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The third annual Toronto SharePoint Camp will deliver over 20 sessions by the best Canadian and international SharePoint experts on a wealth of topics. Whether you're a developer, server administrator, architect, power user, or business sponsor; whether...(
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I was going to hold off on posting this until the public beta drops, but anyone preparing for the drop will want to get the right hardware, OS and optionally virtualization in place now. Then when the beta drops I'll write more about specific steps to...(
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First Looks at Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2010 Presented by Savash Alic , Principal Specialist – SharePoint TSP, Microsoft Canada Join us for a special live meeting on Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 where Microsoft Canada’s Savash Alic will present...(
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Someone recently asked about test plans and how to test components during development so you can be comfortable they'll perform well when hosted on large farms. The short answer is that you want to create the best simulation you can, and that means creating...(
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The default experience when you press F5 in Visual Studio 2010 is to Create, Build, Package and Deploy your solution, all at once, automagically, pretty cool. As long as you don't want to control that process. But wait, you can do that too. You can customize...(
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Extensibility points Already had: Macros, add-ins and packages New extensions based on MEF VSIX model simplifies distribution and deployment VSIX Package A zip package Contains am .XML manifest Install by double-clicking Managed Extensibility Framework...(
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Look out TSPUG, there's a new user group in town! Led by Ray Outair, all the pieces are finally in place and the first meeting is: This Monday from 6 to 8:30 at Microsoft Canada's Mississauga office ! An Overview of SharePoint 2010 Presented by Rob Windsor...(
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There are three scenarios or scopes that the team designed for - the library, the document repository and then large scale repositories. The third isn't covered specifically here, but it's basically an architectural strategy that uses many components...(
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Partial trust or "Sandboxed" solutions Runs in a separate process Everything in the WSP is deployed to a special repository managed by Central Administration. There is a new compilation model to support this repository (that you thankfully don't need...(
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I'm in Las Vegas this week for the SharePoint Conference , where today marks a new era for everything SharePoint. And with the fantastic rate of growth in the use of SharePoint, that means that today thousands of people will start thinking of new ways...(
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SharePoint 2010 Resources: The Beta Version Bookmark this page! Today we're still in "pre-release" mode, some come back and watch us grow. Between the SharePoint Conference 2009 and the public beta in November, this site will provide links to all the...(
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Thanks to everyone in the terrific crowd at my TechDays session in Toronto, and to everyone who stopped by to chat throughout the day. While attendees will be able to get the deck, the source code and a recording of the presentation in a few weeks (steps...(
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Solution: Declare the class public. I mean seriously, you missed that? More surprising than not getting any hits for this message on Bing or Google is not catching the problem myself for the past [insert embarrassing amount of time here]. Serves me right...(
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In my last post I described a strategy for: Planning SharePoint Solution Packages . In this post we'll construct a sample solution template, use that template to construct a real solution, package this as a WSP, and finally (once you have many WSPs) wrap...(
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What's Here Welcome to my list of SharePoint 2007 Resources! This is a hub for SharePoint 2007 and WSS 3.0 Resources with two advantages: All resources are hand-picked and vetted for quality, and each topic contains a with hand-tuned search designed to...(
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