Excited about SharePoint 2010?  I definitely am; that's why I have registered for the SharePoint Conference 2009. This will be THE conference to attend as this is the first time Microsoft will publicly be sharing information of what SharePoint 2010 has to offer.  As a registered member, I received a sneak peak into some of sessions that will be of ...[Read More]

An In-Depth Look at Developing Mobile Applications With Mobile Entrée Custom development for SharePoint can mean many things.  Workflows, master pages, business data catalog implementations, forms services, reporting capabilities, the list goes on and on.  Since 2003, the staple of custom SharePoint applications has been the custom WebPart.  Mobi ...[Read More]

I'm looking forward to presenting this weekend at SharePoint Saturday Chicago on Saturday, June 13, 2009.   Schedule (PDF) Sessions Thank you Sponsors Speakers Directions   I will presenting SharePoint Branding 101, SharePoint Branding is not impossible. Why deploy a SharePoint site that looks like every other SharePoint site. ...[Read More]

Pity the lowly folder. SharePoint document library folders are not feeling the love from all sides. The common argument is that they promote unorganized document management, make filtering difficult, hide content, provide a rigid hierarchy, and don’t take advantage of SharePoint’s strong and flexible metadata capabilities. Folders are horrible, ...[Read More]

I have the opportunity to speak at the next SharePoint Technology Conference; being held at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge (Boston) hotel this June 22-24, 2009.  As I present more and more in the United States, I  look forward to speaking at my first SPTech Conference. I hear the conference was a great success last year! I will be delivering the f ...[Read More]

If you aren't following us on twitter, here are some of the latest updates from the SharePoint Community: Jan Tielen writes on how to Determine the URL of SharePoint Web Services using jQuery/Javascript Learn how to step by step Rename your MOSS installed virtual machine (VPC / VMWare) Chris O'Brien speaks of SharePoint Optimization, BLOB c ...[Read More]

What is Branding?From our prespective, Branding helps you identify a company, product or service through the use of consistent logo, colors and text. Branding is the successful attempt to symbolicly embodiment of all the information connected to a company, product or service. [source: wikipedia]It's really that simple; however, it's the succes ...[Read More]

Check out the following posts by Waldek Mastykarz on using tables for layouts and other resources that give more information on this subject better way to obtain field values of an SPListItem using TryGetValue extension method tool to help SharePoint developers to deal with disposable objects in custom code Google has published Search Engin ...[Read More]

There's a new SharePoint Webcasts For Internet Site Development Series starting today. Be sure to register! MSDN Webcast: SharePoint Products and Technologies for Internet Site Development: Getting Started (Level 100) - Tuesday, December 2, 2008 - 11:00 A.M.–12:00 P.M. Pacific Time Set up an environment for developing Microsoft SharePoint Prod ...[Read More]

Page Anatomy (SharePoint Team Blog) - provides a breakdown of the different aspects of SharePoint 2007 pages Master Pages are an ASP.NET 2.0 feature that lets child pages inherit and re-use a common design. This only makes development and maintenance of the site much easier. New pages don't have to re-do the work of the master. When you want ...[Read More]