If you're a regular user of SharePoint 2007 you'll know how useful it is to be able to open one of the Office client applications like Word or Excel and then open a document located on a SharePoint site by directly entering a URL into the Open dialog...

Recently I had the need to build a custom SharePoint 2010 search results page to allow users to preview videos and audio files stored in SharePoint and display them inline with the search results and in this posting I'll document how I acheived this....

Here's my list of SharePoint 2013 Beta 2 learning and training resources. Theses are the videos/labs/documentation I'm reading myself to skill-up on the new version..... PS SharePoint 2013 Beta 1 was only made available to a limited set of customers...

These courses contain free technical training on emerging Microsoft products and technologies. Each course includes a set of videos, hands-on labs, and source code samples to get you up-to-speed quickly. Watch the videos to get an overview of the technology...

Last updated on: 6th September 2011 There has been a number of video based training courses on TechNet and MSDN for a while but I'm always loosing the links. The links below will hopefully point you in the direction of somthing you've not seen before...

This is a simple script I knocked up to locate which SPWebs and SPLists where using a particular content type. Just update the first two lines of the script to include your web application name and the content type you are looking for. The script will...

These books provide basic information about the capabilities of and requirements for SharePoint Server 2010 & SharePoint Foundation 2010. The audiences include application specialists, line-of-business application specialists, information architects...

Rob Miles and Andy Wigley are back! The "Building Applications for Windows Phone "Mango" Jump Start" is a follow-up to last year's Windows Phone 7 Jump Start sessions. During these videos, Rob and Andy outline how to create Windows Phone applications...

Whilst you can always buy MSDN Magazine and TechNet magazine from your newsagent, I prefer to read it online. If you're so inclined you can download the entire magazine at once including all back issues from: TechNet Magazine: http://technet.microsoft...

If you've just built a new preview/beta SharePoint 2013 farm and followed this up with an installation of Visual Studio 2012 RTM you might be surprised to see that VS2012 doesn't include any of the SP2013 developer templates (just some updated versions...

The Microsoft website is huge (as if you didn't already know!). Trying to find training videos on particular topics is often difficult so having a master index which lists them all by technology is very useful. The Events Series is just that: http...

Found this last week and it related to a problem I was working on. http://sharesilver.wordpress.com/2011/07/24/sharepoint-bugs-1-item-deleting-event-receiver/

Hands on Labs for Developing Applications on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 These are a set of 10 Hands on Labs (HOLs) for developing applications for WSS3.0 (but are also fully applicable to SharePoint Foundation) with Visual Studio provided in C#...

This article provides ASP.NET developers with an insight into SharePoint development concepts from an ASP.NET developer’s perspective, making it easier to transition to become a SharePoint dev. As a prerequisite, you should have a basic understanding...

Have just a few minutes to learn something new? Watch 101 short videos about creating custom solutions with SharePoint Online, SharePoint Server, and SharePoint Foundation. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/hh298298.aspx

Now that you can install Microsoft SharePoint 2010 on the Windows 7 and Windows Vista operating systems, what is the best way to do it? There are many considerations from RAM and CPU to sample content and custom properties. One of the keys is PowerShell...

Never has the phrase RTFM been more appropriate then when it comes to installing and configuring SharePoint. Now as it turns out an awful lot of customers don't actually read the manual. Perhaps they read some crazy blog posting by some bloke you've never...

There is no way in the UI or via an out of the box PowerShell command to change the application pool used by a web application. Don't bother trying to create one manually in IIS and setting the web app to use this, it won't work because the application...

Just as I was hitting the books to learn all things SharePoint and BI, along comes this set of business intelligence training videos....just what I needed! SharePoint Server 2010 Business Intelligence Insights Training It also helps to have had...

About a year ago I wrote a little command line tool in C# which downloaded the Bing background image each day for each country around the world. I've got 100s of images now as you'd expect which I use for filling image libraries when doing SharePoint...

It can be difficult for a developer new to SharePoint to know what to use to implement various scenarios, or even what is possible. These articles contains a high-level overview of SharePoint as a development platform, compares and contrasts SharePoint...

If you need sample apps for SharePoint for demo or training purposes, you can download lots of them from: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/officeapps/

For those wanting the quick start guide to SharePoint patching, read this little baby.... Install a software update (SharePoint Server 2010)

At time of writing, these are the latest versions of the various things you'll need to have installed to develop effectively on the SharePoint 2013 platform. I say "effectively" because prior to this, there where so many bugs/problems that is made development...

All this low level stuff also got me thinking about the first ever Windows worm I had to deal with when working at a previous company - The Nimda Worm ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimda . This was the first every worm that I had captured and analysed...