Posted in Avanade, Code, Development, Microsoft, Technology, tagged Avanade, Microsoft, MOSS, MSDN, patterns & practices, SharePoint, SharePoint guidance, SPG on November 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Microsoft patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance has been released to MSDN!
http://www.microsoft.com/spg
Here are a few of the topics you will find inside:
Architectural decisions about patterns, feature factoring, and packaging
Design tradeoffs for decisions many developers encounter, such as whether to use SharePoint lists or a database to store information
Implementation examples that are demonstrated in the Training Management [...]
Posted in Avanade, Development, Microsoft, tagged Avanade, Microsoft, Ops Manager, SCOM, SLA on October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Earlier this year I worked on a project with the Microsoft Solution Accelerator Team to develop what was released as the Service Level Dashboard for System Center Operations Manager 2007.
The dashboard is a report that is installed into Operations Manager 2007 and is used to display availability and performance metrics related to SLA thresholds set [...]
Posted in Development, Microsoft, tagged certification, MCP, Microsoft, Microsoft Certification, MOSS, SharePoint, WSS on October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last Saturday I was able to pass the 70-541 exam to earn the MCTS: Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Application Development certification. Not only will I be working on my MCPD certification this year, but also the WSS/MOSS certifications. Check my About page to see a list of my current certifications.
Posted in Code, Development, tagged ASP.NET, Microsoft, SharePoint on October 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Recently, I have been doing a lot of ASP.NET development inside of SharePoint. Once area that I have found to be quite tricky, although not SharePoint-specific, is dynamic ASP.NET controls. In particular, managing postbacks when you have dynamic ASP.NET controls.
Here is a link to the source code for a Visual Studio 2008 solution, which demonstrates [...]
Posted in Code, Development, Microsoft, tagged CodePlex, Microsoft, MOSS, SharePoint on August 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The second release of SharePoint Guidance from the Microsoft Patterns & Practices SharePoint Guidance team is now published on Codeplex at http://www.codeplex.com/spg.
Updates included in this release:
Refactor code to leverage MVP pattern where applicable.
Refactor SPList-related SharePoint code with the Repository Pattern.
Unit tests for manager and presenter classes using TypeMock.
And much more…
Disclaimer: This will evolve (and change) significantly. At [...]
Posted in Code, Development, Microsoft, tagged Microsoft, MOSS, SharePoint on July 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The first release of SharePoint Guidance from the Microsoft Patterns & Practices SharePoint Guidance team is now published on Codeplex at http://www.codeplex.com/spg.
Disclaimer: This will evolve (and change) significantly. At this stage the RI provides a basic set of WSS features with accompanying guidance. This is not a CTP or a BETA.
Stay tuned for new releases about every [...]
Posted in Development, Microsoft, tagged Microsoft, MOSS, SharePoint on June 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Recently I started a new project with one of the teams in the Microsoft Patterns & Practices group in Redmond, Wa. For this project our team will provide guidance materials and a reference implementation. We are aiming to help SharePoint developers overcome some of the more difficult aspects of SharePoint development as well as help new developers with [...]
Posted in Avanade, tagged .NET, Avanade, MCP, MCTS, Microsoft, MOSS, SharePoint on April 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is what Avanade calls your time between projects. Last week I rolled off my first major project and started my bench time. This time is meant for training and getting certified. So I did just that.
The first four days of this week I spent training on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 where I utilized [...]
Posted in Avanade, Code, Development, Microsoft, Technology, tagged Avanade, Microsoft, SQL, SQL Server, T-SQL on April 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The other day out at Microsoft I ran into some interesting behavior in SQL Server regarding the difference between running a query in a table-valued function versus running it in a stored procedure.
This particular query I was trying to run selects columns from an existing view that is part a database of the Microsoft product [...]
Posted in Microsoft, Seattle, Technology, tagged commute, iPod, Microsoft, podcast, Redmond, Seattle, tech, Technology, TWiT, Windows on April 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“A weekly look at all things Microsoft including Windows Vista, Office 2007, and Xbox from the foremost Windows expert in the world, Paul Thurrott of the Super Site for Windows.”
“Hosts: Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte“
This podcast along with many other quality TWiT podcasts can be found on iTunes or on the TWiT Netcast Network website here: http://twit.tv
I have [...]
