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Todd’s Speaking Schedule at SPTechCon Boston
Todd Bleeker
Wednesday, June 1 8:30-5:00: W-2 SharePoint 101 The Developer Back Bay A This session is a day-long overview of development on the SharePoint 2010 platform. Increasingly, organizations are developing SharePoint based solutions. This workshop is designed to give developers basic and intermediate information about how to leverage the SharePoint platform to create enterprise SharePoint applications. Ideally, attendees will already have some SharePoint end user experience, be familiar with Visual St [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 1st '11 |
Todd’s Speaking Schedule at Tech Ed 2011
Todd Bleeker
Come find me at any of the 7 sessions I'm doing this year at Tech Ed 2011. Monday 6:45-7:05PM (Microsoft SharePoint Best Practices Booth) Using Training for SharePoint Adoption Monday 7:15-7:35PM (Microsoft SharePoint Best Practices Booth) SharePoint Adoption for Devs Tuesday 8:30-9:45AM (Room B203) Windows PowerShell, the Power of the Pipe: OSP382-INT (Interactive Discussion) Windows, Microsoft Active Directory, SQL Server, Exchange and now SharePoint use a common administrative environment [read].
Posted: Mon, May 16th '11 |
Extracting EXEs into ISOs Save Time and Space
Todd Bleeker
A lot of software must be run from the context of a VM's local drive. For instance, Microsoft Office, SharePoint 2010 (including many of the pre-requisites), SharePoint Designer, SharePoint Workspace all require a local extraction just to name a few . That often means copying very large EXEs to the VM that subsequently extract to very large folders on the virtualized C: drive of the VM. After the install is complete, these large folders can be cleaned up to recoup the space but the entire proces [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 8th '10 |
Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Project SPIs
Todd Bleeker
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Posted: Tue, Aug 24th '10 |
Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Projects SPIs
Todd Bleeker
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Posted: Tue, Aug 24th '10 |
Community Kit for SharePoint : Development Tools Edition (CKS:DEV) Version 1.1 Released
Todd Bleeker
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Posted: Sun, Aug 1st '10 |
Is that a SharePoint 2010 Site?
Todd Bleeker
div class=ExternalClass838D4103419D43ED8527E05F5CC503BEpfont size=2For years now I've used a simple technique for identifying public facing SharePoint 2003/2007 sites. I type /fonta href="http://[domain]/_layouts/images/CPVW.GIF"font size=2http://[domain]strong/_layouts/images/CPVW.GIF/strong/font/afont size=2 into my browser which displays the a href="http://www.lipsum.com/" target="_blank"Lorem ipsum/a image by default when SharePoint is installed:/font/p pfont size=2a href="http://en.wikipedi [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 7th '10 |
Performant Iteration of an SPListItemCollection
Todd Bleeker
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Posted: Fri, Jul 2nd '10 |
Twin Cities SharePoint Saturday
Todd Bleeker
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Posted: Thu, Mar 18th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 Evaluation VHD with Visual Studio 2010 and Office 2010
Todd Bleeker
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Posted: Tue, Jan 26th '10 |
Community Kit for SharePoint: Development Tools Edition – CKS:DEV
Todd Bleeker
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Posted: Sun, Jan 17th '10 |
Pew Research News Quiz
Todd Bleeker
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Posted: Sun, Jan 17th '10 |
Exploring the SharePoint 2010 JavaScript ClientOM
Todd Bleeker
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Posted: Sun, Jan 10th '10 |
Initial SharePoint 2010 Guidance from Patterns and Practices
Todd Bleeker
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Posted: Fri, Jan 8th '10 |
Abbreviating SharePoint Products and Technologies 2010
Todd Bleeker
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Posted: Fri, Jan 8th '10 |
Some SharePoint 2010 User Interface Terms
Todd Bleeker
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Posted: Fri, Jan 8th '10 |
Use SharePoint 2010 ClientOM to Show a Generated GUID as Toast in the Notification Area
Todd Bleeker
div class=ExternalClassB276EFA97D1341F6A0A23A1726B947A8pfont size=2 face=ConsolasDrop the following script into a Content Editor Web Part:/font/p blockquote pfont size=2 face=Consolaslt;scriptgt;brExecuteOrDelayUntilScriptLoaded(ShowGuid, quot;font color="#808080"SP.js/fontquot;); /font pfont size=2 face=Consolasfont color="#0000ff"function/font ShowGuid(){br SP.UI.Notify.addNotification(SP.Guid.newGuid().toString());br}brlt;/scriptgt;/font/p/blockquote pfont size=2 face=Consolaslt;Todd /gt;/f [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 7th '10 |
Note To Self: Reading and Writing Plain Text Email Messages in Outlook 2007
Todd Bleeker
div class=ExternalClassB2E7C615392A4A5BA55600D06194E811pfont size=2 face=Consolasa href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3506/4071039051_2ba6e3a0c1_o.png"img style="border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;display:inline;margin-left:0px;border-top:0px;margin-right:0px;border-right:0px" title=PlainText border=0 alt=PlainText align=left src="/Todd/Lists/Posts/Attachments/17/PlainText_3_2F71B495.png" width=247 height=177/aFor years now I've been reading and writing messages in Outlook using plain text emai [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 2nd '09 |
My Hyper-V VM Cursor Displays as Just a Dot
Todd Bleeker
div class=ExternalClass287565B458454212B3903D7D59F30B58pfont size=2 face=conimg style="display:inline;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px" align=right src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2781/4060633177_69d5d88862_o.jpg" width=115 height=157Ever had the cursor in your Hyper-V Virtual Machine (VM) not render as an Arrow or an I-beam but simply as a dot?/font/p pfont size=2 face=conimg style="display:inline;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px" align=left src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2617/40606331 [read].
Posted: Sat, Oct 31st '09 |
Microsoft Security Essentials
Todd Bleeker
If you have used Windows Defender and/or Windows One Care in the past, the long wait for the new, free Windows Security Essentials is finally here: http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/ Now to go replace AVG and Windows Defender on all the desktops I’ve maintained over the years. Yikes! [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 1st '09 |
SharePoint Post Build Events
Todd Bleeker
For those of you that want the simplest possible way to deploy SharePoint artifacts from your Visual Studio 2005/2008 projects to the locations where Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS v3) needs them without installing any external tools or altering Visual Studio, here is the entire corpus of my Post Build Events for the development deployment of all types of SharePoint artifacts: :: Change directory to the root of the project cd "$(ProjectDir)" :: Recycle the application pool :: IIS6: REM %w [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 4th '09 |
slooF lirpA Web Part
Todd Bleeker
One of my favorite SharePoint April Fools gags is to alter the direction that HTML is displayed on a popular SharePoint page. I've encapsulated that code into a simple Content Editor Web Part I've called slooF lirpA (April Fools backwards). Download the slooF lirpA Web Part DWP and Import it onto a SharePoint page to see this kind of result: [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 1st '09 |
Open Web Solution Packages (WSP CABs) in Windows Explorer
Todd Bleeker
Wouldn't it be nice if you could double click on a Web Solution Package (WSP) CAB in Windows Explorer and it would open just as if it had a CAB extension. This can be done by simply associating any file with a WSP extension to open in the Cabinet File Viewer Shell Extension. The net requirement is just a few Windows Registry entries: Windows Registry Entries 1: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 2: 3: [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.wsp] 4: @="CLSID\\{0CD7A5C0-9F37-11CE-AE65-08002B2E1262}" 5: "In [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 18th '09 |
Add an Essential Toolbar to the 12 Hive on the Windows Startbar
Todd Bleeker
A few years ago, I described how to add this toolbar to the Windows Startbar in my book: Developer's Guide to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 But, it bears repeating here. The 12 Hive is where anything and everything SharePoint gets it genesis. You may note that this it the tag line for my blog. The 12 Hive is located on the file system of each server where SharePoint is installed at C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\. The 12 Hive contains the definition of [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 18th '09 |
Get Public Key Token of Strong Named (Signed) Assembly Using VS.NET Tools Menu
Todd Bleeker
I've been explaining this tip in Mindsharp’s SharePoint Developer training for years and I've had people ask me repeatedly to blog it, so here goes. Both Visual Studio (VS.NET) 2005 and 2008 make it quite easy to sign .NET assemblies with a strong name key (SNK) public key/private key pair directly from the Properties of the project. However, after the assembly is compiled, nothing in the default VS.NET IDE can obtain the public key that was embedded within the assembly. So, the command-line [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 17th '09 |
FREE Unified Communications Poster
Todd Bleeker
Are you using Microsoft’s Unified Communications (UC) or even just Office Communication Server (OCS)? Check out the new poster that Russ Kaufmann over at Mindsharp has cooked up: "This poster that will help administrators understand the big picture when it comes to Microsoft’s Unified Communications implementation. The poster shows the placement of each server role, clients, and the communications methods used. For the firewall team, it is a great visual, and it provides all of the rules [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 24th '09 |
Preferred SharePoint Development Tool
Todd Bleeker
I know it won't produce a definitive answer, but I'm taking an unscientific poll to determine which SharePoint Development Tool reigns supreme: Single Question Survey Survey Results Thus Far [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 24th '09 |
Get 40% Off the SharePoint Business Data Catalog (BDC) Book (but only if you hurry)
Todd Bleeker
My good friends Brett Lonsdale and Nick Swan (the guys behind Lightning Tools) have completed their book on the SharePoint Business Data Catalog (BDC). The book has just finished Technical Review and is now available for purchase directly from Manning. The book goes into detail on BDC Security, BDC Search, BDC Business Data Columns, BDC Object Model, OBA, BDC Web Services, and of course the Application Definition File (ADF). This is the only book available on the BDC. Until March 02, 2009, you [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 23rd '09 |
SharePoint Pod Show
Todd Bleeker
Earlier this month while I was speaking at the SharePoint Best Practices Conference in beautiful San Diego when I ran into Brett Lonsdale (who was also speaking at the event). Brett asked me if I had some time to answer a few impromptu questions. I agreed and he recorded my responses here: Custom SharePoint Field Types, Great SharePoint Debugging Techniques, and SPDispose Check-Episode 16 Keith Dahlby found one of my tips helpful and he documented it here: Add SPDisposeCheck to VS External Tools [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 23rd '09 |
"I'm just not sure how well this plan was thought through"
Todd Bleeker
Hello, yeah, it's been a whileNot much, how 'bout youI'm not sure why I [blogged]I guess I really just wanted to talk to youAnd I was thinking maybe later onWe could get together for a whileIt's been such a long timeAnd I really do miss your smile...
The last few months have kind of been like a hangover from my book and courseware writing. I really didn't want to write anything that I didn't have to write. Metaphorically, I've had my coffee and I'm ready to warm up the keyboard again. [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 14th '07 |
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