Paul Andrew

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If you build SharePoint Developer Tools, you should investigate the Visual Studio Industry Partner Program . There is lots of value in the program for Developer Tools vendors and SharePoint Developer Tools vendors can be part of it. Also, if you build...

I'll be at the Microsoft PDC 2008 and I hope to see you there. if you're going, please come to some of our SharePoint talks. In fact, go and add them to your My Sessions now and make us more popular. There will be a Hands on Lab you can try at the...

My colleague Michael Washam posted a nice article about how to call a WCF web service from a SharePoint Web Part using Javascript. How to call a WCF web service from SharePoint .

The introduction to SharePoint Development site has been up for four months now and we just posted an update to three of the downloads. Downloadable WSS Dev VPC Image - This has been updated to Visual Studio 2008 (previously Visual Studio 2005)...

I got quoted in this article about SharePoint Development.

We've started a SharePoint Developer FAQ on the new MSDN Forums. Do you have questions and you can't find answers perhaps the FAQ will help. http://forums.msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/sharepointdevelopment/thread/5834679b-482b-4924-b881-fa2146840d05 ...

Looking for a good collection of SharePoint blogs. Here's one which list lots of them. Cool new service from Guy Kawasaki.

Here's a place I came across which provides Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hosting. http://www.123together.com/SharePoint/

www.WorleyParsons.com was developed by SSW - Sydney Web Design . But it's not just any SharePoint site. The team who built it tried some enterprising new development practices for streamlining their application lifecycle management with Visual Studio...

See Randall Isenhours blog entry about the updated SharePoint SDK documentation.

The Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint are downloadable here . They have been available in English and today we added Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Japanese and Korean. We expect to add French, German, Italian and Spanish in the...

There has been lots of talk of using x64 servers for SharePoint. So naturally there has also been lots of talk about using x64 for SharePoint development environments. Currently the Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0...

Here's a case study I came across of a successful development using Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server for SharePoint Development.

I'm a fan of Virtual PC development for SharePoint and Reza has written a new blog series outlining a great way to leverage some of the wok we've done at Microsoft on trial VPC images. http://blogs.devhorizon.com/reza/?p=636

The patterns and practices group at Microsoft have made their first release of SharePoint Developer Guidance . It is listed as "not even Alpha" so may not be exactly what you're looking for just yet. It would be really helpful to get feedback about the...

Michael Desmond of Redmond Developer News published an article linking to my new SharePoint Developer Introduction web site . The purpose of the site is to help .NET Developers who want to learn SharePoint development. If you think learning SharePoint...

If you're in Wellington and want to hear a bit about SharePoint development please come along. Details here: http://www.dot.net.nz/Default.aspx?tabid=30&mid=418&ctl=Detail&xmid=3544&xmfid=2 I'll be demoing Visual Studio 2008 development...

Please visit http://MSSharePointDeveloper.com instead of this blog post. All of this information is available and much easier to navigate at http://MSSharePointDeveloper.com/ but if you don't have Silverlight installed you can get most of the content...

Woo hoo. We launched http://MSSharePointDeveloper.com this week to coincide with TechEd Developers in Orlando, Florida. There's lots of material for .NET developers who want to see what building applications on SharePoint is like up there. Please send...

My presentation at TechEd Developers this year was OFC202 Introduction to SharePoint Development with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. A previous version of the demo solutoin is here: http://blogs.msdn.com/cjohnson/archive/2008/02/13/office-developers-conference...

Next month on June 11 th 2008 I'm presenting at this public event on the Microsoft campus. Come along if you want to get an overview of SharePoint development. I will be giving two talks there. One is a full on demo session going over different things...

We're doing lots of things around introductory SharePoint development for .NET developers over the next few months. Here is the schedule for a series of MSDN web casts on 10 introductory SharePoint development topics for .NET developers. If you are a...

I'm pleased to announce the release of the User Guide, Samples and Walkthroughs for the Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, v1.1 . The Visual Studio 2005 extensions for SharePoint were released back in Feb 2008 and an update...

How do I get started working as a Professional Developer on SharePoint? Here's a brief outline of the options. First you need to have prerequisite skills in .NET Development and in particular ASP.NET Development. SharePoint is built on those technologies...