Starting tomorrow, SharePoint Buzz is going to be holding a massive July SharePoint Giveaway.  Details will be included in our post tomorrow.  Everything from SharePoint Training DVDs, SharePoint Training Books to Software will be given away.  The giveaways have been either donated or won by yours truly! Figured since July, is my birthday mont ...[Read More]

Its been an interesting week.  I decided to finally purchase my own laptop.  Being the picky person I am, I decided it'd be great to purchase a new laptop for SharePoint Development.    Twittering To the Rescue I twittered my thoughts and had a dozen or so responses on what everyone thought was the best laptop for SharePoint Development.  Quite a ...[Read More]

Just wanted to do a quick post for items I must share: Congrats to Vertigo Software have being awarded Microsoft Web Development Partner of the Year for their work on Hard Rock application (go check it out)! From Chad Brooks blog post Enabling MOSS to use .Net 3.5 points to Presentation Model in SharePoint Learn how to do Tag Clouds via ShareP ...[Read More]

Had a collegue of mine who was working with the Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint and after installing one of the examples, received a Server Error. At first he could not view the error message, so I had my collegue turn on debugging.  After this, he was able to view the error properly. The error was: Parser Error Message: Could not l ...[Read More]

Even though we all know how insanely bad SharePoint 2007's HTML is, we still love it.  There's alot of customization you can do with SharePoint, if you don't believe me check out Ian's Top 100 websites list. For those SharePoint weekenders who love to read about SharePoint even on the weekend, here's a list of articles that we found interesting ...[Read More]

Microsoft has just released Silverlight 2 Beta 2 for download, if you can't wait scroll down and download! What’s New In Silverlight 2 Beta 2 There is a ton of new stuff shipping with Silverlight 2 Beta 2, including updates to some features that everyone loves. Some of the changes include: Tab Control – Yes they finally have a TabControl ...[Read More]

Here are some of the latest SharePoint links: Building a 2008 MOSS 2007 VM (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) - learn how to build a Windows 2008 machine with MOSS 2007 in this three part series.  Videos are also included Placing a link on the logo: You can make it happen! - an easy way to make the global title area the link for your logo EndUserSha ...[Read More]

I have been looking forward to this as many of you have. The Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools version 1.2 have been released; go ahead and download this (VSeWSSv12.exe) if you have Visual Studio 2008.  Thanks to the Chris Johnson (WSS PM) and the rest of the WSS team for the release! Here is what Version 1 ...[Read More]

For many of those that are planning, have deployed or are monitoring their SharePoint projects, Microsoft offers 3 SharePoint Solution Accelerators that will help your team in each of these areas. SharePoint Asset Inventory Tool - allows IT professionals to inventory all of the computers in the network and identify servers that have SharePoint in ...[Read More]

The huge rise of SharePoint is allowing Microsoft to drive adoption of SharePoint by Software Developers by launched a campaign to .NET Developers that they should Do Less, Get More. Develop on SharePoint. If you were ever thinking about becoming a SharePoint developer, now is a great time to do it. The Top Ten SharePoint topics being promoted a ...[Read More]