The second installment of the BCS Team Channel is now live! Juan Balmori Labra takes us on a tour of how you can surface external data in Outlook 2010 as Contacts, Appointments and Posts. The next video will show you how external data is taken into SharePoint...

With TechDays Montreal wrapped up – and yes, I’ll post photos from the actual conference soon – it’s time for me and Damir to pack up our stuff, board the Ford Flex and head on home. As I write this, we’re on Highway 401, just about 100 kilometres east...

Chapter site : http://Mem-PASS.org Registration : to join our group, please register by visiting the UGSS website .   Use the "Access Code": MEM-PASS-Member .  If not joining, email  Dan.Evans@mem-pass.org or Alvin.Ramard@mem-pass.org...

Many of you might have programmatically created the fields in the list or Site (Site Columns) using the SharePoint object model. As long as you are creating the field based on the OOB field types then it’s just a cake walk like follows : (The code snippet...

One of the many things I will be covering in this blog will be the Team Foundation Server APIs and the functionality they offer.  The first example of this will be the new TFS Impersonation API that is new in TFS 2010. Disclaimer: The code presented...

The "Site Action" menu items in the SharePoint are rendered by the "CustomAction" feature framework. The story remains same untill the "Publishing Infrastructure Feature" is activated... When the publishing feature is activated...

Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) shipped with a new feature for web users called Web Slices. You can l earn more about web slices here. Essentially it lets you add enhanced links to your favorite bar that allow you to preview snippets of content from websites...

SharePoint Rendering Templates All the rendering Templates for the List are defined in the defaulttemplates.ascx in the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\CONTROLTEMPLATES folder. This defaulttemplates.ascx...

Note: I apologize in advance if this first post seems unorganized. There is a lot of material to cover and I couldn’t find a really good way to order the topics. Hang in there and hopefully it will start making sense. In order to help everyone get up...

I spoke on Windows Workflow in .NET 4.0 at the Tulsa TechFest , and Shawn Weisfeld recorded my talk for INETA Live.  You can access it at http://www.drowningintechnicaldebt.com/ShawnWeisfeld/archive/2009/11/15/windows-workflow-in-.net-4.0-by-jennifer-marsman-tulsa.aspx...

Hey I knew how to create custom site definition and created custom site definitions for a top level team site and a custom site definitions for Custom Serach Centre and the documents centre. Hurray !!! But how can i integrate all these three definitions...

I have been a big proponent of shipping services into production more frequently and conducting more testing on the code once it is in production. Those of us that support this methodology tend to call it TiP (Testing in Production). Find links to previous...

One of the most popular requests around the Business Data Catalog (BDC) in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is for additional tooling support. Business Connectivity Services (BCS) is the evolution of BDC, so for this release we have made big investments...

We’ll be posting one project each month but here is the Coding4Fun booth at PDC 2009!  You can even view the Iron Bartender challenge at GeekFest as well! Overall Recap of each project Iron Bartender!...

  We’re happy to announce the Beta release of Microsoft Outlook Hotmail Connector 14.0 (previously called Outlook Connector) in parallel with the Outlook 2010 Beta. Why use the Outlook Hotmail Connector? If you have been using Outlook Connector 12.1,...

I’ve been writing one off methods that apparently are handled quite well for a few things in the type System.Web.VirtualPathUtility. For example, if you just want the page name or the extension, you have this utility to quickly get that from the current...

One of the long waited features of Silverlight was Web Camera and Microphone support. This feature was welcomed with great enthusiasm and passion when Silverlight 4 Beta was unveiled at the Professional Developer's Conference (PDC) last November. This...

The one near the top is completely valid (click for ginormous image).  ...

This blog introduces the CLR Performance Test Team which plays a pivotal role in enhancing the performance experience of the customers of the runtime and framework. Mission Statement: To understand our customers and their expectations and communicate...

Earlier in the year, BESA reported that teachers confidence with using ICT had fallen by 10%. Which sounds dramatic, and was described by some writers as ‘alarming’. But is it? Well, here’s the data for the last 11 years – from research done by the old...

Microsoft has released the November 2009 update for the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online E-mail Router which includes the support for Microsoft Exchange Online. This blog covers step by step instructions to setup the Microsoft Dynamics CRM E-mail Router...

How difficult is it to create a single server (ATDT) Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 image, once you have access to a Rangers Virtualization factory? Well, judge by yourself by looking at the step-by-step guide which I extracted...

A brilliant slideshow from Wired - Cover versions: albums re-imagined as Penguin Classics . This is my favourite – Unknown Pleasure from Joy Division. Though Technique from New Order and The White Room from KLF run a close second. tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2009/12/04/albums-re-imagined-as-penguin-classics.aspx';...

Problem There may be some times where you will see this message when developing an application for Windows Azure.  The message will look like: There is not enough space on the disk. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution...

Recently, a collection of individuals (notorganizations), amongthem being industry luminaries such as Grady Booch, DavidChappell, Anne ThomasManes etc., came together to create a set of values andprinciples, to ensurethat the application of Service-oriented...