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SharePoint 2010 Certification LiveMeeting Events in May

Neal McFee — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:49:06 +0000

May is going to be a busy month for learning SharePoint 2010. Several events are scheduled surrounding certification and preparing professionals to get certified.

Here are some LiveMeeting sessions in May that will assist you in your efforts to get certified.

Certification Preparation session: SharePoint Server 2010 TS and Pro Exams: 70-667 and 70-668 by Telmo Sampaio

Certification Preparation session: SharePoint Server 2010 Developer: Exam 70-573 by Christopher Harrison

Career Specialization for Network Administrators: Skills necessary to become a SharePoint Administrator by Russ Kaufmann

May 26 2010 at 12:00pm PDT (What time is this in my region?)

Live Meetings: Exam Crams for Windows Server, Exchange, SharePoint and more!

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Demo of adding SharePoint 2010 Project Items to a project in Visual Studio 2010

Neal McFee — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:53:08 +0000

This demo video includes a walkthrough of creating a visual webpart using Visual Studio 2010.

Deploying the webpart using the Visual Studio 2010 IDE is also included.

Using Visual Studio 2010 you have project templates.
These templates are known as SharePoint Project Items (SPI).

If you are used to using the VSeWSS tools with Visual Studio 2005 – 2008 then you are already used to the idea of creating projects using templates.

The templates that are included in Visual Studio 2010 include:

Application Page
Business Data Connectivity Model
Content Type
Empty Element
Event Receiver
List Definition
List Definition from Content type
List Instance
Module
Sequential Workflow
State Machine Workflow
User Control
Visual Web Part
Web Part
Workflow Association Form
Workflow Initiation Form

Demo of adding SharePoint 2010 Project items

Windows PowerShell compiled Help for SharePoint Server 2010

Neal McFee — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:30:35 +0000

Here is the Microsoft Download center URL to a series of .chm files that contain the overview, use, and syntax for using PowerShell when administrating SharePoint Server 2010

Microsoft Download Center

Files in This Download

The links in this section correspond to separate files available in this download. Download the files most appropriate for you.

File Name:	File Size
AccessServicesCmdlets.chm	51 KB	Download
ECMCmdlets.chm	60 KB	Download
ExcelServicesApplicationCmdlets.chm	107 KB	Download
InfoPathCmdlets.chm	85 KB	Download
MetadataCmdlets.chm	63 KB	Download
PerformancePointCmdlets.chm	60 KB	Download
SearchCmdlets.chm	278 KB	Download
SecureStoreCmdlets.chm	70 KB	Download
SharePointFoundationSearchCmdlets.chm	44 KB	Download
SharePointProductsCmdlets.chm	459 KB	Download
StateServiceCmdlets.chm	71 KB	Download
UserProfileCmdlets.chm	60 KB	Download
VisioServicesCmdlets.chm	59 KB	Download
WebAnalyticsCmdlets.chm	46 KB	Download
WordServicesCmdlets.chm	46 KB	Download

SharePoint Developer credit class at DePaul University in Chicago

Neal McFee — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:12:27 +0000

This looks like a great option to learn SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 development while earning college credit at a well known University in Chicago.

It is rare to see universities offering classes on very current technologies not to mention offering college credit for a very current version and the future version of SharePoint.

http://www.cdm.depaul.edu/ipd/Programs/Pages/SharePointDeveloperProgram.aspx

Overview
A 10-week comprehensive program covering Microsoft SharePoint development. The program exposes students to SharePoint architecture and the use of SharePoint as a development platform for building customized solutions, focusing on SharePoint as a collaboration framework and content management system.

The program will begin with an overview of the various product editions and their features as well as a refresher of the .NET 2.0+ fundamentals that SharePoint is built upon. The program will then provide in-depth coverage of the core development constructs of SharePoint to enable the student to understand how the pieces fit together in common use cases. Finally, the program will expose the student to current development trends and how they will carry over into the next release of the product, SharePoint 2010.

Admission Requirements
Applicants must have a solid programming background (at least two years of professional experience is preferred), including some experience building dynamic websites using ASP.NET and C#, and knowledge of basic HTML/CSS.

Dates & Location: Spring Quarter 2010
Application deadline: Mar. 12, 2010
Tuition deadline: Mar. 18, 2010
Classes begin: Mar. 30, 2010
Classes end: Jun. 3, 2010
Classes meet on Tuesday and Thursday evenings (5:45pm-9pm) at DePaul University’s Loop Campus at 243 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, IL.

Online Section: Students may elect to register for an online section of the course. For more information about the online section, click here.
DePaul University reserves the right to cancel any program prior to that program’s first class meeting.

Course Credit
The SharePoint Developer Program is an accredited course of DePaul University, which follows the quarter system (as opposed to the semester system).
Course #: IPD 358
Credit hours: 10 undergraduate

For a complete program description, download the program brochure.

United States Olympic Committee Media Site Shines With Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

Neal McFee — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:41:25 +0000

Everything the U.S. Olympic press corps needs to report from the Games is now in one place, with the ability to share, e-mail, print and download information from one simple Web site.

http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/Features/2010/jan10/01-27USOCpresssite.mspx

SharePoint Server 2010 Information Worker Demonstration Virtual Machine (Beta)

Neal McFee — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:38:35 +0000

Here is another development VHD that contains the following products:

Microsoft Download Center

Windows Server 2008 SP2 Standard Edition x64, running as an Active Directory Domain Controller for the “CONTOSO.COM” domain with DNS and WINS
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SP1 + CU2 Enterprise Edition with Analysis, Notification, and Reporting Services
Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 R2
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Ultimate Edition
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition Beta 2
Microsoft Office Web Applications Beta 2
FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 Beta 2
Microsoft Project Server 2010 Beta 2
Microsoft Office 2010 Beta 2
Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2

Keep in mind that many of the software included on the VHD require activation after 30 days.

MSDN, TechNet, or Partner Action Pack license keys will active software that is not Beta.

If you wish to activate Beta software check the Microsoft.com sites for each respective product and retrieve the key there.

Code samples from: – SharePoint Conference 2009, "Advanced Development for Silverlight 3 in SharePoint 2010"

Neal McFee — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:41:07 +0000

Code samples from:
- SharePoint Conference 2009, "Advanced Development for Silverlight 3 in SharePoint 2010"
- MSDN Webcast Feb 2010, "Developing Rich Solutions in Silverlight for SharePoint 2010"
- ReadMe.docx

This release includes a recording of the MSDN Webcast,

“Developing Rich Solutions in Silverlight for SharePoint 2010”

along with the code shown in the webcast. These are updates of the same solutions shown at SharePoint Conference 2009 in the talk, “Advanced Development for Silverlight 3 in SharePoint 2010”; this Code Gallery release will serve to provide the sample code from both talks.

The code samples are as follows:

SharePoint and Silverlight from Scratch
This walkthrough was presented only in the webcast to show how to get stared developing in Silverlight for SharePoint 2010. The sample includes only the snippets (in Visual Studio snippet format); it will be necessary to watch the webcast to see how to use them.

Picture View Web Part
This is a Silverlight web part that shows a slide show of images stored in a SharePoint picture library. This demonstrates how to use the HTML bridge to reduce the number of round-trips to the server. In this case, the server side web part passes the URL’s of the pictures to Silverlight in a hidden form field, removing the need for the Silverlight application to query the server for the list of pictures.

Paged List View Web Part
This is a Silverlight web part that shows a grid of data from a SharePoint list. It allows paging, sorting and filtering, and only loads an n-row page at a time to allow viewing a large data set without downloading the whole thing to Silverlight. In addition to loading the first “page” of data in a hidden field (like the Picture View web part) , it obtains additional content using ADO.NET Data Services and SharePoint’s new RESTful interface.
NOTE this release does not include the target list, and the sample will not run without it. A future release may include a matching list definition with sample data.

Video Field Control
This adds a Video field to SharePoint, using Silverlight applications to view and select the video. The actual field simply stores the URL of the video. The Silverlight display application is very simple, and just plays the video based on this URL. The selector application is more interesting as it uses the client object model to provide a simple browsing and preview feature in which the user can select a site, library and video to be shown.

Connected Silverlight Web Parts
This sample includes a pair of web parts – a source and target. When connected via the web browser, text entered into the source web part will appear on all targets as it is typed. This shows how to use SharePoint’s web part connection mechanism – which runs on the server side – as a broker to connect the Silverlight applications. The Silverlight applications communicate using the new Silverlight 3.0 Local Messaging API.

Extracted from

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/SP2010Silverlight

Minimal master page file for SharePoint Foundation 2010

Neal McFee — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:16:20 +0000

This master page is meant as a starting point for creating master pages for Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010. Most of the controls on the page are hidden. You can move these controls into other locations based on your design. You can find the default controls in the v4.master page that ships with the product.

starter.master

SharePoint 2010 Samples for Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate

Neal McFee — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:12:49 +0000

Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate samples demonstrate SharePoint 2010 development projects, tools, and techniques. Each sample is available in both Visual Basic and C#.

SharePoint samples

SharePoint 2010 Sequential Workflow
Demonstrates how to create a basic sequential workflow template that associates a task in the SharePoint Tasks list with a document in a document library.

Business Data Connectivity Samples
Shows how to use custom Business Data Catalog types in a SharePoint project.
Visual Web Part
Shows how to create an ASP.NET Web part that can be used in SharePoint.

List with Event Receiver
Demonstrates how to use a list definition, list instance, content type, event receiver, visual Web part, LINQ to SharePoint, and Package Designer to create an equipment lending library based on SharePoint 2010.

Custom Action Project Item
Demonstrates how to add a new SharePoint Project Extension using the SharePoint project extensibility APIs that are part of Visual Studio 2010.

Visual Web Part
Shows how to create an ASP.NET Web part that can be used in SharePoint.

Walkthrough 6: Extending the SharePoint 2010 UI with Silverlight

Neal McFee — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:04:21 +0000

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The Silverlight Web Part allows developers and users to easily add Silverlight applications (*.XAP) to SharePoint sites. Client Object Model can be used in Silverlight to access SharePoint programmatically.

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Open Visual Studio 2010 from the Start | Programs | Visual Studio 2010 menu.

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