Posts about SharePoint

Introducing the SharePoint Service Application Starter Kit

After much hard work and testing, I’m happy to finally have released the SharePoint Service Application Starter Kit.

What is it?

A Visual Studio Extension that installs SharePoint project templates for creating custom SharePoint Service Applications of different flavors. (more…)

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Windows 8, UAC, Visual Studio, and always Run as Administrator

One of the biggest kinks I’ve had to work out so far on Windows 8 is fighting with UAC. Since I do a lot of SharePoint 2010 development, I need to run Visual Studio as an Administrator in order for the SharePoint tools in Visual Studio to work properly. After using Windows 8, I quickly found out that you can’t completely disable UAC in Windows 8. (more…)

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