SharePoint solutions

Microsoft SharePoint has quickly become a critical platform for collaboration in enterprises. Employees are creating their own sites, teams are project management through the sites, and departments are building applications to replace the pesky business processes using SharePoint. As applications become more complex and intrinsic to their business, how will it be over?
The Quest team of professional services can help discover how SharePoint is really common in your environment and help you understand how to use SharePoint. Our consultants can provide management services for detailed planning to determine the ideal architecture for your environment, develop a work plan to ensure successful project milestones, define service level agreements appropriate, and help you achieve them.
The purpose of this section is to clarify the common tasks that all SharePoint developers might need to complete during software development. This is not a review of tools, nor is it intended to promote an instrument on another. Instead, we offer suggestions for the tools you can use to complete common development tasks of SharePoint.

Building SharePoint solutions

Building SharePoint solutions is an approach that you want to take. Ted Pattison sums it up in his column in Office Space "Solution Deployment with SharePoint 2007" when he writes: "Packaging and deploying their development efforts by WSS solution packages is a good practice, and know how to do this should be considered an element essential skill. There are many ways to package their SharePoint solutions, from manually creating files manifest.xml and diamond Directive (DDFs) for Visual Studio projects that use Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005/2008 Extensions ( VSeWSS).
Using VSeWSS projects is much easier to manually create DDFs. However, some alternatives are especially useful for commercial or business locations, including WSPBuilder, STSDev, SPDeploy and DDFGenerator. To evaluate the various tools to find one that best suits your needs. The key is to create packages for deploying solutions in place to deploy components of code manually.

Debugging client-side behavior

Debugging client-side behavior can be tricky, and tools such as the Web Explorer Developer Toolbar (Developer Tools in Web Explorer 8) make that effort significantly less hard. Web Explorer Developer Toolbar is similar to Firefox add-ons such as FireBug. Another tool that runs in Web Explorer is the Web Development Helper. Both of these tools are useful for debugging client-side JavaScript, inspecting styles, and walking the DOM. If you need to inspect interaction with IIS, the IIS 6.0 Resource Kit contains a plethora of useful tools. For example, WFetch provides a handy facility for inspecting page output information, such as the output of a custom HTTP handler or authentication header information to verify what authentication protocol.