I recently attained the Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint 2010 certification.  I have long wanted to write about the experience, but honestly didn’t know how to begin.  After quite a few conversations with friends and colleagues, I thought I would share some insight about the process...

An interesting question was posted on one of the distribution lists today. “The client wanted to look into this MSDN drag and drop typed left navigation bar to work on Sharepoint 2010, does anyone make this work or have idea about this?” Click the control that is circled, and the menu is expanded or...

In this post, we’ll see some steps about how to troubleshoot a production SharePoint site using WinDBG and PssCor2.dll.  For an introduction to setting up your environment and getting started, see my blog post “ Intro to WinDBG for .NET Developers ”.  In this post, we’ll apply some of our WinDBG...

I recently got a question from a customer about utilities to include on their development machines.  My view is that you should trust your developers and let them install the tools they need.  However, some devs don’t have managers who trust their developers to do the right thing and they need...

For the past 7 years, I worked in Developer Platform Evangelism to talk to customers about the latest and greatest technologies that Microsoft would soon be releasing, and worked to gain early adopters of the technologies.  This was a very fun job, but I desired a change.  This past July, I...

Thanks to everyone who attended the SharePoint 2010 Developer Best Practices talk at the SharePointPro 2010 Summit and Expo conference.  As promised, the deck has been uploaded.  Get it here . http://cid-09d5ededfee6c24b.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Presentations/SPPro%20SharePoint%20Development...

I am putting together some demos for SharePoint 2010, and one of the demos I really wanted to show off was building a Windows Forms application that talks to SharePoint 2010’s REST services.  If you haven’t seen this in action yet, you owe it to yourself to watch this session from PDC ( http://microsoftpdc...