In part 1 of this series, I discussed why the way developers extend SharePoint needed to change. In this article I will detail types of SharePoint applications, how they fit into the app model, and the tools you can use to build applications. What...

A lot of my customers lately to the Microsoft Technology Center have been interested in the new App Model of SharePoint 2013. This should not be a surprise given that the new App Model is one of the big additions to SharePoint 2013. What is interesting...

Just a little self promoting, but here is a write up of the very quick demo I did for the SharePoint Leadership Conference in DC a few weeks ago. Thank you to the Bamboo team for putting everything together. http://community.bamboosolutions.com/blogs...

I am presenting an overview of Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013 at a local SharePoint user group this week - Thurs 9/13. Get more details and register here: http://www.sugdc.org/tabid/57/ModuleID/559/ItemID/21/mctl/EventDetails/Default.aspx

Here is my PowerPoint deck that I plan on using for the webcast tomorrow. If you are interested and haven't registered, please use the information in the previous blog post to sign up for the event. Next week I plan on writing a more in-depth article...

Leveraging SQL Azure in SharePoint Online REGISTER TODAY! Abstract: SharePoint Online is the portal/collaboration platform of Microsoft’s Office 365 cloud service. SQL Azure provides a highly available and scalable cloud database service...

Lots of people have asked for my deck (the code was posted earlier) that I used at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in CA last month. Here is the deck. For those of you who were at the local DC event where I practiced this session you can see that...

Scheduled to deliver my SharePoint Conference Session today after lunch. The session is coded 343 and titled: Enforce Governance by Automating Site Provisioning. I will post the deck after the session, but the PPT slides are very similar to the SharePoint...

One of my sessions at the SharePoint Saturday DC conference was about how to enforce governance by provisioning sites with workflow. The deck is posted earlier on this blog. This post is the code that was shown in the sessions. I plan on refining both...

This is the PowerPoint deck I will be using for one of my sessions at this week's conference. The session is entitled Enforce Governance by Provisioning Sites with Workflow. You may have seen me do something similar in the past, but this presentation...

I was recently creating a SharePoint Designer workflow for use in SharePoint 2010 and Office 365. The workflow was pretty straight forward. The end goal of the workflow was to automate an approval process for creating a sub site within an existing site...

We hosted a DPE Developer Dinner back in March where I presented a bunch of custom SharePoint and Office solutions. Everything from automating document generation to visualization in Visio. Most of these examples are from my book Pro SharePoint 2010 Solution...

I came across a good branding article written by Celina Baginski of Planet Technologies. This is part 1 which focused on custom CSS styles. Very nice work! Can't wait for the other parts. -Ed http://www.sharepointpromag.com/article/sharepoint/sharepoint...

Monthly Public Sector Developer Dinner Event: Developing and Customizing Office 2010 Solutions for SharePoint 2010 Register Here Event ID: 1032476092 Microsoft Reston Office 12012 Sunset Hills Road Reston Virginia 20190 United States ...

Event Overview The SharePoint as a Developer Platform course will cover what you need to know to build solutions (write code) on top of SharePoint 2010. This course is targeted to quickly bring developers up to speed with SharePoint 2010...

For those that want a preview, I’ve posted the deck that I plan on using to drive my presentation at tomorrow’s Federal SharePoint Saturday. Note that a lot of the slides at the end of the presentation are just a backup for demo disaster. With the demo...

I captured a quick demo from the solution created in Chapter 7 of our book Pro SharePoint 2010 Development which is available now. Apress is the publisher and you can find in on amazon or other preferred book store. This chapter shows you how to combine...

A while back I was given a Flip Ultra HD camera as a gift. This is a lovely camera that because of its convience has become the default video camera for my family to take on trips. The HD videos it creates are absolutely stunning. My first gotcha with...

This week we released the Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Power Tools. This fills a gap that has often been a room gasp when I talk to developers. I'd spend some time telling them all the benefits of Sandboxed Solutions only to then tell them that they...

I just finsihed a proof of concept with RTM bits and was surprised that for just out of the box lists, any query to listdata.svc was returning an error. In case anyone is stumbling or scratching their heads... there is an update for ADO.NET Data Services...

I've been working on a proof of concept using PerformancePoint Services in SharePoint 2010 and have discovered a nice trick to get SharePoint web parts to place nice with a PerformancePoint dashboard, You may not know this, but a PP dashboard like to...

Many times when you have a user filling out an InfoPath form, you would like to auto-populate some of the fields with the data from the current user's SharePoint profile. I found a nice reference here: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/archive...

So I was working on a demo, trying to get PowerPivot installed server-side and didn't realize how much pain I was about to subject myself to. The key is that apparently I was in a situation that isn't the norm. I had already installed SQL Server 2008...

I captured a quick demo from the solution created in Chapter 13 of our book. This was one of Chad Wach's chapters and I have found it to be a great tool to demonstrate not only the out-of-the-box capabilities of Visio Services in SPS 2010, but also its...

I've been working on creating a solution for the internal MS sales teams here that has some really interesting components/code that I thought I would share. Basically, I was asked to create a windows sidebar gadget that displayed data that was maintained...