UPDATE: Check out Download SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 Virtual Machine Many bloggers are posting their SharePoint 2010 Beta installation experiences, and I have collected all the posts that I could find for my reference as I setup my SharePoint 2010 development rig:  Jie Li’s SharePoint 2010 Pre-Requisites Download Links and Inst ...[Read More]

Quick post:  Windows 7 has been officially been released today, and it brings lots of features.    If weren't able to attend the SharePoint Conference 2009 or keep up with twitter, then you might have missed that SharePoint 2010 can be installed on Windows 7.  This approach is obviously recommended for Developers and for production.   Alpesh ...[Read More]

An In-Depth Look at Developing Mobile Applications With Mobile Entrée Custom development for SharePoint can mean many things.  Workflows, master pages, business data catalog implementations, forms services, reporting capabilities, the list goes on and on.  Since 2003, the staple of custom SharePoint applications has been the custom WebPart.  Mobi ...[Read More]

Pity the lowly folder. SharePoint document library folders are not feeling the love from all sides. The common argument is that they promote unorganized document management, make filtering difficult, hide content, provide a rigid hierarchy, and don’t take advantage of SharePoint’s strong and flexible metadata capabilities. Folders are horrible, ...[Read More]

Preparing your Visual Studio 2008 Workflow ProjectThis is the 3rd part of our Beginners Guide to SharePoint 2007 Workflow Development.   You understand the workflow development scenario and how to create an InfoPath web-based form.  Now in this part of the series, we will be Preparing your Visual Studio 2008 Workflow Project for workflow develop ...[Read More]

The SharePoint Workflow History maintains a record of each step within a workflow.  Everything from approval activity (approve, denial), updates to a workflow, comments and even workflow errors. Workflow history list is created / deployed when you create or consume an out-of-box workflow or custom workflow. the workflow history list is not viewabl ...[Read More]

Introduction to InfoPath FormsInfoPath 2007 is included as part of Office 2007 (trail / test drive) and forms generated by InfoPath 2007 are great for gathering information from end users. With Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Edition, you can also use the InfoPath Forms Services capabilities to deliver forms as Microsoft Offic ...[Read More]

I will be walking you, a beginning developer, through a custom SharePoint 2007 workflow solution.  A few pieces of information before we get into the solution.  This scenario has been developed to assist developers (beginners) who are starting out in custom workflow development and to feel comfortable developing workflow solutions.  These techniqu ...[Read More]

Had a collegue of mine who was working with the Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint and after installing one of the examples, received a Server Error. At first he could not view the error message, so I had my collegue turn on debugging.  After this, he was able to view the error properly. The error was: Parser Error Message: Could not l ...[Read More]

Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 is the defacto standard for choosing a forms designer. But the average SharePoint developer is used to reaching for ASP.NET when he needs to create a form for SharePoint. You might be surprised at all the places you can employ InfoPath to quickly create forms for enterprise management functions. Recently a client wan ...[Read More]