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As promised here are some resources for my recent talk on creating and consuming services in SharePoint that I delivered at TechDays . You’ll be able to get the full slide deck, video, and code later at http://my.techdays.ca but here are the links from the slide deck and things I mentioned during the talk. Links Writing Custom Web Services for SharePoint (MSDN) Developing SharePoint Applications guidance from the Patterns and Practices group The SharePoint Service Locator pattern Books Developing Service-Oriented AJAX Applications (Book) Developers Guide to WSS 3.0 (Book) Professional Reporting with SharePoint 2007 (Book) Tools U2U CAML Builder (2003 and 2007 versions) CAML.NET (.NET Library for writing CAML queries in code) Read More...
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By now, everyone and his brother are downloading and installing the SharePoint 2010 beta onto their Windows 7 and Vista boxes. Why not? I mean, for the longest time we were stuck with having to spin up a Windows 2003 or 2008 server so now accessibility is here and we can genuinely put it on our machines without hackish workarounds. Of course why you would install a server application on a desktop OS is beyond this blog post and for a discussion over beers at SharePint. In any case there all kinds of guidance coming out on how to set things up. One of them is the MSDN article called Setting Up the Development Environment for SharePoint Server . This is a pretty good article but two gotchas I want to point out if anyone is following it and trying...
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I have the pleasure of speaking at the first Calgary SharePoint User Group meeting next Monday, November 23rd. The planning for a Calgary based SharePoint group has been a long time coming (I’ve been engaged in talks about one at least 4 times over the last few years). Finally it’s a reality. Purpose: The Calgary SharePoint User Group will provide an opportunity to discuss and grow new ideas and innovations by allowing consultants and IT knowledge workers to share their common experiences, issues, and solutions. It will create a forum for individuals to discuss SharePoint and related technologies, such as .NET/development, customization/branding, Business Intelligence (BI), content/document & records management, etc, with other experienced...
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When I was at the SharePoint Conference 2009 in Vegas I was sitting in the hallway working on my little white Mac Book writing a blog post on SharePoint 2010 when a guy passed by. “Can I ask you some questions?” “Sure”, I said. “If I did anything with SharePoint?” he asked me… Ok, sitting with a Mac on a Microsoft conference can be strange, but hey: VMware Fusion did let me run the Technical Preview of SharePoint 2010 on my little Mac Book with 4GB, which couldn’t be said of my Dell running Windows XP at the time, not supporting 64 bits virtualization with Microsoft tools. We talked for a few minutes, he made some audio recordings, and off he was. It resulted in a nice article in InfoWorld with some quotes by “van den Oever”. Never knew I said...
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An old Dutch phrase… translated into bad English! But it is going to happen: the first public beta of the Office tools… including: SharePoint 2010! And where can you download it… I know it… download it HERE! This link is provided by Microsoft The Netherlands to a group of people called the “Wave 14” ambassadors. We have a small competition between the ambassadors: the one who gets the most clicks gets an XBox!! So help me out, click it… often! And I will make sure that I blog a lot about SharePoint 2010! Read More...
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Just finished up my talk on SharePoint Solution Versioning at TechDays 2009 . I hope it went well for everyone (got a tweet from someone thanking me for answering their question before they asked it, now I just need to go out and buy a LottoMAX ticket). Here’s some quick resources on the talk. You’ll be able to get the full slide deck and video later at my.techdays.ca but here’s some links that may be useful if you enjoyed my talk. Planning SharePoint Solution Packages http://weblogs.asp.net/erobillard/archive/2009/06/19/planning-sharepoint-solution-packages-wsps.aspx Building and Packaging SharePoint Solution Packages http://weblogs.asp.net/erobillard/archive/2009/07/30/Building-and-Packaging-SharePoint-Solutions-and-the-WSPSolution-Project...
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Finally the public betas of SharePoint 2010 (both SharePoint Foundation and SharePoint Server), Office 2010, SharePoint Designer 2010 and Visio 2010 are available on MSDN Subscriptions , so start your download engines right now! :-) If you don't see the download, you can use this direct link (make sure you are signed in to the Download Center before you click the link). Read More...
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Another quick little fun thing today. Many times you might want (need) to hide the “New” button on a list toolbar. You know the one I mean? Why would you want to do such a thing? For example on a project I’m building I actually call the NewForm.aspx page with a querystring because I want to pre-populate my form with some vales. As such, I don’t want users to create new items in a list without these references and since they have to come from another list I’m left with the problem of trying to restrict them from creating new items but still offer them the ability to use the features of the list like alerts, exporting to spreadsheets, etc. Yes, the “New” button isn’t available for readers of a list but for contributors it is and for admins you...
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PDC is here again! This year my friend and colleague Don Demsak and Andrew Brust will be presenting a business intelligence (BI) workshop covers some of the fundamental patterns and techniques that can help developers to build modern BI applications in the Microsoft platform. Specifically, the workshop will focus on how to merge the traditional aspects of BI solutions such as analytics, reporting, data aggregation into widely adopted technologies like SharePoint Server and Office in general. If you...( read more ) Read More...
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Jimmy is at DevConnections this week and is promising to have a new blog post every day. We will see how that works out! :) Here is his first installment – Top 10 Takeaways for SharePoint . Jonathan Cogley is the CEO of Thycotic Software, an agile software services and product development company based in Washington DC. Secret Server is our flagship enterprise password management product. Read More...
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