Upcoming SharePoint Webcasts
Just in from Scott Howlett of iMason are two terrific WebCasts, one tomorrow (Tuesday, January 25) and one in February. Tomorrow's topic appears to cover accessing SharePoint as a service, and promises a healthy bit of usable code to download. February's session covers search and indexing, an important but oft-overlooking topic. In fact in any SharePoint deployment, planning the index should come soon after step one: cataloguing an organization's existing knowledge. And if you glossed over both of those, you should really pick up the Resource Kit between now and Scott's February WebCast.
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I thought you might be interested in two upcoming MSDN Webcasts that imason is delivering. These follow on from earlier Sharepoint Webcasts that were presented in 2004. You can view the previous webcast by clicking on these links: SPS 2.0: Developer Considerations and SPS 2.0: Architecture and Best Practices for SPS Development. I think you’ll find these upcoming Webcasts compelling, and the January 25th webcast might include Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 and some bits from Whidbey! The events are about 45 minutes, are delivered online and are free so feel free to forward these to anyone you think might be interested.
January 25, 2005 - SPS 2.0: Developing Sharepoint Solutions Without WebParts
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Description:
Many people are actively developing Sharepoint solutions using the expected WebPartPage/WebPart paradigm. This is indeed a powerful model to be working with. However, it is not the only one that you can use. In fact, the Sharepoint technologies are split between back-end technologies (security, storage, searching...) and front-end technologies (templates, webparts...). As such, it is very possible to leverage the back-end technologies using other front-end technologies such as WinForms, Console Applications and WebForms. In this session, we’ll outline why you might want to do this and we’ll provide a truckload of code samples and demos.
February 24, 2005 - Leveraging the Power of Custom Search and Ranking
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Description:
In this level 400 presentation, we’ll go extremely “deep” on authoring applications that utilize Sharepoint’s powerful search capabilities. We’ll provide lots of information about how to author search queries, how to execute search queries and how to leverage the “ranking” capability of the search index. We’ll also include a bunch of demos and some sample code.