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SharePoint Saturday Columbus - August 14th 2010
02 August 10 04:23 PM | Mike Smith's Tech Training Notes
http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/columbus/default.aspx Register here: http://spscolumbus.eventbrite.com/ Finally we get a SharePoint Saturday (almost) local to Cincinnati! It’s just a little drive up the road to Columbus: Join SharePoint architects,...
Are you an unemployed developer? (Project Phoenix)
02 August 10 06:26 AM | Mike Smith's Tech Training Notes
For complete details: http://sqlblog.com/blogs/arnie_rowland/archive/2010/07/30/like-a-phoenix-rising-from-the-ashes.aspx Project Phoenix is inviting unemployed or underemployed developers to propose a software project for a non-profit agency, school...
SharePoint: Font Sizes!
19 July 10 04:02 PM | Mike Smith's Tech Training Notes
Simple question… I want to update core.css to change the font sizes displayed in the page… how many do I need to update? Would believe 19 different font sizes in 155 different styles in MOSS? And in SharePoint Server 2010 there are 36 different font sizes...
Live Chats to Learn more about SharePoint - with the MVP Experts
15 July 10 10:55 AM | Mike Smith's Tech Training Notes
Do you have questions about SharePoint? Want to learn more about the recently launched SharePoint 2010? By popular request, SharePoint MVPs from around the world are participating in a live chat event about SharePoint. These Q&A events are a great...
SharePoint 2010: Replacing the Crumb Trail and Changing the Title
09 July 10 09:41 AM | Mike Smith's Tech Training Notes
I like SharePoint 2010, I really do… but I just can’t get the hang of the Site Title / Crumb Trail thing, and the Navigate Up button is just not right. Below is a series of screens to show how the 2010 navigation works, and the issues I have with the...
SharePoint 2010: Where are the Icons?
08 July 10 01:16 PM | Mike Smith's Tech Training Notes
This article might be titled… Fun with SharePoint 2010 branding. I was trying to find the icon used as the divider in the SharePoint 2010 Site Title / Crumb Trail. It’s the little triangle below: SharePoint 2010 Icons So I was browsing the source HTML...
SharePoint: Rotating Pictures, Random Pictures (yet again!)
29 May 10 03:11 PM | Mike Smith's Tech Training Notes
This little Content Editor Web Part trick has turned out to be pretty popular. Too popular… it has generated a lot of requests for “could also add…”. So here are two of those, navigation buttons, and caption text. First go the original article and read...
SharePoint 2010: Developer Dashboard Notes
27 May 10 03:16 PM | Mike Smith's Tech Training Notes
If you have not seen the Developer Dashboard, then go GoogleBing it now. While working with it I found a few interesting issues… so what follows are miscellaneous notes that may help someone in the future. The Dashboard is enabled using: STSADM PowerShell...
SharePoint 2010: Part 5: Preparing for 70-573 TS Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Application Development
25 May 10 03:44 PM | Mike Smith's Tech Training Notes
(Start here: http://techtrainingnotes.blogspot.com/2010/05/sharepoint-2010-preparing-for-70-573-ts.html) Wow! Workflows, custom SPD workflow actions, event receivers, timer jobs, BCS and ECM to boot… all in one section and it only represents 19% of the...
SharePoint 2010: Part 4: Preparing for 70-573 TS Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Application Development
24 May 10 04:27 PM | Mike Smith's Tech Training Notes
Web parts are cool… Ask someone to name five features of SharePoint and they will almost always mention web parts. And the best thing, most of what you need to know about web parts is how to create ASP.NET 2.0 web parts. Skills Being Measured: Developing...
SharePoint 2010: Part 3: Preparing for 70-573 TS Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Application Development
24 May 10 11:43 AM | Mike Smith's Tech Training Notes
Time for some UI work (other than the ribbon!). Navigation, Master Pages, Themes and other goodies… Skills Being Measured: Working with the SharePoint User Interface (19%)(continued…) Customize navigation programmatically This objective may include but...
SharePoint: Customizing the Basic Page
23 May 10 10:19 AM | Mike Smith's Tech Training Notes
This article is for SharePoint 2007 I have yet to find anyone who really likes the Basic Page. This is the page you get from “Site Actions, Create, Basic Page”. This page is easy to use, is stored in a library (and can support check in/out, content approval...
SharePoint 2010 SDK download now available
20 May 10 02:45 PM | Mike Smith's Tech Training Notes
5/20/10 The Software Development Kit contains documentation and code samples for Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 and for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. “The SDK also includes many code samples that address common customization scenarios and solution...
SharePoint 2010: Part 2: Preparing for 70-573 TS Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Application Development
19 May 10 05:02 PM | Mike Smith's Tech Training Notes
Tonight I get to play with the Dialog Framework and the Ribbon… Both of these are client side and UI features. Check out the links below, and also do a web search on these topics. There’s a lot of good blog articles and good content at MSDN. Skills Being...
SharePoint 2010: Part 1: Preparing for 70-573 TS Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Application Development
18 May 10 03:41 PM | Mike Smith's Tech Training Notes
See “Part 0” here. A note (and a guess on my part): This is exam is not an “upgrade from 2007 exam”, so I am assuming when there is a reference to objects such as “SPWeb” that what we will need to primarily know the “core” properties, methods and how...
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