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...

So a bit of a preview for you about one of the solutions from my new book, Pro SharePoint 2010 Solution Development. This one shows how you can use the Silverlight Bing Maps control to build a SharePoint solution that layers data from a KML file, Geocoded...

With the lack of posts and everything, people have been asking me what I have been up to. Among other things, I am updating my SharePoint development book for the 2010 release. The new title will be Pro SharePoint 2010 Solution Development. Just like...

Most of day 1 was the keynotes. Got to love that the first demo was for the developers in the room. Really like that the definition of SharePoint has become more broad then simply a collaboration platform. The new pie slide simply stated Next Generation...

Was working on a proof of concept today and ran across an interesting error when trying to get the MOSS server to talk to RMS. Since this is just in a lab, the MOSS central administration web app pool was running as Network Service. When I chose to specify...

I just wanted to post the deck I will be using for my session (SPDev 314) at the SharePoint Best Practices Conference in Reston. My session includes mostly demos around document generation scenarios with SharePoint. There is a lot of use of the new Open...

I’ve been updating some of my demos for the upcoming DC SharePoint Best Practices Conference ( http://www.bestpracticesconference.com/ ). Basically, I have a session that shows different approaches to common document generation scenarios that customers...

As promised in my earlier video demo, here is a web part that I quickly wrote to view the claims of a user when they are authenticating to the SharePoint site using a Security Token Service such as Geneva Server. There are some important sections in the...

No this is not a post on anything SharePoint 2010 related. I get asked this question, quite a bit… It usually goes something like: I have a SharePoint site and when the user clicks on a Word document, the file is shown in the Internet Explorer viewer...

I put together a little video demo of using Geneva Beta 2 stuff with MOSS 2007. You can get these VMs using the links from the previous post, but it is an awful lot to download and setup. So I thought a video might be appealing.

Since a lot of the customers I serve are government agencies, there has always been a lot of interest in ADFS with SharePoint. But there has always been lots of issues... ADFS being targeted to only federating Active Directory, what about Office client...

This is really just a publish of an old demo I have had for some time, but finally got around to putting a video together. This demo is about two different ways to build PowerPoint presentations based off of SharePoint content. The first uses an Office...

It's that time of year again. A local sharepoint user group that I am involved with is putting on a regional sharepoint conference. The dates are June 26th and 27th. Visit their web site for more information: http://www.sugdc.org/Events/Conferences/tabid...

And came across a series of webcasts that I had to share: What's new for SharePoint in DPM 2007 SP1: http://edge.technet.com/Media/What-is-new-in-DPM-2007-SP1-for-protecting-SharePoint/ DPM Licensing Changes: http://edge.technet.com/Media/DPM-2007-sp1...

A few posts ago, I put up a silverlight video of a solution from my book on how to merge sharepoint list data into templatized Word documents. See: http://blogs.msdn.com/edhild/archive/2008/10/29/merging-sharepoint-list-data-into-word-documents.aspx Of...

And of course there would have to be an error that I had to work around... I had built several samples with the pre-release stuff of Silverlight 2.0 and just started the processing of updating my environment. So I uninstalled everything in my dev environment...

Webcast Alert! The Podcasting Kit For SharePoint You do NOT want to miss this week’s SharePoint Weekly Webcast Series presentation. I have lined up the folks from Microsoft's Academy Team who brought you the Podcasting Kit for SharePoint and it is sure...