Steve Fox's OBA Ramblings

I’ve had this question a few times, so I thought I’d post a super-quick blog entry on it. The question is: how do I get images into SharePoint and then leverage them in my Visual Web Part that I’m building in VS 2010? The answer is twofold: 1. Put them...

One of the charters of my team is to make sure that we provide collateral for developers to get up and running with a program called Metro—an early adoption program for ISVs (to sign up for Metro or get more information, you can email metroreq@microsoft...

I’m still trying to get into the whole Tweet thing, so in an attempt to dig into it a little I took a look at the API and found out it’s pretty functional. My version of a Hello World app was having the ability to call the REST Twitter API to update my...

Yesterday, I presented a session on BCS and walked through an end-to-end example. I showed service connection to a data source, created an external content type with both SPD 2010 and VS 2010, showed interactivity with the external list through the new...

It’s been long awaited, but Office and SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 was finally announced today at the PDC keynote. What was announced was the general, public availability of Office and SharePoint so anybody can go and download the bits and get started—for...

This week I was at SharePoint Connections in Vegas and ran through a few sessions on SharePoint Development. I’ve posted the decks here: http://cid-40a717fc7fcd7e40.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/SP%5E_Connections%5E_Decks I will post the code and some...

I participated in a virtual conference this week that was all about SharePoint 2010. I presented a couple of sessions, one on a Developer Roadmap and the other on the Developer Tools. I posted the decks here: http://cid-40a717fc7fcd7e40.skydrive.live...

I did a session this morning that discussed integration between SAP with Office and SharePoint 2010. It was a very well attended session, and I (along with my good friend Juergen Grebe) walked through the different ways in which you can integrate Office...

Fresh off the heels of SPC, I’m in Vienna at the annual SAP TechEd conference. We wanted to attend this conference for a couple of reasons. First, the curtains have lifted on Office and SharePoint 2010 so we can now get out there and show it, talk about...

The Professional Developer Conference (PDC) is quickly approaching, and if you have not registered yet I would encourage you to do so. PDC is about what’s here today in terms of technology, but mostly tries to cover what’s coming. The ‘what’s coming’...

What a week! It was an incredibly busy week what with the opening of the curtains on SharePoint and Office 2010. There was a lot of great press and buzz around the new products, and all attendees that I spoke to were super excited and can’t wait to get...

If you’re looking to get some in-depth information about SharePoint 2010, a current version is available to you online: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd776256.aspx There’s a lot of great information here for you, for example I posted an earlier...

The last couple of days have been crazy here at SPC. The excitement for Office and SharePoint 2010 has continued to swell. I’ve had the opportunity to meet with lots of customers here and actually got a chance to see Huey Lewis and the News on Tuesday...

Today, the release of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 was announced. For those of you who are Office and SharePoint developers, this release of Visual Studio will be huge as it not only has the Office templates you’ve come to know and love, but it also has...

I’m here at a sold-out SharePoint Conference (SPC) – 7,400 attendees, and the buzz in the keynote is crazy. The keynote line-up includes Tom Rizzo, Steve Ballmer and Jeff Teper. In the keynote, Tom gave a great introduction talking about some of the key...

Wow, what a busy time…conference season is right around the corner, and there’s lots of interesting conferences coming up. For example, here is a short-list of conferences that I’ll be hitting over the next few weeks (in chronological order): 1. SharePoint...

The PDC will once again be held this year in Los Angeles, and registration is now open! For those of you who have not been to a PDC, it skews more towards the future-looking and emphasizes deep, technical sessions for the professional developers. There...

Today, MS published a sneak peek for SharePoint 2010, which you can find more information about here: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/sneak_peek/Pages/default.aspx . You can click on the either of the Sneak Peek videos to see what Tom, Richard and...

You can check out more info on how to get up and running on the Silverlight site: http://silverlight.net/getstarted/default.aspx . You can also check out Tim Heuer's blog here: http://timheuer.com/blog/ . He's got some great links on where to get tools...

I was asked a couple of times recently about WCF and SharePoint—i.e. how do you integrate a WCF service with SharePoint that is hosted in IIS? Well, I did a little digging around over the past few weeks to see what was out there and besides finding Sahil...

One of the key things you’ll likely want to do with SharePoint is interact a lot with lists. In earlier posts on this blog, I’ve discussed adding data to a SharePoint list using both custom and native SharePoint services (i.e. services that ship with...

Over the past few months, we’ve received some very positive feedback on the OBA Sample Application Kits that we’ve released. Well, today we release to web the latest in the family of kits, the OBA Sample Application Kit for SAP & Siebel . Included...

Hey gang, Just a quick announcement, if you attended the Office Developer Conference (ODC) last year you may be wondering what happened to it this year? Well, it's going to be subsumed within the SharePoint Conference (SPC), which is happening October...

I recently downloaded the Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and have been playing around with the different features for Office Business Application development. For the public Beta 1, you’ll be limited to the 2007-centric templates (e.g. Excel 2007 Add-in, Word...

Last week, the Visual Studio (VS) 2010 Beta 1 was released to the public. I’m personally very excited about the VS 2010 release because of the additional support for Office and SharePoint development. While you won’t see the SharePoint 2010 project templates...