😮 time flies: 25th anniversary of SharePoint - my personal journey
For the 25th anniversary of SharePoint, I have visualized my journey with this versatile and powerful product. Check out my personal "roadmap."
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| My SharePoint journey |
Most Memorable Tools
There have been numerous tools throughout my journey as a server-side SharePoint developer over the last 25 years. Each has played a significant role in shaping my experience.
- CAML Queries
- SharePoint Designer
- NAPA
- Workflow Foundation 3.5 / 4.0
- Application Pages
- Custom Time Jobs
- Custom page layouts
- Sandboxed Solutions
- Self-hosted Apps or Add-Ins
- Provider-hosted Apps / Add-ins
- Ribbon extensions
- Visual Web Part
- Content Query web part (CQWB) - the best universal web part :-)
- Script web part - for all other cases ;-)
My typical sentences as a server-side SP developer in the last 25 years ;-)
- I attach to the w3wp.exe process….
- Can I have the SharePoint logs?
- Please restart the SPTimerV4 after WSP deployment.
- I cannot see my changes; please do an IIS reset.
- Can you send me the web.config
- Have you entered the adapter in the compat.moss.browse file?
- Please check if the workflow activity and the types are registered in the AllowedTypes.
- Open the _layouts/… page…
- And there are many more, all the service applications and so on ...
And there are many more, all the service applications and so on ...

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