Contagious Curiosity : SharePoint

SoCalDevGal is heading over to Europe

llangit — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:37:34 GMT

Yup, I am taking a little work trip - leaving shortly for 20 days in Europe. During this time I'll be speaking at TechDays Belgium in Antwerp, TechDays Sweden in Vasteras and more. Although I've been to other European countries in the past, this will be my first trip to both Belgium and Sweden. I'll be taking a bit of a break from blogging, other than to post my slide decks after presenting for this month.

Catch up with my European adventures by following me on facebook or twitter.

Big shout out to my counterpart in Belgium, Microsoft Developer Evangelist Katrien De Graeve (whom I met in person at PDC08 in LA last year) and who was kind enough to get my trip approved.

I have to say the conference logos are pretty cool too - first for Belgium

then for Sweden

Oh, if you are wondering just what topic(s) I am speaking on - here's the list:

1) SQL Server 2008 New Features for .NET Developers

2) SQL Server 2008 SSAS Data Mining

3) Using Kodu to Introduce Programming to Kids

4) Best Practices around DigiGirlz Events

5) WomenBuild SeriousPlay - new directions in Women's Networking events at Microsoft

I also have some tentative talks setup with customers and more. So it will be a busy and fun trip! Immediately after I return, I'll head up to Microsoft's SVC campus in San Jose, to teach some classes for their DigiGirlz event on March 24. Then I'll be heading over to Tuscon to record some presentations on SharePoint and SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence integration for the SSWUG (SharePoint Virtual Conference).

PPS scorecarding & dashboarding now become part of SPS Enterprise

llangit — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:08:52 GMT

The headline: "PerformancePoint scorecarding and dashboarding capabilities will now become part of SharePoint Enterprise CAL and available to customers who are on SharePoint SA. This means that customers who want to deploy PerformancePoint can do so today at no additional cost. "

Read the details on the SharePoint blog.

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : Microsoft Business Intelligence strategy update and SharePoint

SharePoint Web 2.0 FireStarter - Live Meeting Recordings

llangit — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:15:01 GMT

If you missed the live event in Seattle or via the Live Meeting, catch the recordings here.

Veni, Vidi, Velcro... : SharePoint Web 2.0 FireStarter - Live Meeting Recordings

SharePoint Developer Resources

llangit — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:48:10 GMT

New SharePoint Developer website - check it out!

Do Less. Get More. Develop on SharePoint.

Also, get the VS 2008 WSS 3.0 templates from here

SharePoint in Web 2.0 Fire Starter- Live Meeting

llangit — Wed, 28 May 2008 19:49:00 GMT

On June 11 fro 8:30 am PST to 5: 00 pm PST, my colleague, Mithun Dhar is hosting a SharePoint FireStarter event in Seattle. This content is targeted at .NET and SharePoint developers.

Also, for the first time for the FireStarter brand, we are making all content available via Live Meeting LIVE from the presentation in Seattle. So many of you have asked me for more SharePoint content - SIGN UP to attend the Live Meeting now! Below is the agenda for the day.

AGENDA

8:30 am – 9:00 am Introduction to day Mithun Dhar

9:00 am – 10:00 am Whirlwind SharePoint on Visual Studio - VSeWSS Paul Andrew

10:15 am – 11:15 am Silverlight on SharePoint Steve Fox

11:15 am – 12:15 pm Web Parts on SharePoint John Durant

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Web Services on SharePoint Paul Stubbs

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Workflow on SharePoint Eilene Hao

3:15 pm – 4:15 pm Event Handlers on SharePoint Chris Johnson

4:15 pm – 5:00 pm Page Branding on SharePoint Paul Andrew

Register for LIVE MEETING participation for SharePoint in Web 2.0 Fire Starter- Live Meeting

SharePoint Developer Webcast series

llangit — Sat, 17 May 2008 04:17:00 GMT

**Updating to fix broken links**

Register for the SharePoint Introduction for .NET developers webcast series. In this 10-part series, you will receive practical technical information from Robert Bogue & Andrew Connell, SharePoint MVPs. The series runs every Tues/Wed from May 20 to June 18, 9 am - 10 am PST.

Use this calendar view to find and register for webcasts, you must register for each one by clicking on the link in the calendar to register.

20-May-08 - Web Parts
21-May-08 - Data Lists,
27-May-08 - Silverlight and SharePoint
28-May-08 - Using Event Handlers
3-Jun-08 - Page Branding
4-Jun-08 - Workflows
10-Jun-08 - Web Services
11-Jun-08 - Page Navigation
17-Jun-08 - User Management
18-Jun-08 - Custom Content Types

Silverlight for SharePoint Blueprint

llangit — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:59:35 GMT

SharePoint Developer? Have you seen this yet? Fun stuff - enjoy.

Silverlight for SharePoint Blueprint

SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard

llangit — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:03:32 GMT

During my talk today on SharePoint for Developers, the most common question was 'how do I move items from one environment to anther one (i.e. dev to production, etc...)?'. It looks like this tool (which I have not yet tested), might just do the trick.

I'd be interested to know your thoughts on how well this works.

Also, Chris has written a couple of entries on the concept of features in SharePoint. He's also written about 'ghosting', which was another question asked today.

Enjoy!

Chris O'Brien's blog: Introducing the SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard

SharePoint Developer Education Day in Palo Alto

llangit — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 07:20:21 GMT

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SharePoint Developer Education Day Deck

FAQ link page here http://blogs.msdn.com/socaldevgal/pages/sharepoint-2007-developer-resources.aspx

Education Day - SharePoint for Developers in NorCal on Feb 16

llangit — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:23:08 GMT

I'll be presenting a full-day seminar on SharePoint for Developers in Palo Alto on Feb 16th (from 9am to 4pm). This is hosted by the Bay.NET UG. I am looking forward to seeing interested .NET and SharePoint developers there!

All about SharePoint Search for Developers

llangit — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:51:01 GMT

As I prepare for yet another talk I will give on SharePoint for Developers, I found this cool site devoted to explaining the intricacies of SharePoint Search.

I think one of the reasons I enjoy working with SharePoint so much, is that I literally discover a new capability nearly every time I work with it, and that's just heaven for this curious one. Why do like it? I'd be interested to know.

SHAREPOINTSearch.com - SharePoint Focused Enterprise Search Community Site

Caling all SharePoint Developers - Register for a cool event in LA on Jan 26-27 (other cities too!)

llangit — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 02:30:00 GMT

A few months ago, we held our fist first "Sleepless" event in New York City, which had been billed as the Ultimate SharePoint Weekend and organized by Infusion Development, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Here's the synopsis and promo video for that event.

Based on the tremendous success of the NYC event, we have partnered with Infusion to call on all insomniacs, who are Office and/or SharePoint developers, to apply to one of six upcoming Sleepless events happening in the following U.S. cities:

Washington D.C. and Atlanta (GA): January 19-20
Dallas (TX) and Los Angeles (CA): January 26-27
Mountain View (CA) and Chicago (IL): February 2-3

The events will feature:

Training from Infusion's top trainers, SharePoint MVPs, and Microsoft SharePoint product team members
A mystery game show with exciting prizes
An overnight (literally!) application development competition that will be judged
An all expense paid trip for the winning team to San Jose (CA) for the U.S. National Championship Sleepless event at the Microsoft Office System Developer 2008 Conference

So, if you think you've got mad dev skills and can "bring it" to collaborate and compete with others like you, then apply now before you take off for the year-end holidays! The deadline for applications is January 6, 2008.

SharePoint (WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007) SP1 released today

llangit — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:46:59 GMT

In case you missed it - download from the link below

SharePoint Products and Technologies Service Pack 1 Resource Center

MSDN geekSpeak - whole 'lotta shows for Dec 2007/Jan 2008

llangit — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 19:51:53 GMT

We've got great guest experts - join us live Wednesdays from 12 to 1pm PST for the virtual chalktalk - geekSpeak. If you can't make the live show, catch recorded shows at http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/geekSpeak.

Dec12 - Brian Loesgen - BizTalk Adapters

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032359319&Culture=en-US

Dec19 - Shaun Walker - DotNetNuke

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032359088&Culture=en-US

Jan 2 - Michele Leroux Bustamante - CardSpace – Why should you care? Who’s using it today and how?

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032362458&Culture=en-US

Jan 9 - Kevin Goff - SQL Server 2008 Programming for Application Developers

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032362462&Culture=en-US

Jan 16 - Kate Gregory - The Vista bridge for .NET programmers

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032362711&Culture=en-US

Jan 23 - Paulo Morgado - The Web client software factory in action

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032362714&Culture=en-US

Jan 30 - Jim Wilt - Best Practices for Private Security from a Public, Anonymous WSS 3.0 Site

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032362721&Culture=en-US

SoCal MSDN events for Web Developers - slide deck and links

llangit — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:26:00 GMT

Presentations given in Irvine and Riverside, CA - here's the deck and links for more information about Visual Studio 2008 enhancements for web developers, Astoria data services, and Silverlight and AJAX working together in custom controls.

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Some good Entity Framework and Astoria reference links

http://blogs.msdn.com/erickt/archive/2007/05/03/entity-framework-for-dbas.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/astoriateam/archive/2007/08/31/compatibility-heads-up-prototype-production-code.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/astoriateam/archive/2007/09/09/design-feedback-requested.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/astoriateam/archive/2007/09/21/uri-format-part-1-addressing-resources-using-uri-path-segments.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/astoriateam/archive/2007/09/27/astoria-data-sources-and-system-layering.aspx

Silverlight

Core Silverlight area
www.Silverlight.net
Game in 1.0- shows Javascript, custom controls, communicating with web service, more http://www.codeproject.com/silverlight/SilverlightGame.asp
Silverlight 1.1 development example - complete - controls, javascript, web service, downloader class, work-around for cross-domain data calls, more
http://www.codeproject.com/silverlight/SLFun.asp
Calling WCF service from Silverlight
http://msmvps.com/blogs/luisabreu/archive/2007/06/12/calling-a-wcf-service-from-your-silverlight-application.aspx
XAML control example source code
http://quickstarts.asp.net/Futures/Silverlight/xaml.aspx
Media control example source code
http://quickstarts.asp.net/Futures/Silverlight/media.aspx
Video Control - using Silverlight and LINQ
http://www.vertigo.com/videoshow.aspx
Silverlight error codes explained
http://exdream.no-ip.info/blog/2007/07/20/SilverlightErrorCodesExplained.aspx
IIS config for Silverlight hosting
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/479.aspx
Media Encoding - webinar on 12/4:
http://blogs.msdn.com/synergist/archive/2007/11/27/silverlight-media-encoding-q-a-with-ben-waggoner.aspx

Explanation of custom 'Slide Show' dynamic XAML control, interacting with custom javascript
http://www.nikhilk.net/Entry.aspx?id=163