The ten commandments for SharePoint development

1. Stick to the product if you can. SharePoint provides a lot of functionality out of the box – focus on these quick wins and don’t immediately switch over to Visual Studio and start writing code

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The ten commandments for SharePoint development

Roll-your-own “traffic light” icon set

Posted by Chris Downs, writer, Access IW Content Team Here’s a great tip suggested by Clint Covington.

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Roll-your-own “traffic light” icon set

The Sean Blog : Renaming crazy SharePoint Database Names

When SharePoint 2007 creates new Content Databases, by default it adds a GUID to the end of the database name. While you can rename it during the creation process, maybe you forgot to and you now you have a Content Database that looks … TechNet Blogs – http://blogs.technet.com/default.aspx

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The Sean Blog : Renaming crazy SharePoint Database Names

Microsoft details changes coming to SQL Data Services

After acknowledging a couple of weeks ago that it was changing direction with SQL Data Services (SDS), Microsoft officials are filling in the gaps about exactly what will be changing when.

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Technical Articles and White Papers on SQL Server

I will be attending an advanced SQL Server training in a couple of weeks and the instructors recommended some pre-reading.

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Technical Articles and White Papers on SQL Server

Microsoft Sync Framework : Customer Spotlight – Sync2DB (Outlook …

If you were to ask me what the three most commonly requested synchronization targets are, I think I would have to say Outlook to Database, Database to Database and SharePoint. Today I would like to highlight one of our …

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Microsoft Sync Framework : Customer Spotlight – Sync2DB (Outlook …

OBA Part 2 – Building an Outlook Client against LOB Data

In the last couple posts we’ve been talking about an Office Business Application (OBA) architecture for the new Northwind Traders and how to expose line-of-business (LOB) data , in our case the Northwind SQL database, using ADO.NET Data Services . Today we’re going to talk about how to build an Outlook Add-In that pulls the order history from the database through our data service when a customer email arrives in the inbox of our sales reps.

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Assets, Students, Tasks templates now have videos

Today’s guest writer is Wouter Steenbergen, one of the newest members of the Access Program Management team. Several months ago we updated the contacts template

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Assets, Students, Tasks templates now have videos

OpenGate releases Designer for Microsoft Access

We are always proud of the tools customers make and sell around Access.

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OpenGate releases Designer for Microsoft Access