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.

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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.

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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)
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Developer Changes in SharePoint 2010   

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image Paul Andrew talks about the new Developer functionality in SharePoint 2010 in a webcast on the new SharePoint 2010 site. The is also a download of 2010  (Technical Preview) Developer Documentation too.

The webcast goes through and shows the new SharePoint integration with Visual Studio 2010 which I’m hoping will be available in the next public beta as it got missed out of the first. Paul also seems to concentrate along time on the BDC stuff which I believe is because it’s not heavily been used as it’s always been too hard.

They push a few things:

  • Only use WSPs! yes really!
  • Use VSeWSS…”to get used to VS2010 integration”…sorry boys WSPBuilder is a gonna in their eyes
  • Go 64bit!…just use Hyper-V or VMWare as Virtual PC won’t play

It looks like the developer product team have listened hard to the community (see the Ultimate SharePoint Developer Tool), here are the things mentioned in the webcast:

  • Developer Dashboard
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  • New SharePoint User Interface
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  • New SharePoint Ribbon

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  • List Edit screens

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  • List View screens
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  • Editing page more AJAX’y
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  • Use of AJAX MOdal Dialogs
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  • LINQ2SharePoint
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  • Deployment Configurations – more configurable deployment steps within Visual Studio
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  • Nicer way to customise manifest that are autogened
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  • Lots more support in Visual Studio
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  • Visual Design of Web Parts – hooo rah!
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  • Rich Platform Services
    • Silverlight Web Parts
      Paul demos the Silverlight Web Parts and says “I won’t do much with design”…it does annoy me to be honest…he could have shown off some designer supplying the design up front and him just doing development…if it is that easy…they should promote it. I’m sure there’s Silverlight guys hanging around in the coffee rooms all the time!
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    • Drag and drop deployment
      Paul also demoed dragging and dropping which looked nice…hope it is cross browser compatible.
    • CAML
      So he demos using CAML to data…looks like no clever bits around CamlQuery sighimage
    • Use of Generics
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    • Better support for Business Connectivity Services Entities(formally called BDC) with a new a BDC Explorer and includes supported Updates now! Be interested to see what Lightning Tools BDC MetaMan goes, suspect that’s why they’ve gone with web version to differentiate themselves
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Some possible bad things:

  • Paul’s demos were on a server machine – so looks like no client side development still
  • Still following VSeWSS paradigm where it doesn’t represent the 12 hive…so dumbs it down for developers. This will make it hard for new devs to debug stuff as it’s hiding too much that’s happening under the hood. Be interesting to see how many continue to use WSPBuilder…
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Posted by  Jeremy Thake  on  7/13/2009
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Zuber Agwan  commented on  Tuesday, July 14, 2009  10:56 PM 
Excellent....


Mike  commented on  Wednesday, July 15, 2009  12:24 AM 
the race is on to replicate the ribbon in MOSS.

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