Here you’ll find articles I’ve written on various topics, including Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, and related topics for web & cloud developers.
In part 1 of this series I explained the reasoning and background on why I’m building a virtualization rig. In that post I included my experience with trying to get an OOTB Dell PowerEdge 2900 …
Early last year Scott Hanselman & Jeff Atwood set out to build the “Ultimate Developer PC” for Scott. It was an entertaining series of posts on both blogs (check out this post for …
Looking for some hard-core development training on building MOSS 2007 Web Content Management (WCM) / Publishing sites? I’ll be teaching my class, WCM401: Developing Publishing Sites with …
I’ve long needed a single source to point people to when it comes to debugging and logging in SharePoint. I’m sure someone will say “oh look at my post” in a comment when this …
This page provides resources for IT pros to help you plan and implement a Web Content Management (WCM) solution using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. TechNet: Web Content Management Resource …
My book, Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Sites with Office SharePoint Server 2007, is now available! If you’re at TechEd North America 2008 …
Subject says it all. Cape Canaveral is 140 miles south of my house. You can watch the shuttle launch on TV… wait about 5-10 seconds and then walk out in the front yard to see it streak across …
While I’m on this support kick, here’s another useful nugget… People commonly ask if they can use the Content Query Web Part (CQWP) in non-Publishing sites. Not surprising as it is …
WROX has published for purchase ($6.99 USD) a blox, a short paper (23ps) on the topic of Extending the MOSS Publishing HTML Editor Field Control that I wrote. I show you how to customize the OOTB …
Two more Visual How To’s are up on MSDN based off two popular articles on my blog. The first one is based off the process I like to use where developers can leverage something such as MSBuild to …
A while back I blogged a few posts about creating custom timer jobs (here, here, here and here) and last week I pointed to a new MSDN Visual How To that shows how to do the same thing. There is also …
For developers getting into the world of SharePoint development, it can be daunting at first. I’ve always felt the best way to get around this was to simplify the product; make SharePoint easier …
This page serves as the portal for all information related to the SharePoint Project Utility Visual Studio tool window I’ve created for developers using Visual Studio 2005 / 2008 with …
To many people this won’t be anything new. If you saw one of my talks at SharePoint Connections in Las Vegas last November, my sessions at the Office Developer Conference in San Jose in …
Back in January I blogged about two VHT’s I had been working on that were published on MSDN. Recently two more were published for WSS 3.0 developers: MSDN Visual How To: Adding Code-Behind Files …
As an author, I’ve created CR/R tools and am seeking feedback from users. My post includes a brief explanation of these tools.
The Content Query Web Part (CQWP) is an absolutely killer for MOSS 2007 Publishing sites. It is one of the best performing rollup Web Parts available to developers and should always be considered …
SharePoint v3 was the huge benefactor of the ASP.NET team taking the Web Part framework and adding it to the core ASP.NET 2.0. Since SharePoint is not now built on top of ASP.NET 2.0, it no longer has …
I want to share with you my approach to creating site definitions. I’ve received mixed reactions at events and would love to hear your thoughts.
Ronalus has posted on his blog links to the STSADMWin v3/2007 version. Many people loved this little v2 gem and have been begging for a v3 version. Nice to see those who want it have an option to use …
Two new Visual How To’s I’ve been working on have recently been posted on MSDN’s online help. Hopefully this will help you in your MOSS 2007 WCM Publishing Site development! Adding …
This recently bit me and after some investigation, I thought it would be good to put this information out there. Before Visual Studio 2008, you could build workflow templates with Visual Studio 2005 …
TechEd US to be split into two weeks, 1st week for dev & 2nd week for IT pros, but a dissenting voice thinks it’s a bad move.
Just finished updating my custom commands for MOSS WCM Publishing site developers. This update is long overdue… I know… my bad. Most importantly, the PublishAllItems command had bad …
When working in any of the myriad of SharePoint CAML files (*.xml) found in the 12 system folder, developers will always come to the point where they need to create a GUID. Unfortunately sometimes you …