November 2009 - Posts

Channel 9 Interview: Implementing a Silverlight SharePoint WebPart with Visual Studio 2010
25 November 09 09:37 AM

Mike Morton is back at it again , this time showing how easy it is to develop, package and deploy a Silverlight WebPart to SharePoint 2010. He also walks us through the solution, package and file properties available to you in Visual Studio 2010. You'll Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, DevCenter, Channel9, VS2010, SharePoint

Channel 9 Interview: Using the SharePoint Business Data Connectivity Designer in VS 2010
23 November 09 09:33 AM

This time I interview a good friend of mine , Boris Scholl, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Team building tools for SharePoint development. Boris shows off the new Business Data Connectivity designer in Visual Studio 2010 and how it allows you Read More...

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Filed under: DevCenter, Channel9, VS2010, VSTO, SharePoint

Channel 9 Interview: SharePoint Feature and Package Designers in Visual Studio 2010
19 November 09 10:21 AM

In this interview I sit down with Lily Ma, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Team building tools for SharePoint development. Lily shows off the new SharePoint feature and package designers in Visual Studio 2010 and how they make packaging up and Read More...

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Filed under: DevCenter, Channel9, VS2010, VSTO, SharePoint

SF Bay.NET UG Tonight: Create a Custom Outlook Add-In using VSTO
18 November 09 02:23 PM

If you’re in the Bay Area, come on out to downtown SF where Robin will be talking about Outlook Add-ins tonight. Create a custom Outlook Add-In using VSTO When :  Wednesday, 11/18/2009 at 6:30 PM Where : Microsoft San Francisco Office, 835 Market Read More...

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Filed under: VS2008, Community, DevCenter, Office, VS2010, VSTO

Channel 9 Interview: Importing SharePoint Solution Packages (WSP) into Visual Studio 2010
18 November 09 12:47 PM

In this interview I sit down with Saaid Khan, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio team developing tools for SharePoint development. Saaid shows us the WSP Import Wizard in Visual Studio 2010 that allows developers to take SharePoint Solution packages Read More...

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Filed under: DevCenter, Channel9, VS2010, VSTO, SharePoint

Channel 9 Interview: Overview of SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010
16 November 09 03:53 PM

In this interview I catch up with Mike Morton, a Senior Program Manager on the Visual Studio team developing tools for SharePoint development. Mike gives us a great introduction and overview of these tools from the Visual Studio Developer perspective. Read More...

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Filed under: Community, DevCenter, Channel9, VS2010, VSTO, SharePoint

Check out New Features in the MSDN Library Documentation
11 November 09 09:28 AM

There’s some changes coming to the MSDN library and documentation. Kathleen posted about the new views available on the MSDN library which include a Lightweight view , ScriptFree view and a Classic view . She’s also got a short Channel 9 interview with Read More...

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Filed under: DevCenter, Webcast, VS2010

Interop Between VBA and Visual Studio Office Solutions (VSTO)
05 November 09 09:03 PM

Couple weeks ago when I was in Holland speaking at SDC an attendee asked me how he could call methods in an Office solution (VSTO) from VBA functions defined in a document and vice versa. I thought I’d follow up with a post on how to do this, but first Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2008, DevCenter, Article, Office, ADO.NET Data Services, VSTO, VBA

Building Occasionally Connected Smart Clients with WPF
02 November 09 02:57 PM

This month Dev Pro Connections has an article by Milind Lele on using Sync Services in a WPF application: Building Occasionally Connected Smart Clients with WPF With Sync Services and Visual Studio 2008 you can visually design your local data cache and Read More...

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Filed under: VS2008, SQL Server, DevCenter, Article, Data

Halloween Pictures
02 November 09 10:45 AM

On Friday I posted some pictures of my past Halloween costumes . This year I have to say was one of the better years in terms of how easy the costumes were to put together and the great “scary factor”. This year we were werewolves and the only hard part Read More...

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