Entries tagged with sharepoint - Channel 9

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:

Sharepoint 2010 and Claims-Based Identity

Vittorio Bertocci — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:50:00 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!

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 - Episode Two

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.

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!