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St. Louis Day of .NET Recap

mattbremer — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 09:28:10 GMT

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 community driven developer event ever held in St. Louis and I hope it is only the beginning.

I thought the organizers did a great job making the event approachable by beginning each day with “Jump Start” sessions. These sessions were designed to provide developers an introduction to technologies they were unfamiliar with but wanted to learn. I presented the “Jump Start: SharePoint Development” sessions and received good feedback from those that attended. I approached these sessions from the perspective of a .NET developer new to SharePoint and that seemed to resonate with the attendees.

My other session covered the SharePoint developer experience. In this session I talked about the current challenges SharePoint developers encounter and demonstrated how utilizing tools can help you become a more efficient developer today. I then finished the session by previewing how SharePoint development will become a first class citizen with the release of SharePoint 2010 and VisualStudio 2010 showing the screen shots Microsoft made public at the Worldwide Partner Conference.

I had a great time at the event and am grateful to the organizers for their efforts and for allowing me the opportunity to speak once again. I cannot wait for next year and am confident the organizers will improve upon what is already becoming a must attend event for the region.

Slides from My Sessions:

Jump Start: Share Point Development

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SharePoint Developer Experience Present & Future

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Update: STSDev 1.4 has been released and appears to offer a lot of new functionality comparable to WSPBuilder as well as resolved a number of the issues in 1.3 I discussed during my session. Thanks to the attendees in my SharePoint Developer Experience Present & Future session that brought this release to my attention. You can download STSDev 1.4 here.

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St. Louis Day of .NET 2009

mattbremer — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:32:59 GMT

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.

I will be presenting the SharePoint Development Jump Start sessions each morning where I will show .NET developers how to begin developing solutions in SharePoint and provide some resources to assist them in this endeavor. In addition, I will be presenting a session entitled “SharePoint Developer Experience Present and Future” where I will show developers how to take advantage of available tools and techniques to help them be a more efficient SharePoint developer. I will also talk about the roadmap Microsoft has unveiled for SharePoint development in Visual Studio 2010.

You can learn more about St. Louis Day of .NET at http://www.stlouisdayofdotnet.com. Reserve your spot soon as this event is sure to be in demand.

Possibly Presenting at Kansas City's SharePoint Saturday in February

mattbremer — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:38:43 GMT

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.aspx

Speaking at St. Louis SharePoint User Group January Meeting

mattbremer — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:02:00 GMT

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 how to use the Data View Web Part connected to the SharePoint search web service to aggregate content across site collections without code and still respect your list and site security. I hope to see you there.

Speaking at St. Louis Day of .NET

mattbremer — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 05:03:26 GMT

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 say hi if you are attending.

St. Louis SharePoint User Group Meeting for May

mattbremer — Sat, 10 May 2008 18:11:00 GMT

The St. Louis SharePoint user group is having their bi-monthly May meeting Tuesday, May 13 at 8:30 am in the Microsoft office. Visit the STLSUG site and register to attend if you are interested and have not already. The group will be presenting best practices on how to upgrade to SP1 for MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 in the first session and tips on enabling AJAX support in the second. If you are in the St. Louis area, interested in MOSS/WSS and are not already a member then what are you waiting for? Many dedicated professionals work hard to share their MOSS and WSS experience with the community and plan these meetings. It is also worth mentioning that Microsoft provides the requisite free breakfast and plenty of swag at the meetings. No self respecting technology organization would not provide free food and t-shirts! Sign up now!