Archive | January, 2009

OBA Book Available from MS Learning

By on January 27, 2009 in Microsoft Office, Process Automation, SharePoint Development, Smart Client

In case you missed it, my most recent authoring adventure, 6 Microsoft Office Business Applications for Office SharePoint Server 2007 is now available from Microsoft Learning, Barnes & Noble, Amazon and Quantum Books. This was a collaborative effort with Rob Barker, Joanna Bichsel, Adam Buenz, Steve Fox, Bhushan Nene and Karthik Ravindran. If you're building [...]

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CAML.NET Framework Documentation Now Online

By on January 23, 2009 in CAML, SharePoint Development

The CAML.NET Framework documentation is now available online in the same format used for the MSDN docs at http://www.johnholliday.net/camldotnet/documentation.   This documentation set describes all of the CAML.NET static methods as well as the ICamlQuery and ICamlField interfaces along with the CamlQuery base class from which you can derive your own reusable query classes.

You can also [...]

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Generate CAML.NET Queries using T-SQL Syntax

By on January 23, 2009 in CAML, Code Generation, SharePoint Development

Boy, news travels fast on the Internet!  Awhile back, my fellow SharePoint MVP Carlos Segura Sanz came up with a pretty nifty tool that lets you create CAML queries using T-SQL syntax.  It's called YACAMLQT for "Yet Another CAML Query Tool", and you can read all about it here. 

Basically, it lets you write a query [...]

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Atlanta Code Camp – 2007

By on January 23, 2009 in Code Generation, InfoPath, Microsoft Office, Process Automation, SharePoint Development

Registration for the 3rd annual Atlanta Code Camp is now open!
Here's the link to register (you'd better hurry):
https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=113135
The 3rd annual Atlanta Code Camp will take place on January 20th. The event is completely free and lunch is included. Doors open at 7:30am at the Decatur campus of DeVry University. Here's the address:

250 North Arcadia Ave
Decatur [...]

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South Florida Code Camp

By on January 23, 2009 in Code Generation, SharePoint Development

We had a great turnout for the South Florida code camp down in sunny Miramar over the weekend!.

It's great to see first-hand the level of excitement and commitment around the new Office Server platform. Especially around SharePoint and related technologies. I had the pleasure of riding down in Andrew Connell's "geek mobile" along with Dennis [...]

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“SharePoint Saturday” – What a Great Idea!

By on January 23, 2009 in Records Management, SharePoint Development, User Groups

Last week I had the privilege of speaking at the SharePoint Saturday event in Virginia Beach.  I talked about the upcoming release of CAML.NET 2.0, and I did a session on records management in MOSS.  The turnout was very good, with people coming in from all directions – some to speak, some to listen – [...]

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A Special Tribute to Albert Einstein – The Father of ECM

By on January 6, 2009 in Content Management

E=MC^2 is probably the most famous equation in modern science, but little is known about its true origins. At least I didn’t know much about it until very recently. Of course, I understood, like everyone else, that it was formulated as part of professor Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, but I never really thought about [...]

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Add Your Own Custom Workflow Activities to SharePoint Designer 2007

By on January 4, 2009 in Process Automation, SharePoint Development

Update (4/4/2007):  I've just learned that another SharePoint blogger has written about this very topic 3 months ago.  The weird part is that the custom action he created also writes to the event log.  In all honesty, this was sheer coincidence (I really should learn to do a search before posting!).  In the interest of fairness [...]

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Streamline Your SharePoint Code Using Extension Methods

By on January 3, 2009 in SharePoint Development

The SharePoint API can be vexing for developers who are not used to the little 'gotchas' that pop up here and there.  This can lead to lots of wasted time when all you want to do is determine if a list contains a certain field, or perform a standard operation on a list.  For example, [...]

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