Here you’ll find articles I’ve written on various topics, including Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, and related topics for web & cloud developers.
A few months back I blogged about a free utility available for download on the Critical Path Training site called the SharePoint Site Collection Keep Alive Utility. What is it? I quote from that post: …
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again that I think one of the most important areas of improvement and innovation in the latest release of SharePoint is in the area of Enterprise …
An article I worked on recently has been published in the latest issue of the SharePoint Pro Connections magazine. This is a little exciting as of all the articles I’ve had published, this is …
With the release of SharePoint Server 2010 to RTM, everyone wants to create their own virtual machine. The process may not be as straightforward as some expect. We at Critical Path Training have …
An article I worked on has recently been published on MSDN. The article, Creating Custom SharePoint Server 2010 Field Types and Field Controls with Silverlight 3, demonstrates how to create a custom …
In a previous post I mentioned that when we (Critical Path Training) make changes to a course we have to update a lot of PowerPoint presentations. We then print these out as PDF’s to generate …
Recently I’ve been working on a tool to automate a tedious process I go through every once in a while that takes about 2-3 hours. When we (Critical Path Training) make an update to one of our …
Beware: this is going to be my longest blog post so far, and hopefully ever… this is my story about getting stranded in Europe due to the Iceland volcano. A few weeks ago I embarked on what I …
For those who build custom Internet facing SharePoint Web Content Management sites, which means they are likely anonymous, one of the most frustrating things was trying to implement a custom error …
Recently I went to Norway to teach a private SharePoint Designer 2010 class to a consulting firm in Trondheim, Norway; Enable AS. The Saturday after the course I planned to fly over to London to …
Unfortunately due to the travel issues surrounding the volcano in Iceland, I will not be able to attend or present at the SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference (#spevo) this coming week in London. I …
For those of you who are familiar with my SharePoint Warmup Job utility from SharePoint 2007, this is the new version rewritten for SharePoint 2010 that fixes some bugs & adds a few new features. …
Recently I ran into a little challenge recently on a Silverlight 3 project using the SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model (ClientOM). I wanted to bind a collection of list items I was getting back from …
Sometimes throughout the course of your work you find something that just makes you wonder what the heck the developers were thinking. Recently that was me and working with the SalesForce Web Service …
Regardless of how long I’ve been working with SharePoint, I have always had to go back to the CAML reference in the WSS v3.0 SDK for the CAML reference for syntax and such. This could be found …
An article I worked on has recently been published on MSDN. The article, SharePoint Administrator’s and Developer’s Guide to Code Access Security, introduces CAS to SharePoint …
An article I worked on has recently been published on MSDN. The article, Designing and Developing High-Performance SharePoint Server 2007 Publishing Sites, explains some tips and tricks on getting the …
Seen the new dialog framework in SharePoint 2010? You know, when you want to create a new item in a list, a dialog appears. It’s actually real easy to create a new dialog… you just have …
By now you might have seen that SharePoint 2010 command line administration is all about PowerShell. STSADM is still around, but as far as most of us are concerned, it’s RIP! What’s …
When creating SharePoint 2007 solutions, such as custom application or site pages that include code behind files, you’re often stuck having to manually enter the fully qualified strong name …
Critical Path Trainings guide simplifies the set up process for SharePoint Server 2010 Beta 2, incl. Windows Server, SQL Server, Office & Visual Studio.
Encountered an issue while using Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 SharePoint tools for SharePoint 2010 code samples? Check out the author’s helpful solution.
OK, so technically it isn’t the official name, but we’re finally seeing some semblence of a name. As seasoned SharePoint developers know, you do a lot of work inside this nested location …
In SharePoint 2007 many customers provided lots of feedback to Microsoft… ok, they complained… that the markup generated by SharePoint 2007 (which also meant WSS 3.0 and ASP.NET 2.0) was …
At the SharePoint Conference in Vegas two weeks ago I co-presented a session with Chris Johnson from Microsoft on how to upgrade a SharePoint 2007 Publishing site to SharePoint Server 2010. We covered …