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Water Cooler Interview with Jeff Becraft from AT&T [Water Cooler Interview with Jeff Becraft from AT&T]

Kirk Evans — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:30:00 GMT

Host Kirk Evans talks with Jeff Becraft from AT&T Hosting & Application Services about the hosting services that AT&T provides, why customers should take a serious look at hosting in the cloud, and what features of SharePoint 2010 interest him as a hosting provider. We had a great time at the SharePoint Conference 2009, and @JeffBecraft demonstrated his mad Twitter skillz, using it to take great notes at the sessions.

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Water Cooler Interview with Tom Rizzo [Water Cooler Interview with Tom Rizzo]

Kirk Evans — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:04:00 GMT

Kirk Evans interviews Tom Rizzo, Senior Director for SharePoint. In this interview, we discuss some of the announcements that were made in the keynote, developer tools, options for hosting on premise or in the cloud, and we discuss SharePoint 2010 and the roadmap for .NET 4. This was a great interview, Tom is a very energetic speaker.

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Water Cooler Interview with Arpan Shah [Water Cooler Interview with Arpan Shah]

Kirk Evans — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:04:00 GMT

Host Kirk Evans talks with Arpan Shah, Director for SharePoint at Microsoft. In this interview, we discuss a bit of web content management and using SharePoint 2010 for public facing internet sites. We talk about the implications of Azure for storage, and discuss the developer features that were announced this week. I had a great time doing this interview, I hope you enjoy it!

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Water Cooler Interview with Tom Resing on the BDC [Water Cooler Interview with Tom Resing on the BDC]

Kirk Evans — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:56:00 GMT

Host Kirk Evans talks with Tom Resing about using the Business Data Catalog in SharePoint 2007. Tom has been doing some very interesting work with the BDC, including surfacing geocoded data through BDC. Tom is also organizing the SharePoint Saturday San Antonio event to be held Saturday, November 14th 2009 in San Antonio, Texas. This is a free event, you should check it out (especially since I will be presenting there on the new Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010!)

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Water Cooler Interview with Jeff Deverter from Rackspace [Water Cooler Interview with Jeff Deverter from Rackspace]

Kirk Evans — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:36:00 GMT

Host Kirk Evans talks with Rackspace SharePoint Architect Jeff Deverter. I had my first experience with Rackspace seeking a quote for hosting a SharePoint solution, and I was blown away by their customer service and depth of knowledge. I had to find out more about this awesome company and the folks behind it. I met Jeff at SharePoint Saturday Dallas, he is a very entertaining and knowledgeable speaker. If you have a chance to catch him presenting, I highly recommend it.

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Water Cooler Interview with Eric Shupps [Water Cooler Interview with Eric Shupps]

Kirk Evans — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:12:00 GMT

Host Kirk Evans talks with the SharePoint Cowboy, SharePoint MVP Eric Shupps. In this interview, Eric discusses the use of SharePoint as an application platform and we discuss the use of TDD within application frameworks. We also discuss how Visual Studio 2010 and its SharePoint integration will significantly lower the bar for developers starting out with SharePoint.

I found this interview particularly relevant as I will be presenting on SharePoint Development Best Practices at the SharePoint Conference 2009, covering many of these same topics.

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Water Cooler Interview with Shane Young [Water Cooler Interview with Shane Young]

Kirk Evans — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:00:00 GMT

Join us at The Water Cooler as host Kirk Evans interviews SharePoint MVP Shane Young. In this episode, we learn about the choices admins make when installing SharePoint, we hear several tips on how to increase performance, and we subject you to a really bad cow joke.

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Water Cooler Interview with Doug Ware and Brendon Schwartz [Water Cooler Interview with Doug Ware and Brendon Schwartz]

Kirk Evans — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:55:00 GMT

In our first episode of The Water Cooler show, host Kirk Evans interviews Doug Ware and Brendon Schwartz. We discuss the question, "Does every SharePoint installation require a developer?"

Watch for more episodes on The Water Cooler show!

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Water Cooler Demo - SharePoint Visual Studio workflows for escalations [Water Cooler Demo - SharePoint Visual Studio workflows for escalations]

Kirk Evans — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:36:00 GMT

Our first episode of The Water Cooler Demo show, the show focused on all things Office related. In this episode, Kirk Evans demonstrates how to create a SharePoint state machine workflow using Visual Studio 2008 that accomodates escalations and timeouts.

Got any suggestions for future episodes? Tell us in the comments below!

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SharePoint Saturday Dallas - The Afternoon [SharePoint Saturday Dallas - The Afternoon]

Kirk Evans — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:58:00 GMT

Come take a peek as we wrap up the day at SharePoint Saturday Dallas, and check out the activity on Twitter at http://search.twitter.com/search?q=spsdallas.

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SharePoint Saturday Dallas - The Morning [SharePoint Saturday Dallas - The Morning]

Kirk Evans — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:40:00 GMT

Come take a peek at some of the morning activity at SharePoint Saturday Dallas, and follow the activity on Twitter in real time at http://search.twitter.com/search?q=spsdallas.

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Media Business Intelligence - Decentrix and BIAnalytix - Part 2 [Media Business Intelligence - Decentrix and BIAnalytix - Part 2]

Kirk Evans — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:52:00 GMT

In this episode, host Kirk Evans talks with Dr. Michael Ludwich, VP of Consulting at Decentrix, where Dr. Ludwich provides a demonstration of the BIAnalytix solution. This quite an interesting demonstration, helping to show the value of BI in a media organization.

In Part 1 of this interview, we talked with Wayne Ruting, CEO of Decentrix, about the importance of business intelligence in a Media & Entertainment company. Decentrix has quite a client roster, including some of the largest broadcasters, cable operators, and telcos in the US. We talk about why BI matters, how BI is not simply providing reports in a transactional application, and we learn more about Decentrix and their BIAnalytix offering.
In part 2 of this interview, we will see a demo of BIAnalytix.

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Media Business Intelligence - Decentrix and BIAnalytix - Part 1 [Media Business Intelligence - Decentrix and BIAnalytix - Part 1]

Kirk Evans — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:18:00 GMT

In this episode, Kirk Evans talks with Wayne Ruting, CEO of Decentrix, about the importance of business intelligence in a Media & Entertainment company. Decentrix has quite a client roster, including some of the largest broadcasters, cable operators, and telcos in the US. We talk about why BI matters, how BI is not simply providing reports in a transactional application, and we learn more about Decentrix and their BIAnalytix offering. I learned a lot during this interview about the importance of BI in M&E, and Wayne is a very interesting guy to listen to.

In part 2 of this interview, we will see a demo of BIAnalytix.

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SharePoint and Enterprise Social Computing - NewsGator Social Sites [SharePoint and Enterprise Social Computing - NewsGator Social Sites]

Kirk Evans — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:45:00 GMT

Kirk Evans talks with Brian Kellner, VP of Products for NewsGator Technologies, about the capabilities of Social Sites. Social Sites is an enterprise social computing platform built upon SharePoint 2007. These capabilities are then demonstrated by Laura Farrelly, VP of Marketing for NewsGator. This is a fantastic product with a lot of exciting capabilities, this interview is definitely worth a look!

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SharePoint for Developers Part 6 - Custom web services [SharePoint for Developers Part 6 - Custom web services]

Kirk Evans — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:04:00 GMT

Kirk Evans shows how to create a custom ASMX web service hosted in SharePoint that enables query, insert, and delete of specific lists in a SharePoint site. You will also see how to use the WCFTestClient utility to call the web services. For more information, visit the accompanying blog post on Kirk's MSDN blog.

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SharePoint for Developers Part 5 - Custom content types, fields, and lists [SharePoint for Developers Part 5 - Custom content types, fields, and lists]

Kirk Evans — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:58:00 GMT

Kirk Evans demonstrates how to create a list instance, custom field type, custom content type, and lists based off those assets. We will prepopulate lists with data, and use a feature receiver to delete lists programmatically. This screencast walks through many of the capabilities of Visual Studio Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services version 1.3. Visit Kirk's blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/kaevans.

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SharePoint for Developers Part 4 - Calling SharePoint Web Services from Silverlight [SharePoint for Developers Part 4 - Calling SharePoint Web Services from Silverlight]

Kirk Evans — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:46:00 GMT

In this session, Kirk Evans will demonstrate how to call SharePoint's web services from a Silverlight client. We will use SharePoint's Lists web service, and will show how to use databinding in Silverlight to display results from a SharePoint list. We will also see how to get around cross domain issues using SharePoint Designer 2007. The accompanying post with code listings is available on Kirk’s MSDN blog.

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SharePoint for Developers Part 3 - Expression Blend and Silverlight [SharePoint for Developers Part 3 - Expression Blend and Silverlight]

Kirk Evans — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:42:00 GMT

SharePoint developers will likely use a variety of tools to build solutions. In this screencast, Kirk Evans demonstrates how to use Expression Blend 2 to create a Silverlight application from scratch, and how to extend its functionality using Visual Studio 2008. We won't be looking specifically at SharePoint in this screencast, but we will use this application in future screencasts to integrate with SharePoint.

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SharePoint for Developers Part 2: Working with Features [SharePoint for Developers Part 2: Working with Features]

Kirk Evans — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:05:00 GMT

Kirk Evans shows how to use Visual Studio Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 1.3 to create a SharePoint feature that exposes list items as JSON data.

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SharePoint for Developers Part 1: Introducing VSeWSS 1.3 [SharePoint for Developers Part 1: Introducing VSeWSS 1.3]

Kirk Evans — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:38:00 GMT

Kirk Evans demonstrates the new features of Visual Studio Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services (VSeWSS) 1.3 February 2009 CTP. We focus on the deployment aspects of SharePoint development and how VSeWSS makes this much easier in the current release. This is part 1 of a series on SharePoint for Developers.

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Customizing SharePoint Themes with SharePoint Designer 2007 and IE8 [Customizing SharePoint Themes with SharePoint Designer 2007 and IE8]

Kirk Evans — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:03:00 GMT

In this tutorial, Kirk Evans shows how to quickly customize a theme for a SharePoint site using SharePoint Designer 2007 and the IE8 Developer Tools. Visit the accompanying blog article for this tutorial on Kirk's blog.

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William Oellermann on the Managed Services Engine [William Oellermann on the Managed Services Engine]

Kirk Evans — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:32:00 GMT

Kirk Evans talks with William Oellermann about the Managed Services Engine (MSE). MSE is a solution built by Microsoft's SOA Solutions Team that facilitates enterprise SOA through service virtualization. MSE provides the ability to support versioning, abstraction, management, routing, and runtime policy enforcement for services.

Everything you see in the video is available through the free CodePlex version, available at http://codeplex.com/servicesengine.

In this video, William demonstrates how to use MSE to create a new endpoint and WSDL without concern for the implementation behind it, how to quickly virtualize operations into that endpoint, change the message transport from SOAP to POX, and finally how to add behaviors for policy enforcement and management. He also demonstrates how to integrate services with BizTalk's Business Activity Monitoring, enabling mining and surfacing of data through SQL Server Reporting Services.

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Looking at Blackpoint with Shaun and Sebastian from K2 [Looking at Blackpoint with Shaun and Sebastian from K2]

Kirk Evans — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:43:00 GMT

Kirk Evans talks with Shaun Leisegang and Sebastian Garrioch from K2 to learn more about K2 Blackpoint. Blackpoint is a tool built upon Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Presentation Foundation that allows users to build workflows and process-driven applications quickly with no code. In this interview, you will see how K2 Blackpoint makes it simple to create a workflow using an InfoPath form, route tasks to a user or group, send an email message, and send an SMS message, all with no code, and done in a very short period of time.

To learn more about Blackpoint, visit http://blackpoint.k2.com.

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Service Oriented Modeling with Blair Shaw and Hatay Tuna [Service Oriented Modeling with Blair Shaw and Hatay Tuna]

Kirk Evans — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:46:00 GMT

Kirk Evans interviews Blair Shaw and Hatay Tuna from Microsoft Consulting Services about a new offering called Service Oriented Modeling (SOM). This demo blew me away as it clearly demonstrates the power of DSLTools and the possibilities of truly integrating requirements with the development process. In this video, Hatay will demonstrate how a business analyst can fill out an InfoPath form, how an architecture group transforms those requirements into a technology-agnostic process model, and how that process model can be transformed to concrete implementations. Hatay demonstrates how SOM is used to transform to WCF services, Windows Workflow activities, or even the Web Service Software Factory.

I am in awe at both how obvious this solution is and how elegantly Hatay implemented it.

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The Future of Telecommunications and Media with Cognizant [The Future of Telecommunications and Media with Cognizant]

Kirk Evans — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:13:00 GMT

Kirk Evans talks with Stephen Fleece and Ramesh Shanmugam from Cognizant. We discuss the work that Cognizant did with TMForum and the Content Encounter Catalyst project, showing how to deliver contextual ads through a video on-demand ordering experience. Through the use of standards and interoperability, Cognizant was able to provide a Windows Media Center and Windows Mobile experience that allows you to order videos on one experience and, through the capabilities of DRM, watch the video on another device.

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