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Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 6:30 PM: CMAP December Meeting - Microsoft Developer Evangelist G. Andrew Duthie will present on Developing with ASP.NET AJAX and JQuery: It’s great to have options, and ASP.NET developers now have two great officially ...

'Tis the season for hardcore SharePoint. I'll be doing a presentation for the Toronto .NET User Group with the understated title: Secret Strategies of Successful SharePoint Projects. This is a two-part session on designing knowledge management solutions and then implementing them in SharePoint. We'll discuss taxonomy design, infrastructure design, ...

Joel posted a teaser this morning, here's a little more to look forward to - the December meeting of the Toronto SharePoint User Group will be SharePoint for Lunch on Friday, December 12 from 11:50am to 1:30pm at a (still undisclosed) downtown restaurant. Our featured guest is none other than Joel Oleson, SharePoint mentor to many, ex-employee of ...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 7:00 PM: DC ALT.NET 11/2008 - Web Testing Frameworks with John Morales. This will cover Selenium, Watir and WatiN among other projects. [ Event Details | Map & Directions | Add To Calendar ] ...

Ever seen the above pop up as a requested install when browsing a website? Well, if so, it’s probably related to the following KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931509 The short version is that there’s an ActiveX control used by Office 2007 and SharePoint to communicate online presence information in SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows ...

Our next Toronto SharePoint Usergroup Meeting will take place next Wednesday, November 19, 2008. This month’s speaker,  Sean Hopen (New Toronto Group), will give a tour of the development process with Silverlight and an overview of developing web parts for use in SharePoint. There will be a discussion of the benefits of using Silverlight in ...

I've been doing more with Sharepoint. There is two main command line tools, psconfig and stsadm . In true MVP fashion, a Sharepoint MVP Gary LaPoint has developed and makes available a tool that extends stsadm. If you do any type of sharepoint automation...(read more)

Today we confirmed that Saturday, January 24th is the date of the 2nd Annual Toronto SharePoint Camp! For a second year, I'd like to thank Manulife Financial Corporation for generously providing the facilities that not only make this event possible, but also keep it free to all attendees. TorontoSharePoint.com will be updated soon with ...

Today Microsoft's Ramp Up program launched a new track: SharePoint for Developers, Part I. This is a free, online, community-based program that only requires a Live ID to sign up and dig in.I worked through all the learning materials for the first module (creating Web Parts) and it looks good. The module includes a Word document that describes web ...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area (note the CMAP Code Camp THIS SATURDAY!): Tuesday, October 21, 2008 7:00 PM: DC ALT.NET - A Look at Kanban Software Development - Kanban is gaining popularity thanks to a growing number of folks, including Corbis & Yahoo!, who have been ...