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February 2009 - Posts

Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:25 PM

Social Computing with Microsoft SharePoint 2007

Congratulations Matt and Brendon on the release of the book Social Computing with Microsoft SharePoint 2007 !  Looking forward to reading it.
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Monday, February 23, 2009 6:40 PM

Interview with Motus

My friend Keith Brock was interviewed on IT’s Art Mag, talking about what makes Motus unique in the CG industry.  Keith gives a glimpse of what they’ve been up to since my interviews with Motus on Channel9 .  There is also a link to a short
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Monday, February 23, 2009 5:13 PM

The Content Query Web Part, and Working With Lookup Fields in a Custom Web Part

I am helping work on a proof of concept for a customer, and one of the requirements is to display data from a list multiple times throughout the site.  Sweet, I can do that, the Content Query Web Part fits the bill nicely here.  The Content
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Monday, February 23, 2009 10:30 AM

VSTS Webcast Series

There's a fantastic webcast series on Visual Studio Team System that our group is sponsoring.  The content looks incredible.  The sessions are being recorded.  Click the link to watch live at the day and time of the webcast, or click the
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Sunday, February 22, 2009 7:24 AM

Visual Studio Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, v1.3 February 2009 CTP

The February 2009 Community Tech Preview for VSeWSS 1.3 is now available.  Download it here . Community Tech Preview, or CTP, means that the bits still aren’t done yet but we are getting them into your hands so that you can use them and provide feedback. 
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Saturday, February 21, 2009 9:29 AM

Visual Studio 2010: SharePoint Tools

Soma posts on the awesome SharePoint developer support in Visual Studio 2010.  It’s almost cruel, like dangling cool toys in front of a kid and saying “you have to wait.” http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2009/02/19/sharepoint-tools-support-in-visual-studio.aspx
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009 1:05 PM

Free SharePoint Developer Resources

I love to learn by watching videos, seeing how someone else accomplishes a task so that I can replicate that in my own environment. Did you know that there are a ton of resources available for you to learn how to develop using SharePoint? I have been
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Monday, February 16, 2009 7:18 PM

The ROI of Software Made Simple

Josh Holmes has a great post about going the the mattresses to prove ROI for your application.  His post, “ Moving From Cost center to Strategic Partner ”, is well-written and is dead on the money. During my interview process at Microsoft, my interviews
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Thursday, February 12, 2009 6:04 AM

Cloud Services: How Do I videos for developers

I just noticed a free set of “How Do I” videos for Live, Azure, and Microsoft .NET Services .  Oh, this is slick! I have been talking to a number of large customers recently about Microsoft’s cloud initiatives, and there is a growing swell of interest
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Sunday, February 08, 2009 6:55 AM

Cool Mobile App: Microsoft Tag

Just found out about Microsoft Tag from Jeff Blankenburg’s blog .  Microsoft Tag is a cool technology that can link the physical world to the online world.  It runs on multiple phone platforms and only uses the camera in your cell phone. 
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Thursday, February 05, 2009 7:24 PM

Integrating External Document Repositories with SharePoint Server 2007

Just saw a great article arrive on MSDN today… Integrating External Document Repositories with SharePoint Server 2007 .  Instead of trying to migrate content into SharePoint, this article gives a great overview of simply using the SharePoint UI to
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Monday, February 02, 2009 3:46 PM

Getting Started with Visual Studio Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 1.3 (VSeWSS)

I have been working with VSeWSS 1.3 a bit, and ran into a few issues that others might face.  I thought I would write them down somewhere for future reference. No SharePoint Site exists at the specified URL One of the cool things that VSeWSS allows
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Monday, February 02, 2009 11:40 AM

More Community Love for Windows 7

Love to see the great reactions to the Windows 7 beta .  I have been running the beta for about a month as my primary machine, and it seems incredibly stable given its beta status.  I LOVE the new taskbar, the window preview is even nicer than
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