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Paul Andrew

Microsoft Technical Product Manager for the SharePoint Developer Platform
The SharePoint Developer – New Job

I joined the SharePoint Product Management team at Microsoft in late November 2007 and I've been learning lots about software development on the SharePoint Developer Platform. My new job is Sr. Technical Product Manager for SharePoint Developer.

I think this new work will be a lot of fun and I'll be working with some great people. I'm planning to focus on these areas:

  • Getting customer feedback on SharePoint Development
  • Making the SharePoint developer platform more accessible to and easier to get started with for .NET developers
  • Getting more best practice content published on SharePoint Development
  • Speaking at various events on SharePoint Development topics
  • Working with the dev team. I've spent some time already working with the team on VSeWSS 1.1
  • Hanging out on the SharePoint Developer MSDN Forum:
    http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=1203&SiteID=1

If you think there's something we could do better related to SharePoint Developer or a best practice that needs writing up then please make comments through my blog.

I'll still be doing some work with Windows Workflow Foundation because workflow is a pretty big part of SharePoint Development.

Posted: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:35 AM by pandrew

Comments

WF Team Bloggers said:

I joined the SharePoint Product Management team at Microsoft in late November 2007 and I've been learning

# February 20, 2008 1:00 PM

Noticias externas said:

I joined the SharePoint Product Management team at Microsoft in late November 2007 and I've been

# February 20, 2008 1:38 PM

Kevin Daly said:

Congratulations!

Sharepoint development is very tempting (all the cool kids are doing it), but it's hard to get into without being able to do it on a workstation...apart from anything else, some people get funny about installing developer tools on servers.

Virtualisation is one option, but then there's extra OS licences and memory to worry about. Sigh.

A Developer Edition of Sharepoint Services that could be installed on any .NET 3.0 environment would help things along no end (the logic is really the same as for having IIS on workstations).

# February 20, 2008 2:51 PM

Kirk Jackson said:

Congrats Paul! I wondered what you were up to...

Must be time for you to update your blog banner :)

Kirk

# February 20, 2008 6:58 PM

Chip said:

I'd like to say that VSeWSS has made some great strides toward easing the friction that exists for  developers adopting sharepoint. There are two last hurdles for mainstream sharepoint development. The Server OS requirement for development (as Kevin mentioned) and the Code-Beside model.

# February 20, 2008 9:45 PM

pandrew said:

Thanks Kirk, fixed the blog banner.

Hi Kevin and Chip, thanks for the feedback. I've actually heard of these issues already and they're on my list. Some will take a while to improve, but please keep the suggestions coming.

Paul

# February 20, 2008 10:51 PM

X said:

Hi - any recommendations for WF bloggers now you've moved on? :)

# February 21, 2008 4:27 AM

Kanwal said:

Congrats on your placement!   The SharePoint community is looking forward to seeing the great things that come from the SharePoint team!

# February 21, 2008 6:44 AM

Oisin Grehan said:

Please make sure due attention is paid to supporting people who are developing on a 64bit platform. This is only get more painful as people come to realise that MOSS on a 32bit platform does not scale (due to memory constraints) as well as we'd like.

# February 22, 2008 10:57 AM

serge luca said:

So glad to see you working with the sharepoint team !!! You did a good job with the WF team

Serge

# March 2, 2008 11:52 AM

pandrew said:

Hi X,

This is a reasonable place to catch up with WF blogs. http://netfx3.com/roller/default.aspx

Thanks Serge and Oisin,

Yep lots of scope for making an impact in SharePoint Development.  

Regards,

Paul

# March 2, 2008 2:57 PM
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