Eli Robillard's World of Blog.

Toronto SharePoint Camp 2010 - Call for Speakers

erobillard — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:29:00 GMT

The third annual Toronto SharePoint Camp is scheduled for March 20, 2010 . To be considered, please read the Call for Speakers ( attached to this post , below) and submit your abstract(s) using the form provided by midnight on Friday, February 12. This...(read more)

How to Build a SharePoint 2010 Development Machine (Part I)

erobillard — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:46:00 GMT

I was going to hold off on posting this until the public beta drops, but anyone preparing for the drop will want to get the right hardware, OS and optionally virtualization in place now. Then when the beta drops I'll write more about specific steps to...(read more)

Tonight: First looks at SharePoint 2010

erobillard — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:33:00 GMT

First Looks at Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2010 Presented by Savash Alic , Principal Specialist – SharePoint TSP, Microsoft Canada Join us for a special live meeting on Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 where Microsoft Canada’s Savash Alic will present...(read more)

SharePoint Testing Strategies

erobillard — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:14:00 GMT

Someone recently asked about test plans and how to test components during development so you can be comfortable they'll perform well when hosted on large farms. The short answer is that you want to create the best simulation you can, and that means creating...(read more)

Controlling SharePoint 2010 Deployment in VS 2010

erobillard — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:36:00 GMT

The default experience when you press F5 in Visual Studio 2010 is to Create, Build, Package and Deploy your solution, all at once, automagically, pretty cool. As long as you don't want to control that process. But wait, you can do that too. You can customize...(read more)

Extending SharePoint 2010 tooling in Visual Studio 2010

erobillard — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Extensibility points Already had: Macros, add-ins and packages New extensions based on MEF VSIX model simplifies distribution and deployment VSIX Package A zip package Contains am .XML manifest Install by double-clicking Managed Extensibility Framework...(read more)

Announcing the Mississauga SharePoint User Group

erobillard — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:05:00 GMT

Look out TSPUG, there's a new user group in town! Led by Ray Outair, all the pieces are finally in place and the first meeting is: This Monday from 6 to 8:30 at Microsoft Canada's Mississauga office ! An Overview of SharePoint 2010 Presented by Rob Windsor...(read more)

SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Content Management

erobillard — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:33:00 GMT

There are three scenarios or scopes that the team designed for - the library, the document repository and then large scale repositories. The third isn't covered specifically here, but it's basically an architectural strategy that uses many components...(read more)

Sandboxed Solutions and Security in WSS 4.0

erobillard — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:06:00 GMT

Partial trust or "Sandboxed" solutions Runs in a separate process Everything in the WSP is deployed to a special repository managed by Central Administration. There is a new compilation model to support this repository (that you thankfully don't need...(read more)

At the SharePoint Conference! (includes keynote announcements)

erobillard — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:03:00 GMT

I'm in Las Vegas this week for the SharePoint Conference , where today marks a new era for everything SharePoint. And with the fantastic rate of growth in the use of SharePoint, that means that today thousands of people will start thinking of new ways...(read more)

Eli's SharePoint 2010 Resources

erobillard — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:32:00 GMT

SharePoint 2010 Resources: The Beta Version Bookmark this page! Today we're still in "pre-release" mode, some come back and watch us grow. Between the SharePoint Conference 2009 and the public beta in November, this site will provide links to all the...(read more)

Upcoming SharePoint events and conferences

erobillard — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:04:00 GMT

Thanks to everyone in the terrific crowd at my TechDays session in Toronto, and to everyone who stopped by to chat throughout the day. While attendees will be able to get the deck, the source code and a recording of the presentation in a few weeks (steps...(read more)

SharePoint Web Part Error: "Could not load the required type"

erobillard — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:08:00 GMT

Solution: Declare the class public. I mean seriously, you missed that? More surprising than not getting any hits for this message on Bing or Google is not catching the problem myself for the past [insert embarrassing amount of time here]. Serves me right...(read more)

Building and Packaging SharePoint Solutions

erobillard — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:25:00 GMT

In my last post I described a strategy for: Planning SharePoint Solution Packages . In this post we'll construct a sample solution template, use that template to construct a real solution, package this as a WSP, and finally (once you have many WSPs) wrap...(read more)

Toronto SharePoint User Group Wednesday, July 15: Feature Sets and Alerts

erobillard — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:05:00 GMT

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