I’m attending and speaking at a number of upcoming conferences. If you’re looking to get up to speed on SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010, these may be good opportunities for you. Joining me at many of these conferences are the top SharePoint speakers and...

One thing I’ve noticed is that when you create a SharePoint project in VS 2010 (File, New, Project) and create a name for your project it doesn’t get persisted down to the project item. For example, create a new Visual Web Part project; you’ll notice...

If you’re looking for an environment to use to get up to speed, you can now download a publicly available SharePoint and Office 2010 VHD to use for demo or coding purposes.  You can download the VM here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...

I’m in Mountainview, California this week participating in a small social networking event called Socialfest, an event where Microsoft is meeting with a number of small start-ups to work collaboratively with them on social networking applications. It...

One of the demos I showed this week was the integration of the new SharePoint 2010 client object model (SP COM) and an external list. The SP COM is a way to work with lists where you create and execute batch commands against your SharePoint 2010 server...

I’ve spent the last few days in Europe. Last week, I was in Lisbon presenting at a local SharePoint event with our local DPE gang, and this week I’m at the SharePoint Connections - Europe conference here in Amsterdam--amazing turnout at both events!!...

There is a free virtual SharePoint Conference (mostly developer with some IT Pro coverage) in mid-February. The goal of the conference is to provide some new and fun content that is demo-heavy. The agenda is as follows: SharePoint 2010: Bits From the...