Andrew Connell - Development

Looking Ahead to 2010 - New Year's Resolutions

Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:03 AM

What better way to hold yourself accountable than to publically state what your New Year’s Resolutions are?

SharePoint 2010 Developer Documentation / Resources

Monday, November 2, 2009 5:10 AM

If you didn’t notice, MSDN went live with a special SharePoint 2010 Beta Developer Center last week.

Allowing a host machine to talk to guest VM's in Hyper-V (and vice versa)

Wednesday, September 30, 2009 3:37 AM

Those of us who use Hyper-V for development know of the challenge we face when we try to copy files or talk to the guest virtual machine or have the guest VM access the host machine.

Do you use music to zone out and be productive?

Friday, April 17, 2009 9:36 AM

For years I’ve always used music to get myself into the zone and be as productive as possible.

Sneak Peaks into SharePoint Developer Tools in Visual Studio 2010

Thursday, February 19, 2009 2:13 PM

Check out Soma’s post first, then check out Reza on Channel9 talking about the new SharePoint developer tools that we’ll get in Visual Studio 2010.

Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) - Very slick, but is it just me?

Tuesday, February 17, 2009 1:09 PM

The Managed Extensibility Framework, aka MEF, is this new library Microsoft has been working on that is used in many places to provide a common plugin like capability.

MSDN Roadshow - Tiki Hut Tour coming to JAX! jQuery, Azure, Data Services... some good dev lovin!

Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:10 AM

The MSDN Roadshow is coming to JAX… this time it’s called the Tiki Hut. Microsoft evangelists Joe Healy and Jeff Barnes will be presenting.

SPDisposeCheck - This should be in EVERY SharePoint developer's toolbox

Thursday, January 29, 2009 8:40 AM

[via Paul Andrew] Today Microsoft released a tool on MSDN Code Gallery called SPDisposeCheck. It will look at your code in a SharePoint to make sure you are properly disposing objects to ensure you aren’t consuming more memory than you need to be.

Triple Boot Goodness on MacBook Pro... now running Vista x64 native AND virtual!

Friday, November 28, 2008 7:01 AM

[via Spencer Harbar] A while back I posted about how I followed Spence’s slick triple boot instructions to setup a MacOS Leopard, Vista x64 & Windows Server 2008 install.