SharePoint Designer is Free – Behind the Scenes

By now, you’ve seen all the news about SharePoint Designer being free.

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Must Have Free Tools for SharePoint

Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007. That’s right; SPD is now free from http://www.microsoft.com/spd [Update] See Tom Rizzo talking about why MS has made SPD free http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvvVJamO3nQ SharePoint Work Acceleration Toolkit 2007 aka (SWAT). http://www.idevfactory.com/products/swat/default.aspx

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My Minimal Master Page from DevConnections Orlando, 2009

I’m down in Orlando at DevConnections, 2009, and one of the requests I got in my session this morning was to publish my minimal master page. For reference, the master page is how you brand/control the look and feel of a SharePoint site. Often times, you’ll want to start with a minimal master page and then build out your branding/look and feel from the minimal master page

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My Minimal Master Page from DevConnections Orlando, 2009

Web Services and SharePoint: How do I do it?

When building an OBA, you’re often going to want to either integrate with the native Web services for SharePoint (when I say SharePoint, in this instance I’m referring to both the WSS and the MOSS services) or you’ll want to create your own custom services.

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Web Services and SharePoint: How do I do it?

Todd's World: OBA Part 2 – Building and Outlook Client against LOB …

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Learn how to integrate PeopleSoft, Outlook and MOSS

Office Business Application (OBA) development is growing in importance thus continues to be an integral part of the Office platform developer story. To that end, we recently completed a new resource that could be used for OBA training specific to PeopleSoft and Office integration. This HOL uses the OBA Starter Kit for PeopleSoft as the demo environment and provides a comprehensive walkthrough on how to a) create web services that wrap around PeopleSoft components (both native and custom), b) consume those services in a custom Outlook client (the design can be extrapolated to other Office custom clients), and c) integrate the service with the MOSS Business Data Catalog.

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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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Links for February 6th 2009: Workflow Development Resources Interactive Map, Join Us on Facebook, + Lots of New Articles and Downloads

It’s cold and raining here in Redmond. Perfect weather for writing a blog entry.

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OBA Part 1 – Exposing Line-of-Business Data

Last post I talked about the high-level architecture of our O ffice B usiness A pplication for the new Northwind Traders. There are a lot of different architecture options to consider when building an OBA. OBA is all about using Microsoft Office with your Line of Business (LOB) data.

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Building an Office Business Application for TechReady 8

The last week I've been working with a couple teammates on an Office Business Application (OBA) demonstration we wanted to put together for TechReady 8. TechReady is an internal conference we deliver to the field employees. It's my first one and so far it's been pretty fun

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Building an Office Business Application for TechReady 8