Steve Fox's OBA Ramblings

If you haven’t yet registered for TechEd 2010, you’ll want to make sure you sign up soon! This year’s TechEd USA is from 06/7-10 and will be located in New Orleans, LA. You can get more information about the event here: http://www.microsoft...

I’ve been asked a number of times what are the deprecated SharePoint APIs in SharePoint 2010. There’s a number of them, and rather than try and list them out there’s a site you can check out that shows all of the APIs in a handy-dandy...

This morning, Stephen Elop officially launched SharePoint and Office 2010. It was a virtual launch and featured a number of different things. For example, Stephen interviewed a select group of customers as testaments to the business and developer value...

Today, we have released some new developer training materials for the developer community on Channel 9. These training kits and courses are a rev on the Beta materials that we published earlier in the year and represent a culmination of months of effort...

Given the fact that this is launch week (big day is tomorrow!!!), there are a few things I’ll be pushing out the door this week. For starters, you can now download the RTM version of the virtual machine here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads...

I did a session this morning on Silverlight and SharePoint this morning. I walked through the different levels of integration and showed a number of examples and announced the new Silverlight Web Part project (as one of the extensibility templates we...

Today at the SharePoint Summit in Montreal, I am presenting a session on Silverlight and SharePoint. As a part of this session, I am announcing the release of a project that my team and I have been working on over the past few months. I am announcing...

This week I’m at the SharePoint Summit 2010 in Montreal: http://sharepointsummit2010.com/index_e.htm . I had a chance to get a walk in after dinner tonight…what a fantastic city Montreal is. I’m presenting a couple of sessions here this week. The first...

Yesterday, I presented a session with Girish Raja at our internal company conference called TechReady. We talked about a number of things including: Using the SP Client Object Model as a way to integrate SP data with Office documents; Integrating SL and...

Windows Azure & SharePoint 2010 Azure is Microsoft’s platform in the cloud that provides you with an endpoint for your custom services and data storage. It also provides you with a great development environment to build and deploy solutions into the...

For those of you looking to learn more about how to leverage Office for development, another cool tool was recently released: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/msdn/en-us/office/media/Atlas/Default.html This is a Silverlight tool that loads in-browser...

In a recent virtual conference, I was asked about whether you can still ghost/unghost site pages when editing files in SharePoint Designer 2010. The short answer is yes you can, but the longer answer is as a site administrator you can actually manage...

Woohoo!!! Launch is finally here!!! If you haven’t see this, check it out: Office and SharePoint 2010 are going to launch on May 12th at 11:00AM EST. http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/businessproductivity/proof/pages/2010-launch-events.aspx#fbid=hYIUlaGnSFD...

Both the Office and SharePoint Developer Centers in MSDN got a new look! You can check out the new sites here: Office Developer Center - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/default.aspx SharePoint Developer Center - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us...

For those of you who attended the virtual SharePoint: Bits from the Edge conference, here is the deck I used: http://cid-40a717fc7fcd7e40.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/SP%5E_Conn%5E_Virtual

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...

In my initial post on this, I created a read-only application that used a Web service. The original post provided a step-by-step walkthrough of how to use the VS 2010 BDC Metadata model template and integrate it with Web services. http://blogs.msdn.com...

One of the big features for SharePoint 2010 (and for building OBAs) is the Business Connectivity Services (BCS). I’ve written a few posts on this, but wanted to follow up on these early posts with some additional detail on how to create a solution leveraging...

Just a quick note to let you all know that you can now download a full SharePoint and Office 2010 Developer Kit to get ramped up on how to develop for either of these platforms. They are both aimed at the Beta release and include videos online at Channel...