At most conferences or events I get cornered by at least two or three people wanting my opinion on how to best set up their development environments.  Questions like: Should I have all my developers on one shared SharePoint server? Should I virtualize...

I presented recently at an internal Microsoft conference here in Seattle & showed a simple OData/ADO.Net data services & Silverlight 4 data binding example. It is very rudimentary, but shows how simple it is to get up and running binding Silverlight...

Happy to announce we have published our new RTM Hyper-V Virtual Machine.  It contains all the goodies you have come to love & a few new ones, including SQL 2008 R2 & Windows Server 2008 R2. Because we have moved to Windows server 2008 R2...

As many of you will know SharePoint & Office make heavy use of your profile pictures to personalize the experience.  For example, here is my profile photo in my My Site. I get to set up this stuff up quite often in demo environments & so...

If you were wondering if you should come to TechEd this year wonder no more.  Planning is well underway for TechEd North America 2010 for the Office and SharePoint track (OSP) and it is looking great. Right now we are almost finished figuring out...

(Long time no post … sorry! we have been really busy!) Last week we released a new SharePoint 2010 Beta Virtual Machine.  ( GET IT HERE ) This VM contains a bunch of pre-configured products including SharePoint 2010, Office 2010, SQL, Exchange, Office...

We just went live with a brand new HUGE! two part whitepaper on branding SharePoint 2007 Publishing Sites. This is an awesome resource for getting up to speed on how to build cutting edge internet facing websites on SharePoint 2007. We take you step by...

I get a bunch of questions at events etc… on how our team do demos. I don't mean the content of the demos, i mean the actual setup and execution. You might think this is a simple question to answer, but it is more complex than you think. First up there...

Letting blog readers know that the official SharePoint Conference tweet stream is up:  http://www.twitter.com/SPConf    Follow!

Soma posted on the new SharePoint and Visual Studio integration coming in the next release of Visual Studio.  http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2009/02/19/sharepoint-tools-support-in-visual-studio.aspx This is something I have been working...

Ivory Tower (Redmond) to all earth bound SharePoint peeps.  I need some info on your l33t SharePoint skillz. I am doing some research into how you, as SharePoint evangelists, demo SharePoint to others.  This could be as part of a sales pitch...

Vegas, SharePoint & loads of great content & people … do i need to say any more? http://www.mssharepointconference.com/ Early bird registration is open now.  Best conference out there for under a grand USD.

No I haven’t been laid off from Microsoft … and hope I don't any time soon :) I changed roles this past week.  I have joined the world famous (in SharePoint circles anyway) Technical Product Management team run by Arpan Shah .  This is the team...

If you are a new to SharePoint development then this series of training might be helpful.  Part 2 just went live.

As you might have seen on the SharePoint Team Blog we released the Community Technology Preview of Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint v1.3 . This is really designed to address a number of pressing needs our users have with v1.2. Namely: - x64...

I already subscribe to Zune Pass and love it for the ability to discover music using a subscription service. You just download whatever you like and don't have to worry about the cost. Don't like the music? Doesn't matter … just ditch it. It just got...

Here are the code samples I demonstrated in my PDC Session last week as promised. You can watch the recorded session here: http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/BB13/   (Silverlight streaming Video & slides + demo side by side) Please read the “Contoso...

Its always a geeks worst nightmare packing for a conference and getting the balance of gadgets, clothes, number of bags and weight. Do you go for a gadget for every occasion?  or carry on only?  dilemma! I personally prefer the minimal approach...

I hope everyone is getting as pumped as I am for the PDC next week.  So much dev geek goodness in one week … its all good! Plug for my session: SharePoint 2007 Creating SharePoint Applications with Visual Studio Thursday 8:30am Abstract:  “Learn...

So i was in a meeting today and we had a remote participant.  We were using Live Meeting to do the presentation and demo.  We were in a meeting room with a Round Table … so i decided to plug it in and see what happened :) 20 seconds later the...

My presentation is complete, demos are done & final fit and finish is under way.  More importantly, the first social event of the PDC calendar just got organized by AC... the SharePoint by Day, SharePint by Night .  Sunday 7pm @ the Millennium...

I am really looking forward to PDC this year.  There is an awesome lineup of very cool stuff being announced.  The best thing about PDC is it is all about developers and seriously cool geeky new stuff … and to top it off I will be presenting...

Tesla were on campus today showing off the Roadster.  Very very cool indeed.  The thing accelerated without a hint of noise and was really quick.  About $100k USD right now. If you are an avid Xbox fan … yes that is Major Nelson standing...

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We just went live with VSeWSS 1.2 in some more languages.  Here are the links to all the various languages we have now: English Chinese Korean Chinese – zh-tw Japanese We also have French, Spanish, German & Italian coming in the next couple of...