Jon Fazzaro

The tooling advances that 2010s SharePoint and Visual Studio have provided are wondrous and pampering. They make it easy to forget that we used to need a Server version of Windows to have a SharePoint instance to develop against, and that, often, the contemporary browser of SharePoint 2007, Internet Explorer 6, was the main target for your work.

And as soon as you get up out of that ridiculous fetal position, I’ll walk you through how I get all of this done without having to step into what only appears to be an ordinary phone booth.

If you’re from the United States and you’re awesome, that’s a Bill & Ted reference. If you’re English or just super into the Nerdist, it’s a Doctor Who nod.

Dimensionally transcendental, in either case.

How To Get IE6-Friendly SharePoint 2007 Development Done on Windows Server 2008 R2 [ Aptera SharePoint Development ]

Luckily, this was just a branding project, and there were precious few lines of custom server-side code that could be culprit in this case. So, my joy would lie in sifting through a few .cs files for a wayward disposal of the current web object, right?

Yes, but joy wouldn’t have warranted a blog post. That’s how I know the SharePoint API really loves me.

[ from my Blog at Aptera ]

It quickly dawned upon my tiny intellect, however, that in a Web Part project, there is no config file in which to define the bindings and endpoints required by a Service Reference. What, then, was an enterprising young Web Part developer cum WCF consumer to do?

The kneejerk riposte from the usual gang of portal warriors is to just add the necessary bindings to the web.config of the target site when you deploy.

You know, like an animal.

Some of us, however, could very likely find ourselves in a Continuous Integration-type scenario in which performing repeated trauma surgery on config files across multiple environments is not an option.

[ from my Blog at Aptera ]

What you may not know is that even when christened with a name like that, anonymous access for this type’s descendants doesn’t just work out of the box. If that were the case, I would have had a solid chunk of yesterday back to do the real work, we wouldn’t be having this little chat right now.

[ from my blog at Aptera ]