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Big title for a big user guide! :) This is a great step forward for people starting out with SharePoint development, or for people looking at starting with the VS extensions for SharePoint. Anyone looking to build things like Webparts, Site templates,
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Finally managed to get around to updating my Zune software to the new update. Great to see TV shows in there like Battlestar Galactica and The Office. I really like the Zune Card integration too. Feeling more social already :) It is
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We have just spent a great deal of time head down writing documentation on all sorts of SharePoint protocols. They are split into two groups Front End and Back End. Front end protocols are all the ones that typically talk to a front end web
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Every once in a while I am blown away by something. Not because it is the latest and greatest, but because it does what it does in such a simple and easy to use way... this is one of those things. SharedView is a very nifty little remote application
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We moved into our new house last week and it is a lot bigger than the last. That means lots of vacuum cleaning. So becoming more accustomed to being lazy in my old age ... there was only one thing for it... a Roomba & a Scooba. Floor cleaning robots
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At Mix08 today Hard Rock demo'ed their new web based Silverlight 2.0 application that allows a user to browse (in amazing detail) their catalogue of rock history. ( http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/ ) If you zoom into the middle left of the bigger image
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Scoble recently had a wee cry about a new Microsoft Research project called World Wide Telescope that he saw prior to it being announced. See here: http://scobleizer.com/2008/02/27/what-made-me-cry-microsofts-world-wide-telescope/ Well, today I got a
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Today Alex and I delivered a session about using the VSeWSS toolkit for developing applications on SharePoint. I am going to do a separate post fully detailing the step by step process for building this demo from the ground up ... so stay tuned. If you
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This time for the Heroes happen here campaign. A comic series about tech stories... http://www.microsoft.com/heroeshappenhere/cool-stuff/comic/default.mspx
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The ODC is shaping up to be a great event for SharePoint developers. This year it is on Feb 10-13th in San Jose, CA. I will be there with Alex Malek doing a session on developing SharePoint solutions using the Visual Studio extensions for WSS. There are
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A common thing you might want to include in a SharePoint solution is to include various files that are deployed to the \Template directory. These might be images (\Template\Images) or Aspx pages that you would like put in a folder in the Layouts directory.
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I came across this the other day and thought I was far too geeky to let pass. This tool will let you turn your WiFi capable Windows Mobile device into a Wireless Router that routes to the phones Internet connection! Just like a portable wireless broadband
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For all those people waiting to get their hands on this ... here it is: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936984/ WSS SP1 install: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4191A531-A2E9-45E4-B71E-5B0B17108BD2&displaylang=en MOSS SP1:
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I get lots of comments and emails from people asking about how they can learn to do development on SharePoint. Fair Question! If money is no obstacle then hands on training is by far the best option. You get to learn direct from experts, actually build
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Ryan, Angus & I hit the slopes this weekend for our first day of skiing this winter. Had a great time! Angus carried a small GPS logger the whole time and uploaded our trace. This site combines the trace and Live Maps to give you a reply of the day.
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