Here you’ll find articles I’ve written on various topics, including Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, and related topics for web & cloud developers.
This post is part of a series on SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata. The other posts in this series can be found here: SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata I’ve worked on a few books around …
This past week I did a session in London on customizing the SharePoint 2010 ribbon. It was a pretty deep session where I dug into a lot of the intricacies of modifying the ribbon with contextual tab …
I saw another blog post today where someone was showing how to use a delegate control to add the jQuery library to every page on a site. While that does work, there is a newer and much more elegant …
Ryan Duguid from Microsoft recently posted on the ECM Team Blog that Microsoft recently teamed up with WAND to make their General Business Taxonomy available as a free download. Very cool for those …
An article I worked very hard on has recently been published on MSDN. The article, Customizing and Extending the SharePoint 2010 Server Ribbon, is very long and a comprehensive companion to what …
A Visual How To (VHT) I worked on has recently been published on MSDN. The VHT, Creating Custom SharePoint Server 2010 Document Sets with Visual Studio 2010, helps you understand how to create …
A visual how to I worked on has recently been published on MSDN. The video, Creating Custom SharePoint 2010 Service Applications and Consumers, demonstrates how to create custom SharePoint 2010 …
An article I worked on has recently been published on MSDN. The article, Debugging and Logging Capabilities in SharePoint 2010 helps you learn about the new logging and debugging capabilities in …
An article I worked on has recently been published on MSDN. The article, Team-Based Development in SharePoint 2010, shows how to implement a team-environment custom development of SharePoint 2010 …
Now that we’ve got a bunch of books on the market and SharePoint 2010 has been out for a while, I think it’s time for another post like my SharePoint 2007 one that picked my favorite …
I’ve made secret about the fact I’m a huge fan of DevExpress’ Visual Studio productivity tools CodeRush & Refactor! Pro. A Visual Studio 2010 install isn’t complete until …
I’m working on a little tool for a project that’s based in Silverlight 4 and utilizes the DevExpress Data Grid AgDataGrid control. I really like this grid as it’s very easy to work …
An article I worked on has recently been published to MSDN. The article, Real World Branding with SharePoint Server 2010 Publishing Sites, walks designers through the process of creating a custom …
This post is part of a series on SharePoint 2010 ribbon development. The other posts in this series can be found here: SharePoint 2010 Ribbon Development Series In a few recent posts, I blogged about …
This post is part of a series on SharePoint 2010 ribbon development. The other posts in this series can be found here: SharePoint 2010 Ribbon Development Series In some of the recent work I’ve …
A visual how to I worked on has recently been published on MSDN. The screencast, Accessing SharePoint 2010 Data with the .NET Client Object Model, explains how to leverage the .NET implementation of …
This post is part of a series on SharePoint 2010 ribbon development. The other posts in this series can be found here: SharePoint 2010 Ribbon Development Series In my previous post I talked about how …
This post is part of a series on SharePoint 2010 ribbon development. The other posts in this series can be found here: SharePoint 2010 Ribbon Development Series The SharePoint SDK contains a good bit …
This post is part of a series on SharePoint 2010 ribbon development. The other posts in this series can be found here: SharePoint 2010 Ribbon Development Series When creating your own customizations …
A few days ago I posted my experience about learning MVVM and why I like it. Since then I’ve had a few comments & emails about the fact there are a ton of different MVVM toolkits out there. …
Over the past year I’ve spent a lot more time working with Silverlight and WPF (XAML) in building applications and samples for demos or for my own internal utilities. While cutting my teeth and …
In this article I am going to show you how to take a custom Publishing site you’ve created using Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) Web Content Management and upgrade it to a SharePoint …
Over the last year I’ve demonstrated a few times how to upgrade a SharePoint 2007 WCM site to SharePoint 2010 at various conferences such as the SharePoint Conference in October 2009 and TechEd …
The new support for LINQ in SharePoint 2010 makes it much easier to read and write data to/from SharePoint lists. The way it works is that you run a utility SPMETAL.EXE to generate the entity model …
Ever created a Web Part using the new Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Development Tools for a SharePoint 2010 site? Say you accept the default name, WebPart1. It creates the SharePoint Project Item …