Welcome to SharePoint Designer 2010! As Todd Haugen mentioned in his latest blog, we’ve got a number of wonderful features this release and we’re really excited to get them into your hands. This is a follow-up blog to dive into the new shell, or user interface, of SPD 2010
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SharePoint Designer 2010 New Shell Tour
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Introduction to Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) in Gemini
Gemini and DAX Extend the Power of PivotTables Excel PivotTables are not new, but Excel PivotTables that are based on multiple tables of data are new with the Gemini add-in for Excel 2010.
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Data Feeds
One of the keys to self-service BI is that people need the highest quality, up-to-date data for their analysis.
This guidance helps architects and developers design, build, and test intranet and enterprise-scale SharePoint applications. Two reference implementations demonstrate solutions to common issues, and a library provides reusable components that can help you with your own development projects.
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Developing SharePoint Applications–August 2009
Congrats to Chris Keyser and all the authors/contributors for shipping the updated Version 2 of the SharePoint Developers Guidance..
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Updated Patterns & Practices Developing SharePoint Applications Guidance
Microsoft has responded, sort of, to Google's delivery of a free Exchange migration tool for Outlook users by trying to poke holes in the end result. More specifically, the company claims that the tool has a "bug/flaw" that causes Outlook search to stop working. Obviously, the solution is to stop using Outlook, but I'll let Google communicate that.
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Microsoft warns of Google Apps Sync for Outlook issue
This week, I’m featuring the topic: Walkthrough: Deploying Multiple Office Solutions in a Single ClickOnce Installer . This topic describes how you can deploy multiple Office solutions in a single package to simplify the installation and update process. For example, you can now publish both an Excel workbook project and an Outlook add-in project at the same time
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Video: Deploying Multiple Office Solutions in a Single ClickOnce Installer
Last week, the Visual Studio (VS) 2010 Beta 1 was released to the public. I’m personally very excited about the VS 2010 release because of the additional support for Office and SharePoint development. While you won’t see the SharePoint 2010 project templates in the Beta 1 release, you’ll find the legacy templates (remember VS Tools for Office 3.0?) that have persisted forward to this release which are present in the Beta 1 drop.
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Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 & OBAs: Actions Pane, Word Content Controls & SharePoint List Integration
This continues my previous checklists here , here and here on getting started with Excel Services. In this post, I’ll append a walkthrough for using the Excel Web Services APIs. 6.
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Excel Services Getting Started – Pt4 Web Service APIs
It’s cold and raining here in Redmond. Perfect weather for writing a blog entry.
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Links for February 6th 2009: Workflow Development Resources Interactive Map, Join Us on Facebook, + Lots of New Articles and Downloads