Two interesting sessions at the Dutch Information Worker User Group event @ Wortell this time.
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Two interesting sessions at the Dutch Information Worker User Group event @ Wortell this time.
Subscribe at http://www.diwug.nl/ for free.
Today and tomorrow I will be present at the SharePoint Connections 2010 in Amsterdam. This 2 day event is kind of a wrap up of the content that is presented earlier in Las Vegas. Some interesting sessions attended already.
To follow the content and things that happening at the conference you can follow me on twitter or follow the #SPC10 search.
Via Wouter van Vugt:
“May I present the SharePoint Dev Tools . Version beta 1 is ready for your approval. And I believe it will exceed your expectation! Some of the exciting features that you find within this advanced toolset are summed up below. You can go over to the project site and download the beta .
One of the first areas that has been extended is deployment. Out of the box Visual Studio 2010 is capable of retracting / redeploying your solution packages. The DevTools provide X-Copy deployment and solution upgrades on top of that. Along with many other deployment steps you have the tools you need to lower the round-trip time for small changes in your codebase. Go to the site and check out the video!
Next are some of the very exciting templates that you can use. One that I am particularly happy with is the Sandboxed Visual Web Part. This template allows you full visual design of a Web Part, while allowing it to be deployed into the solution sandbox (which does not allow ASCX files to be deployed). With SharePoint Dev Tools you can, and in a totally supported way! Also don't forget the Linq To SharePoint integrated template. Just change one XML file and get your proxies regenerated immediately. No need to leave your comfort zone. Think of it as an Office Business Application for SharePoint Developers, and SDBA J.
Finally there are numerous enhancements to the Visual Studio environment. For instance, you can find the SharePoint tab on the Add Reference dialog. Prime Visual Studio real-estate!”
After the news about the .Net Facebook SDK, LinkedIn has released an API to integrate LinkedIn in your own applications. LinkedIn uses OAuth to authenticate.
“The LinkedIn API utilizes OAuth as its authentication method. OAuth is a standard model for negotiating developer authorization and granting access on behalf of specific users for performing API requests. One of OAuth's strengths are the many third party and open source libraries that exist, allowing developers to authenticate with LinkedIn quickly and in a similar manner to how they may authenticate with services like Twitter, Google, Yahoo, and Netflix.”
More info: http://developer.linkedin.com/
The Silverlight Toolkit November 2009 has been released on Codeplex. In my opinion, the most interesting addition is the BusyIndicator control, compatible with RIA services.
Check out the demo here.
via [Silverlight blog]:
“Today, at the PDC in Los Angeles, Scott Guthrie announced the availability of Silverlight 4 beta, just four months after bringing Silverlight 3 to market. With the help of several customers we showcased the new features that will enable developers to create the highest quality media and RIA applications for the Web and desktop. These powerful new features offer developers significant benefits in rapidly creating rich software experiences, and include:
· Enhancements to Silverlight out-of-browser capabilities which enable high quality
application experiences on the desktop;
· Advancements in business application development, including access to other Microsoft
products like SharePoint 2010, Office, and Internet Information Services (IIS);
· The most amazing HD-quality video experiences on the Web with native multicast and
offline DRM support.”
It’s available for msdn subscribers, the long awaited SharePoint Foundation Server 2010 beta and SharePoint Server 2010 beta!
Also Office 2010 client, Visio and SharePoint designer 2010 are available, so let the fun begin (or continue)!!
Via: http://team.silverlight.net/announcement/announcing-the-new-microsoft-sdk-for-facebook-platform/
“Today, as part of our ongoing collaboration with Facebook, we released a very exciting new developer resource: the Microsoft SDK for Facebook Platform ( http://www.microsoft.com/facebooksdk ). This SDK combines the power of Web, client and social technologies to enable millions of developers to transform their imagination into next generation application experiences. We look forward to seeing the creative applications that developers will create for Facebook that will open up new avenues for users to share and connect with their friends.”
Yet another Dutch Information Worker User Group session at November 4th: ask the experts. Several SharePoint expert will be talking and answering questions about SharePoint 2010.
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More info (in Dutch):
“In de week van 2 tot 6 november wordt er in Amsterdam een IGNITE SharePoint 2010
training gegeven aan Microsoft SharePoint professionals. Zowel de trainers als de
deelnemers wilden graag hun medewerking verlenen aan een DIWUG avond. Deze mogelijkheid
wilden we natuurlijk niet aan jullie voorbij laten gaan.
Dit keer is een informele setting waar mogelijkheid wordt geboden om vragen te stellen
aan trainers Spencer Harbar (MCM & MVP - UK) en Wouter van Vugt (MVP - NL) of
andere SharePoint MVP's en experts als Tobias Zimmergren (MVP - Zweden) en Waldek
Mastykarz (MVP - NL) maar ook Matthijs Hoekstra (Microsoft) en Mirjam van Olst (MCM)
zijn aanwezig.
Dit keer geen plenaire sessies, maar mogelijkheid om de experts te ontmoeten en ze
te bestoken met vragen over de nieuwe features van SharePoint 2010 of best practices
van MOSS 2007. En natuurlijk vergeten we de inwendige mens niet... “
The SharePoint
Conference in Las Vegas has begun and the news is dropping streaming
in!
Some highlights:
SDK: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee535895(office.14).aspx
Check out the SharePoint blogs form the people that are attending the conference, lots of information and first impressions can be found there.
A new toolkit release! Some cool drag and drop features:
“Other big news for this release is the introduction of comprehensive, WPF-compatible
drag-and-drop support for Silverlight! Although this support doesn't extend outside
the web browser (that would require changes to Silverlight itself), it enables full-fidelity
drag-and-drop experiences within the browser using the same API that WPF users are
already accustomed to. And if that wasn't enough, there are also a collection of drag-and-drop-friendly
"wrapper controls" for common scenarios (ex: ListBox, TreeView,
and DataGrid) that make it trivial to add support for drag-and-drop to
an existing control. Dragging and dropping within a control (to re-order items) or
between controls (to move items around) is now just a few lines of XAML away! (Note: No code
changes necessary!) But wait, there's more: There's also a wrapper for Charting's DataPointSeries that
enables drag-and-drop into and out of a live Chart control! This really
needs to be seen to be believed, so please visit the "Drag and Drop" page
of the
public
samples
for a great example of this. Then go read
Jafar's
post about the new drag/drop support
for all the juicy details!”
Check out the demo here: http://silverlight.net/content/samples/sl3/toolkitcontrolsamples/run/default.html
Two interesting sessions this time at the Dutch Information Worker User Group. Ton Stegeman (MVP SharePoint) talking about the SharePoint toolbox and Dennis Vroegop (MVP .Net) about excel services.
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In 2004 I started blogging. This blog was provided by my former employer Tam Tam and turned out to be a successful knowledge base with lots of subscribers. When I left Tam Tam, the blog remained but I moved to my own server with a new url. It’s hard to manage the visitor stream as well to point to this new blog, but it seems that after 8 months, it worked pretty well.
Too sad to announce that my old blog is dead by today. Long live my new blog!! :)
It’s coming! You can register for the Profession Developer Conference 2009 here.
“The Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is Microsoft’s premier gathering of leading-edge developers and architects. Attendees come from around the world to learn about the future of Microsoft’s platform, to exchange ideas with over 1,000 Microsoft technology experts, and to network with fellow professionals.”"
Ex-colleague Diantha van Marion has written some interesting articles about branding limitations in SharePoint. They have been posted on SharePoint Magazine and are certainly worth reading!
As you might know, I started working at WiZZiX at the beginning of this year. We are working on a new service oriented solution for events & activity planning and customer relationship management, based on SharePoint technology and Silverlight 3. The first release is planned by the end of this year. After that, more things to come complementing this concept. I´ll keep you posted!
A lot is going on at WiZZiX these day. Therefore, we created a corporate weblog (in Dutch), where we will expose our development as an organization and the concepts we’re building. More information about our vision, pricing model and future developments are coming soon… Check it out at http://blog.wizzix.nl
As part of the new directions we’re going to, my colleague Jord just finished our new corporate identity: a new logo and house style. Our website will follow, but we’re happy with the results so far.
Anyway, if you’re interested in what we’re doing, subscribe to our feed. You can also drop me a line for more info.
The SharePoint and Office 2010 information is starting to appear on the internet. Check out the video’s and screenshots on the SharePoint site:
http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/default.aspx
Some interesting keywords:
As Silverlight 3 is being rolled out at this moment you can install the RTM runtime already.
Check out the following interesting links about Silverlight 3:
Nice to see the new social networking accelerator for Microsoft CRM, integrating Twitter in a business application.
Some sites announced that Silverlight 3.0 will be released by the 10th of July. This would be great considering the number of new and improved controls in the runtime.
Check out these sites for more info about the control sets and new features:
Some interesting sessions coming up at the Software Development Network Event (SDN)! Bob Fox, Spence Harbar and Robin Meuré will fill the IW tracks:
SharePoint Mythbusters: Debunking common SharePoint Farm Misconceptions -
Spencer Harbar
This interactive session will dive into common SharePoint Farm Myths and
discuss common misconceptions around Global Deployments, Farm Topologies, Shared Service
Providers, High Availability, Security and more. Alongside best practices for each
“myth”, the SharePoint “magic numbers” will be covered and there will be plenty of
scope to discuss any particular queries you may have on farm deployment
Best Practices for Virtualization with Hyper V and SharePoint - Bob Fox
In this presentation I am going to give an overview of Microsoft Windows
Server 2008 Hyper Virtualization Technology with a strong emphasis on how to leverage
using SharePoint in a Virtual Environment. Some of the topics covered: - Hyper V What
is it - Hyper V what are the benefits - Hyper V What you need to know - Hyper v How
to implement (Demo) - Hyper v How do I deploy my SharePoint environments (Demo) -
Hyper V Recommendations and take away info
Kerberos part 1: No ticket touting here. Does SharePoint add another head?
- Spencer Harbar and Bob Fox
This session will provide an overview of Kerberos and the benefits it offers
in a SharePoint 2007 deployment including: Discussion of whether your SharePoint deployment
needs Kerberos. A tour of the required pre-requisites and configuration settings.
Best Practices for automating configuration in a SharePoint Farm. Best Practices for
diagnosing common configuration errors
Kerberos part 2: advanced scenarios and additional considerations - Spencer
Harbar and Bob Fox
This second Kerberos session will provide an example, end to end scenario
with MOSS, Excel Services and 3rd Party applications, and dive into additional troubleshooting
and auditing best practices, known issues and workarounds, including Q&A/Discussion.
This session is part two of a two part session. Part two assumes attendees are familiar
with the concepts presented in part one.
Waarom SharePoint Application Pages? - Robin Meuré
Wanneer je maatwerk oplossingen bouwt bovenop SharePoint dan heb je vaak
behoefte aan een pagina in Central Admin om je oplossing te kunnen configureren. Het
liefst zou je dezepagina in de look&feel van SharePoint willen hebben en uiteraard
wil je zo veel mogelijk gebruik maken van bestaande SharePoint controls. En als het
even kan zou je ook graag je configuratie willen opslaan zoals SharePoint zijn configuratie
opslaat.. ;)
More information and other sessions are available here.
