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VSeWSS Import Tool Released
Paul Andrew
pWe completed and published the a target="_blank" href="http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/VSeWSSImport"SharePoint VSeWSS Import tool/a. This tool is an add-in to Visual Studio 2010 and it adds a new SharePoint project template for importing a VSeWSS project. /p
pVSeWSS or the Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services are the Microsoft tools for creating SharePoint 2007 projects on Visual Studio 2008. In Visual Studio 2010 we have built in tools for creating SharePoint 2010 proje [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 16th '10 |
Live my new Microsoft arc mouse
Paul Andrew
pI just got a new Microsoft arc mouse and I really like it. I'm down in New Orleans this week for TechEd USA so using it on random surfaces at the event and in my hotel and it's been working great. I also like how the wireless works when presenting, unlike my previous mouse which would get overloaded with all the attendeed WIFI traffic making it unusable when presenting. The design is very appealing to me with the magnetic hold for the transceiver and the steel hinge to close it which also turns [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 9th '10 |
VSeWSS cannot be used on a SharePoint farm installation
Paul Andrew
pI saw a call stack today from an attempt to use VSeWSS 1.3 on a SharePoint 2007 farm installation. VSeWSS is the Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. It requires WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007 and also Visual Studio 2008. The SharePoint installation needs to be standalone and not part of a farm. If you install on a machine that is part of a farm here is a likely call stack from an exception during deployment of a simple web part./p p[DATE] [TIME]#160;#160;#160; Error br /Sys [read].
Posted: Tue, May 25th '10 |
Benign OWSTimer unhandled exception popup – System.Security.Cryptographic.CryptographicException
Paul Andrew
pHave you seen this popup exception message from the Visual Studio Just-In-Time (JIT) Debugger?/p pa href="http://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-00-28-42-metablogapi/5023.clip_5F00_image0026_5F00_58BFE08B.jpg"img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="clip_image002[6]" border="0" alt="clip_image002[6]" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/Comm [read].
Posted: Tue, May 25th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 Developer Virtual Labs Online
Paul Andrew
pThree new MSDN Virtual Labs are live running SharePoint Server 2010 and Visual Studio 2010. You can work on these labs and learn SharePoint 2010 development without having to install SharePoint 2010 or Visual Studio 2010 on your machine. All you need is a web browser that can support our remote desktop ActiveX control and you can run these labs on our servers./p p#160;/p pa href="http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9729899" target="_blank"MSDN Virtual Lab: Developing a Visual Web Part in Visual Stu [read].
Posted: Wed, May 12th '10 |
Getting Started with SharePoint 2010 Development
Paul Andrew
pWe just published a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ee513148.aspx" target="_blank"an online course for developers to learn about SharePoint 2010/a. This is updated for RTM. If you have some experience developing with .NET then you can learn SharePoint. The course includes:/p ul li10 modules introducing developers to SharePoint 2010 /li li55 short instructional and demonstration demos /li liHands on labs that you can download or try online with MSDN Virtual Labs /li liTest your [read].
Posted: Wed, May 12th '10 |
Installing Scanner Drivers for my Networked Canon MP980
Paul Andrew
pI really like my Canon MP980 scanner. It scans 35mm negatives nicely and I can go to it anytime and scan a document which I can direct to any PC at home. But it’s really hard to install the drivers. And I tend to reinstall OS’s a lot. I’m using Windows 7 32 bit./p p#160;/p p(1) Download the files needed from a href="http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoActamp;tabact=DownloadDetailTabActamp;fcategoryid=334amp;modelid=17357" target="_blank"Canon for the MP980 Drivers Pa [read].
Posted: Sun, May 2nd '10 |
Error occurred in deployment step – moving a workflow project to a new SharePoint 2010 machine
Paul Andrew
pIf you get your first SharePoint 2010 workflow project from someone else, chances are you don’t have a Workflow History list on your SharePoint machine. This will result in this error message when you try to deploy the workflow from within Visual Studio 2010./p pa href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/pandrew/WindowsLiveWriter/Erroroccurredindeploymentstepmovingawork_B56E/clip_image002_2.jpg"img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 27th '10 |
Using BCS from Visual Studio 2010 for deployment to SharePoint Foundation 2010
Paul Andrew
PBusiness Connectivity Services is the new version of the SharePoint 2007 technology called Business Data Catalog. The base of this technology is now available in SharePoint Foundation 2010 which is the free version of SharePoint. This means you can build an External Content Type in Visual Studio 2010 and deploy it to SharePoint Foundation 2010 and the code in the External Content Type retrieves the data which is then shown in a standard SharePoint list./P
PGreat technology. I wanted to link to [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 26th '10 |
This product requires Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 or above
Paul Andrew
PYou can A href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=49c79a8a-4612-4e7d-a0b4-3bb429b46595amp;displayLang=en" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=49c79a8a-4612-4e7d-a0b4-3bb429b46595amp;displayLang=en"download SharePoint Foundation 2010/A now./P
PThe download page says it works on Windows 7 Enterprise; Windows 7 Professional; Windows 7 Ultimate; Windows Server 2008 R2; Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2; Windows Vista Service Pack 2./P
PIf you t [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 26th '10 |
SharePoint MVP Chats Coming Soon
Paul Andrew
P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" class=MsoNormalSPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"Do you have questions about SharePoint 2007?nbsp; Want to learn more about SharePoint 2010?nbsp; By popular request, 28 SharePoint MVPs are participating inA href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/chats/default.aspx"FONT color=#0000ff two live chat events about SharePoint/FONT/A. These events are a great opportunity to tap into the [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 23rd '10 |
Deploying an External Content Type, Error: The default web application could not be determined
Paul Andrew
PI had this error today creating an External Content Type for Business Connectivity Services (BCS)nbsp;in Visual Studio 2010. I had to get help resolving it so I wanted to share the resolution./P
P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormalBFONT size=3FONT face=CalibriError occurred in deployment step ‘Add Solution’: The default web application could not be determined. Set the SiteUrl property in feature BdcModelProject2_Feature1 to the URL of the desired site and retry activation.?xml:name [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 9th '10 |
Last night's SharePoint 2010 install troubleshooting - User cannot be found
Paul Andrew
PLast night I was installing SharePoint Foundation 2010 on a Windows 7 x64 machine and I had an error which took me some time to troubleshoot, so I thought I'd share it./P
PI already had the pre-requisites installed as per the A href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee554869(office.14).aspx" mce_href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee554869(office.14).aspx"Windows 7 SharePoint 2010nbsp;install guide/A on MSDN and I had a failure on the step 2 of the STRONGSharePoint 2010 Product [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 7th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 Developer Dashboard for Debugging Code
Paul Andrew
pThe developer dashboard is great for debugging web parts just by turning it on. There are also a few simple API calls you can use to add your own debugging information./p h4font color="#008000"First turn it on/font/h4 pFirst make sure you have an elevated administrator prompt. You need to right click and say run as administrator to get this. There’s no error from STSADM if you aren’t elevated, it just wont perform the operation./p blockquote pfont size="2" face="Courier New"strongCD \Progra [read].
Posted: Fri, Mar 26th '10 |
Chat with the SharePoint MVP Experts
Paul Andrew
pDo you have tough technical questions regarding SharePoint for which you're seeking answers? Do you want to tap into the deep knowledge of the talented Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals? The SharePoint MVPs are the same people you see in the technical community as authors, speakers, user group leaders and answerers in the MSDN forums. This is the first time we have brought these experts together as a collective group to answer your questions live. So please join us and bring on the question [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 11th '10 |
Training from Microsoft on SharePoint 2010
Paul Andrew
PMicrosoft Learning has published their portal for Training on SharePoint 2010 here:/P
PA href="http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/training/sharepoint.aspx"http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/training/sharepoint.aspx/A/P
PI'm just in the process of updating the free eLearning for SharePoint developers on MSDN here:/P
PA href="http://mssharepointdeveloper.com/"http://MSSharePointDeveloper.com/A /Pimg src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9975199" width="1" height="1" [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 9th '10 |
Business Connectivity Services Short Article
Paul Andrew
PI wrote this A href="http://www.sdtimes.com/content/SPTechReport/SPTechReportSPECIAL_Feb12_10_2.html" mce_href="http://www.sdtimes.com/content/SPTechReport/SPTechReportSPECIAL_Feb12_10_2.html"short article/A on Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010. I think they are going to be hugely popular./Pimg src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9962906" width="1" height="1" [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 12th '10 |
Series of 8 SharePoint 2010 Developer Web Casts
Paul Andrew
SharePoint 2010 for Developers webcasts. I presented one of the talks in this series, and there are 6 more coming that you can put on your calendar. All 8 web casts are listed here:
P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormalSPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d"A href="http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/sharepointserver.aspx?tab=webcastsamp;id=42437"FONT color=#0000ff size=3 face=Calibrihttp://www.microsoft.com/events/series/sharepointserver.aspx?tab=webcastsamp;id=42437/FONT/Anbsp;?xml:namespace p [read].
Posted: Wed, Feb 10th '10 |
I added a Web Part to my site home page which causes an exception
Paul Andrew
PHow do I remove it?/P
PSince you need to view the page to edit it and delete the web part it's tricky when you add a web part to your page that causes an exception every time it's loaded. Here's two simple options:/P
P1) retract the solution in Visual Studio/P
P2) use the ?Contents=1 parameter on the web page to see the list of web parts without loading them. for example: http://intranet.contoso.com/SitePages/Home.aspx?Contents=1/P
PThen fix your error or at least add exception handling/Pimg sr [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 25th '10 |
WebCast tomorrow on SharePoint 2010 for Developers
Paul Andrew
PI'm giving a webcast tomorrow on SharePoint 2010 and you're invited to join. A href="http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032438057amp;EventCategory=4amp;culture=en-USamp;CountryCode=US" mce_href="http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032438057amp;EventCategory=4amp;culture=en-USamp;CountryCode=US"Here/A is the sign-up URL./P
PSTRONGEMTitle:/EM/STRONG SPAN id=lblEventTitleMSDN Webcast: SharePoint Server 2010 (Part 1 of 8): What's New [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 18th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 List Schema Designer for Visual Studio 2010 published
Paul Andrew
pToday we published a code sample that implements a List Schema Designer for Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint projects. This is available as sample code that you can reference for your own designers or you can build and use yourself. You can get the version for Visual Studio 2010 beta a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2495b666-eb3e-4106-b5f8-85b1072289e5" target="_blank"here/a./p pThe extension adds an “Open in Designer” right menu command to list schema project i [read].
Posted: Wed, Jan 13th '10 |
Just published the Beta for the VSeWSS to Visual Studio 2010 Upgrade Template
Paul Andrew
PThe VSeWSS project upgrade tools for Visual Studio 2010 beta is published A href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=41019a15-8c73-497c-97fb-502a619a6c46amp;displaylang=en" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=41019a15-8c73-497c-97fb-502a619a6c46amp;displaylang=en"here/A. It is planned to be published as sample code for the release of Visual Studio 2010./P
PThis is an additional project template for Visual Studio 2010. When you create a projec [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 11th '10 |
Removing the Kernel Debugger and Editing the BOOT.INI on Windows 7
Paul Andrew
PThe VHD base that I use for building Virtual Machine images for Windows 7 comes with the Kernel Debugger enabled. With the Kernel Debugger enabled you cannot start the Visual Studio 2010 debugger. Here's how I had to remove it. You can't just edit BOOT.INI any longer since these parameters are stored elsewhere and a new tool BCDEDIT.EXE must be used./P
PStart an administrative command prompt./P
PBCDEDIT /debug OFF/P
PIt will say the operation completed successfully. Now reboot and then start Vi [read].
Posted: Wed, Jan 6th '10 |
SharePoint Visual Studio 2010 extensions on CodePlex SPVSX
Paul Andrew
PWes Hackett, Matt Smith, Martin Hatch, Glyn Clough and a few others have been working on some Visual Studio 2010 extensions to help SharePoint development. These also build on the superb new extensibility options specifically in the SharePoint tools in Visual Studio 2010. These extensions include:/P
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LI
DIV mce_keep="true"XCopy deployment options/DIV/LI
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DIV mce_keep="true"Item templates for custom actions and delegate controls/DIV/LI
LI
DIV mce_keep="true"Server Explorer extensions for Web [read].
Posted: Wed, Jan 6th '10 |
SPDisposeCheck Automating from Stephen Vick
Paul Andrew
PStephen Vick has written a nice simple article on A href="http://stephenvick.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/run-spdisposecheck-as-build-task-and-automated-unit-test/" mce_href="http://stephenvick.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/run-spdisposecheck-as-build-task-and-automated-unit-test/"automating SPDisposeCheck in your Visual Studio projects/A./Pimg src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9944619" width="1" height="1" [read].
Posted: Wed, Jan 6th '10 |
Try out Wouters SharePoint 2010 Dev Tools
Paul Andrew
PThe new SharePoint 2010 tools in Visual Studio 2010 have lots of options for extensibility and Wouter van Vugt has been working on some great extensions for developers. Take a look at his videos of the tools A href="http://blogs.code-counsel.net/Wouter/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=132" mce_href="http://blogs.code-counsel.net/Wouter/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=132"here/A. He has included:/P
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LISandboxed Visual Web Part Designer/LI
LISPMetal integration in Visual Studio for creating Linq to SharePoint [read].
Posted: Tue, Jan 5th '10 |
Here's a walkthrough building an Event Receiver in VSeWSS
Paul Andrew
A href="http://weblogs.com.pk/khurram/archive/2009/12/14/vsewss-sharepoint-event-receivers.aspx"http://weblogs.com.pk/khurram/archive/2009/12/14/vsewss-sharepoint-event-receivers.aspx/Aimg src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9939399" width="1" height="1" [read].
Posted: Sun, Dec 20th '09 |
Here's a couple of helpful observations on VSeWSS 1.3
Paul Andrew
A href="http://www.msprogrammer.com/index.php/tag/vsewss/"http://www.msprogrammer.com/index.php/tag/vsewss//Aimg src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9939394" width="1" height="1" [read].
Posted: Sun, Dec 20th '09 |
Sharing VSeWSS experiences
Paul Andrew
Clyde Barretto has shared his experiences getting started with the Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint here. Maybe this will help someone else. [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 26th '09 |
Super Short Summary of my SharePoint Conference Talk
Paul Andrew
My talk at the SharePoint Conference 2009 was The Overview of the SharePoint 2010 Developer Platform. Here are the things that I talked about. I only had 75 minutes including demos but for each of these great new features for Developers we have drill down talks at the show this week.
Development on Windows 7
Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint tools
SharePoint Designer 2010
Developer Dashboard
Business Connectivity Services
SharePoint List Improvements
XSLT Views for Lists
Data API Options
LINQ to Sh [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 20th '09 |
SharePoint 2010 Developer Content Published
Paul Andrew
Wow, we disclosed all the new features of SharePoint 2010 yesterday at the SharePoint Conference. I spent my day rehearsing my demos, then sitting in the front row of the keynote, then giving my talk, then standing at the SharePoint booth in the exhibit hall, then at a function for SharePoint MVPs. I didn’t go running in the morning like Steve Ballmer did.
Microsoft is making a significant investment for Developers in SharePoint 2010 and you will see it’s much more a focus than before. Here [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 20th '09 |
Write up on the Sneak Peek
Paul Andrew
Craig Roth wrote a review of the Sneak Peek videos here:http://knowledgeforward.wordpress.com/2009/07/18/a-first-look-at-sharepoint-2010/ [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 21st '09 |
SharePoint 2010 Sneak Peek
Paul Andrew
Today we introduced a sneak peek of SharePoint 2010. We’re only announcing a few of the many new features right now, but there’s some exciting stuff in the list today to talk about.
We’re showing off six key new features for developers in SharePoint 2010.
1) Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint tools
2) Language Integrated Query to SharePoint
3) Developer Dashboard
4) Business Connectivity Services
5) Client Object Model
6) Silverlight Web Part
There are screenshots [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 13th '09 |
Automated Builds with VSeWSS 1.3
Paul Andrew
I just came across this blog post from John W Powell detailing his experience creating automated builds with VSeWSS 1.3. [read].
Posted: Sat, Jun 27th '09 |
OFC204 - Sample Code and Demos I showed at TechEd Last Week
Paul Andrew
At my TechEd talk last week I showed Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint 1.3 and I demo'd creating a simple web part that shows data from a SharePoint list in a grid. I also showed command line builds which is one of the features we added in VSeWSS 1.3 and I showed the SPDisposeCheck tool.
For the demos I used the WSS Developer VPC which is available here. I uninstalled the VSeWSS 1.2 that comes on that image and installed the VSeWSS 1.3 from here. I also installed SPDisposeCheck from h [read].
Posted: Mon, May 18th '09 |
TechEd in Los Angeles Next Week
Paul Andrew
I'm presenting at TechEd in Los Angeles next week. If you're at the event I hope you'll come to my talk. It is "OFC204 Easy SharePoint Development with VSeWSS 1.3".
The talk is suitable for developers who currently don't work on SharePoint. I will demo the coding of building a simple SharePoint web parts that accesses SharePoint data lists. I will also talk about the types of applications people build on SharePoint, how you can integrate SharePoint development with application lifecycle manageme [read].
Posted: Thu, May 7th '09 |
Windows 7 RC Installed
Paul Andrew
I updated my primary machine to Windows 7 RC yesterday. One thing I had to search for and update was Messenger settings so it would minimize to the tool tray instead of the task bar. Here's the tip. [read].
Posted: Sat, May 2nd '09 |
Kirk Evans Presents Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint
Paul Andrew
Kirk Evans has started recording a series of screen casts for Channel 9 on SharePoint Development. They are great for getting started with the tools and the development environment. Kirk’s first screencast shows building a simple web part with the Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint (VSeWSS). Kirk’s second screencast shows building a low level feature with VSeWSS. Cool how he fixes a bug in his code during the screencast. For More Information: VSeWSS v1.3 March 2008 CTP [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 25th '09 |
Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint (VSeWSS) 1.3 addresses all common SharePoint Developer requests
Paul Andrew
We have worked hard to listen and respond to the feedback from SharePoint Developers on VSeWSS. After VSeWSS 1.2 released in July 2008 we went out and talked to lots of SharePoint Developers about what they liked and didn't like about developing with VSeWSS. All of the new features in VSeWSS 1.3 are as a result of customer feedback, and there are lots of them. We just finished the VSeWSS 1.3 March 2009 CTP which released a couple of days ago. Read about the new features in the release notes and [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 19th '09 |
Easy Installation of Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint (VSeWSS) 1.3
Paul Andrew
The new version of the Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint 1.3 include some changes to support install on x64 OS. Specifically it creates a WCF web service that is required to run in x64 and communication with x64 SharePoint. The x86 Visual Studio 2008 makes calls to this web service to do certain SharePoint operations.
The web service is secured so it can only be called by Visual Studio 2008 running on the same machine. We also do not automatically give the web service the required per [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 18th '09 |
MyRampUp.com has new SharePoint Developer Training and Benefits
Paul Andrew
Ramp Up (www.MyRampUp.com) is a free online learning program for developers. We’ve just launched a new track: SharePoint for Developers, Part 2. This track, along with the other currently offered ones (eg, Visual Studio 2008), teaches the important skills in a guided path, making the learning process easier and more efficient. The easy-to-access video, written and hands-on content (provided by subject-matter gurus) is specifically tailored for the Ramp Up program, and offered in a variety of f [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 18th '09 |
Microsoft SharePoint Developer Forum Challenge - March, April and May 2009
Paul Andrew
We want you to answer other peoples questions in the MSDN SharePoint Developer Forum. For the months of March, April and May during 2009 we are running a little challenge for people answering questions on the MSDN SharePoint Developer Forum. For each...(read more) [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 27th '09 |
The Application Cannot Start - Thanks Alex Riley
Paul Andrew
I had a problem with a virtual machine I'm building for a demo today and after some time getting frustrated, I did a search and found Alex Riley's blog . Visual Studio 2008 reported this error "The Application Cannot Start" on startup when run as Administrator,...(read more) [read].
Posted: Wed, Feb 25th '09 |
VSeWSS 1.3 Feb 2009 CTP Released
Paul Andrew
This week we released an updated CTP of VSeWSS 1.3 here . Let us know your feedback on the Connect Site or on the MSDN SharePoint Developer Forum . Also today Soma blogged on the Visual Studio 2010 tools for SharePoint and ComputerWorld wrote an article...(read more) [read].
Posted: Sat, Feb 21st '09 |
More SharePoint Developer Best Practice Updates
Paul Andrew
Recently I blogged about Microsoft's publishing of the SharePoint Dispose Checker tool and the update to the SharePoint Dispose Best Practices Guidance . Also recently we published the Application Lifecycle Management Resource Center for SharePoint ....(read more) [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 9th '09 |
SharePoint Development and Application Lifecycle Management
Paul Andrew
We just released the Application Lifecycle Management Resource Center for SharePoint Server . Here you can find answers to common questions about Application Lifecycle Management with SharePoint such as: Team Development Source Code Control Automated...(read more) [read].
Posted: Sun, Feb 1st '09 |
SPDisposeCheck v1.3.1 is released
Paul Andrew
SPDisposeCheck is a tool to help SharePoint Developers follow memory management best practices when using the SharePoint API with IDisposable objects including SPSite and SPWeb. This tool is not supported by Microsoft and is recommended to be used on...(read more) [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 30th '09 |
SharePoint Best Practices Conference in London from April 6th to 8th
Paul Andrew
Unfortunately I'm not getting to this one, but I look forward to hearing about how it goes. Sharing best practices for SharePoint is an important area right now. SharePoint Best Practices Conference comes to London From April the 6 th to the 8 th 2009...(read more) [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 23rd '09 |
Released Today: Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint 1.3 Community Technology Preview
Paul Andrew
I am very excited to announce that we completed release processes last week for the CTP of VSeWSS 1.3 (or the Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint. Check the SharePoint team blog for the list of new features . The release is feature complete and...(read more) [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 12th '09 |
Position Open - Six Month Contract SharePoint Technical Product Manager
Paul Andrew
We have an open position on the SharePoint Technical Product Management team at Microsoft for a contract product manager. This is an awesome opportunity that involves working with the latest in SharePoint technologies, working with some of the smartest...(read more) [read].
Posted: Fri, Dec 19th '08 |
VSeWSS Error Message: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Paul Andrew
If you are using the Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services for the first time you may see this error when you attempt to deploy. Object reference not set to an instance of an object. This will be listed as on line 1 when you try...(read more) [read].
Posted: Fri, Dec 5th '08 |
New Online SharePoint Ramp-Up Training
Paul Andrew
Check it out here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/rampup/dd221355.aspx...(read more) [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 18th '08 |
Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint : Project Templates or Item Templates
Paul Andrew
Probably the first thing you play with in the Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint is to create a web part. The default project naming can take a little to get used to however. Here's the common path that leads to confusion: Create your first...(read more) [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 18th '08 |
SharePoint October 2008 Update
Paul Andrew
Joe Rodgers keeps a blog identifying the latest updates available for SharePoint. The October 2008 hotfix package is the latest set of updates now. The KB articles have good descriptions of the included patches....(read more) [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 17th '08 |
My talk at TechEd Developers EMEA Today
Paul Andrew
My talk today in Barcelona was a walkthrough building a SharePoint solution with the Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint. The bits for the solution are available here ....(read more) [read].
Posted: Thu, Nov 13th '08 |
SPDisposeCheck SharePoint Developer tool announced today
Paul Andrew
We announced a new developer tool today which is planned for release during the North American Winter. Read about SPDisposeCheck on the SharePoint team blog ....(read more) [read].
Posted: Thu, Nov 13th '08 |
Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint Announced at TechEd EMEA Developers 2008
Paul Andrew
I’m here at TechEd EMEA in Barcelona, Spain and Jason Zander (General Manager for Visual Studio) has just finished presenting the keynote. In the keynote he announced and did a demo of the Visual Studio 2010 tools for SharePoint. Here’s a quick summary...(read more) [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 10th '08 |
Two Great New SharePoint Developer Resources
Paul Andrew
Lots of work has gone into the new Patterns and Practices SharePoint Guidance. I'm very excited to see this content released and recommend it as required reading for all SharePoint Developers. Read Blaines announcement here . And read the guidance documents...(read more) [read].
Posted: Wed, Nov 5th '08 |
More discussion on VSeWSS
Paul Andrew
I'm quoted here...(read more) [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 4th '08 |
SharePoint Developer Tools Vendors, Join the Visual Studio Industry Partner Program (VSIP)
Paul Andrew
If you build SharePoint Developer Tools, you should investigate the Visual Studio Industry Partner Program . There is lots of value in the program for Developer Tools vendors and SharePoint Developer Tools vendors can be part of it. Also, if you build...(read more) [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 9th '08 |
SharePoint at the Microsoft PDC 2008
Paul Andrew
I'll be at the Microsoft PDC 2008 and I hope to see you there. if you're going, please come to some of our SharePoint talks. In fact, go and add them to your My Sessions now and make us more popular. There will be a Hands on Lab you can try at the show...(read more) [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 9th '08 |
Calling a WCF Service from SharePoint
Paul Andrew
My colleague Michael Washam posted a nice article about how to call a WCF web service from a SharePoint Web Part using Javascript. How to call a WCF web service from SharePoint ....(read more) [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 9th '08 |
MSSharePointDeveloper downloads updated
Paul Andrew
The introduction to SharePoint Development site has been up for four months now and we just posted an update to three of the downloads. Downloadable WSS Dev VPC Image - This has been updated to Visual Studio 2008 (previously Visual Studio 2005). It's...(read more) [read].
Posted: Sat, Sep 20th '08 |
Software Development Times article on SharePoint Development
Paul Andrew
I got quoted in this article about SharePoint Development....(read more) [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 17th '08 |
SharePoint Developer FAQ - Got Questions?
Paul Andrew
We've started a SharePoint Developer FAQ on the new MSDN Forums. Do you have questions and you can't find answers perhaps the FAQ will help. http://forums.msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/sharepointdevelopment/thread/5834679b-482b-4924-b881-fa2146840d05 You can...(read more) [read].
Posted: Sat, Aug 30th '08 |
Alltop Blog Aggregation for SharePoint
Paul Andrew
Looking for a good collection of SharePoint blogs. Here's one which list lots of them. Cool new service from Guy Kawasaki....(read more) [read].
Posted: Sat, Aug 30th '08 |
Need SharePoint Web Hosting?
Paul Andrew
Here's a place I came across which provides Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hosting. http://www.123together.com/SharePoint/...(read more) [read].
Posted: Sat, Aug 30th '08 |
New SharePoint Site Published - WorleyParsons
Paul Andrew
www.WorleyParsons.com was developed by SSW Sydney Web Design. But it's not just any SharePoint site. The team who built it tried some enterprising new development practices for streamlining their application lifecycle management with Visual Studio 2008...(read more) [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 29th '08 |
Updated SharePoint SDK 1.4
Paul Andrew
See Randall Isenhours blog entry about the updated SharePoint SDK documentation....(read more) [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 29th '08 |
New language support for Visual Studio extensions for SharePoint
Paul Andrew
The Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint are downloadable here . They have been available in English and today we added Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Japanese and Korean. We expect to add French, German, Italian and Spanish in the...(read more) [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 26th '08 |
Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint 1.2 and x64 Development Environments
Paul Andrew
There has been lots of talk of using x64 servers for SharePoint. So naturally there has also been lots of talk about using x64 for SharePoint development environments. Currently the Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, v1.2...(read more) [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 15th '08 |
Conchango and Equiniti Case Study of Visual Studio Team System development for SharePoint
Paul Andrew
Here's a case study I came across of a successful development using Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server for SharePoint Development....(read more) [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 15th '08 |
Reza Alirezaei Blogs on SharePoint Development on Virtual PCs
Paul Andrew
I'm a fan of Virtual PC development for SharePoint and Reza has written a new blog series outlining a great way to leverage some of the wok we've done at Microsoft on trial VPC images. http://blogs.devhorizon.com/reza/?p=636...(read more) [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 12th '08 |
Microsoft Patterns and Practices Moves on SharePoint
Paul Andrew
The patterns and practices group at Microsoft have made their first release of SharePoint Developer Guidance . It is listed as "not even Alpha" so may not be exactly what you're looking for just yet. It would be really helpful to get feedback about the...(read more) [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 1st '08 |
Redmond Developer News links to my new SharePoint Developer site
Paul Andrew
Michael Desmond of Redmond Developer News published an article linking to my new SharePoint Developer Introduction web site . The purpose of the site is to help .NET Developers who want to learn SharePoint development. If you think learning SharePoint...(read more) [read].
Posted: Sun, Jun 22nd '08 |
I am presenting at the .NET Users Group in Wellington next week
Paul Andrew
If you're in Wellington and want to hear a bit about SharePoint development please come along. Details here: http://www.dot.net.nz/Default.aspx?tabid=30&mid=418&ctl=Detail&xmid=3544&xmfid=2 I'll be demoing Visual Studio 2008 development...(read more) [read].
Posted: Fri, Jun 20th '08 |
MSSharePointDeveloper Content
Paul Andrew
Please visit http://MSSharePointDeveloper.com instead of this blog post. All of this information is available and much easier to navigate at http://MSSharePointDeveloper.com/ but if you don't have Silverlight installed you can get most of the content...(read more) [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 11th '08 |
New Introductory SharePoint web site for .NET Developers
Paul Andrew
Woo hoo. We launched http://MSSharePointDevelopers.com this week to coincide with TechEd Developers in Orlando, Florida. There's lots of material for .NET developers who want to see what building applications on SharePoint is like up there. Please send...(read more) [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 5th '08 |
TechEd Developers USA
Paul Andrew
My presentation at TechEd Developers this year was OFC202 Introduction to SharePoint Development with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. A previous version of the demo solutoin is here: http://blogs.msdn.com/cjohnson/archive/2008/02/13/office-developers-conference-2008-ser325-sitefeed-demo-session-files.aspx...(read more) [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 5th '08 |
SharePoint Firestarter Event in Redmond, Washington
Paul Andrew
Next month on June 11 th 2008 I'm presenting at this public event on the Microsoft campus. Come along if you want to get an overview of SharePoint development. I will be giving two talks there. One is a full on demo session going over different things...(read more) [read].
Posted: Mon, May 19th '08 |
SharePoint Developer MSDN Web Cast Series
Paul Andrew
We're doing lots of things around introductory SharePoint development for .NET developers over the next few months. Here is the schedule for a series of MSDN web casts on 10 introductory SharePoint development topics for .NET developers. If you are a...(read more) [read].
Posted: Tue, May 13th '08 |
Announcing: Visual Studio extensions for SharePoint – Developer User Guide
Paul Andrew
I'm pleased to announce the release of the User Guide, Samples and Walkthroughs for the Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, v1.1 . The Visual Studio 2005 extensions for SharePoint were released back in Feb 2008 and an update...(read more) [read].
Posted: Mon, May 12th '08 |
Getting Started with SharePoint Development
Paul Andrew
How do I get started working as a Professional Developer on SharePoint? Here's a brief outline of the options. First you need to have prerequisite skills in .NET Development and in particular ASP.NET Development. SharePoint is built on those technologies...(read more) [read].
Posted: Thu, May 1st '08 |
David Isbitski - SharePoint Development - Making Sense of it all
Paul Andrew
Watch Davids take by screencast on SharePoint Development Part 1 - http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=373280 Part 2 - http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=373289 In the video he's using the Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows...(read more) [read].
Posted: Sat, Apr 26th '08 |
Pegasus Imaging Releases Workflow Activities for WF and SharePoint
Paul Andrew
If you are involved in document imaging with SharePoint or on a Windows Workflow Foundation application that you are building then this may be useful. Pegasus Imaging has released a set of WF activities compatible with Windows Workflow Foundation and...(read more) [read].
Posted: Sat, Apr 26th '08 |
Choosing the right workflow tool for your project
Paul Andrew
Kris Horrocks and I gave a talk about this at TechEd US last year. The talk described a dozen different scenarios where you need some enterprise application integration and workflow. For each scenario we discuss different types of customer needs and whether...(read more) [read].
Posted: Sat, Apr 26th '08 |
Values possible for PropertyName in SPMobileFieldPropertyLabel for SharePoint mobile development
Paul Andrew
I was recently asked what the valid values are for this property. This is what I heard back from the development team. Hopefully it is useful to some other SharePoint developers also. SPMobileFieldPropertyLabel Members (PropertyName and FormatString)...(read more) [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 22nd '08 |
SharePoint Connections Talk on Visual Studio 2005 extensions for SharePoint
Paul Andrew
I did my first public talk on SharePoint today :-) I'm here at the SharePoint Connections Spring 2008 conference . My talk was mostly a long demo showing how to use the Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, v1.1 . The demo...(read more) [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 21st '08 |
SharePoint SDK Additional Detail Being Added
Paul Andrew
We have been working to get more detail in the SDK for Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. To use this additional documentation you have to use the online documentation rather than the downloaded WSS SSDK and the MOSS SDK . We will also work...(read more) [read].
Posted: Sat, Apr 19th '08 |
SharePoint does support .NET Framework 3.5
Paul Andrew
Yes, SharePoint does support .NET Framework 3.5 on the machine so you can use the latest .NET features in your SharePoint application. You can get confirmation on TechNet here ....(read more) [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 18th '08 |
SharePoint is a Great Development Platform
Paul Andrew
I think it's great because it extends .NET with the same API's and the same Developer Tools. It's great because it has lots of end user functionality out of the box for developers to extend. It's great at being an Office content server and integrating...(read more) [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 17th '08 |
Moving to Windows Server 2008
Paul Andrew
Now that I'm working full time on SharePoint I wanted to move my environment to be more in line with SharePoint. What does this mean? SharePoint doesn't install on Windows Vista which I've been using for my two work machines so I've gone and reinstalled...(read more) [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 15th '08 |
New Guidance Article on SharePoint Security for Developers
Paul Andrew
Reza Alirezaei has just had published a great overview of security considerations for SharePoint Developers . Looks like a good resource that I can refer people to on the SharePoint MSDN Developer Forums . BTW You're invited to come help answer questions...(read more) [read].
Posted: Sun, Apr 13th '08 |
Presenting on SharePoint Developer with Visual Studio 2005
Paul Andrew
I have a talk next week at SharePoint Connections 2008 . I'll be talking on SharePoint Development using Visual Studio 2005 and the Visual Studio 2005 extenstions for Windows SharePoint Services. It's over in Orlando, Florida. Here's a link to the sessions...(read more) [read].
Posted: Sun, Apr 13th '08 |
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