SharePoint is in often considered part of the greater sphere of “Information Worker” solutions, with another major component being OFfice Client solutions in the form of VSTO, VBA, OpenXML and more. In this session we talk with VSTO MVP Ty Anderson about these technologies and more to better understand both the server and the client [...]

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This is part 2 of the community session I did for the IW community here in Cape Town in December. Part 1 can be found here.

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We’re kicking off monthly sessions here at the Cape Town Information Worker community, so I recently did a re-presentation of my Tech Ed Africa developer overview talk on SharePoint 2010 which I was able to record. It was a nice small crowd so we went quite deeply into a lot of the areas. To keep [...]

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After MVP summit, already on the way home, I bumped into a Spanish SharePoint MVP also heading back. Juan Carlos was kind enough to spare a few minutes at the airport telling us his thoughts and experience on the SharePoint landscape in Spain, Microsoft’s Innovation Centre there and some of his favourite features in 2010.
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At Tech Ed Africa 2010 we had a chance to sit down with a small panel of SharePoint experts and pose them a number of challenging questions. The panel guests were Ben Curry and Richard Richard and they were faced with a broad range of questions including solution deployment best practices, InfoPath challenges, certificates, search, [...]

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In this episode we meet up with Tim Huckaby, Microsoft Regional Director, MVP and “.Net and Smart Client industry pioneer” (1). Aside from all these accolades, Tim is a great storyteller so we’ll hear about his time at Microsoft, some of his old colleagues from that time who’ve moved to the SharePoint team over the years, [...]

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One of the cool new developer features in SharePoint 2010 is LINQ To SharePoint, which gives us the ability to write LINQ queries against SharePoint Lists and Libraries, bypassing the need to manually create CAML queries by hand and making for more readable and more maintainable code. However, this is in fact not the first [...]

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May 12 2010 saw the worldwide launch of SharePoint 2010. In this special launch-edition episode of the show, we meet up with a whole bunch of SharePoint MVPs and product team members to catch a take on their favourite features in this new version.
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Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010
Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 (x86 version here)

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In this episode we continue our discussion about unit testing and SharePoint. The Pex team at Microsoft Research have been working on a project to automatically generate a suite of unit tests based on an initial parameterized unit test, resulting in high code coverage in a far shorter time. This is challenging in the SharePoint [...]

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The soon-to-be-released SharePoint 2010 is jam-packed with features – some upgrades to existing capabilities and some completely new. In this episode, Michael O’Donovan, SharePoint specialist from Microsoft South Africa, takes us through some of his favorite features in the new version.
Don’t forget about the TypeMock & BA Insight special offers – listen to the show for more.
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