Troubleshooting SharePoint requires understanding the 8 Windows Services the platform depends on. Use this table to help identify services while researching issues. Also, pay attention to the account the service uses to run.   Security All of the ...[Read More]

If you are in the Austin area, don't miss my upcoming presentation to the Austin SharePoint User Group: ----------------------------------------------------------- Join us for the February 10th Meeting of the Central Texas SharePoint User Group! ...[Read More]

If you haven't already grabbed the new SharePoint 2010 Virtual Machine images from Microsoft's downloads, read Barb Mosher's Get SharePoint 2010 Up and Running with VM from Microsoft Barb writes an excellent summary of each VM's purpose and how y ...[Read More]

My friend and Co-worker, Rich Olivieri shares his experience with the new beta of SharePoint 2010 below. -Tom   -----------------------------------------------------------   My Approach to SharePoint 2010 beta Development Rich Olivieri, r ...[Read More]

If you are a SharePoint Developer and are not using Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services yet, please read Paul Andrew detail how VSeWSS 1.3 March 2009 CTP addresses all common SharePoint Developer requests. When you are u ...[Read More]

Creating a .webpart file Creating a Web Part for SharePoint is basically the same as creating a generic ASP.Net web part. One of the keys in ASP.Net webpart development is creating a webpart definition file with the extension .webpart. In SharePo ...[Read More]

Back in August, 21apps blog featured an article highlighting the Microsoft Patterns & Practices Guidance on SharePoint. It's an excellent resource. One of the first things on their list is Unit Testing. Andrew also highlights their video on un ...[Read More]

Travis Lingenfelder gave a presentation today by Live Meeting for the San Antonio SharePoint User Group in the place of a December meeting at a physical location. He explained and demoed the Regular Expression Validator example from Todd Bleeker' ...[Read More]

If you haven't gotten a chance to check out the recently updated Windows SharePoint Services Hands on Labs, you might be interested in their recent integration with Visual Studio 2008. Not only is it integrated with the new version of VS, it integ ...[Read More]