Entries tagged with sharepoint - Channel 9

The Access Show: Client performance improvements against SharePoint lists

tina10 — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:46:00 GMT

Today’s guest is DJ Cole, architect and primary developer of SharePoint connectivity performance improvements on the Access development team. DJ dropped by to talk about how Access 2010 connects to SharePoint, and to discuss the work necessary for improving client-side performance.

As with most performance work, beauty is in the eye of the user. When users work against a server on the other side of the world, performance makes a difference. Data, after all, only travels as fast as the speed of light. Our goal for Access 2010 was to make the connections to SharePoint lists nearly as fast as local tables. Additionally, we had to ensure requests didn’t swamp the server, bottleneck throughout the network, or cause the client machine’s CPU or RAM to thrash. We found that caching data in local tables, combined with conservative usage of resources on the server, network and local machine, provided the best user experience.

This Access 2010 performance improvement builds upon the Access 2007 architecture. Read more…

For additional information about the latest release, check out the Access 2010 Intro series on the Access team blog.

Pex - Unit Testing of SharePoint Services that Rocks!

Matthijs Hoekstra — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:33:00 GMT

SharePoint Services are challenging for unit testing because it is not possible to execute the SharePoint Service without being connected to a live SharePoint site. For that reason, most of the unit tests written for SharePoint are actually integration tests as they need a live system to run. In this session, we show how to use Pex, an automated test generation tool for .NET, to test SharePoint Services in isolation. From a parameterized unit test, Pex generates a suite of closed unit tests with high code coverage. Pex also contains a stubbing framework, Moles, that allows to detour any .NET method to user-defined delegates, e.g., replace any call to the SharePoint Object Model by a user-defined delegate.

Peli de Halleux from Microsoft Research presented this presentation on SharePoint Connections 2010 Amsterdam.

Peli is a Senior Research Software Design Engineer at Microsoft Research in Redmond, USA, where he has been since October 2006 working the Pex project. From 2004 to 2006, he worked in the Common Language Runtime (CLR) as a Software Design Engineer in Test (SDE/T) in charge of the Just In Time compiler. Before joining Microsoft, he earned a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the Catholic University of Louvain. Earlier, he developed the unit testing framework MbUnit.

The Evolution of SharePoint from two Pet Projects to a Multi-Company Ecosystem

Matthijs Hoekstra — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:15:00 GMT

This is the story of SharePoint told by former MS employee Mike Fitzmaurice who worked on every version of SharePoint, even before we called it SharePoint. Where did we start with SharePoint, how and why did we get to the point where SharePoint 2010 is today. Not just a product from Microsoft, but a great platform, the centre of the universe with a huge partner ecosystem.

And only Mike would tell this in front of 700 people wearing a kilt:)

Btw, the t-shirt he is wearing is from the very first SharePoint conference in 2003 (200 attendees). It's from the World Web Part Federation Smackdown event!

This was the keynote of the SharePoint Connections 2010 Event in Amsterdam in January of 2010. Search for the spc10 keyword for the rest of the sessions.

Nikolai Tillmann: Moles - Replace any .NET method with a delegate

Peli de Halleux — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:00:00 GMT

Nikolai Tillman, a member of the RiSE group at Microsoft Research, gives a short demo of Moles, a new framework that allows replacing any .NET method with a delegate. In the context of unit testing, one can use Moles to isolate from environment dependencies (such as time, file system, database, etc...) even when those dependencies are hard-coded through static method or sealed types. In this demo, Nikolai goes through the famous Y2K bug and how to test it...

Moles tutorial (pdf)

The Research in Software Engineering team (RiSE) coordinates Microsoft's research in Software Engineering in Redmond, USA.

Integrating Microsoft Silverlight with Microsoft Sharepoint 2010

Robert Hess — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:58:00 GMT

The upcoming release of Sharepoint 2010 will provide features and capabilities which will allow it to directly support Silverlight development and controls. At PDC09, Paul Stubbs held a session where he showed off many of these features, and walked the audience through the process of how to utilize Silverlight from a Sharepoint website.

In this episode, I meet with Paul, and he briefly shows us how easy it is to do Silverlight development on a Sharepoint 2010 website.

If you'd like more details on this, you can view the entire session from PDC09 here:

Developer Patterns to Integrate Microsoft Silverlight 3.0 with Microsoft SharePoint 2010

You can find out more details about Sharepoint 2010, and the current beta here:

Sharepoint 2010 Website

InfoPath 2010 - Manage data in your SharePoint Lists using the InfoPath Form Web Part

LaurHar — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:38:00 GMT

One of the powerful new features in InfoPath 2010 is the InfoPath Form Web Part.

This is the 1st in a series of videos where we will show how to use the InfoPath Form Web Part to create rich mashups on portal pages in SharePoint, without writing a single line of code.

In this video, Nick Dallett, a program manager lead on the InfoPath team, will demo two simple scenarios for managing data in your SharePoint lists using the InfoPath Form Web Part.

This video is also available on the InfoPath Team Blog.

Talking with NewsGator at PDC 2009

John O'Donnell — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:20:00 GMT

Our team at PDC 2009 talked with Glenn Berry of NewsGator Technologies, an RSS platform company about their work with Microsoft development technologies.

Enjoy the show!

John O'Donnell
Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation
http://blogs.msdn.com/jodonnell
http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde
http://www.twitter.com/jodonnel

InfoPath 2010 - Customize a SharePoint List Form

NickDallett — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:13:00 GMT

In this short video, Daniel Broekman, a program manager on the InfoPath product team, will show how you can customize a SharePoint List Form in less than 5 minutes using InfoPath 2010. (NOTE: this is a higher resolution version of http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/laurhar/InfoPath-2010-Customize-a-SharePoint-List-Form/ )

Bharat Shah: Microsoft Online Services Overview

Charles — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:36:00 GMT

Bharat Shah is the General Manager of Microsoft's Online Services division. His group is responsible for taking Microsoft's business productivity software to the cloud, essentially turning traditional utilty software (you buy, deploy, manage) into distributed (Internet/Intranet) hosted services. For enterprise customers to small businesses, being able to subscribe to software services versus taking on the responsibilities and costs associated with deployment and management of software systems is very compelling.

Here, we talk about why this approach to software-as-a-service is so important as we move more of our software skyward. The term BPOS used in the conversation is more of a code name then an official Micrsosoft product moniker. In this case it refers to a suite of communication and collaboration hosted services like Exchange, SharePoint, etc - but there will be more: that's one of the key points here.

Tune in.

MSDN Briefing November 2009 - Office SharePoint Server 2010 Development

codefest — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:08:00 GMT

Session 3: Entwicklung für Office SharePoint Server

SharePoint wird auch für Entwickler eine immer interessantere Plattform für eigene Applikationen. In dieser Session zeigen wir Ihnen, wie man bestehendes ASP.NET Wissen innerhalb einer SharePoint Applikation verwenden kann. Außerdem sehen Sie, welche Development Technologien darüber hinaus verwendet werden können, um SharePoint Anwendungen zu designen, entwickeln, testen und zu verteilen. Dabei betrachten wir die verschiedenen Applikationsarten wie WebParts, Eventreceiver, Custom Fields, Forms, usw. sowohl aus einer Intranet als auch aus einer Internet Perspektive. Außerdem geben wir einen kleinen Ausblick auf die Neuerungen von SharePoint 2010 in Verbindung mit Visual Studio 2010.

Implementing a Silverlight SharePoint WebPart with Visual Studio 2010

Beth Massi — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:28:00 GMT

Mike Morton is back at it again, this time showing how easy it is to develop, package and deploy a Silverlight WebPart to SharePoint 2010. He also walks us through the solution, package and file properties available to you in Visual Studio 2010. You'll see me giggling in this one because I can't believe how easy it is.

For more information on SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 please see:

Also if you missed them, check out these interviews as well:

And please give us your feedback in the SharePoint Development Forums!

Enjoy,
-Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community

Sharepoint 2010 and Claims-Based Identity

Vittorio Bertocci — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:18:00 GMT

When it comes to identity management intensive applications, it's hard to top Sharepoint. Whether you are signing in a portal, accessing a document or using a webpart for reaching out to external web services, your identity is going to be the factor that drives it all.
Vittorio went to visit Venky Veeraraghavan, Program Manager Lead in the Sharepoint team, to discuss how Sharepoint deals with identity challenges. Venky gives a fantastic explanation of how claims-based identity and Windows Identity Foundation helped the Sharepoint team to deliver on the identity functionalities they needed without getting entangled in low level details such as protocol handling.
Tune in!

Using the SharePoint Business Data Connectivity Designer in VS 2010

Beth Massi — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:07:00 GMT

This time I interview a good friend of mine, Boris Scholl, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Team building tools for SharePoint development. Boris shows off the new Business Data Connectivity designer in Visual Studio 2010 and how it allows you to describe data coming from multiple data sources and how to work with them in SharePoint. He builds a master/detail association across entities coming from separate data sources (a database and a service) and demonstrates how the entities can be displayed and edited.

For more information on SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 please see:

Also if you missed them, check out these interviews as well:

And please give us your feedback in the SharePoint Development Forums!

Enjoy,
-Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community

SharePoint Feature and Package Designers in Visual Studio 2010

Beth Massi — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:06:00 GMT

In this interview I sit down with Lily Ma, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Team building tools for SharePoint development. Lily shows off the new SharePoint feature and package designers in Visual Studio 2010 and how they make packaging up and deploying your SharePoint customizations easy. As she dives deeper into the tools, she also demonstrates the flexibility and control you have in specifying what features go in what packages across projects in your solution as well as how to modify the manifests to meet a variety of developer needs.

Also if you missed it, check out Overview of SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010.

For more information on SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 please see:

SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 Walkthroughs

SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 Samples

SharePoint 2010 Development Resources

SharePoint Team Blog

Office Development in Visual Studio Team Blog

And please give us your feedback in the SharePoint Development Forums!

Enjoy,
-Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community

Importing SharePoint Solution Packages (WSP) into Visual Studio 2010

Beth Massi — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:29:00 GMT

In this interview I sit down with Saaid Khan, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio team developing tools for SharePoint development. Saaid shows us the WSP Import Wizard in Visual Studio 2010 that allows developers to take SharePoint Solution packages developed with SharePoint Designer and bring them into Visual Studio 2010 to further customize them there.

For a good overview of SharePoint tools in VS2010, also check out Overview of SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010.

For more information on SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 please check out:

SharePoint 2010 Development Resources

SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 Walkthroughs

SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 Samples

SharePoint Team Blog

Office Development in Visual Studio Team Blog

And please give us your feedback in the SharePoint Development Forums!

Enjoy,
-Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community

PDC09: John Durant on newly announced SharePoint features

Robert Hess — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:13:00 GMT

John Durant just returned from the Microsoft SharePoint Conference where a number of new SharePoint features were announced. In this episode he shares some of those features with us and describes how they can help developers in a variety of ways.

John will be doing a couple sessions at PDC09 which will also cover some of these features:

And here are some PDC09 sessions based on some of the other topics we discussed:

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.

Overview of SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010

Beth Massi — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:44:00 GMT

In this interview I catch up with Mike Morton, a Senior Program Manager on the Visual Studio team developing tools for SharePoint development. Mike gives us a great introduction and overview of these tools from the Visual Studio Developer perspective.

Mike shows us how easy it is to build, package, deploy and debug SharePoint 2010 customizations by walking through a site workflow, event receiver, visual web part, the feature and package designers as well as other goodies. This is a great intro for Visual Studio developers looking to get into SharePoint development, but seasoned SharePoint developers will also appreciate the new tools presented here.

For more information on SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 please check out:

SharePoint 2010 Development Resources

SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 Walkthroughs

SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 Samples

SharePoint Team Blog

Office Development in Visual Studio Team Blog

And please give us your feedback in the SharePoint Development Forums!

Enjoy,
-Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community

The Access Show: Recap of the SharePoint Developer Conference and customer demos

tina10 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:32:00 GMT

This is the second episode of The Access Show with Steve Greenberg & Ryan McMinn. They just came back from the sold-out SharePoint conference in Las Vegas where they launched Access Services and wanted to give you an update as well as introduce some customers that have been using the technical preview and building web databases.

Robert Hogg - Black Marble Consulting
www.blackmarble.co.uk

Michael Matloub – Connolly, Inc.
www.connolly.com

Check out the Access 2010 Intro series at the Access team blog.

Creating a Web Part for SharePoint by Using a Designer

Kathleen McGrath — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:15:00 GMT

In this interview, programming writer Norm Estabrook demonstrates how to create a Web Part for SharePoint by using a designer in Visual Studio. You can follow along step-by-step in the corresponding Help topic.

Kathleen McGrath
Visual Studio User Education
http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen
Visual Studio and .NET Framework Content Survey

Creating an External List in SharePoint by Using Business Data

Kathleen McGrath — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:19:00 GMT

In this interview, programming writer Norm Estabrook demonstrates how to create a model for the BDC service that returns information about contacts in a sample database, and displays the contacts in an external list. You can learn more in the corresponding Help topic.

Kathleen McGrath
Visual Studio User Education
http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen
Visual Studio and .NET Framework Content Survey

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!

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.

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!)

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.