Many SharePoint developers have come from a background with ASP.NET and so most are familiar with the Membership Provider concept.  SharePoint uses ASP.NET at its core the membership providers you have build for custom web applications can be used i ...[Read More]

I have just released completed work on STSDev 2008 Version 2.0.1 which provides a number of fixes to the original 2.0 version.   Fixes In STSDev 2008 the attempt was made to read through the project file and find all the “dependent” assemblies so ...[Read More]

During a recent project I was leveraging the SharePoint Lists Web Service to retrieve information from a list and push it to a Silverlight display.  The list I was using was a heavily customized list with about 35 different views and at least as m ...[Read More]

I’ve been working with WCF and SharePoint 2007 and ran across an issue.  The scenario is an Account Registration process which allows the user to request access to “protected” sites within a portal.  This solution blends some jQuery and WCF using ...[Read More]

In preparing for a demo I wanted to show just how easy and powerful Document Sets in SharePoint 2010 can be.  Using the Public Beta I followed Liam Cleary’s steps to enable documents sets, but realized that an empty Document Set really doesn’t hel ...[Read More]

I recently ran the SharePoint 2010 installer, still in Beta, and had no issues during the installation.  My system was configured as a Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit with a separate Domain Controller.  This was a “clean” server so nothing else was ...[Read More]

SharePoint 2010 will not be the only new product to see when you attend the Microsoft Conference in Las Vegas. MicroLink will also take this opportunity to demonstrate the next phase of corporate information discovery. DiscoverPoint will be a new ...[Read More]

Recently I have been working on a Google Maps integration for SharePoint and one of the desired capabilities was to include items from SharePoint lists on the map.  The solution was not going to leverage the AJAX .NET capabilites and would instea ...[Read More]

Microsoft announced today a security Patch release for systems running Visual Studio.  The patch effects an issue in ATL that could allow remote code to execute.  This patch will be pushed using the standard Windows Updates to users with that servic ...[Read More]

I wrote a while ago about doing some testing with Windows 7 Beta and how I was excited about the new features, interface, etc.  I also expressed a concern as many other did about the “Versions” of Windows 7 Microsoft may make available.  Well, it ...[Read More]