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Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Training Courses Updated

channel9 — Thu, 13 May 2010 14:07:00 +0000

Want to learn how an integrated platform featuring Microsoft Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 can change the way people work?

Check out the latest updates for the Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 training courses. Both were updated on today in concert with the Office and SharePoint business launch in New York. You’ll find a wide range of topics, including video, sample code, and hands on labs.

To attend an upcoming launch event near you, go here.

Nintex Harnesses Enhanced Features for Developers in SharePoint 2010

channel9 — Tue, 11 May 2010 20:55:00 +0000

Over the past several months, we’ve shared several introductory features about new assets for developers in SharePoint 2010. As Microsoft launches Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 to businesses this week, we now bring you a real-world example of how developers can harness and capitalize upon the enhancements of the new version. This video features an interview with Mike Fitzmaurice, vice president of product technology at Nintex. Through a demo of Nintex solutions in action, Mike provides an overview of how Nintex is working with SharePoint 2010 and leveraging its capabilities. He also provides helpful tips and best practices for developers who are digging into the new, improved platform.

Tips & Tricks with Business Data Connectivity Model Deployment in Visual Studio 2010

channel9 — Thu, 06 May 2010 19:06:00 +0000

I'm back with Boris Scholl, the Program Manager who designed the BDC Model designer in Visual Studio 2010. Boris is a SharePoint expert, and in this interview he shares some tips and tricks having to do with BDC model deployment to SharePoint 2010. He provides insight into what the designer is doing behind the scenes, what happens when you deploy the package, and how you can configure it to do exactly what you need.

Boris and I are good friends and in this interview we joke around a bit as he explains to me (a total SharePoint n00b!) how BDC models work. Hope you enjoy this one as much as I did.

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

For more SharePoint 2010 interviews with the Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint tools team members see:

Enjoy,
-Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community

Best Practices on Building SharePoint 2010 Web Parts with Visual Studio 2010

channel9 — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:03:00 +0000

In this interview, Boris Scholl, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Team building tools for SharePoint development, shows off the new SharePoint 2010 tools in Visual Studio 2010 for web parts. He discusses the differences between "Visual Web Part" and "Web Part" item templates in Visual Studio, as well as best practices on when and why to use each of them. He also (patiently) teaches me the differences between sandbox and farm solutions.

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

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

Enjoy,
-Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community

Sam Gazitt: SharePoint and Office Development with Visual Studio 2010

channel9 — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:25:00 +0000

Many customers are turning to SharePoint as a way of meeting changing business needs and managing IT costs and complexity. Visual Studio 2010 provides new support for SharePoint 2010 development, including tooling for Web Parts, Lists, Workflows, and Events and more, so you can bring great new customized collaboration tools to your company.

In this session we will cover connecting SharePoint to external data, enhancing customizations with Silverlight, and leveraging SharePoint data from Office client extensions. You will see how to leverage your existing .NET skills to deliver new functionality on a platform that is readily familiar to end-users.

Add items to a SharePoint list using form code

channel9 — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:42:00 +0000

In this video demo, Phil Newman, a program manager on the InfoPath team shows how you can write managed code in an InfoPath form to add items to a SharePoint list, and then publish this form as a sandboxed solution to SharePoint.

In InfoPath 2010, forms with code can now be published directly to SharePoint without requiring the farm administrator to approve and upload them! These forms run in a sandboxed environment which protects other resources on the SharePoint server from malicious code.

For more information and the sample code that was used in this demo, go to the InfoPath Team Blog.

Package and Re-use a SharePoint List

channel9 — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:58:00 +0000

In this InfoPath and SharePoint 2010 video demo, Roberto Taboada from the InfoPath product team shows how you can quickly and easily re-use your customized SharePoint lists by packaging them as SharePoint list templates. This is a really powerful feature as it allows you to build and customize your SharePoint solutions once and re-use them as many times as you want.

To learn more about customizing your SharePoint list forms in InfoPath 2010, check out our earlier posts on the InfoPath Team Blog.

Tutorials: Access 2010 Macro Designer

channel9 — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:15:00 +0000

In this episode, Kerry Westphal gives a quick tour of the macro designer and how to write logic for Access Services/SharePoint databases. The macro designer is a revamped editor that allows you to automate repetitive tasks, wire together forms and reports to create productive UI, and implement business logic in Access databases. For web databases, UI macros are translated into JavaScript in the browser and data macros are translated to workflows in SharePoint.

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

The Tech Behind The Hard Rock Cafe

channel9 — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:34:00 +0000

While there’s nothing wrong with the California Club, you don’t go to a Hard Rock Cafe because you love food. You go because you love music, and now you’re likely to stay longer because you love technology. Knowing the value of memorabilia, Hard Rock took on the huge task of photographing their memorabilia collection in high resolution, feeding it into their office SharePoint. Today, that SharePoint drives the Hard Rock Memorabilia site, the 18′x4′ multitouch “Rock Wall” in Orlando, the Rock Wall Solo in Seattle, all the Hard Rock Microsoft Surface computers, and Microsoft Pivot. And all of it is tagged and indexed with the inside story and Deep Zoomable.

The access to this content is incredible when you think about it. These rockers could teach the world a thing or two about how digital curation is done. Think of how much stuff sits on a shelf at the Smithsonian, Vatican, and thousands of other museums and art galleries around the world. In this video, Hard Rock CIO Joe Tenczar gives us a tour of some of the tech you’ll see in the latest Hard Rock Cafes.

Here is a link to the Photosynth of Tommy Alsop’s wallet that I mentioned in the video. And don’t miss my behind the scenes look at the Hard Rock Cafe warehouse.

The Access Show: Client performance improvements against SharePoint lists

channel9 — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:46:00 +0000

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.