#spc09 Notes: Introduction to Service Applications
This is one in a series of notes I will be making while attending the SharePoint Conference in Vegas. These are not intended to be complete, polished, edited blog posts. Its simply the highlights, as I saw it, from the sessions I attended. New, flexible, extensible services architecture that can be used by developers Overview What is a Services Application? An Application Server Tier feature that performs the useful function of providing data or processing resources to SharePoint features. Search is a good example of a Services Application Service Application Configured logical instance of a service Pr

#spc09 Notes: Sandboxed Solutions
This is the first of a series of notes I will be making while attending the SharePoint Conference in Vegas. These are not intended to be complete, polished, edited blog posts. Its simply the highlights, as I saw it, from the sessions I attended. Its all about balancing Security/Stability and Business Agility Sandboxed solutions balance these two things out. Sandboxed solutions should be the default approach to developing solutions on SharePoint. You build them this way UNTIL you hit a limitation you just cant get around. Difficult to come up with a list that describe what you can do with Sandboxed Solutions: Content Types, Site C

#SPC09 Notes: Visual Studio Development Overview
This is the first of a series of notes I will be making while attending the SharePoint Conference in Vegas. These are not intended to be complete, polished, edited blog posts. Its simply the highlights, as I saw it, from the sessions I attended. Tools are designed to make development for SharePoint a LOT easier and a LOT more productive Supports Sandboxed and Farm solutions Provides a number of Project and Item Templates Provides a number of Visual Designers Provides a number of Workflow improvements Templates You are going to generally start with an empty project and then add the items you need as you

SPC 09 Notes: Developer Overview
This is the first of a series of notes I will be making while attending the SharePoint Conference in Vegas. These are not intended to be complete, polished, edited blog posts. Its simply the highlights, as I saw it, from the sessions I attended. Started with a review of the types of applications that are built on SharePoint. SharePoint 2010 can be install on Windows 7 or Vista SP1 Both SharePoint Foundation Server (was WSS) or SharePoint 2010 Still requires you to be running 64bit This is for development only, so single server, non-production, etc. There is an Install Guide in the SDK (Beta coming in November) this repl

Get Your Demos While They Are Hot! Blog Central, Discussions Central, TunnelPoint and Produshare
As mentioned before, next week, zevenseas is heading to Las Vegas for the SharePoint Conference. Given its a week of “Show and Tell” we are coming fully equipped to demonstrate any of the three product releases we made this year. Blog CentralDiscussions Central (released this week)TunnelPoint – http://www.tunnelpoint.com ProduShare If you have an interes