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How I Became a SharePoint 2010 MCM

by Kirk Evans[MSFT] // 4 Comments

I recently attained the Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint 2010 certification.  I have long wanted to write about the experience, but honestly didn’t know how to begin.  After quite a few conversations with friends and colleagues, I thought I would share some insight about the process.  I am not writing this to dissuade you from… Read more

Making The Case for Async Web Parts

by Kirk Evans[MSFT] // 1 Comments

This post will show how to make a call to HttpWebRequest asynchronously from a web part and wait on the result or time out. Years ago, I was fortunate to meet Jeff Richter and attend a session he gave on .NET performance.  He discussed I/O completion ports and showed why any calls from an ASP.NET… Read more

Get Social Data from SharePoint via Web Service

by Kirk Evans[MSFT] // 1 Comments

I am working on a project to create newsletters to send to my customers, and experimenting with a few ways to collect the information so that I can easily author the newsletter later.  One way that I am experimenting with is to use the Tagging feature of SharePoint 2010.  As I visit different web sites… Read more

What is a Dedicated Support Engineer?

by Kirk Evans[MSFT] // 0 Comments

For the past 7 years, I worked in Developer Platform Evangelism to talk to customers about the latest and greatest technologies that Microsoft would soon be releasing, and worked to gain early adopters of the technologies.  This was a very fun job, but I desired a change.  This past July, I joined the Premier Field… Read more

Book Review: WCF 4.0 Multi-tier Services Development with LINQ to Entities

by Kirk Evans[MSFT] // 0 Comments

The great folks at Packt Publishing contacted me to ask if I was interested in reviewing a title for them.  When I saw the title, I said “heck yes!”  The book is WCF 4.0 Multi-tier Services Development with LINQ to Entities.  I have closely followed WCF since its early days as “Indigo”, and I was… Read more

SharePoint as a Composite Application Platform

by Kirk Evans[MSFT] // 0 Comments

I had the pleasure of speaking at the SharePoint TechFest 2010 event today in Dallas, Texas.  Over 650 people at this event, holy smokes it was a great time.  I had the first time slot of the day, and when I first started the talk the room wasn’t even 1/4 full (maybe about 30 people). … Read more

WS-Discovery in WCF – .NET 4.0

by Kirk Evans[MSFT] // 2 Comments

Back in the early beta days of “Indigo”, before WCF, I saw an early demo using WS-Discovery.  The feature obviously was not included in .NET 3.0 or .NET 3.5, but looks like it is in the list of features targeted for .NET 4.0.  Very cool. WS-Discovery fills a needed gap, providing a standard way to… Read more

Getting XML Data From a SharePoint List – The Easy Way

by Kirk Evans[MSFT] // 5 Comments

Steve Pietrek has a great link blog (Steve Pietrek – Everything SharePoint and Office) that aggregates blog postings on SharePoint and Office.  If you are at all interested in seeing what’s possible with SharePoint, I highly recommend you subscribe to this great resource.  In his April 30th link posting, there was a gem of a… Read more

SharePoint for Developers Part 6 – Custom web services

by Kirk Evans[MSFT] // 7 Comments

Part 6 of the SharePoint for Developers series is posted to Channel9, this one focusing on creating custom web services in SharePoint.  For reference, here are the links to the previous 5 screencasts in this series so far. Introducing Visual Studio Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services (VSeWSS 1.3) Working with Features Expression Blend and Silverlight… Read more

SharePoint for Developers Part 4 – Consuming SharePoint Web Services from Silverlight

by Kirk Evans[MSFT] // 5 Comments

Part 4 of the SharePoint for Developers screencast series has been posted to Channel9… this one focusing on calling SharePoint Web Services from a Silverlight client application. Show Me the Code! I started by creating a list in SharePoint based off the Links template called “SharePointSites”.  I added 2 links to it. That gives us… Read more