Microsoft Office 2010 is the first version of office that will ship in both 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) flavors. If you are running a 32-bit version of Windows, you can only use a 32-bit version of Office. However, on x64 Windows, you can decide to install either 32-bit Office or 64-bit Office, but not both. Microsoft has just published an artic ...[Read More]

Recently, I had the need to expand my virtual machine hard drive.  Initially when I had created the virtual machine, I had only allocated 16GB of hard drive space.  That quickly filled up.  Clean up virtual hard drive space via Windows OS using Disk Cleanup Shutdown your virtual machine Go to Virtual Machine Settings Select Hard Disk ...[Read More]

The Visual Studio team that brought you the SharePoint developer tools in Visual Studio 2010 (read MSDN article) is happy to announce we have created a set of power tools that make developing SharePoint 2010 sandboxed solutions even easier.  Below is the list of features included in the current release of the power tools. Sandboxed-compatib ...[Read More]

Developers! Developers! Developers!   Microsoft has just released the SharePoint 2010 Software Development Kit (SDK) which contains conceptual overviews, programming tasks, samples, and references to guide you in developing solutions based on SharePoint 2010 products and technologies.   The Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Software Development Kit (S ...[Read More]

Microsoft has updated their Information Worker SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 Virtual Machine to include the SharePoint 2010 RTM. Pretty amazing considering SharePoint is officially launching tomorrow! 2010 Information Worker Demonstration and Evaluation Virtual Machine (RTM) Virtual machine "a" contains the following pre-configured softwar ...[Read More]

As SharePoint 2010 RTM has arrived the following hands-on labs are now available: Hands-on Labs in C# and Visual Basic: Getting Started with Development on SharePoint 2010 Hands-on Lab: Developing SharePoint 2010 User Interface Ribbon and Dialog Customizations Hands-on Lab: Developing SharePoint 2010 Sandboxed Solutions in Visual Studio 2010 ...[Read More]

The 2010 wave has started.  SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 applications have gone RTM. Which means these are the products Microsoft is making available to customers.    General Public You can download the following right now for FREE: SharePoint Foundation 2010 SharePoint Designer 2010 (32-bit) (64-bit) PowerPivot for Microsoft Excel ...[Read More]

Every now and then, Microsoft releases documents, guides or software that everyone should know. This month, Microsoft released the following downloads:   SharePoint Server 2010 performance and capacity technical case studies - technical case studies that describe specific deployments of SharePoint Server 2010. Compare the scenarios in these do ...[Read More]

Download SharePoint 2010 (RC) VS Extensibility Projects The SharePoint & Office Developer & Platform Evangelism Team has just released SharePoint 2010 Extensbility Projects on the MSDN Code Gallery site. They are provided three projects that you can use to augment your SharePoint 2010 development efforts. The three projects leverage the ...[Read More]

Mark your calendars - Toronto's best SharePoint Camp is happening this Saturday, March 20, 2010.   From the founders of Toronto SharePoint User Group, comes the Toronto SharePoint Camp.  This year is bigger than last year! With a great lineup of SharePoint speakers presenting on SharePoint 2007 & SharePoint 2010, such as: Eli Robillard's ...[Read More]