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Thank You, SharePoint MVPs!

randalli — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:20:00 GMT

The MVP Summit is in full force this week, and the SharePoint Developer Documentation Team would like to take a moment to recognize all the outstanding contributions our SharePoint MVPs have made to MSDN since Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 & Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 shipped.

Here is a list of Visual How-to screencasts, book excerpts, and technical articles we have published with our Most Valuable Publishing partners! The list totals more than 50 pieces of content, with more lined up to publish in the coming months!

I look back over the past year, and I am saddened by the loss of a colleague and friend, Patrick Tisseghem. We all miss him.

MSDN Technical Articles

Technical Articles are one of our most popular content types on MSDN. They are usually scenario-based and walk people end-to-end through a typical developer task, sometimes in a 2- or 3-part article series.

MVP Name	Title and Link	Date Published
Andrew Connell	Approaches to Creating Master Pages and Page Layouts in SharePoint Server 2007	February 2009
	Finding Developer Help for SharePoint Products and Technologies	December 2008
	Implementing a Brand in a SharePoint Server 2007 Publishing Site	November 2008
	Prescriptive Guidance for SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content Management Sites	October 2008
	Creating Custom Timer Jobs in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	April 2008
	Understanding and Creating Customized and Uncustomized Files in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	April 2008
David Mann	Workflow Scalability and Performance in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	February 2009
	Delivering Modular SharePoint Workflow Functionality (Part 1 of 2)	June 2008
Patrick Tisseghem	Development Tools and Techniques for Working with Code in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Part 1 of 2)	June 2007
	Customizing and Branding Web Content Management-Enabled SharePoint Sites (Part 1 of 3)	October 2006
Scot Hillier	Integrating External Document Repositories with SharePoint Server 2007	February 2009
Wouter van Vugt	Creating a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Custom Field by Using the EntityPicker	August 2008

Visual How-to Screencasts

A Visual How-to is a short (about 5 – 10 minute) screencast centered on a How-to task. There is a code sample, a video, an article explaining the code, and links to more information. We look forward to creating more of these in the future and getting more folks involved!

MVP Name	Title and Link	Date Published
Andrew Connell	Automating Solution Package Creation for Windows SharePoint Services by Using MSBuild	April 2008
	Configuring Multiple Authentication Mechanisms with Alternate Access Mappings in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	April 2008
	Adding Code-Behind Files to Master Pages and Content Pages in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	March 2008
	Creating, Deploying, and Debugging Custom Timer Jobs in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	March 2008
	Adding Code-Behind Files to Master Pages and Page Layouts in SharePoint Server 2007	January 2008
	Adding Custom Quick Access Buttons to the Page Editing Toolbar in SharePoint Server 2007	January 2008
Patrick Tisseghem	Creating Workflow Association Pages for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	February 2008
	Using Smart Clients to Communicate with Workflows in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	February 2008
	Customizing Search Results with Custom XSLTs in SharePoint Server 2007	December 2007
	Building Custom Activities for Use in SharePoint Designer 2007	July 2007
	Building Simple Custom Approval Workflows with InfoPath 2007 Forms	July 2007
	Creating Search Queries Programmatically by Using the Search Object Model in SharePoint Server 2007	July 2007
	Creating Search Queries Programmatically by Using the Search Web Service in SharePoint Server 2007	July 2007
	Exposing Enterprise Search in SharePoint Server 2007 by Using Internet Explorer 7 and the Office Research Pane	July 2007
	Creating a Custom Search Page and Tabs in the Search Center of SharePoint Server	April 2007
	Creating and Exposing Managed Properties in the Advanced Search Page of SharePoint Server Enterprise Search	April 2007
	Creating and Exposing Search Scopes in SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Search	April 2007
	Creating Content Sources to Crawl Business Data in SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Search	April 2007
Ted Pattison	Activating Auditing Programmatically for a Single Document Library in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	May 2007
	Activating Auditing Programmatically for a Site Collection in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	May 2007
	Configuring IntelliSense with CAML Files When Developing for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	May 2007
	Creating an Application Page in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	May 2007
	Creating a Custom HttpHandler in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	May 2007
	Creating a Feature for an Entry Control Block Item in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	May 2007
	Creating a Feature for the Site Actions Menu in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	May 2007
	Creating a Solution Package in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	May 2007
	Creating a Visual Studio Project for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	May 2007
	Displaying Data by Using the SPGridView Control in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	May 2007
	Reading Entries from the Audit Log in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	May 2007
	Reading ListId and ItemId from an Application Page in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	May 2007
	Running Commands with Elevated Privileges in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	May 2007
	Writing Custom Entries to the Audit Log in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	May 2007

Book Excerpts

We have a way of publishing one or two chapters from several book publishers, including Microsoft Press and Wrox, among others.

MVP Name(s)	Title and Link	Date Published
John Holliday, John Alexander, Eli Robillard, Brendon Schwartz, Matt Ranlett, J. Dan Attis, Adam Buenz	Chapter 8: Building Personalized Solutions from the book Professional SharePoint 2007 Development	February 2009
Andrew Connell	Chapter 14: Authoring Experience Extensibility from the book Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Sites with Office SharePoint Server 2007	August 2008
Andrew Connell	Chapter 20: Incorporating ASP.NET 2.0 Applications from the book Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Sites with Office SharePoint Server 2007	August 2008
Ted Pattison and Daniel Larson	Chapter 2: SharePoint Architecture (Part 1 of 2) from the book Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	November 2007
Ted Pattison and Daniel Larson	Chapter 3: Pages and Design (Part 1 of 2) from the book Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	November 2007

Call for Content

Want to help contribute? Please post a comment to this entry or start following me on twitter: http://twitter.com/sharepointdev, where you can send direct messages.

Thanks again for all your contributions!
Randall

@sharepointdev: My First Week on Twitter

randalli — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:29:00 GMT

I signed up for a twitter account last week under the alias @sharepointdev: http://twitter.com/sharepointdev.

The inspiration came from an NPR segment about companies using twitter to monitor tweets about their products or brands (e.g., Comcast). I thought about it a while and I came to the conclusion that this was an ideal way for me to monitor forum activity because I often don't have time to read and respond to MSDN Forum postings because of my busy schedule. But with only 140 characters, I can usually point people in the right direction and get them unstuck when they choose to write a post related to "SharePoint" or other keywords I search for and monitor. Having worked with the SharePoint product team for over 5 years, I am also in a unique position where I sometimes know just enough information about a wide variety of issues.

The Verdict
I was really happy with my first week on twitter and what I learned or helped people with. I picked up over 30 followers, and I even got looped into some conversations back and forth related to something that might have otherwise been a source of frustration (e.g., updates and patches) for some of the folks out there looking for help. I am thinking of twitter as an open forum where I can take the pulse of where SharePoint users are asking for guidance.

Here is an overview of where I pointed people over the course of the last week. I saw one issue come up twice (Excel Services), and overall I was able to answer several questions using existing resources on MSDN and TechNet:

@niphal: Here is an Office Online page with an introduction to SharePoint Designer and its features/capabilities: http://tinyurl.com/5k7qe5 about 17 hours ago from web in reply to niphal
@jmMcL: Have you tried creating a new view (do you have permissions to)? What are the current settings of your list? about 22 hours ago from web in reply to jmMcL
@top_book: You can also preview chapters 2 and 3 [of Inside Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 by Ted Pattison] online on MSDN: http://tinyurl.com/5ml9nt 12:50 PM yesterday from web in reply to top_book
@JDWade: We appreciate the feedback and the suggestions; I passed these along to the TechNet site manager and will follow you from now on! 12:36 PM Oct 21st from web in reply to JDWade
@travelingdarren: SharePoint Performance and Capacity Planning Resource Center on TechNet: http://tinyurl.com/5zqc4t 12:10 PM Oct 21st from web in reply to travelingdarren
@JDWade: The Updates Resource Center on TechNet is intended to guide SharePoint IT Pros through updates: http://tinyurl.com/36hlpf 11:56 AM Oct 21st from web in reply to JDWade
@bfgreen: The Excel Services Resource Center on MSDN could give you a starting point: http://tinyurl.com/52mo6a 8:14 AM Oct 21st from web in reply to bfgreen
@pseale: Check out our MSDN article about Creating a Custom Timer Job in SharePoint (written by AC): http://tinyurl.com/3vbe2o 1:35 PM Oct 15th from web in reply to pseale
@TheRecruiterGuy: Here is a showcase of some of the best-implemented WCM sites for SharePoint out there right now: http://tinyurl.com/4dllwq 7:19 AM Oct 15th from web in reply to TheRecruiterGuy
@spleendini: Check out How To Create a Minimal Master Page in SharePoint + the Wiki comments on MSDN: http://tinyurl.com/5kzrou 7:16 AM Oct 15th from web in reply to spleenboy
just published on MSDN: Performing Incremental Crawling with the BDC in MOSS 2007: http://tinyurl.com/3u7em9 2:40 PM Oct 14th from web
@UMLGuy: Here is the 7 Dev projects PDF: http://tinyurl.com/ytvres. And here is a free MOSS VHD you can download: http://tinyurl.com/366tzc. 10:54 AM Oct 13th from web in reply to UMLGuy
@pseale: Here's a great article for working with large lists in SharePoint: http://tinyurl.com/yrv6xd 10:12 AM Oct 13th from web in reply to pseale
@UMLGuy: A good place to start is with the SharePoint Administrator's Companion from MS Press and Bill English: http://tinyurl.com/3luxrk 9:09 AM Oct 13th from web in reply to UMLGuy

All in all, I'm going to continue to monitor any tweets I come across that mention "sharepoint" or other keywords and tags (such as "bdc" or "authentication" or "web parts"), as well as the people I'm following. If you're a SharePoint developer, IT Pro, consultant, or solution provider, feel free to follow me and I'll do the same to keep tabs on what's going on out in the community. We've often got an answer or at least a direction we can point you toward. Also, check out my feed for what's recently been published! http://twitter.com/sharepointdev.