Mar8
It has been a while (OK, a long while) since I have published a series of posts on a topic. My last series, SharePoint Image Search, has been very well received. This series will walk through the Building Blocks that I have created to demonstrate and improve the SharePoint end user experience. I have been using many of these techniques in my developer focused demos for SharePoint 2010 (and in som...
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Monday, 8 Mar 2010 01:07.
Feb20
I am in the process of updating all of my SharePoint 2010 projects from Beta to RC. I had a lot of fun learning how to use the Bing Maps Silverlight control for a few social computing demos that I built. Version 1 was released late last year and now it’s time to get upgraded! I figured there might be a few other folks in my position so here are the steps I followed. My Application My applicatio...
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Saturday, 20 Feb 2010 09:24.
Nov18
I am upgrading my Silverlight demo code from the old beta to beta 2 and see that there are a few new considerations for the deployment of ClientAccessPolicy.xml files. In a previous post I demonstrated how to do this for SharePoint 2007. The heartburn that I get with that approach is any site collection owner or designer can drag the file into the site collection and open the site up to unwanted ...
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Wednesday, 18 Nov 2009 03:04.
Oct26
Wow, anyone in attendance at the 2009 SharePoint Conference will tell you, there was a LOT going on. I don’t want to rub your nose in it, it is a simple fact, being at the conference, experiencing the nerdy goodness of ITF collaboration and sharing, seeing the SharePoint Fairy (#SPFairy) granting geeky wishes and stealing the attention from the conference floor, or rubbing elbows with the folks w...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Monday, 26 Oct 2009 02:31.
Sep18
I have been spending quite a bit of time lately working with Silverlight 3 and SharePoint. One of the first big shifts for me is that Silverlight Development is Client development. Silverlight runs in the browser, but it runs on the client, so no SharePoint Object Model code. You have to access all of the goodness that is SharePoint through its web services. Once you get started on your project ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Friday, 18 Sep 2009 11:55.
Jul9
I found this great video explaining Azure. What is Windows Azure? http://blog.smarx.com/posts/what-is-windows-azure-a-hand-drawn-video I love the hand drawn approach to teaching. Just goes to show that the simplest teaching techniques are sometimes the most powerful. The key to his success IMO is the 5 hours he spent up front. Clear, concise and clever. Very memorable. Enjoy!...
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Thursday, 9 Jul 2009 04:44.
May21
I have been really wanting to spend time on Silverlight lately. I am a real visual learner (and teacher) so Silverlight and SharePoint are a natural fit for me. I want to build up a few posts about the joys and sorrow of getting started. So here goes: Make sure that the post you are reading pertains to your version of Silverlight. I wasted a lot of time on Beta 2 posts while I was troubleshoo...
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Thursday, 21 May 2009 03:47.
May20
My second breakout session at Tech•Ed ‘09 has been posted on Tech•Ed Online. I loved that the audience awoke early enough on the last day of the conference to attend my session at 0900! Coffee in hand they endured my jokes, dog photos and screaming flying monkeys. I forgot to mention that you can follow me on Twitter @MatthewMcD (I currently have 97 followers…can we make it to 100?) and look m...
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Wednesday, 20 May 2009 12:01.
May13
I had a chance to sit in on the MVP SharePoint Panel Discussion here at Tech•Ed yesterday. The AV folks here at TechEd must be burning the candle at both ends because they already posted the session on Tech•Ed Online. Microsoft SharePoint MVP Development Panel Discussion...
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Wednesday, 13 May 2009 06:39.
Apr16
I will be presenting at Tech•Ed 2009 in LA, May 11-15, 2009.
SharePoint Search Challenges and Tricks
Abstract
Many organizations struggle with SharePoint search configuration when it falls outside simple document search. This session presents strategies for handling special search scenarios like large files and images. This session also presents techniques for metadata tagging of files that ...
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Thursday, 16 Apr 2009 12:01.