Welcome to my blog on all things SharePoint and .NET. I have a range of articles that will interest you if you've made it as far as visiting my blog.
I ran my SharePoint Development Best Practices Presentation at the Readify RDN session last night in Perth, Australia. Thanks for the 60+ attendees that turned up to hear me and Hadley Willan present. I have published my slides online and sample code for you to look at if you couldn't make it, or if you could but wanted to read through it at your own pace and take advantage of all the link love i
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So, unless you've been unplugged from the Internet for the last 24 hours you would have seen all the stuff going on at PDC 08. Ray Ozzie announced Azure, which is basically there solution for Cloud Computer. My interest lies in SharePoint Services which sits as one of the platforms that will be in the Cloud/Azure platform. The developer centre doesn't have a dedicated Platform Technologies secti
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I was having an issue with a InfoPath Form I had deployed wrapped up in a Solution Feature that just wouldn't budge from a FormTemplateStatus of "Installing". I tried deleting it in the UI in Central Administration and also via STSADM and get the old chestnut of 'Object Reference not set to an instance of an Object: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at Mic
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I've built a clean MOSS development environment deployed an InfoPath form using Sahil Malik's technique of wrapping it up in a feature and leveraging the Receiver Class. Works great. It seems to register the form as a fully trusted form. I then add the generated content type (same name as form) to a Form Library and force it to open in web page. Then I select New | My Form in List View Web Part
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So I had some fun today with Microsoft Office and having to ring up to activate the product as it was hosted in a Virtualised Machine and the host was my new Tablet PC. I couldn't activate online as it didn't like doing this over a proxy that requires authentication! When I rang and read out the numbers, yes read out - not typed them in like Windows activation...I got told the installation ID
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I'm really looking forward to finally getting to meet William Cornwill (aka CodeJedi) when he presents in two weeks for our Perth SharePoint User Group! Should be really good to see him show off the deep integration in Word 2007 with SharePoint! Would strongly advise all spectrums of the SharePoint Community to attend this whether your a business sponsor, administrator or developer to get a bette
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Wow, we've got over 75 people registered for the Readify RDN on SharePoint! I'm really pleased with this response and am looking forward to the discussions over a pizza and a beer afterwards on my presentation and Hadley Wilan's also. If you're not registered yet and can make 17:30 in Perth on the 29th October, please register your interest now! If there are people you think may not know about
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I've noticed a bit of a dive in RSS feed subscriptions and think it is because I was interleaving my diigo social book marking in there. I've deactivated this feature, but if you are still interested in what I'm bookmarking...please take a look at my extensive collection which I update as I read through my 300+ SharePoint feeds daily. I find this a valuable resource to pin point paticular areas o
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I was extremely dubious at first with the whole podcast scene, I'd rather read about it than listen to someone discuss it. But recently I moved closer to the city here in Perth, Australia and walk to work and have found myself listening to some podcasts. I have found them extremely informative and a great way to hear about what else is happening out there in the SharePoint Community. There are b
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So I woke up this morning and saw a great set of tweets between Joel Oleson and Arno Nel (of SharePointMagazine.net). These mentioned both myself and Paul Culmsee as people to watch in SharePoint space, which is a great honour as I have a lot of respect for all three of these guys! Made my weekend! My missus is away for two weeks in Brisbane so in my lonely nights in I'm hoping to get out some gr
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Arno Nel has just published my latest article on SharePointMagazine.net please go and check it out and let me know what you think! Starting to write the next one already which will also coincide with my RDN presentation at the end of the month!
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I was at a client site yesterday and they wanted to set up a Wiki. Now I knew from reading various posts over my time that they weren't as great as some of the open source wikis out there. For me, Wikis certainly are a "tick in the box" as I discussed in my articles on SharePointMagazine.net. Some of the limitations I found were: Insert Image Something that seemed so simple wa
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I'll be stepping up onto the Readify pedestal on the 29th October to present 'SharePoint Development Best Practices'. After the presentation we'll be uploading our slides for those who can't make the Perth event. Hadley Wilan will be priming the audience and I'll be going into depth on SharePoint Development. My series of posts on my blog will be covered along with things I haven't yet got round
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I was amazed at the amount of ISV's in the SharePoint marketplace that I hadn't heard of. I am subscribed to well over 300 SharePoint Blogs and thought I was covering enough SharePoint ground, but clearly there a few lurking in the darkness. I didn't actually make it to the Australian TechEd this year, but a few new names cropped up for me there in the Replication space which seems to be a big a
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Congratulations to Sezai Komur out at Ignia. Sezai has presented a few times now at our Perth SharePoint User Group and specialises in Web Content Management Systems on top of both Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007.
Sezai wrote an excellent White Paper on Web Content Management and this led to him being invited to present alongsid
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It's the first month I've put my hand up to help with the Perth User Group with organisation. I've presented a few times in the past and I've managed to convince (bribe with beer) my good friend Richard Greene to present. He will be talking about "Presenting external data sources using SharePoint Business Data Catalogue (BDC) and SQL Reporting Services". The presentation is on the 21s
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