Name that WSP - SharePoint Developer Tricks with WSPBuilder
One of my favorite tools that I highly recommend next to breathing is WSPBuilder. With this tool in your arsenal, no longer do you have to worry about hand crafting manifest files or running cryptic makecab.exe command line tools. Building solution packages for SharePoint can be a super big problem, and for super big problems we turn to WSPBuilder to save the day! WSPBuilder comes in the form of a command line tool that you can run against a specific directory structure on your hard drive where your solution files live. It scans the folder and out pops a WSP fil

Resources for my SharePoint Services Talk
As promised here are some resources for my recent talk on creating and consuming services in SharePoint that I delivered at TechDays. You’ll be able to get the full slide deck, video, and code later at http://my.techdays.ca but here are the links from the slide deck and things I mentioned during the talk. Links Writing Custom Web Services for SharePoint (MSDN) Developing SharePoint Applications guidance from the

SharePoint 2010 Setup - Hurry up and Wait Edition
By now, everyone and his brother are downloading and installing the SharePoint 2010 beta onto their Windows 7 and Vista boxes. Why not? I mean, for the longest time we were stuck with having to spin up a Windows 2003 or 2008 server so now accessibility is here and we can genuinely put it on our machines without hackish workarounds. Of course why you would install a server application on a desktop OS is beyond this blog post and for a discussion over beers at SharePint. In any case there all kinds of guidance coming out on how to set things up. One of them is the MSDN article called

First Calgary SharePoint User Group Meeting
I have the pleasure of speaking at the first Calgary SharePoint User Group meeting next Monday, November 23rd. The planning for a Calgary based SharePoint group has been a long time coming (I’ve been engaged in talks about one at least 4 times over the last few years). Finally it’s a reality. Purpose: The Calgary SharePoint User Group will provide a

Resources for my SharePoint Versioning Talk
Just finished up my talk on SharePoint Solution Versioning at TechDays 2009. I hope it went well for everyone (got a tweet from someone thanking me for answering their question before they asked it, now I just need to go out and buy a LottoMAX ticket). Here’s some quick resources on the talk. You’ll be able to get the full slide deck and video later at my.techdays.ca but here’s some links that may be useful if you enjoyed my talk. Planning SharePoint Solution Packages http://weblogs.asp.net/erobillard