Thank You, SharePoint MVPs!

The MVP Summit is in full force this week, and the SharePoint Developer Documentation Team would like to take a moment to recognize all the outstanding contributions our SharePoint MVPs have made to MSDN since Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 & Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 shipped.

Here is a list of Visual How-to screencasts, book excerpts, and technical articles we have published with our Most Valuable Publishing partners! The list totals more than 50 pieces of content, with more lined up to publish in the coming months!

I look back over the past year, and I am saddened by the loss of a colleague and friend, Patrick Tisseghem. We all miss him.

MSDN Technical Articles

Technical Articles are one of our most popular content types on MSDN. They are usually scenario-based and walk people end-to-end through a typical developer task, sometimes in a 2- or 3-part article series.

MVP Name

Title and Link

Date Published

Andrew Connell

Approaches to Creating Master Pages and Page Layouts in SharePoint Server 2007

February 2009

Finding Developer Help for SharePoint Products and Technologies

December 2008

Implementing a Brand in a SharePoint Server 2007 Publishing Site

November 2008

Prescriptive Guidance for SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content Management Sites

October 2008

Creating Custom Timer Jobs in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

April 2008

Understanding and Creating Customized and Uncustomized Files in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

April 2008

David Mann

Workflow Scalability and Performance in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

February 2009

Delivering Modular SharePoint Workflow Functionality (Part 1 of 2)

June 2008

Patrick Tisseghem

Development Tools and Techniques for Working with Code in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Part 1 of 2)

June 2007

Customizing and Branding Web Content Management-Enabled SharePoint Sites (Part 1 of 3)

October 2006

Scot Hillier

Integrating External Document Repositories with SharePoint Server 2007

February 2009

Wouter van Vugt

Creating a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Custom Field by Using the EntityPicker

August 2008

Visual How-to Screencasts

A Visual How-to is a short (about 5 – 10 minute) screencast centered on a How-to task. There is a code sample, a video, an article explaining the code, and links to more information. We look forward to creating more of these in the future and getting more folks involved!

MVP Name

Title and Link

Date Published

Andrew Connell

Automating Solution Package Creation for Windows SharePoint Services by Using MSBuild

April 2008

Configuring Multiple Authentication Mechanisms with Alternate Access Mappings in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

April 2008

Adding Code-Behind Files to Master Pages and Content Pages in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

March 2008

Creating, Deploying, and Debugging Custom Timer Jobs in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

March 2008

Adding Code-Behind Files to Master Pages and Page Layouts in SharePoint Server 2007

January 2008

Adding Custom Quick Access Buttons to the Page Editing Toolbar in SharePoint Server 2007

January 2008

Patrick Tisseghem

Creating Workflow Association Pages for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

February 2008

Using Smart Clients to Communicate with Workflows in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

February 2008

Customizing Search Results with Custom XSLTs in SharePoint Server 2007

December 2007

Building Custom Activities for Use in SharePoint Designer 2007

July 2007

Building Simple Custom Approval Workflows with InfoPath 2007 Forms

July 2007

Creating Search Queries Programmatically by Using the Search Object Model in SharePoint Server 2007

July 2007

Creating Search Queries Programmatically by Using the Search Web Service in SharePoint Server 2007

July 2007

Exposing Enterprise Search in SharePoint Server 2007 by Using Internet Explorer 7 and the Office Research Pane

July 2007

Creating a Custom Search Page and Tabs in the Search Center of SharePoint Server

April 2007

Creating and Exposing Managed Properties in the Advanced Search Page of SharePoint Server Enterprise Search

April 2007

Creating and Exposing Search Scopes in SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Search

April 2007

Creating Content Sources to Crawl Business Data in SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Search

April 2007

Ted Pattison

Activating Auditing Programmatically for a Single Document Library in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

May 2007

Activating Auditing Programmatically for a Site Collection in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

May 2007

Configuring IntelliSense with CAML Files When Developing for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

May 2007

Creating an Application Page in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

May 2007

Creating a Custom HttpHandler in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

May 2007

Creating a Feature for an Entry Control Block Item in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

May 2007

Creating a Feature for the Site Actions Menu in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

May 2007

Creating a Solution Package in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

May 2007

Creating a Visual Studio Project for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

May 2007

Displaying Data by Using the SPGridView Control in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

May 2007

Reading Entries from the Audit Log in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

May 2007

Reading ListId and ItemId from an Application Page in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

May 2007

Running Commands with Elevated Privileges in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

May 2007

Writing Custom Entries to the Audit Log in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

May 2007

Book Excerpts

We have a way of publishing one or two chapters from several book publishers, including Microsoft Press and Wrox, among others.

MVP Name(s)

Title and Link

Date Published

John Holliday, John Alexander, Eli Robillard, Brendon Schwartz, Matt Ranlett, J. Dan Attis, Adam Buenz

Chapter 8: Building Personalized Solutionsfrom the book Professional SharePoint 2007 Development

February 2009

Andrew Connell

Chapter 14: Authoring Experience Extensibilityfrom the book Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Sites with Office SharePoint Server 2007

August 2008

Andrew Connell

Chapter 20: Incorporating ASP.NET 2.0 Applications

from the book Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Sites with Office SharePoint Server 2007

August 2008

Ted Pattison and Daniel Larson

Chapter 2: SharePoint Architecture (Part 1 of 2)from the book Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

November 2007

Ted Pattison and Daniel Larson

Chapter 3: Pages and Design (Part 1 of 2)from the book Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

November 2007

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Thanks again for all your contributions!
Randall