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Building Silverlight Applications for SharePointAndrew Connell April 2011
SharePoint 2010 introduced numerous capabilities available to developers for building rich Silverlight applications. In this session we'll take a look at what is available to you specifically in the Client Object Model & REST services. We'll also look into some tips and tricks to improve the performance of your Silverlight application and how to leverage the very popular MVVM design pattern when building applications for SharePoint 2010.
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Using InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010 to manage SharePoint List Forms
Asif Rehmani April 2011 SharePoint Designer has been a great tool to customize SharePoint list forms for a long time. Now in SharePoint 2010, you can use InfoPath 2010 to customize the forms as well. What's the difference? Why should you use one tool over the other for this purpose? This session shows how each functionality works and explores the pros and cons of using each method to customize your SharePoint list forms. |
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SharePoint Ribbon Customization Deep Dive
Andrew Connell April 2011 SharePoint 2010 introduced a new paradigm in the user experience: the ribbon. This user friendly control contains all the controls and tools available to users when interacting with SharePoint to get their job done. Developers can customize and extend the ribbon for custom solutions. In this session we'll examine the different components of the ribbon as well as how to create page components, asynchronous callbacks and prompt the user with intuitive dialogs. |
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Data Access Shoot-out
Ted Pattison April 2011 When developing for SharePoint 2010, there are many different was to access items in a list. When writing server-side code you can use the SPQuery class or the SPSiteDataQuery class. You can optionally use the new LINQ to SharePoint Support which enabled you to write LINQ query statements against SharePoint Lists. When writing client-side code in JavaScript or Silverlight you can use the CamlQuery class provided by the new client-side object model. You also have the option of using the new REST-based Web service built into SharePoint Foundation or creating your own custom Web Service. This means there are different 6 ways for you to query and update items. This sessions examines each of these techniques in depth and reveals their strengths and weaknesses in terms of performance, productivity and maintainability. |
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Cram session: SharePoint Certification Exam prep
Ted Pattison May 2011 In this action-packed session, Ted Pattison will discuss preparing for Microsoft’s two developer-oriented certification exams for SharePoint 2010 which include Technical Specialist Exam 70-573 and Professional Exam 70-576. In this session Ted will discuss the format of each exam and cover the important developer topics that you need to know to pass both exams. Be forewarned. There is a lot of information to cover, so be prepared to absorb a great deal of content in a short time frame. |
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Customizing the Appearance of External Lists
Scot Hillier May 2011 The External List is the primary user interface element for presenting External Data through Business Connectivity Services (BCS). While creating External Lists can be done easily through the SharePoint Designer, you will often want to customize the way data appears. Common issues include no support for date-only columns, no support for complex values, handling unsupported data types, data validation, and error reporting. In this session, we’ll examine how to overcome these issues using techniques ranging from simple to advanced. Attendees will exit the session ready to customize the appearance of External Data in SharePoint. |
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Incorporating Managed Metadata in Custom Solutions in SharePoint 2010
Andrew Connell May 2011 The Managed Metadata Service application in SharePoint 2010 allows users to create and utilize taxonomies in various ways. Microsoft has included a robust taxonomy API in SharePoint 2010 that can be leveraged in custom solutions. In this session we'll explore how you can import taxonomies programmatically and create custom solutions that leverage taxonomies in various ways. |
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Professional SharePoint Development – tools and topics to enhance your craft
David Mann May 2011 SharePoint has long since moved into the realm of "business critical applications" and yet most SharePoint development is still done without the benefit of modern, robust tools and practices. This needs to change. NOW. As practitioners of our craft, we need to improve our ability to deliver solid, robust solutions on the SharePoint framework. But how exactly do we do that? This session will demonstrate topics and tools to help us improve our processes and deliver more reliable, high-performance code in less time. Taking your SharePoint development skills to the next level is not a matter of working harder; it is a matter of working smarter. |
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Office 365
David Mann June 2011 Office 365 is a game changer. It is a freight train barreling towards us without brakes. If we aren’t ready for it, we’ll be left in its wake wondering what just roared past us leaving all of our hard-earned skills by the wayside. This session will start with an overview of Office 365 and then drill in on development opportunities, gotchas and limitations of SharePoint Online that are important to know if you want to catch a ride on the next big thing in the IW/Collaboration space. |
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Developing & Extending SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Content Management
Andrew Connell June 2011 Microsoft made considerable investments in the Enterprise Content Management capabilities in SharePoint 2010. While SharePoint 2010 includes many OOTB features, Microsoft has provided many extensibility points for developers to create robust and custom solutions for ECM scenarios. This session you will demonstrate how to create document sets declaratively to promote reuse across multiple SharePoint environments. In addition you will see how to introduce custom business logic into the creation of document IDs and interacting with managed metadata programmatically. |
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Create Powerful Pages Without Code!
Wendy Henry June 2011 SharePoint 2010 gives Power Users and Administrators alike the ability to create powerful, interactive web pages without writing any programming code! Join us in this webinar to learn all of the different ways you can give site users an interactive interface to manipulate the business data exposed on a SharePoint web page. SharePoint 2010 gives site administrators, designers and even power users many tools for creating custom pages from connecting web parts via a web browser application or SharePoint Designer 2010. This webinar will demonstrate various solutions for connecting web parts on a web page and controlling their exposure to site visitors. |
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Examine Business Information in SharePoint from the Best Point of View
Wendy Henry June 2011 SharePoint 2010 offers information workers as well as list managers and site administrators the ability to sort, filter, and format the business information exposed on a SharePoint web site page. Join us in this webinar and learn how to boost your own personal productivity by taking advantage of SharePoint 2010 personalization features. If you are a list manager or site administrator, learn to enhance your site visitors' experience when viewing SharePoint business data via a web browser application. This webinar will demonstrate various solutions for creating and exposing custom views of lists, libraries and pages. |
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Extending the SharePoint 2010 Newsfeed
Matt McDermott, MVP June 2011 The SharePoint 2010 Newsfeed is the new My Site home page. This presentation demonstrates a centralized approach to building applications that publish activities to the newsfeed. In this session you will learn how to create a custom Activity Application and publish Activity Items from external events. This session will also address best practices and pitfalls of working with Activity Events including multilingual considerations and custom Event Types. |
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