FitzBlog

The good news is that I'm going to be blogging again. The not-exactly-bad news is that I'll be blogging over at http://mikefizmaurce.wordpress.com . Actually, that's good news. I'll be blogging elsewhere because in 90 minutes, I'll no longer be a Microsoft...

I jumped the gun in yesterday's second post when I said the SDKs were ready along with the downloadable trials. They are indeed finished being written, but there are more hoops than you can imagine getting things staged, approved, tested, etc. for distribution...

While we generally lock down features many months before we get to RTM and spend all of the remaining time on performance and stability, there are a few – very few – number of times when we find we really have to squeeze in one more feature at the last...

We get asked about what we're doing about AJAX quite a lot these days, especially about ASP.NET for AJAX (the technology formerly known as "Atlas"). We *love* AJAX. We actually use AJAX (albeit not ASP.NET for AJAX) all over the place in SharePoint sites...

I'm here in Auckland with Arpan Shah presenting at Tech Ed: New Zealand sessions and meeting every Kiwi customer and partner I can.  They've been working me pretty hard; I got off the plane at 5:10am this past Friday morning and started meetings with...

WSRP, as I covered a few days ago, is an interoperability standard. It’s platform- and language-neutral. It’s all about requesting and transmitting chunks of HTML using SOAP. Today I’d like to weigh in on something usually uttered in...

I thought I’d start this next wave of postings with the subject I’ve avoided the longest — WSRP. This one will be a little long… What Is WSRP? The abbreviation stands for Web Services for Remote Portlets. There are plenty...

My blog isn’t so much a running news log as it is an opinion column and platform for communicating practical advice. That having been said, I’ve been slacking off for too long. Well, take heart, as I’ve built up a backlog of things to...

This is one item I’ve been holding back for a while. FrontPage “12” will be a great SharePoint site designer on many, many fronts. Like the current version, using it to edit a page in a SharePoint site will cause the page to become unghosted...

So it’s 10am as I start this posting, which I’m typing while I bounce back and forth between Ryan Stocker’s talk on the Web content management services you’ll see in Office “12” and Rob Lefferts’ talk on our unified...

Two new blogs have been created in the past few days that I thought you should bookmark: If you’re building applications for the U.S. Federal Government, the Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism team just started up a blog for issues and...

That post I made on Monday? Namely: “ FitzBlog : Web Part Interoperability -- Good News and Bad News ”? It’s out. It was U2U ’s news to break, and Mike Ammerlaan just helped them break it here at his PDC session on WSS “v3”...

I just got out of Steven Sinofsky’s keynote session on Office “12” here at the PDC, and that means one thing. Actually, multiple, things, but the big thing is that I can stop being (as much of) a jerk about not saying anything about...

So we’re getting ready to unveil a little bit tomorrow and a lot on Wednesday regarding WSS “v3” and our Office “12” servers, but a couple of things have popped up that are very, very relevant to people that want to develop...

I’ve been at a lot of conferences in the past few months, and the question I was asked most often had to have been around what we support and don’t support when it comes to site and portal customizations, modifcations to site definitions,...

The short answer: Heck, yeah! The long answer: For the love of God, don’t try it in production yet. SQL Server 2005 hasn’t shipped. But as we’ve been testing our beta code for WSS Service Pack 2, due out later this year, we’ve been testing it against...

Head over to http://commnet.microsoftpdc.com/content/sessions.aspx to see a nearly-complete list of what we can tell you to date. Specifically look at the “Office and SharePoint” track. Joe Andreshak and I are producing this track (he’s...

I know that, while I’m travelling, I should just file blog postings from the road since it’s more dynamic and compelling ‘n’ stuff , but I didn’t. I’m sorry. On the plus side, I’ve been taking notes, and I have...

Want some help building and deploying site definitions, complete with resources like Web Parts, CSS files, etc.? Get thee to http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/sharepointdevkickstart , the latest in our never-ending effort to plug information gaps in the...

The SharePad workspace on GotDotNet has been updated. It now supports getting/setting custom properties with every open/save. If you want an example of how to use FrontPage RPCs, the URL protocol, etc., this one’s ready to go. I’ve already...

The last four days here in Orlando have been a blur, and that’s not because of the humidity or the evening events. There’s a lot going on here. There are a lot of people here. There’s a lot of content here. And there are a lot of good...

The fact that there’s an Office/SharePoint Development track at this year’s Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, CA from the 13th from the 16th of September is a big break for you, for us, for everyone. Bill Gates mentioned a few weeks ago...

I haven’t blogged for a while, but I’m hoping to make up for it — starting with this… I’ve told you before that, if you want to add full SharePoint document library support for your own document editor, you'll have to...

I cannot begin to tell you how happy I am about the first issue of SharePoint Advisor magazine. I just got an advance copy, and the regular copies are leaving Advisor Media’s warehouses tomorrow morning. I’m biased — I’m on the...

Comments like "Unless of course you want to use them next year" made in reponse to my posting “Keep Writing SharePoint Web Parts Until (at least) 2006” make me wonder if people actually read my posts before commenting on them. Well.. just...