Steve Fox's OBA Ramblings

Here in Toronto this week and wanted to follow up with a blog post on a session I did earlier in the week: Integrating SharePoint and Windows Azure. In the spirit of continuing to expose how you can integrate SharePoint 2010 with the different parts of...

Watching for Snow I’m in Toronto this week presenting at the annual SharePoint Summit conference and watching out for the impending blizzard. I presented an SPO session this morning that walked through an overview of Office 365 (the new cloud-hosted productivity...

Hey gang, A friend and colleague from MS, Juergen Daiberl, asked me to post this on my blog, so throwing this out there for any potential interest. The position is an evangelism position in DPE working predominantly with ISVs and with Azure, SQL Server...

I’ve been spending a lot more time of late looking at how Azure integrates with SharePoint. You may have seen some earlier posts on this. A couple of weeks ago, I attended SharePoint Connections in Las Vegas. I delivered the opening keynote, where we...

Welcome to TechEd Europe 2010 Keynote with Brad Anderson where the theme was cloud, phone, server updates, and more cloud! I just flew into Berlin and after dropping off my bags am now sitting watching the TE EU keynote. There’s a lot of great stuff being...

A few of you have pinged me for more information my SharePoint and Azure talk at PDC. I’ve posted a link to the PDC 2010 SP and Azure video and PDF version of the deck: Recorded SharePoint and Azure Session CS55_SteveFox_PDC_MP4_High_1280x720_2500k.mp4...

Lately, I’ve been exploring Bing Maps as a way to surface SharePoint data within a mapping application. To call Bing Maps a simple mapping application, though, would not be doing it any justice at all. In fact, it’s been a while since I’ve had this much...

Book Supplements I’ve been wanting of time to add some how-to supplements to my Beginning SharePoint 2010 Development book. For those of you starting out, you may have questions about the ‘how’ and sometimes there are errata, bugs or updates from the...

To get started developing for SharePoint 2010, you have a number of options: You can download the IW VM and get started that way. You can see an earlier post on this: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/steve_fox/archive/2010/06/15/rtm-demo-vm-for-sharepoint-amp...

One of the key challenges we face moving forward is how to integrate Windows Phone 7 and SharePoint 2010. In a recent post, Paul  Stubbs has provided some information on a core pattern that helps get over a security hurdle—which is one of the key...

It’s just after 7AM here on the Pacific coast, and if you haven’t heard PDC is here. The campus is abuzz with lots of devs roaming around taking it all in. And the keynote is a couple of hours away. This is a first for Microsoft, and it’s super exciting...

You may have heard the “We’re all in” message, but some of you may be wondering how the cloud applies to Office . The answer is that it applies in many different ways, which I’ll be exploring over the next few weeks and months with you. For example, the...

For those of you working through the exercises, here are a few small things that have been sent to me by the community: Chapter 5 If you get the following error when working through the Excel sample: Make sure that you’re not trying to compile under ...

Thanks to Dan Loker for sending me a mail on this, but it appears that Chapter 11 was missing code. I’ve added the code to a SkyDrive folder, which you can find here: http://cid-40a717fc7fcd7e40.office.live.com/browse.aspx/Beginning%5E_SP%5E_Supplements...

That’s right, you read it correctly…there is a PDC this fall. You can get more information for the event here: http://www.microsoftpdc.com/ . Note that registration will be limited and spaces will surely go quickly as this fall’s PDC will be on campus...

Next week, Girish Raja and I will be attending WPC in Washington, DC ( http://digitalwpc.com/ ). The Worldwide Partner Conference is a 5-day conference that provides you with an opportunity to learn more about many of the technology roadmaps , best practices...

A couple of you have experienced a Web service call error (Unauthorized Exception) in Chapter 2. The exception looks like the following: System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException was caught Actor="" Lang="" Message=Exception of type...

In this blog-post, I’ll walk through how you can create a custom Azure service and then integrate this service with the Business Connectivity Services (BCS), a new feature in SharePoint 2010. The process you’ll follow is: 1. Create the custom Azure service;...

Getting the VM If you’re looking to get up to speed on SharePoint and Office 2010 development, but don’t necessarily want to install everything on the metal you can download the RTM Demo VM: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=751fa0d1...

With TechEd in our recent wake, the next question is what’s next?  One of the biggest partner events is the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, which will be located in Washginton, D.C. from July 11-15. You can get registration and conference...

This past week not only marked another successful TechEd, it marked the release of a few new SharePoint books and collateral. I was pretty excited to finally see Beginning SharePoint 2010 Development   (Wrox) on the shelves, and so far it’s good...

Well, it’s Day Three at TechEd, New Orleans. The pace has been furious and the conversations plenty—all amidst a balmy 85% humidity and great southern hospitality. It’s been great to catch up with many people I haven’t seen in a while and meet some new...

This past Monday morning at TechEd here in New Orleans, Neil Leslie, GM of Developer & Platform Evangelism, kicked off TechEd 2010 with a mini-keynote (also called a foundational session). The session was called "Extending Productivity into the Cloud...

SharePoint and Azure: How They Play Together? Today, I presented a session on Azure and SharePoint—specifically addressing how to integrate the two technologies. SharePoint is not built on Azure, so this session was about how can you take an...

Over the next few months, I’ll be spending some time with my blog investigating and discussing the cloud. Specifically, I’ll be addressing how you can leverage the cloud when building out Office Business Applications and when you’re developing SharePoint...