Entries tagged with sharepoint - Channel 9

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.

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.

John Durant – Developing Managed Applications for Office 2010 in Visual Studio 2010

Robert Hess — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:35:00 GMT

One of the recent sessions announced for PDC09 is one which will focus on some key advancements in Office 2010 as well as Visual Studio 2010, which will allow developers to take better advantage of the features and capabilities found in Office and SharePoint.

I’ve invited John Durant to join me in this episode to provide some highlights as to what he’ll be showing in his sessions, and some of the new features that developers can look forward to in Office and Visual Studio.

If you’re interested in more information about the session that John will be doing at PDC09, you can find it here:

Developing .NET Managed Applications Using the Office 2010 Developer Platform

Announcing the release of patterns and practices Developing SharePoint Applications guidance

ajoy krishnamoorthy — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:36:00 GMT

Microsoft patterns and practices has released a new version of guidance for developing SharePoint Applications. This release delivers a guide, a reusable library, and a reference implementation. It helps architects and developers in the following areas:

Use SharePoint capabilities to make more powerful applications

Integrate information from Line of Business Systems
Take advantage of publishing and content oriented capabilities
Create collaborative interactions around business processes
Design multi-site topologies with complex security and isolation needs, such as a partner extranet

Build applications that are easier to scale, maintain, and grow

Improve maintainability, testability, and layering through patterns
Use techniques to improve flexibility, diagnostics, operations and performance
Show how to use SharePoint’s feature and solution framework

Improve application quality through testing

Demonstrates unit testing and integration testing SharePoint applications
Describe experiences with acceptance testing SharePoint applications including stress and scale testing

Improve and accelerate team productivity

Accelerate adoption of recommended practices with library components
Show how to build an effective team development environment

Understand fundamental design and implementation decision

Developing SharePoint Applications guidance integrates new guidance with the original release, SharePoint Guidance – November 2008, into a single download.

Erwin van der Valk and Francis Cheung walks you through the various topics of this guidance in the following videos:

Visit http://www.microsoft.com/spg for more information on the guidanace.

Setting up the Contoso RI - p & p Developing SharePoint Applications guidance

ajoy krishnamoorthy — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:35:00 GMT

This video takes a look at how the Contoso setup scripts automate the process of creating a test certificate, a SharePoint web application, site collections, SPWebs, and active associated features.

Quick Links:

Walkthrough of the Contoso Reference Implementation
How to use the configuration component?
How to use the logging components?
How to use the SharePoint Service Locator?

p&p Developing SharePoint Application Guidance
patterns & practices

Walkthrough of the Contoso Reference Implementation- p & p Developing SharePoint Applications guidance

ajoy krishnamoorthy — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:34:00 GMT

This video walks through the Contoso Partner Portal application that was developed as the reference implementation for this guidance project. We cover how to surface line of business data through the SharePoint BDC, integrate published content with LOB data, and various ways to access and aggregate SharePoint list data.

Quick Links:

Setting up the Contoso RI
How to use the configuration component?
How to use the logging components?
How to use the SharePoint Service Locator?

p&p Developing SharePoint Application Guidance
patterns & practices

How to use the configuration component? - p & p Developing SharePoint Applications guidance

ajoy krishnamoorthy — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:33:00 GMT

This video demonstrates how to use the SharePoint Guidance Library’s configuration component. Configuration providers such as feature receivers use the IConfigManager interface to set values while configuration consumers such as web parts use the IHierarchicalConfig interface to retrieve values.

Quick Links:

Setting up the Contoso RI
Walkthrough of the Contoso Reference Implementation
How to use the logging components?
How to use the SharePoint Service Locator?

p&p Developing SharePoint Application Guidance
patterns & practices

How to use the SharePoint Service Locator? - p & p Developing SharePoint Applications guidance

ajoy krishnamoorthy — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:32:00 GMT

This video demonstrates how to use the SharePoint Guidance Library’s service locator implementation. The SharePoint service locator helps with decoupling service consumers, such as web parts, from service providers which may be in a separate assembly or even separate WSP.

Quick Links:
Setting up the Contoso RI
Walkthrough of the Contoso Reference Implementation
How to use the configuration component?
How to use the logging components?

p&p Developing SharePoint Application Guidance
patterns & practices

How to use the logging components? - p & p Developing SharePoint Applications guidance

ajoy krishnamoorthy — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:32:00 GMT

This video demonstrates how to use the SharePoint Guidance Library’s logging components. The SharePointLogger can be used to log messages to IT Pro oriented sinks such as the Windows EventLog and to developer oriented sinks such as the SharePoint ULS.

Quick Links:

Setting up the Contoso RI
Walkthrough of the Contoso Reference Implementation
How to use the configuration component?
How to use the SharePoint Service Locator?

p&p Developing SharePoint Application Guidance
patterns & practices

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.

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!

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

Silverlight in KnowledgeLake Imaging for SharePoint

Ahmed El-Ramly — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:45:00 GMT

KnowledgeLake develops document imaging, document capture and workflow products and solutions for SharePoint. KnowledgeLake's suite of products extend SharePoint into a comprehensive ECM solution that enables businesses to reduce shipping costs, streamline operations and achieve regulatory compliance using familiar Microsoft products that most businesses already own and use.

When KnowledgeLake wanted to enhance the user experience in its SharePoint-based solution, they evaluated and decided on Sivlerlight 2. Listen to CTO Chris Caplinger describe the importance of Silverlight both for their customers and for their developers.

Publishing an Office add-in to a SharePoint Site for Distribution

John Wiese — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:10:00 GMT

I've been asked many times, "How do I publish my VSTO/Office Add-in installation files to a SharePoint site?". It's relatively straight-forward to publish to a basic web site, or to a UNC file share, but SharePoint is a slightly different beast.

So, how do you publish your add-in to a SharePoint site? Well, if you watch this short five and half minute video you will get the skinny on how to do just that. There are a few basic steps that need to be done in order to accompllish this that I will walk you through in the video, enjoy!

Web Content Management with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Dutch)

Matthijs Hoekstra — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:02:00 GMT

Met de komst van Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 is er ook een opvolger voor Content Management Server 2002. In deze sessie wordt aan de hand van ContentTypes, PageLayouts, Masterpages, WebParts en Workflow een voorbeeld internet site gebouwd. Vervolgens wordt gedemonstreerd hoe je deze onderdelen als feature kunt uitrollen op een SharePoint omgeving. Tot slot wordt gedemonstreerd hoe je met Silverlight, Flash en jQuery de publieke website meer franje kunt geven.

Deze video is opgenomen tijdens de DevDays in Den Haag in juni 2009. DevDays is het grootste evenement op het vlak van softwareontwikkeling en -architectuur in Nederland. Duizenden development professionals bezoeken dit jaarlijkse evenement om in twee dagen weer volledig op de hoogte te zijn van alle ontwikkelingen op hun vakgebied.