The Business Data Catalog (BDC) is one of the best features of MOSS 2007 (no, it's not in WSS 3.0). What excites me is the prospect of not only reading from, but writing back to data sources defined in the BDC. It's recently come up a few times and I've found that many people believe that...

The Business Data Catalog (BDC) is one of the best features of MOSS 2007 (no, it's not in WSS 3.0). What excites me is the prospect of not only reading from, but writing back to data sources defined in the BDC. It's recently come up a few times and I've found that many people believe that...

It's a busy week indeed with two great user group meetings covering SharePoint in Toronto. The first will be the Toronto SharePoint User Group meeting on Wednesday, January 10. Reza Alirezaei will be the featured speaker this week with a session on Site Columns and Content Types in Office SharePoint...

I'll be at the Toronto .Net User Group on Thursday to talk about Web Deployment Projects and MSBuild. It should be a fun one, but perhaps in protest against Microsoft Canada's oppressive requirement to use in-house catering, you'll want to grab a sandwich at Tim's on your way in. There's actually a great...

There's a question about the future floating around a private ASPInsiders list, I thought I'd post my response publicly and invite everyone to share their own thoughts. It's not often I can write about SharePoint , ASP.Net , and Lazy Programming all at once. Question: I was wondering what the next big...

There are two choices: You can build a SharePoint server that contains all your developer tools too. Or you can build your SharePoint server in a virtual machine (VM or VPC), and keep all your developer tools local. Then you can treat your virtual machine just like a physical server, and surf or demo...

I'll be at the Toronto .Net User Group on Thursday to talk about Web Deployment Projects and MSBuild. It should be a fun one, but perhaps in protest against Microsoft Canada's oppressive Read More...