Feb15

SharePoint Services Reference

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]
Published: Feb-15-10 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Jan30

BDC Presentation in Austin Feb 10th

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]
Published: Jan-30-10 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Jan30

SharePoint 2010 Virtual Machine Downloads from Microsoft

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]
Published: Jan-30-10 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Nov23

A SharePoint 2010 Install Experience

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]
Published: Nov-23-09 | 1 Comment | 0 Links to this post

Oct20

Create a SharePoint Custom Action Feature with VSeWSS

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]
Published: Oct-20-09 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Aug03

What goes in the the type element of a .webpart file?

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]
Published: Aug-03-09 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Jan13

SharePoint Unit Testing Guidance and Typemock

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]
Published: Jan-13-09 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Dec18

Custom Field Type Webcast from San Antonio SharePoint User Group

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]
Published: Dec-18-08 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Nov21

Two Topics: SharePoint Hands On Labs and SharePointReview.com

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]
Published: Nov-21-08 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post