New SharePoint and Silverlight Training Course
Check it out; a brand new training kit about SharePoint and Silverlight and how to combine the two! This course was just released by Microsoft. Darrin Bishop ,…
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SharePoint, Azure, and Windows Phone 7 – Development Primer and Sample Code
Have you seen the new SharePoint and Windows Azure Development Primer on the Microsoft Download Center? I had the pleasure of working on this kit with…
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HOW TO: Create a Sandbox Compatible Visual Web Part with the Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Power Tools
Last week Mike Morton and the folks on the Visual Studio team released the Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Power Tools . The Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Power…
Read More →Automating Windows 7 Boot Entry Creation With PowerShell
Recently I needed to create an automated process to make boot entries for developer lab machines to allow them to boot to a virtual hard disk (VHD). The main…
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HOW TO: Programmatically create a SharePoint 2010 External Content Type
I demonstrated how to make an external content type programmatically during the SPC 405 - Business Connectivity Services Runtime and Object Model Deep Dive…
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Which SharePoint 2010 Site Template Is Right For Me?
When MOSS 2007 came out I created a blog post very similar to this one. It turned out to be one of my most popular posts and I received many comments and…
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HOW TO: Register an External Content Type with the SharePoint Search Service to make the data searchable
In part 1 of this blog post series I showed you how to create a .NET Assembly Connector to read data from a flat file. This blog post shows you how to register…
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HOW TO: Create a Searchable SharePoint 2010 BDC .NET Assembly Connector Which Reads From A Flat File
The Business Context In many large organizations business data is stored inside of flat files from mainframes or other legacy systems. These systems chug along…
Read More →HOW TO: Create a custom site definition in SharePoint 2010
This article describes how to create a custom site definition in SharePoint 2010. The process to create a custom site definition has not changed much since the…
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HOW TO: Create a custom theme for SharePoint 2010
Creating SharePoint themes used to require editing CSS style sheets manually or using a tool like SharePoint Designer. Furthermore, packaging and deploying the…
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