Matt Bremer's Blog

SharePoint, Microsoft and anything else I find interesting.

St. Louis Day of .NET Recap

The St. Louis Day(s) of .NET was a great success. This year the event expanded to two full days of...

Author: mattbremer Date: 09/05/2009

Practical Uses of Twitter

Today I noticed a billboard for a local hospital advertising the use of Twitter to alert followers...

Author: mattbremer Date: 09/05/2009

Specify Default Scope for Advanced Search Box Web Part without Using Scope Picker

On a recent project I had a requirement to develop a search application for a specific subset of...

Author: mattbremer Date: 08/17/2009

St. Louis Day of .NET 2009

I will once again be speaking at the St. Louis Day of .NET conference. This year the event has grown...

Author: mattbremer Date: 08/17/2009

SharePoint Saturday Ozarks Presentation Follow Up

In my session at SharePoint Saturday Ozarks I promised a blog with links to additional resources and...

Author: mattbremer Date: 07/21/2009

SharePoint Designer Available as Free Download after 4/1/09

I received confirmation today that the rumors and suspected April Fools’ hoax regarding...

Author: mattbremer Date: 03/26/2009

Visual Studio Extensions for WSS 3.0 1.3 CTP contains 64-Bit Support

Previously I had posted the SharePoint product group's explanation as to why VSeWSS 1.2 did not...

Author: mattbremer Date: 01/12/2009

Possibly Presenting at Kansas City's SharePoint Saturday in February

Going to give my talk on aggregating content across site collections using search without writing...

Author: mattbremer Date: 12/18/2008

Speaking at St. Louis SharePoint User Group January Meeting

I will be presenting at the St. Louis SharePoint User Group meeting January 13, 2008. The talk will...

Author: mattbremer Date: 12/17/2008

Speaking at St. Louis Day of .NET

I'll be presenting at St. Louis Day of .NET tomorrow on Live Services and Mesh at the Center for the...

Author: mattbremer Date: 12/12/2008

Unit Testing in SharePoint

Typemock is offering their new product for unit testing SharePoint called Isolator For SharePoint,...

Author: mattbremer Date: 11/24/2008

Windows Azure

The big announcement at PDC 2008 this morning was the CTP launch of Windows Azure. Microsoft bills...

Author: mattbremer Date: 10/27/2008

SharePoint Development Guidance

The Patterns & Practices group has released a Codeplex project on SharePoint development best...

Author: mattbremer Date: 08/12/2008

Why do Visual Studio Extensions for WSS 3.0 not support 64-Bit Platforms?

With the recent release of VSeWSS 1.2 I have had a number of customers inquire as to why Microsoft...

Author: mattbremer Date: 06/17/2008

Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for WSS 3.0 Released

This is great news for anyone wanting to use VS 2008 for SharePoint/WSS development. Here is the...

Author: mattbremer Date: 06/09/2008

WorldWide Telescope

WorldWide Telescope was launched today from Microsoft Research. The app basically allows your...

Author: mattbremer Date: 05/14/2008

St. Louis SharePoint User Group Meeting for May

The St. Louis SharePoint user group is having their bi-monthly May meeting Tuesday, May 13 at 8:30...

Author: mattbremer Date: 05/10/2008

MOSS/WSS 3.0 Deployment Guidelines

Anyone that has considered or has actually deployed MOSS or WSS 3.0 is most likely familiar with the...

Author: mattbremer Date: 05/06/2008

MOSS/WSS 3.0 Dispose Pattern Reference

Anyone doing MOSS/WSS development has most likely at one time or another encountered the gotchas...

Author: mattbremer Date: 05/06/2008