Glenn Block

Just on the first page and It's not very clear if 1 is high priority or 10?

Hi @Neil

Thanks. I updated each page to remove the ambiguity. 1 is the highest.

Wow ... could I keep you busy for years about what isn't useful/friendly/helpful/palatable/etc in SharePoint!!!!

Where to start .... /sigh ... oh yeah ... how about Unit Testing and Separation of Concerns ... (don't say TypeMock at this point please :)

I'll go do that survey now ...!

Having filled the survey in ... and seen some of the results ... I am a little concerned ... people see "SharePoint development environment setup" (something that is trivial) as more important than "Unit testing" (something that is damned hard to do, and far more important)  and see  "Using PowerShell with SharePoint" as the most important thing in it's class (when it is primarily an admin function)  ...  /boggle ... :)

HI @Casey

There's only been around 10 respondents so far, so I wouldn't worry too much.

I'd like to hear what is coming in SharePoint vNext, specifically how it will break any custom solutions I'm building today. I understand this information will be difficult to acquire, but that's my #1 problem.

Also, guidance as to how to choose the "appropriate solution" is my #2 huge issue. E.g. custom aspx form, or create site columns?

Also Casey, while I'm beginning to lean the direction of building completely testable solutions in SharePoint (i.e. your way, I read your insaneworld blog :) ), I will say that no one else in the world leans that way, including 100% of the MVPs (I read their blogs too).

The only reason I'm not switching to building testable solutions today is that most of the bugs I encounter are from interactions with the framework, e.g. my most recent bugs were a) a concurrency-type issue with the ItemAdded() event, and b) what looks to be a framework issue or a concurrency issue when changing the "Title" field of a document.

Anyway, not to get too distracted, the point of all that is: unit testing wouldn't have caught either of those problems.

So unit testing, while I believe is important, would go #3 behind "am I wasting my time building something that will break in vNext" and "am I wasting my time building web parts when the better solution is ${BETTER_SOLUTION}."

Also, PowerShell is NOT just an admin tool, it is absolutely AWESOME for spelunking the object model. I need to blog about that, and soon, because my current PowerShell+SharePoint examples are lame, lame, lame.

I've just written a bit more about this on my blog and hopefully it'll keep this flowing among the SharePoint developers out there...wss.made4the.net/.../solution-development-in-sharepoint-2007.aspx