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...