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The Access Show: Client performance improvements against SharePoint lists

February 5, 10 //
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Today’s guest is DJ Cole, architect and primary developer of SharePoint connectivity performance improvements on the Access development team. DJ dropped by to talk about how Access 2010 connects to SharePoint, and to discuss the work necessary for improving client-side performance.

As with most performance work, beauty is in the eye of the user. When users work against a server on the other side of the world, performance makes a difference. Data, after all, only travels as fast as the speed of light. Our goal for Access 2010 was to make the connections to SharePoint lists nearly as fast as local tables. Additionally, we had to ensure requests didn’t swamp the server, bottleneck throughout the network, or cause the client machine’s CPU or RAM to thrash. We found that caching data in local tables, combined with conservative usage of resources on the server, network and local machine, provided the best user experience.

This Access 2010 performance improvement builds upon the Access 2007 architecture. Read more…

For additional information about the latest release, check out the Access 2010 Intro series on the Access team blog.

Nikolai Tillmann: Moles – Replace any .NET method with a delegate

January 29, 10 //
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Nikolai Tillman, a member of the RiSE group at Microsoft Research, gives a short demo of Moles, a new framework that allows replacing any .NET method with a delegate. In the context of unit testing, one can use Moles to isolate from environment dependencies (such as time, file system, database, etc…) even when those dependencies are hard-coded through static method or sealed types. In this demo, Nikolai goes through the famous Y2K bug and how to test it…

The Research in Software Engineering team (RiSE) coordinates Microsoft’s research in Software Engineering in Redmond, USA.

Create a SharePoint List using InfoPath 2010

January 28, 10 //
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This week’s InfoPath video demo continues the theme of SharePoint list customization in InfoPath. In the 1st video in this series, Daniel Broekman showed how you can take an existing list on SharePoint and customize the form for that list in InfoPath.

In this week’s video demo, Ines Khelifi, a developer on the InfoPath team shows how you can create a new SharePoint list and custom form directly from InfoPath Designer.

This video is also available on the InfoPath Team Blog.

Integrating Microsoft Silverlight with Microsoft Sharepoint 2010

January 25, 10 //
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The upcoming release of Sharepoint 2010 will provide features and capabilities which will allow it to directly support Silverlight development and controls. At PDC09, Paul Stubbs held a session where he showed off many of these features, and walked the audience through the process of how to utilize Silverlight from a Sharepoint website.

In this episode, I meet with Paul, and he briefly shows us how easy it is to do Silverlight development on a Sharepoint 2010 website.

If you’d like more details on this, you can view the entire session from PDC09 here:

You can find out more details about Sharepoint 2010, and the current beta here:

 

 

Expert to Expert: Inside LINQ-to-SharePoint

January 21, 10 //
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You first met Bart De Smet in an episode of Expert to Expert with the great Erik Meijer leading the conversational charge. LINQ-to-Anything was a very popular E2E episode and the 100th installment of Going Deep. If anybody in the world is an expert in LINQ-to it’s certainly Bart. Not surprisingly, Bart created an implementation of LINQ-to-SharePoint before he started at Microsoft. The SharePoint programmability team was impressed and decided to take a stab at a more robust solution, based loosely on Bart’s great work.

Well, here we are today with a new installment of E2E and Bart leading the conversation with two of the key SharePoint team members behind LINQ-to-SharePoint: Program Manager Maxim Lukiyanov and Software Developer Ivan Han.

Here, we learn all about the thinking behind the thinking (rationale, design decisions, solution paths, etc) and where this approach will lead the SharePoint programming experience for pro and non-pro developers alike. We also learn that Bart has joined Erik Meijer’s team of superdevelopers! I think Erik just may have the most talented team of creative thinkers and techinal over-achievers in the company! Go team, go!

Tune in. Enjoy.

Here’s the two links you need to click on to get started. Please provide feedback!!

SDK with LINQ-toS-SharePoint API

SharePoint Server 2010 Beta

InfoPath 2010 – Manage data in your SharePoint Lists using the InfoPath Form Web Part

January 14, 10 //
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One of the powerful new features in InfoPath 2010 is the InfoPath Form Web Part.

This is the 1st in a series of videos where we will show how to use the InfoPath Form Web Part to create rich mashups on portal pages in SharePoint, without writing a single line of code.

In this video, Nick Dallett, a program manager lead on the InfoPath team, will demo two simple scenarios for managing data in your SharePoint lists using the InfoPath Form Web Part.

This video is also available on the InfoPath Team Blog.

Bharat Shah: Microsoft Online Services Overview

December 8, 09 //
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Bharat Shah is the General Manager of Microsoft’s Online Services division. His group is responsible for taking Microsoft’s business productivity software to the cloud, essentially turning traditional utilty software (you buy, deploy, manage) into distributed (Internet/Intranet) hosted services. For enterprise customers to small businesses, being able to subscribe to software services versus taking on the responsibilities and costs associated with deployment and management of software systems is very compelling.

Here, we talk about why this approach to software-as-a-service is so important as we move more of our software skyward. The term BPOS used in the conversation is more of a code name then an official Micrsosoft product moniker.  In this case it refers to a suite of communication and collaboration hosted services like Exchange, SharePoint, etc – but there will be more: that’s one of the key points here.

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The Access Show: Managing Access Databases with SharePoint

December 2, 09 //
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Steve Greenberg recently gave a great talk (rated in the top 7 of all sessions) at the SharePoint Developers Conference about how Access 2010 and Access Services enable organizations to provide better oversight of Access development. In episode three Steve and Clint walks you through the key points of this hit session.

 

For more information check out the Access 2010 Intro series at the Access team blog.

Implementing a Silverlight SharePoint WebPart with Visual Studio 2010

November 25, 09 //
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Mike Morton is back at it again, this time showing how easy it is to develop, package and deploy a Silverlight WebPart to SharePoint 2010. He also walks us through the solution, package and file properties available to you in Visual Studio 2010. You’ll see me giggling in this one because I can’t believe how easy it is.

For more information on SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 please see:

Also if you missed them, check out these interviews as well:

And please give us your feedback in the SharePoint Development Forums!

Enjoy,
-Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community

Sharepoint 2010 and Claims-Based Identity

November 24, 09 //
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When it comes to identity management intensive applications, it’s hard to top Sharepoint. Whether you are signing in a portal, accessing a document or using a webpart for reaching out to external web services, your identity is going to be the factor that drives it all.
Vittorio went to visit Venky Veeraraghavan, Program Manager Lead in the Sharepoint team, to discuss how Sharepoint deals with identity challenges. Venky gives a fantastic explanation of how claims-based identity and Windows Identity Foundation helped the Sharepoint team to deliver on the identity functionalities they needed without getting entangled in low level details such as protocol handling.
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