Creating HTML5 Websites with SharePoint 2010

Ted Pattison
Thursday, March 29, 2012 4p-5p EDT
Designing SharePoint sites using HTML5 and CSS3 provides a new ability to create cross-browser Web applications and to target modern devices such as mobile phones and your CEO’s iPad. However, moving to HTML5 today also involves several well-known pain points such as dealing with varying levels of HTML5 and CSS3 support across mainstream browsers and integrating JavaScript and jQuery to deal with older browsers that do not support HTML5 such as Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8. This webinar takes a real-word approach of extending the SharePoint 2010 environment with a custom master page, CSS files and JavaScript to reach a wide variety of HTML5-capable browsers and devices without abandoning users who are still using Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8. You will also see new HTML5 features such as the new HTML tags, Form controls, drag-and-drop, media support for audio and video playback, graphics support with the Canvas and SVG, Web Open font Format (WOFF), Offline storage and Geolocation. Along the way, the session will also discuss which of these new HTML features are widely supported across browsers and devices to the point where it makes sense to use in today’s Web application designs.

SharePoint Developer's Introduction to OData

Ted Pattison
Thursday, May 10, 2012 2p-3p EDT
OData is a new industry standard for accessing data that has gained wide-spread adoption across vendors and providers such as Microsoft, IBM, FaceBook, eBay and Netflix. The reason behind OData’s recent success is that it defines an HTTP-based protocol for querying and updating data from across the Internet which gives this new standard a strong position as more and more companies move their data storage and their application services into the cloud. Within Microsoft, SharePoint 2010 has emerged as a front-runner with this new standard because items in any SharePoint 2010 list can be queried and updated using OData. This webinar will introduce the SharePoint 2010 architecture created to support OData as well as the ListData.svc web service entry point. It will demonstrate how to formulate the URLs required to execute OData queries that select specific columns as well as apply filters and sorting. The webinar will also show you how to get started programming against a SharePoint list with OData using remote client applications written in both C# and JavaScript.

Developers Approach to Search Applications

Matthew McDermott
Thursday, June 14, 2012 2p-3p EDT
This session looks at what developers can do with the SharePoint Search API to create custom search controls and applications. Weather your goal is to enhance the SharePoint Search center or create custom search applications that take advantage of SharePoint's powerful search engine, this session offers tools and techniques to help you build the solution and get the most from SharePoint Search.

Check the June 2012 Newsletter for details about the next webinar!

Mystery Instructor
Thursday, July 12, 2012 2p-3p EDT

Building Silverlight Applications for SharePoint

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. 

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.
 

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.
 

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.
 

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. 

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.
 

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.
 

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.
 

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.
 

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.
 

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.
 

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.