It’s that time of year again – time for TechEd North America. This year’s event is being held in the Big Easy, one of my favorite cities, and is sure to be a winner (how can you go wrong in ‘nawlins?). There’s sure to be a ton of good SharePoint 2010 content. I have one […]

We just wrapped up the SharePoint Evolution 2010 conference in London. By all accounts, it was a great event. Attendance was excellent and there was a ton of new content on SharePoint 2010. The Combined Knowledge crew made everything appear smooth and effortless. But things are not always as they seem – this conference was […]

This isn’t technically a SharePoint-related post as the issue is one of pure XML manipulation but I ran across it while building a custom solution in SharePoint and it took hours to figure it out so I thought it merited some attention. When working with XML, as is often the case in SharePoint (especially when […]

We’re now only a couple of months away from the upcoming SharePoint Evolution 2010 conference in London, England. Last year’s Best Practices event was one of the best conferences I’ve ever attended or spoke at. The venue is fantastic – right across from the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey. The Combined Knowledge crew does […]

Part One of this series gave a general overview of SharePoint 2010 code deployment using Visual Studio 2010. Part Two described the creation and use of SharePoint Commands. In this installment we will explore SharePoint Deployment Steps and their relationship with both SharePoint Commands and SharePoint Deployment Configurations. Introduction A Deployment Step defines the order […]

A lot of people have noticed that I’ve ditched my MacBook Pro in favor of a Dell Latitude. I’ve posted a lot about my trials and tribulations with the MacBook here, here, here and here. I loved my MBP but there are a number of reasons why I had to ditch it in favor of […]

Part One of this series gave a general overview of SharePoint 2010 code deployment using Visual Studio 2010. Now it’s time to dig deeper and take an in-depth look at how developers can customize the deployment process. We will begin at the lowest level by creating some custom SharePoint Commands, then move into creating Deployment […]

Hard to believe that another year has come and gone. I’ve never been one for predictions and resolutions, which I’m no good at keeping anyway, but I think 2010 is going to be a big year in SharePoint land. For starters, SharePoint 2010 really will be a game-changer. I believe with this release that we […]

My initial post on the use of JQuery with SharePoint has generated a great deal of discussion (see here, here and here); so much so, that I felt some additional comments on the subject were merited. Let me begin by clarifying my position. I am not against the use of JQuery or any other particular […]

One of the most exciting aspects of Visual Studio 2010 is the tight integration it will have with SharePoint. The Visual Studio team has worked hard to make the SharePoint developer experience much more streamlined and less dependent upon manual configuration files and custom scripts. They have also made a tremendous investment into extensibility, allowing […]