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The St. Louis Day(s) of .NET was a great success. This year the event expanded to two full days of content. Over 500 people attended over 65 sessions presented by subject matter experts and Microsoft MVPs throughout the region. This is by far the largest
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Today I noticed a billboard for a local hospital advertising the use of Twitter to alert followers about current ER wait times. I thought this was a very clever and practical use of Twitter and it left me pondering other ways brick and mortar businesses
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On a recent project I had a requirement to develop a search application for a specific subset of content within SharePoint. By creating managed properties for the site columns of my content type and then consuming them as properties in the advanced search
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I will once again be speaking at the St. Louis Day of .NET conference. This year the event has grown and the conference will offer two full days of sessions on Friday, August 28, 2009 and Saturday, August 29. 2009 at the Ameristar Casino Conference Center
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In my session at SharePoint Saturday Ozarks I promised a blog with links to additional resources and the code snippets used in my demo. I will also hopefully have a screencast of my demo completed and hosted at http://endusersharepoint.com in the coming
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I received confirmation today that the rumors and suspected April Fools’ hoax regarding SharePoint Designer becoming available via free download are in fact true. Below is the customer ready announcement directly from Microsoft: “One of the key aspects
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Previously I had posted the SharePoint product group's explanation as to why VSeWSS 1.2 did not provide 64-bit support. I am happy to report that the product group announced this morning that VSeWSS 1.3 CTP includes 64-bit support. This incremental release
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Going to give my talk on aggregating content across site collections using search without writing code. Should be a great event . Any suggestions for fun things to do in KC with a family in February are appreciated. http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/kc/Pages/default.asp
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I will be presenting at the St. Louis SharePoint User Group meeting January 13, 2008 . The talk will cover how to aggregate content across site collections without writing custom code or purchasing a third party solution. In this session you will learn
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I'll be presenting at St. Louis Day of .NET tomorrow on Live Services and Mesh at the Center for the Application of Information Technology (CAIT) at Washington University in St. Louis. Looks like quite a few people will be there. Stop and
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Typemock are offering their new product for unit testing SharePoint called Isolator For SharePoint, for a special introduction price. it is the only tool that allows you to unit test SharePoint without a SharePoint server. To learn more click here . The
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The big announcement at PDC 2008 this morning was the CTP launch of Windows Azure. Microsoft bills this as an OS for the cloud. This will revolutionize the way applications are architected but I wonder if enterprises will be willing to cede control of
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Tomorrow I will leave for Los Angeles for PDC 2008. I will be blogging from the conference in real time to discuss all of the exciting sessions I plan on attending. I also have a few posts queued up around my recent work with SharePoint search. One will
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The Patterns & Practices group has released a Codeplex project on SharePoint development best practices and guidance . This is a very comprehensive guide and will eventually be released to MSDN. The team is asking for feedback and has released it
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With the recent release of VSeWSS 1.2 I have had a number of customers inquire as to why Microsoft does not provide support for 64-bit platforms. I wondered this myself as our prescribed guidance to users is to run MOSS and WSS 3.0 on 64-bit platforms.
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