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It was quite a week in Las Vegas at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009! Wow, what a long way the product has come! I can remember several years ago speaking at SharePoint conferences and seeing only a few dozen people attending many of the sessions. That’s certainly not the case anymore. In fact, SharePoint has grown so much that now the conferences come complete with live bands and fireworks!
My wife and I embraced the 80’s spirit during the beach party Tuesday night at the Mandalay Bay. We were surprised to find only few handfuls of folks were taking the same...
Thanks to everyone who came to my Go Beyond With The BDC! session last week at the Microsoft TechEd 2009 North America conference! You can find the Site Template Package (STP) for the SharePoint site I used for my demos here. See this post for more details about the AdventureWorks Travel Site that I used to demonstrate Silverlight, SharePoint, and the BDC working together.
Andrew Connell and I will be posting the session materials from the session we co-presented - Extending the Content Query Web Part to Aggregate Data Across Site Collections and External Sources - sometime soon (this week or...
I found out a few days ago that I'll be presenting at TechEd again this year. This year the Microsoft TechEd North America 2009 conference takes place in Los Angeles, CA. The event runs from May 11-15 and, as always, should be a great time to network, see friends from around the world, and learn some great things. This year I have two sessions on the schedule, the first of which I will be co-presenting with Andrew Connell (MOSS MVP). This session should be a whole lot of fun as Andrew and I walk you through the creation of...
If you missed my Creating Solutions With The Business Data Catalog session at TechEd last week, and you'd like to see the SilverLight / BDC integration demo I did there, come attend the SharePoint Web 2.0 FireStarter event next week on the Microsoft campus. Heck, come attend anyway, there are many great topics and presentations scheduled. I'll be presenting my demo at the tail end of Steve Fox's SilverLight on SharePoint session. You can see the complete schedule and register here.
Thanks to everyone who came to my session last week at the Microsoft TechEd 2008 North America Developer conference! It was really nice to see so many past students at the show and I enjoyed catching up with everyone. On Wednesday night I had the chance to hang out with many of the Microsoft MVPs and watch the Blues Brothers kick it at the House of Blues. Eric Shupps accompanied the Blues Brothers for a song, I wish I had a picture of it, I thought he did pretty well. :) I met Brett Lonsdale for the first time, Nick...
WOW! What a day! First, I got to meet Greg Lemond! He is a very down to earth guy and I really enjoyed spending some time with him. It was an experience I will certainly remember forever! Then, believe it or not, Master Chief himself showed up in our booth in the expo hall! As soon as I get a copy of the pictures I'll post them here. :) As if those two things were not enough excitement for one day; then I presented my Creating Solutions with the MOSS Single Sign On Service session and finally the day wrapped up...
What a fun week it has been so far at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference! I just finished presenting my Creating Solutions with the Business Data Catalog (BDC) session and I'm looking forward to presenting my Creating Solutions with the MOSS Single Sign On Service session tomorrow. Thanks to everyone who came to my session today! All the code and materials for today's session are now available here. Enjoy!
Updated 11/12/2007: The code for my BDC session is now available and linked to below. Post-conference session materials have been distributed directly to post conference attendees.
I'd like to say thank you to everyone who attended my sessions so at this year's SharePoint Connections Conference. I met so many smart, easy going people at the conference, and the audiences were a real pleasure to present to. It's not a conference I will soon forget.
Click here, to download the SharePoint Toolkit application that I used during my SharePoint Object Model and Web Services Kick Start session.
Click here, to download the Site Template Package (stp file) for...
During the Create an Internet-Facing SharePoint Site session I covered the following topics.
Setting up forms based authentication.
Creating your own custom Master Pages and style sheets
Personalizing site content for users.
Leveraging the Business Data Catalog to surface and interact with back end systems.
Each of these topics is broken down more in depth in this blog post. All the code used during my demos can be found in the rar file linked at the end of this post.
Setting up forms based authentication
Because a...
Thanks to everyone who attended the sessions I presented at the SharePoint Connections conference in Orlando! I had a great time at the conference, and met a lot of great people there as well.
The following blog posts will come after this one, to break down each topic, and describe the code I used in my demos at the conference.
Create an Internet-Facing SharePoint Site
Integrate Smart Client and Windows Forms Applications with SharePoint Sites and the Business Data Catalog
Use the Visual Studio Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services to Create...
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