Welcome to my blog on all things SharePoint. I have a range of articles that will interest you if you've made it as far as visiting my blog. I was awarded as an SharePoint MVP by Microsoft in July 2010. I currently live in New York and am an Enterprise Architect at AvePoint Inc.. I co founded www.NothingButSharePoint.com with Mark Miller in 2010.

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Solution Development in SharePoint 2007

This series was inspired by the chatter amongst SharePoint blogs on the best ways to approach customisations in SharePoint using Solutions.

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8

Leveraging the SharePoint Platform

This series was inspired by a discussion had with Andrew Coates at a Perth SharePoint User Group meeting. This then turned into a 6 part series on Arno Nell's SharePointMagazine.net web site.

Initial post - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6

Webcasts

I have recorded various web casts that I present at User Groups or just on a specific topic by request:
How ASP.NET Developers can leverage SharePoint webcast
SPSource Webcast: Reverse engineer Lists to ListTemplates and much more
SharePoint Development with Unit Testing webcast
Perth SharePoint UG Web Cast on approaches to deploying artefacts (SPSource)
More...


Podcasts

I have been interviewed about Leveraging the SharePoint Platform by the SharePoint Pod Show: listen here .

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Apr 192006

inlinehockey makes it to Google top spot!

Well, I finally made it to the top spot on Google, although it appears to fluctuate from 13th to 1st a lot! Hopefully once people start linking to the site internationally the rank will go up some more and stay there! I'm still appearing 5th on Yahoo and 15th on MSN Search.

Published: 4/19/2006  12:00 AM | 0  Comments | 0  Links to this post

Apr 112006

Web 2.0 predictions

Found this great article that discusses where web 2.0 really is going with some practical examples of it.It's very true and the message about collecting more data on the user before pushing content or search results is very true. My web site has all my starred internet pages I have enjoyed reading, plus a lot of information about myself.

Default Profile

If there was a default format profile for a blogger that a site could read just by entering in your blog url that would be a huge leap forward in profile information. M$ had a great idea with Passport but just haven't opened it up enough to third parties. Google Base has potential to do all of this, but the worrying thing is that this information would then be open to spammers.

Sharing Profile

If this profile could somehow be shared in return...e.g. if you purchased a Apple iPod on Amazon other sites could see this. Or if you have already visited honda.com and you are looking at cars the search engine would know you've been there already.

"Here's my card"

Imagine being able to just have your web site address on your business card which referenced your most up to date information for contacting you. With your profile broke down into areas that could be expanded depending on what the user was trying to find out. Be it a search engine robot, colleague at work or specific web site.

Community sites

Community sites will continue to move in this direction, such as Digg, GoogleReader, WebJay, by registering users and collecting information about them and sharing that with others.


Also found this great article on software development and the bigger picture in an organisation and this one on keeping developers happy ;-)
Published: 4/11/2006  12:00 AM | 0  Comments | 0  Links to this post

Apr 092006

VS2005 ASP.NET Web Application Project RC1

I've been following Scott's progress with the Web Application Project (coined WAP) for some time now and after converting my pet project over to ASP.NET 2.0 and finding the problems with the new VS2005 IDE I was greatful for his work! The download is on MSDN.
The biggest one for me was definately the locking of .aspx files when in debug mode and the batch compilation it does without the new .designer.cs files that are in this new project.
I've found a few errors mainly regarding where .cs files have to sit. The main ones were 'ambiguous match found' where a control was defined in multiple places in the .cs and the designer.cs files...thanks to stevienova.com for the resolution of this one.
For some reason though ti appears that one of my class files is being included in the WAP .dll file as well ans when it compiles the app_code at runtime.

error CS0433: The type 'inlinehockey._common' exists in both 'c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\25321638\9b5c4b00\assembly\dl3\3657f4e6\cd91aef5_4d5cc601\inlinehockey.DLL' and 'c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\25321638\9b5c4b00\App_Code.xad_ajc1.dll' 


The error was not knowing what dll to use for the type when you get the CS0433 error. I found out how to get round this from the microsoft.com upgrade experience, but it didn't solve it for me. I've posted this up in the forums...hopefully I'll get an answer!
Published: 4/9/2006  12:00 AM | 0  Comments | 0  Links to this post

Apr 042006

Oracle ODP.NET drivers for Visual Studio 2005

I've just been investigating the Oracle ADO.NET drivers for Visual Studio 2005. The download is 213Mb and contains an add-in for VS2005.
You get an 'Oracle Explorer' which allows you to see all the tables, views, procedures, functions, packages etc. within a database. It's pretty slick with a query analyser and wizards to create new procedures and tables etc.

Found a really good tutorial on the Oracle site after searching through Google and their Support forums for some answers on returning result sets etc.

I've not quite found the answer for a similar task I'd do with DataSets with calling a StoredProcedure with input/output parameters. So far I've found that I can put result sets into OracleRefCursor's but this requires using an OracleDataReader which I don't believe is as efficient as just grabbing the data and closing the connection with a DataAdapter Fill method.

There were samples with the ODP.NET installation which use DataAdapters aswell, but they do not show how to call a StoredProcedure with it instead of Text.
Published: 4/4/2006  12:00 AM | 0  Comments | 0  Links to this post