DevTeach Here I Come!

re: DevTeach Here I Come!

Beth Massi — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:08:29 GMT

Hi Ben,

Here are a couple of case studies we have right now on SharePoint you can check out: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/case-studies/Pages/default.aspx

What you are asking though really depends on what type of app you want to build. SharePoint Foundation 2010 offers improved features for all the areas you mentioned, such as coordinating schedules, organizing documents, and having discussions through team workspaces, blogs and wikis. Check out the product documentation here:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd776256.aspx

The even better news is that SharePoint 2010 has a great developer story (since you are reading my blog I assume you are a developer) and can be easily customized through SharePoint designer (which is free) or Visual Studio 2010.

So if you don’t like the out of box features, you can customize them. I'm just learning all these myself. You might want to hit up the SharePoint team blog here: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint and/or visit the developer center: http://msdn.com/sharepoint

HTH,

-B

re: DevTeach Here I Come!

Beth Massi — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:09:52 GMT

Hi Logan,

Check out this post from the PUM of VS Languages:

http://blogs.msdn.com/scottwil/archive/2010/03/09/vb-and-c-coevolution.aspx

re: DevTeach Here I Come!

Ben — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:02:38 GMT

I have a question on whether Sharepoint is really a good return on investment? It's easy to install but just very hard to manage successfully in terms of permissions, backups, and general productivity.

I never liked frontpage since it's devs tried to make frontpage permissions compete with NTFS permissions. Sharepoint just seems to be frontpage on steroids.

And for rollouts we either do something easy and organic that has a lot of navigation,permissions, and different levels of usage to it, or we bite the bullet and spend an awful lot of money, effort, and development on somethign that will rigidfy our intranet and make it harder to do 2.0. I don't see a positive cost effective strategic outcome for sharepoint installations.

If we want blogs wordpress is better

If we want search google is better

If we want discussions phpbb is better

Mobile support isn't there

No facebook, twitter etc.

What I would need to see is the top 10 blackbox sharepoint apps that cost under $10,000 and will be productive out of the box for me. And I've asked around.

re: DevTeach Here I Come!

Logan — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:13:36 GMT

Hi Beth,

Is it true what I heard a while ago about the VB and C# dev teams hooking up in an effort to balance the features and power of each respective language more equally?

I hear it all the time from people in the C# community that VB is rubbish because it doesn't have the power that C# has.

You'd be surprised how many folks in the Open Source community (of which I am also a part) prefer C# over VB too...

Keep well!!!

-L