Here you’ll find articles I’ve written on various topics, including Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, and related topics for web & cloud developers.
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 …
How to upgrade a custom MOSS 2007 publishing site to SharePoint Server 2010 WCM with a database attach, using the Adventure Works Travel sample.
I documented my demo on upgrading a SharePoint 2007 WCM site to SharePoint 2010, featuring the Adventure Works Travel sample site.
SharePoint 2010’s LINQ support makes it easier to read/write data to/from lists. SPMETAL.EXE generates entity models for queries but has some limitations.
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 …
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: …
SharePoint Server 2010s ECM: A Vast Array of Topics for Managing Content Life Cycle incl. WCM, RM, DM, DAM, Web Analytics, EDiscovery, Metadata & more.
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 …