not a transactional system. Read more in this blog.

Disable property promotion/demotion

I've been looking for ways to enable/disable property promotion/demotion without luck. Finally I found someone who had worked with this - it works.

More on SharePoint 2010

Doing research on Microsoft SharePoint 2010 I came across various articles and I found this from Lars Fastrup quite useful. Brief and to the point.

SharePoint 2010

The MOSS acronym is going away as Office will be referred to as the client product only. Not certain I buy the reason for this. In fact I view Office as the whole lot - editing as well as storing and managing. But obviously Microsoft don't have the same view - or their customers don't.

Read the blog http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/04/14/microsoft-sharepoint-14-is-now-microsoft-sharepoint-2010.aspx here.

MOSS Performance considerations

I just read this blog about performance considerations in MOSS 2007. Especially the section about SPList object is worth reading in detail.

Using the List.Items.Count should be avoided at any costs. It basically send a very complex and expensive SQL query, especially on large lists. If you need statistics use the List.ItemCount instead which uses the statistics information from SQL Server about the list to provide data. No absolutely correct though.

SharePoint Dispose Checker Tool

This tool is awesome - check it out.