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Seems like Visual Studio 2010 will have improved SharePoint integration.

Paul Andrew summarized it from the TechEd Barcelona keynote yesterday:

• Server Explorer for SharePoint viewing Lists and other artifacts in SharePoint directly inside of Visual Studio

• Windows SharePoint Services Project (WSP file) Import to create a new solution

• Added a new web part project item and showed the Visual web part designer which loads a user control as a web part for SharePoint

• Showed adding an event receiver for SharePoint and using the wizard to choose the event receiver and to just create a source file with that event receiver.

• Added an ASPX workflow initiation form to a workflow project and showed how this workflow initiation form has designer capability

• Showed the packaging explorer and the packaging editor which lets you structure the SharePoint features and WSP file that is created

Interesting news from the IT Forum in Barcelona about two new Microsoft SharePoint certifications. From the SharePoint team blog:

"Introducing the Microsoft Certified Master and Certified Architect for SharePoint

Last week at IT Forum in Barcelona, we announced the Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and the Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) for Office SharePoint Server 2007.

The Master program is designed to be the top-tier technical certification for SharePoint Products and Technologies for years to come. The goal of the MCM is to provide a means for training, recognizing, and developing the top SharePoint technical experts in the world. Specifically, the MCM is intended for technical professionals whose primary responsibilities include designing, building, configuring, deploying, and supporting large, often complex, MOSS 2007 environments.

Building on the MCM, the MCA certification is designed for professionals who possess an additional skill set focused on the larger business strategies and technical architecture as a whole. This skill set includes the ability to communicate with business and technology leaders, to understand the customer's current and long-term organizational and technical needs, and to design a solution to meet those needs. To receive the MCA for SharePoint, students must first graduate from the MCM for SharePoint program and will then have the option of sitting for a comprehensive Review Board interview conducted by Microsoft experts and MCA's.

If you feel you have the skills and experience to excel in this program, and are interested in being one of the first SharePoint Masters and/or MCA's, I'd encourage you to visit the the MCM homepage for additional detail and prerequisites for the program.  We are accepting applications into the program here."

Two new Dutch Information Worker User Group sessions in November!

The first one is November 20th in Vianen about the DataView web part en Silverlight in SharePoint. Two interesting presentations you can't miss!

The second session is November 24th at Microsoft Netherlands in Schiphol. This session is added because of the success of the same one in October. Topic again is 'The New World of Work'. How did Microsoft implement this at their new office?

Hope to see you there!

Last week was an interesting week at the PDC 2008! Apart from the things you probably already heard (Windows Azure, Windows 7, Oslo, Dublin, etc), there were 10 minutes of Office 14 during the keynote!

There was a great demo with Word, Excel and One note in a browser. The demo showed collaboration in the same document, which looked great!

10 minutes wasn't that much, but PDC 2009 was also announced, which will have a focus on Office 14!

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