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Building Business Applications with SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010: Presentation from Tyson Developer’s Conference

Ty Anderson — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:08:17 +0000

I wanted to thank everyone who came out to my presentation. Here is a link to the slide deck as well as a link to the source code.

PowerPoint
Building Business Applications with SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010

Source Code
Nortwind Office Business Application

Accessing an OData Producer using an Office 2010 Add-in

Staff — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 03:35:38 +0000

To continue the theme of landing external data in Office 2010, I’ve taken a demo excerpt from a session I presented at a conference last week to show how easy it is to land OData information in an add-in. In this sample I simply use the Northwind Database which is a publicly available OData producer .

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Accessing an OData Producer using an Office 2010 Add-in

Easily Adding SafeControls in SharePoint 2010 with Visual Studio 2010

Staff — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:14:00 +0000

Many SharePoint developers know that deploying your SharePoint customization to a SharePoint server often requires you to tinker the web.config of the sites where you’d like to see the customization in action. You can do these web.config modifications manually (not advisable), or automate them with the help of the SPWebConfigModification class from the Object Model. But quite often it’s not even necessary to use that class; when you deploy your customizations with the help of a Solution (.WSP file), like you should, the Solution deployment mechanism can modify the Web.Config to apply the most commonly used changes

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Easily Adding SafeControls in SharePoint 2010 with Visual Studio 2010

Setting up a Local Mail Server for a SharePoint Virtual Machine on Server 2008

Staff — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:12:08 +0000

The only way to do software development for SharePoint is really a Virtual Machine.

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Setting up a Local Mail Server for a SharePoint Virtual Machine on Server 2008

Get Started Developing on SharePoint 2010

Staff — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 02:00:00 +0000

Are you an ASP.NET developer who is ready to learn more about SharePoint 2010? Visit the Getting Started page to view screencasts and hands-on labs about working with SharePoint 2010 developer features that are familiar to ASP.NET developers, such as Web Parts and workflow.

Creating an Add-in for Office 2007 and Office 2010 that “Lights Up” on Office 2010 (McLean Schofield)

Staff — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 22:46:00 +0000

Managed Office add-ins traditionally have been able to run in the targeted application (the version of the application whose PIAs the add-in references) and in later versions of the application. Therefore, if you need to create a single VSTO add-in that can be run in multiple versions of an application, the typical guidance is to develop the add-in by using a project template for the oldest version of Office that you want to support. For example, if your add-in needs to work with Office 2003 and Office 2007, you should create an Excel 2003 add-in (by using VSTO 2005 SE with Visual Studio 2005, or by using Visual Studio 2008). However, this strategy has several inconveniences: If you want to test/debug/run the add-in on your development computer, you must have the earliest version of Office you are targeting installed

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Creating an Add-in for Office 2007 and Office 2010 that “Lights Up” on Office 2010 (McLean Schofield)

VSTO Performance: Ribbon Reflection (Stephen Peters)

Staff — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:18:44 +0000

It is very easy to customize the Ribbon in your VSTO extension. All you need to do is to add a Ribbon (Visual Designer) to your solution, and it will appear when your solution is run without needing to do any more work. Behind the scenes, the VSTO runtime reflects through your entire addin assembly looking for Ribbon extensions to instantiate. This reflection can cause a significant performance hit, especially on larger solutions.

Fixing Compile and Run Time Errors after Retargeting VSTO Projects to the .NET Framework 4 (McLean Schofield)

Staff — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 04:24:00 +0000

Now that Visual Studio 2010 is released, some of you might be itching to upgrade your existing VSTO projects so that you can take advantage of the new features in the .NET Framework 4 that improve the Office development experience . Or, you might have already started using Visual Studio 2010 to develop a VSTO project targets the .NET Framework 3.5, and now you want to switch over to the .NET Framework 4

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Fixing Compile and Run Time Errors after Retargeting VSTO Projects to the .NET Framework 4 (McLean Schofield)

Migrating a 2007 Workflow to Visual Studio & SharePoint 2010

Staff — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:42:34 +0000

Lately I’ve been converting an Office business application we built last year with Visual Studio 2008 to Visual Studio and Office 2010. Last couple posts we tackled converting the Outlook client piece.

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Migrating a 2007 Workflow to Visual Studio & SharePoint 2010

Sharepoint 2010 development using bcs

Staff — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:15:28 +0000

One of the big features for SharePoint 2010 (and for building OBAs) is the Business Connectivity Services (BCS). I’ve written a few posts on this, but wanted to follow up on these early posts with some additional detail on how to create a solution leveraging web services

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