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[C# Under The Hood]

Every 6 or 8 months, I thoroughly clean my most active development boxes. 'Keynes' is undergoing it now, literally from the bottom up - starting with a low-level (quick) format of the hard drive to a complete reinstallation of theW2K3 Server. I use 'Keynes' for Groove and SharePoint services (WSS) development. Over the holidays, I plan to do the same to 'Adam Smith' - my SQL2K Ent Server and also prepare it for the new SQL Reporting Services.

A good one from Paul Sheriff and Michael Krasowski that shows how to manage ASP.NET development using *VSS. Recently, I worked on using the VSS Automation to create a XML 'Database'. Getting the records into the tree was fine but accessing and updating it was another matter - something I commented upon in a blog posting.

My experiments (evaluation) with the WSS (SharePoint) and Groove integration is going quite well. I believe WSS has been completely rewritten as an ASP.NET platform from the prior SharePoint Team Services (STS) and it shows.

There is a new MS development 'Journal' and upon a cursory look at it - I can say this is very promising. From the 'Enterprise' perspective, it was something very sorely missing for corporate systems development. Very timely and a must-read!

Last night, I commenced upon the WSS (Windows SharePoint Services) trial (available from Verio via MS). Hooked it up with the Groove Mobile Workspaces and it all works like a charm (..touch wood..). The only issue is that Verio gives you only one 'administrative' account for the WSS site (I have to look into this one as it sounds very short for an evaluation offering). This little project is an evaluation of WSS+Groove combination for what may become a large scale deployment. My prior SharePoint+Groove deployments were with the SharePoint Team Services (STS) but the new WSS is something else...