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Thursday, October 29, 2009 8:46 AM

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

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...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009 12:33 PM

Tonight: First looks at SharePoint 2010

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...
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Saturday, October 24, 2009 3:14 PM

SharePoint Testing Strategies

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...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 7:36 PM

Controlling SharePoint 2010 Deployment in VS 2010

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...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 6:00 PM

Extending SharePoint 2010 tooling in Visual Studio 2010

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...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009 8:05 PM

Announcing the Mississauga SharePoint User Group

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...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009 1:33 PM

SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Content Management

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...
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Monday, October 19, 2009 6:06 PM

Sandboxed Solutions and Security in WSS 4.0

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...
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Monday, October 19, 2009 12:03 PM

At the SharePoint Conference! (includes keynote announcements)

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...
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Monday, October 19, 2009 11:32 AM

Eli's SharePoint 2010 Resources

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...
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