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All Things SharePoint, Office and Azure Development
Integrating SharePoint Server List Data and Windows Phone 7 Using the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus
Overview With Windows Phone 7 becoming more pervasive, one of the key questions facing enterprise...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 02/24/2011
SharePoint and Windows Azure: Why They’re Better Together?
Last Friday, we presented an Academy Live (AL) session that discussed, at the introductory level,...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 02/22/2011
SharePoint Coast to Coast Tour Coming to a City Near You!
Microsoft is partnering with Penton to bring 6 cities a SharePoint Coast to Coast tour! If you’re...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 02/03/2011
New SharePoint Sideshow on C9: SharePoint FAST
Good to see a sideshow on SharePoint and FAST. You can check out the new sideshow by clicking below:...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 02/03/2011
Upcoming Academy Live Session (02/18): Integrating SharePoint and Windows Azure
While I’ve had a set of posts that target integrating SharePoint and Azure, later this month...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 02/02/2011
SharePoint and Azure at SharePoint Summit
Here in Toronto this week and wanted to follow up with a blog post on a session I did earlier in the...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 02/02/2011
Developing for SharePoint Online (SPO)
Watching for Snow I’m in Toronto this week presenting at the annual SharePoint Summit conference and...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 02/01/2011
Azure, SQL Server & SharePoint Evangelism Position
Hey gang, A friend and colleague from MS, Juergen Daiberl, asked me to post this on my blog, so...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 12/04/2010
Azure, jQuery & SharePoint: Huh?
I’ve been spending a lot more time of late looking at how Azure integrates with SharePoint. You may...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 11/26/2010
TechEd Europe Keynote: Cloud, Phone, Windows, Cloud, and more Cloud
Welcome to TechEd Europe 2010 Keynote with Brad Anderson where the theme was cloud, phone, server...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 11/08/2010
PDC 2010: SharePoint And Azure Recording and Deck
A few of you have pinged me for more information my SharePoint and Azure talk at PDC. I’ve posted a...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 11/05/2010
SharePoint & Bing Maps at SharePoint Connections Las Vegas
Lately, I’ve been exploring Bing Maps as a way to surface SharePoint data within a mapping...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 11/03/2010
Beginning SharePoint 2010 Development Supplement: Using the Lists Web Service to Update a SharePoint List
Book Supplements I’ve been wanting of time to add some how-to supplements to my Beginning SharePoint...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 10/28/2010
SharePoint 2010 Easy Set Up
To get started developing for SharePoint 2010, you have a number of options: You can download the IW...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 10/28/2010
Windows Phone 7 & SharePoint 2010
One of the key challenges we face moving forward is how to integrate Windows Phone 7 and SharePoint...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 10/28/2010
PDC is Almost Here!!
It’s just after 7AM here on the Pacific coast, and if you haven’t heard PDC is here. The campus is...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 10/28/2010
Beginning SharePoint 2010 Development: A Couple of Notes
For those of you working through the exercises, here are a few small things that have been sent to...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 08/06/2010
Beginning SharePoint 2010 Development: Chapter 11 missing code
Thanks to Dan Loker for sending me a mail on this, but it appears that Chapter 11 was missing code....
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 08/06/2010
PDC 2010 – October 28-29: Registration is Now Open!
That’s right, you read it correctly…there is a PDC this fall. You can get more information for the...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 07/12/2010
Showcasing IW Platform at WPC
Next week, Girish Raja and I will be attending WPC in Washington, DC (https://digitalwpc.com/). The...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 07/08/2010
Beginning SharePoint 2010 Development: Fix for Chapter 2 Web Services Soap Exception
A couple of you have experienced a Web service call error (Unauthorized Exception) in Chapter 2. The...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 06/24/2010
Integrating a Custom Azure Service with Business Connectivity Services
In this blog-post, I’ll walk through how you can create a custom Azure service and then integrate...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 06/15/2010
RTM Demo VM for SharePoint & Office 2010
Getting the VM If you’re looking to get up to speed on SharePoint and Office 2010 development, but...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 06/15/2010
Worldwide Partner Conference (July 11-15)
With TechEd in our recent wake, the next question is what’s next? One of the biggest partner...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 06/11/2010
Beginning SharePoint 2010 Development Ships!
This past week not only marked another successful TechEd, it marked the release of a few new...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 06/11/2010
Office Business Applications at TechEd
Well, it’s Day Three at TechEd, New Orleans. The pace has been furious and the conversations...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 06/09/2010
Neil Leslie at TechEd: Extending Productivity into the Cloud
This past Monday morning at TechEd here in New Orleans, Neil Leslie, GM of Developer & Platform...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 06/08/2010
SharePoint 2010 & Windows Azure: How they Play Together?
SharePoint and Azure: How They Play Together? Today, I presented a session on Azure and...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 06/08/2010
Extending to the cloud…but what is cloud computing?
Over the next few months, I’ll be spending some time with my blog investigating and discussing the...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 05/24/2010
microsoft teched usa – june 7-10
If you haven’t yet registered for TechEd 2010, you’ll want to make sure you sign up...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 05/12/2010
deprecated sharepoint apis
I’ve been asked a number of times what are the deprecated SharePoint APIs in SharePoint 2010....
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 05/12/2010
launch week: announcement # 3 (RECap of virtual launch)
This morning, Stephen Elop officially launched SharePoint and Office 2010. It was a virtual launch...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 05/12/2010
launch week: announcement # 2
Today, we have released some new developer training materials for the developer community on Channel...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 05/12/2010
Launch Week: Announcement #1
Given the fact that this is launch week (big day is tomorrow!!!), there are a few things I’ll...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 05/11/2010
silverlight & sharepoint at SharePoint summit 2010
I did a session this morning on Silverlight and SharePoint this morning. I walked through the...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 04/14/2010
Visual Studio 2010 extensibility projects for sharepoint 2010
Today at the SharePoint Summit in Montreal, I am presenting a session on Silverlight and SharePoint....
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 04/14/2010
Sharepoint Summit 2010 – Montreal, QC
This week I’m at the SharePoint Summit 2010 in Montreal:...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 04/13/2010
office, sharePoint 2010 & CRM OBA
Yesterday, I presented a session with Girish Raja at our internal company conference called...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 03/23/2010
Integrating azure & Sharepoint 2010
Windows Azure & SharePoint 2010 Azure is Microsoft’s platform in the cloud that provides you...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 03/22/2010
Office developer atlas making office development easier…
For those of you looking to learn more about how to leverage Office for development, another cool...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 03/08/2010
ghosting & unghosting in Sharepoint 2010
In a recent virtual conference, I was asked about whether you can still ghost/unghost site pages...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 03/08/2010
Office and SharePoint 2010 to launch on may 12th
Woohoo!!! Launch is finally here!!! If you haven’t see this, check it out: Office and SharePoint...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 03/08/2010
office and sharepoint developer centers have new look!!!
Both the Office and SharePoint Developer Centers in MSDN got a new look! You can check out the new...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 03/08/2010
upcoming Sharepoint and Office conferences
I’m attending and speaking at a number of upcoming conferences. If you’re looking to get up to speed...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 01/27/2010
Simple Tip when creating VS projects for sharepoint 2010
One thing I’ve noticed is that when you create a SharePoint project in VS 2010 (File, New, Project)...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 01/27/2010
SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 beta VM is publicly Available
If you’re looking for an environment to use to get up to speed, you can now download a publicly...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 01/26/2010
Social Data Service
I’m in Mountainview, California this week participating in a small social networking event called...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 01/26/2010
Reading Data from External List using the SharePoint 2010 Client Object model
One of the demos I showed this week was the integration of the new SharePoint 2010 client object...
Author: Steve - Azure Date: 01/19/2010