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Video Link - http://channel9.msdn.com/po... At PDC this year, our team spoke to Glenn Berry of NewsGator Technologies, an RSS platform company, about their work with Microsoft development technologies. This is a great video about Sharepoint, Silverlight and SQL 2008, shot by Warren Wilbee. Definitely worth checking out. Thanks for checking out this post! Cheers, Murray Gordon ISV Architect Evangelist Microsoft Corporation My Blog @ MSDN My Blog @ GeeksWithBlogs...
With several successful Microsoft BizSpark Incubation Weeks (Win7 Boston, Win7 Reston, CRM Reston, CRM Boston, Win 7 Irvine, Mobility Mountain View,), we are pleased to announce Microsoft BizSpark Incubation Week for Windows Azure at Atlanta, GA during week of 9th Nov’09. The current economic downturn is putting many entrepreneurs under increasing pressure, making it critical to find new resources and ways to reduce costs and inefficiencies. Microsoft BizSpark Incubation Week for Windows Azure is...
The October Service Update for Microsoft Online Services includes several new features and enhancements designed to improve the service experience for both administrators and users. The Service Update is currently being deployed into production data centers. Many of these service enhancements are the result of customer and partner feedback. The following features and capabilities are included in the October Service Update: Bulk Activation of Users PowerShell commandlets will be added to streamline...
I just posted a new screencast called “SharePoint Guidance for ISV Developers” You can watch it here, or go directly to the Screencast.com link at http://www.screencast.com/t... Here’s a quick abstract about the screencast: With the growing presence of SharePoint 2007, more and more developers are looking to use SharePoint as an application development platform. Available guidance is provided by many sources and can often seem contradictory. We provide architects and developers with some...
Just read a great post from Doug Ware on how to use Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) on Amazon EC2. This is a very compelling and cost effective solution. Once SharePoint Services are publically available in the Windows Azure Platform, I’m guessing Doug will consider a move. Awesome how-to Doug! Here’s the link to Doug’s original post: Windows SharePoint Services on Amazon EC2 Windows SharePoint Services on Amazon EC2 - eLumenotion Blog Thanks for checking out this post! Cheers, Murray Gordon ISV...
I just found out from Todd Fine that Wintellect has released three SharePoint courses. Nice work guys! I know the guys at Wintellect have been working hard on these. Here are the details: The Great SharePoint Adventure An intense exploration of developing with all aspects of Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) including Forms, Services, and Report Center. Developing Solutions with SharePoint Server 2007 Learn the development opportunities with Microsoft’s...
Here's the complete list of sessions from PDC and my personal favorites. You can find all the recordings of these sessions at www.microsoftpdc.com. Here's my personal favorites: Windows Azure (Hosted ASP, Workflow, Silverlight, RAW / Azure Storage) A Lap Around Windows Azure (ES16) - 0:46 Slides | WMV-HQ | WMV | Zune A Lap Around the Azure Services Platform (BB01) - 1:12 Slides | WMV-HQ | WMV | Zune Live and Mesh (Sync, Feeds, Resources, Contacts, etc.) A Lap around the Live Framework and Mesh Services...
Congrats to guys at Microsoft's Enterprise Search Group. According to Gartner, Microsoft is now the leader in Enterprise Search. You can check out the report at http://mediaproducts.gartne... Kudos for all the hard work across Enterprise Search Group spanning Search Server Express, SharePoint and FAST ESP. Here's a screenshot of the Magic Quadrant. Not Microsoft is in the top right quandrant, commonly referred to as the magic quadrant. Microsoft combines...
Great post on custom SharePoint caching with SharePoint file dependencies by Vincent Rothwell. » SharePoint caching and CacheDependency Thanks for checking out this post! Cheers, Murray Gordon ISV Architect Evangelist Microsoft Corporation http://blogs.msdn.com/MurrayG...
There's a great article that Andrew Connell recently published that's worth a read, if you touching SharePoint currently or will be in the near future. The article, Prescriptive Guidance for SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content Management Sites, addresses some common things you should keep in mind in planning, architecting, designing and implementing your Publishing sites. Here's a summary on what the article is all about: In Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft has taken the best concepts...
I read a great article on SharePoint at the Software Development Times on the Web (SDTimes) website. There were some great quotes. I thought Paul Andrew from the SharePoint Product Team gave a great perspective on SharePoint, where's it's been and where it's going. It's worth a read. Here's a couple quotes I really liked: Microsoft's Paul Andrew said the company had not anticipated SharePoint’s popularity in the development community. “When [SharePoint] first came out, things were not scaled for...
Great new downloads for SharePoint developers at the MSSharePointDeveloper site. MSSharePointDeveloper site or "introduction to SharePoint Development site" has been around for a few months now. It's a great resources for developers that are looking to get into SharePoint development. Here's the new stuff you can find there. The VM's have been updated to Visual Studio 2008, which is awesome! Downloadable WSS Dev VPC Image Updated to Visual Studio 2008 (previously Visual Studio 2005). Smaller download...
PDC 2008 is right around the corner. If you've taken a look at the session list, you will be psyched to see that there are some great SharePoint sessions. Here's the list of sessions that Paul Andrew, Technical Product Manager for the SharePoint Developer Platform, posted. There are four awesome SharePoint sessions that will be key to hit when you are there: SharePoint Online: Extending your Service by Troy Hopwood SharePoint 2007: Advanced Async Workflow Messaging FAST: Building Search-Driven Portals...
Quick Summary I attended the Atlanta .NET User Group meeting tonight. Need to find out about local developer events? FYI... You can find out when all the local (greater Atlanta) Microsoft related user groups are happening at the Atlanta .NET Regular Guys website. You can also find out about local developer events at the Community Megaphone (Code Camps and Roadshows and Webcasts). Very easy to subscribe to an RSS feed of local events. Doug Ware, the speaker, is the founder of eLumenotion Training...
I recently had a couple ISV's that wanted to leverage Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS) together to implement their own internal CodePlex (www.codeplex.com). My ISV's wanted to be able to share code between disparate development groups, have discussions, and ultimately drive reuse of valuable solutions to software related problems. CodePlex is great for the community, but it's not targeted at users within an organization. Being that CodePlex is implemented...
Here another great download from Microsoft! Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions Version 1.1. These are tools for developing custom SharePoint applications. They include Visual Studio project templates for Web Parts, site definitions, and list definitions. They also have a stand-alone utility program called the SharePoint Solution Generator. If you are working with SharePoint, this tool is a must for you...
Here's some blogs and sites on SharePoint that I browsed recently. Blogs: Arpan Shah's SharePoint Blog Enterprise Search Blog Get the 'Point - tips for SharePoint end users Joel Oleson's SharePoint Blog Lawrence Liu's SharePoint Blog Notes from the field SharePoint Designer Team Blog SharePoint Team Blog Community Sites: SharePoint Community Portal SharePoint Sites: SharePoint on office.microsoft.com SharePoint on www.microsoft.com...
I found a great Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 hardware sizing tool on HP's website. Here's the link (http://h71019.www7.hp.com/... Here's the direct download The page is HP ProLiant Sizer for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Here are the details about the tool: The HP ProLiant Sizer for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is an automated tool that provides a quick and consistent methodology to determine a "best-fit" server for your individual...
Here’s the quick list of things I love to research and work on… Mainframe Integration to .NET IBM 3270 and IBM 5250 mainframe Attachmate Verastream Host Integration (programmatic integration technologies) IBM Bridge integration leveraging Attachmate’s Data Bridge technologies Legacy Database Migration IMS to Relational VSAM to Relational Enterprise N-Tier Systems Remoting Web Services Enterprise Services Distribution Systems Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) Order Management System...
New IDE Features in Visual Studio 2005 IntroductionTechnology evolves along with the need of people using the technology. Same is the case with Visual Studio. Visual Studio 2005 aims to simplify the development process thereby adding many new features to simplify the overall development experience. This article aims to discuss all major IDE related changes in Visual Studio 2005.Productivity featuresThe first time that you start Visual Studio, it asks to make a selection from a list of predefined...
Updated I found this great post on John Galloway's blog about compressing Microsoft Virtual PC *.vhd files. You can find the original post at the following link ([VPC] Compressing VHD files [VPC] Compressing VHD files). The problem John discusses is one I think we have all found to be true. We have definitley struggled with this one for a while. Our solution has been to use WinRAR to create a multiple file executable. That way if we are too large, then atleast we can break the unzip onto a couple...
How to modernize mainframe 3270 applications? Without throwing away your investments... I have recently been faced with an Integration and Deployment dilemma with one of our customers. The customer is a multi-billion dollar national distribution organization, with facilities around the country. They are currently running our Control I Order Management System on IBM 3270 mainframe. They were initially interested in implementing our Control II version of the software that leverages a relational database...