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Published Wed, Apr 04 2008 7:00 AM by rmitchell

Filed under: General

Minneapolis Office Developers Interest Group

Tonight Neil will be presenting at the first MODIG meeting! He will be discussing SharePoint feature and solution deployment. More information can be found here . I've got a couple of OBA books I picked up at the ODC to give away and there...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2008 7:05 AM by rmitchell

Filed under: Books, Minneapolis Office Developers Interest Group

Office Developer Hero Videos from ODC

They played these videos before keynote presentations at the ODC 2008. Check them out on Mike 's blog: Funny Videos from ODC 2008

Published Tue, Feb 02 2008 8:00 AM by rmitchell

Filed under: Events

Office Developers Conference Day 3

Today it was all about the sessions! I sat in on a little bit of a session on MOSS Faceted Search showing the Faceted Search project on CodePlex (current release and future) Very interesting stuff going on there! I also stopped in on Andrew Connell...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2008 4:49 PM by rmitchell

Filed under: Events

ODC 2008 Unconference

For those of you attending the ODC I'll be presenting at tomorrow's Unconference! Here are the details: Title: Three SharePoint Development Gems in 30 minutes Abstract: In about ten minutes each we'll blaze through how to: unlock the secrets...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2008 11:06 PM by rmitchell

Filed under: Events

Office Developers Conference Day 2

Today was another more-than-full day at the ODC! A few highlights: Rajesh Jha and Gurdeep Singh Pall both gave fantastic keynote presentations: Rajesh talked about the future release of Office Live Small Business and I have to say I was very impressed...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2008 10:59 PM by rmitchell

Filed under: Events

Office Developers Conference - Day 1

Wow, what a day. Some highlights: Kurt DelBene gave another keynote address following Bill Gates - very good presentation with some great demos. This morning's keynotes had funny videos during the breaks called "Mr Office Developer Guy"...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2008 1:23 AM by rmitchell

Filed under: Events

Office Developer Conference - Keynote by Bill Gates

I just watched the keynote here at the ODC given by Bill Gates: It was very interesting to hear him talking about the future of computing in general but then also focus in on how it relates to the office platform. I was surprised at how much of...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2008 10:55 AM by rmitchell

Filed under: Events

Composite Apps - Custom Pages (4 of 4)

Now we have a completely custom page but what we really want is a page that matches the look and feel for our site as defined by the Master Page. To accomplish this, open the page in SharePoint Designer and choose "Attach Master Page"...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2008 8:00 AM by rmitchell

Filed under: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Composite Applications, SharePoint Designer 2007

Office Developer's Conference - Day 0

After some fun at the Minneapolis Airport this morning I arrived in San Jose, California this afternoon for the Office Developer's Conference ! Tonight we had a connect & register gathering. The special guest was Hugh MacCleod (from http...

Published Sun, Feb 02 2008 10:29 PM by rmitchell

Filed under: Events

Composite Apps - Custom Pages (3 of 4)

So we have a new page , we've added a link to the Quick Launch so we can easily find it... but the page is still pretty ugly: Well, the first thing we can do is apply the SharePoint styles to the page. This will work if you want a completely custom...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2008 8:00 AM by rmitchell

Filed under: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Composite Applications, SharePoint Designer 2007

Composite Apps - Custom Pages (2 of 4)

Now that you have your custom page , you'll probably want to make it more accessible. To do that, let's add a link to the Quick Launch. Now, we talked about how to do this from the web interface before , today we're going to make the change...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2008 8:00 AM by rmitchell

Filed under: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Composite Applications, SharePoint Designer 2007

Composite Apps - Custom Pages (1 of 4)

Earlier we took a look at how to add Custom Web Part Pages to your SharePoint sites. You can also create custom pages within SharePoint Designer. To get started, open your SharePoint site in SPD and choose to create a new ASPX page: An ASPX...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2008 8:00 AM by rmitchell

Filed under: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Composite Applications, SharePoint Designer 2007

Composite Apps - SPD Workflow Basics

One of the great new features introduced by SharePoint Designer is the ability to create and customize Workflows using predefined conditions and actions. Most Workflows created by SPD reference a list or library so before we get started, we'll create...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2008 8:00 AM by rmitchell

Filed under: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Composite Applications, SharePoint Designer 2007, Workflow

Composite Apps - SPD and Content Pages

Now that we've seen how Master Pages work , let's look at a content page and see how it relates to a Master Page. We'll start by opening the default.aspx page in SharePoint Designer. When you open the page the first thing you'll notice is...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2008 8:15 AM by rmitchell

Filed under: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Composite Applications, SharePoint Designer 2007

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Composite Apps - SPD Workflow Basics

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