Links (1/31/2010)

SharePoint 2007

1. Web Standards Design with MOSS 2007, Part 1
2. Lessons Learned Integrating Silverlight in MOSS 2007, Part 1
3. Lessons Learned Integrating Silverlight in MOSS 2007, Part 2
4. Lessons Learned Integrating Silverlight in MOSS 2007, Part 3
5. Overloading functions in JavaScript
6. Updated : FeatureBlocker
7. SharePoint: Populating Drop Down List Field with Data from Different Site
8. SharePoint 2007 and Reporting Services
9. 8 Basic SharePoint Features for end users. Part 3
10. 8 Basic SharePoint Features for end users. Part 4
11. 8 Basic SharePoint Features for end users. Part 5
12. 8 Basic SharePoint Features for end users. Part 6
13. 8 Basic SharePoint Features for end users. Part 7
14. 8 Basic SharePoint Features for end users. Part 8
15. SharePoint Development Standards
16. Using Content Types as Statuses
17. SharePoint form: present fields side-by-side
18. Programmatically change the Toolbar on a List View Web Part
19. What’s the Story with SharePoint Online URLs?
20. Custom Theme and Feature Stapling via WSP files
21. Animated GIFs in SharePoint 2007 for AJAX progress indicators
22. SharePoint Folders vs. Metadata
23. Filling forms using data from EntityPicker aka EntityPicker with Callback
24. SHAREPOINT 2007: Integrating the Google Chart API

SharePoint 2010

1. Showing persistent messages using the SharePoint 2010 Status bar: SharePoint 2010 UI tip #1
2. Showing transient messages using the SharePoint 2010 Notification Area – SharePoint 2010 UI tip #2
3. Presence in SharePoint 2010
4. Create a SharePoint list using InfoPath 2010
5. Why SharePoint 2010 Developer Dashboard Is For All IT Professionals 🙂
6. SharePoint Online 2010 Overview
7. SharePoint 2010 – Content Query Web Part
8. SharePoint 2010 – Content Query Web Part Continued
9. Business Intelligence Features in Excel 2010
10. Property Bag Access in SharePoint Designer 2010
11. SharePoint Online 2010 Anonymous Access
12. Adding ribbon items into existing tabs/groups (ribbon customization part 2)
13. InfoPath 2010: Microsoft.SharePoint Reference Not Found
14. InfoPath 2010: People Picker No Longer a Hack
15. Understanding Feature and Code Depreciation for Upgrade to SharePoint 2010

Silverlight 3

1. Programmatically Accessing the Live Smooth Streaming API
2. Silverlight Hierarchy Tree Control
3. Handing Events with Care?
4. Enhance your development experience with the ESRI Silverlight API using the Microsoft Reactive Extensions
5. The Secret Behind the Page Flip Technique
6. Behavior in SILVERLIGHT 3.0
7. Connecting to NAV Web Services from Silverlight 3
8. The first interactive Silverlight banner ad in the world!
9. Introduction to Debugging Silverlight Applications with WinDbg
10. Creating attached properties
11. Communicating between ASP.NET and Silverlight using JavaScript
12. Flattery will get you everywhere [Html5Canvas source code now available on CodePlex!]
13. Silverlight, MVVM and Validation Part III
14. A simplified DataForm replacement – Part 2 Adding validation support
15. Playing with Projection in Silverlight
16. Creating a 3d spiral effect with projection
17. Fluent Silverlight – Binding control events to actions
18. Composite Application Library (“PRISM”) and loading modules from multiple directories
19. Google Analytics in Silverlight (Event Tracking)
20. Lunch With Interact – MVVM Made Easy
21. Silverlight LOB Applications: How-To: Implement Field-level Custom Authorization
22. Silverlight Media Player: Adding Thumbnail Preview Capability

Silverlight 4

1. Reading MP3 metadata with Silverlight and drag-drop
2. Microsoft Silverlight 4 Beta Client for Facebook
3. MVVM – It’s Not Kool-Aid
4. Silverlight 4 and command line execution
5. Silverlight 4 beta and web cam support
6. Silverlight 4 Drag from desktop
7. Aspen – part 7 of X – Entity Validations
8. Telerik’s Web Application Testing Tool for Silverlight and AJAX now in Visual Studio 2010!
9. RIA Services – Displaying data with Silverlight 4 Beta & Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2
10. ICommand in Silverlight 4
11. How do I expose configuration information through MEF?
12. An Excel file Viewer in Silverlight 4
13. 3 Steps to MEF (MEF Part 1) – Silverlight TV Episode 4
14. Silverlight TV Episode 005 – Using Metadata with MEF

SharePoint Saturday Indianapolis

I will be in Indianapolis this weekend attending SharePoint Saturday Indianapolis. My presentation will be:

Developing Silverlight Applications for SharePoint

Learn how Silverlight 3 can be used to integrate rich, powerful applications into SharePoint. Walk through Silverlight basics (XAML, styles, layouts, and application settings), retrieving data from SharePoint lists and document libraries, managing code using the MVVM development pattern, and deploying the Silverlight controls to SharePoint.

Hope to see you there.

Links (1/24/2010)

SharePoint 2007

1. SPException: No item exists at http
2. How to add YouTube movies with the Content Editor Web Part in SharePoint 2010
3. Page Layouts, Solutions and SharePoint Designer
4. 8 Basic SharePoint Features for end users. Part 2
5. Make SharePoint Count
6. SharePoint: List all SPBasePermissions for a User
7. How to copy files across SharePoint libraries.

SharePoint 2010

1. Lockdown Mode in SharePoint 2010
2. Style Individual Navigation Items for 2007 & 2010
3. SharePoint 2010: May See Less Publishing Sites
4. SharePoint 2010 Development Environment Options
5. SharePoint 2010 Webcast Deck

Silverlight 3

1. ExImage — A Silverlight Control very similar to Image control but supports image tile
2. Simple Dialog Service in Silverlight
3. Dependency Injection for Tards
4. Lunch With Interact – MVVM For Tards
5. Retrieve WebService Exceptions in Silverlight client
6. How To: Serialize your DataTable to Silverlight using WCF service
7. XAML & TypeConverters
8. Setting the value of a dependency property
9. Minimizing your designer footprint
10. New Blog from the WPF & Silverlight Designer Team Just Launched!
11. Build Your Own Custom Controls for WPF & Silverlight Data Binding
12. iPhone Sudoku in Silverlight using MVVM

Silverlight 4

1. Dependency properties and XAML gotchas
2. Aspen – part 6 of X – Reusing ObjectContex among Repositories during a DomainSerivce operation.
3. Commanding with Silverlight 4
4. New SL4 Feature: Commanding
5. Great demo of MEF
6. Getting Started with RIA Services – Silverlight 4 Beta & Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2
7. Configuration & Decoupled Modules

Links (1/21/2010)

SharePoint 2007

1. Long operations on a SharePoint 2007 page
2. Redirect a SharePoint site by using the Content Editor Web Part
3. SharePoint: Populating Drop Down List Field with Data from Different Site
4. SharePoint: ToolTip 2.0
5. Deserialize + serialize an InfoPath Form loses the processing instructions
6. jQuery to the Rescue: Displaying/Hiding Content based on User Permissions or “When Edit Items permissions don’t work…”
7. SharePoint eMagazine
8. Reading Data from External List using the SharePoint 2010 Client Object model
9. SharePoint Bad Practices are still around!
10. jQuery to the Rescue: Requesting a review only once per user
11. Multiple Attachment custom control in SharePoint
12. Add resize handle to multiline text field (plain text, rich text and enhanced rich text)
13. SharePoint Self Review Web Part
14. Add a Success Ratio label to the first group header in a dual grouped list view
15. Signs of an Unhealthy Site Collection
16. Where is My Timer Job?
17. Community Kit for SharePoint: Development Tools Edition – CKS:DEV
18. Tapping into the hidden SharePoint API using Reflection

SharePoint 2010

1. Introduction to Sandboxed Solutions – Sort data in repeating tables using managed code
2. Getting Started With Silverlight and SharePoint 2010
3. Expert to Expert: Inside LINQ-to-SharePoint
4. SharePoint 2010: Site Actions on Root Site Comparison to MOSS 2007
5. SP 2010: Programmatically work with External Lists (BCS) using the Client Object Model
6. SharePoint 2010 Shared Service Architecture Part 1
7. Northwind Office Business Application Updated for Visual Studio, Office & SharePoint 2010
8. SharePoint 2010: Auto Refresh Web Parts with Ajax Options
9. SharePoint 2010: Developer Platform White Paper
10. SharePoint 2010 CSS references in Master Pages
11. Creating SharePoint items with CreateItemActivity

Silverlight 3

1. MicroModels for Silverlight
2. Telerik Commanding mechanism for Silverlight Overview
3. A simplified DataForm replacement – Part 1 Create the control and detect commands
4. How to get a Silverlight RadioButton to center
5. New Silverlight 3 Version Released (3.0.50106.0)
6. The Blend/Silverlight StarterKit Screencasts I Recorded for Microsoft
7. FlexibleBehavior class: More on reuse and Behaviors
8. Silverlight – Creating Image Map with Hotspots
9. Source viewer added to the Silverlight SDK sample browser
10. Silverlight TV Episode 2 – Perspectives on Flash and Silverlight
11. Silverlight in Seventy Seven Slides ( yes, I know 😉 )

Silverlight 4

1. What is Silverlight 4 COM+ Automation support?
2. Great RIA Services Overview in Dr. Dobbs
3. Avoiding issues when typing text in Bindings
4. Silverlight 4 WCF RIA Services Line of Business Application Hands-On Lab
5. FOLLOW UP: DevDinner – Silverlight 4, WCF RIA Services, MVVM
6. Silverlight 4 breaking the com sandbox to create a file watcher
7. Silverlight 4 FileSystemWatcher … no strings attached
8. Hands-on Lab: Silverlight 4 Line of Business Application using WCF RIA Services
9. Silverlight 4 Desktop Drag and Drop + Silver Sky
10. .NET – Silverlight 4 design-time mogelijkheden met ViewModel
11. Aspen – A sample app using Silverlight 4 and .Net 4.0 – part 5 of X – New Repository implementation
12. Writing a Profiler for Silverlight 4

Links (1/17/2010)

SharePoint 2007

1. SharePoint 2007: Assemblies and Namespaces
2. Office 2010 multiple upload with SharePoint Server 2007
3. Smart TextToHTML
4. How to get an SPD Workflow to Run at a Specific Time – Employee Vacation Reminder: Part 5

SharePoint 2010

1. Writing log information to the Developer Dashboard in SharePoint 2010
2. SP2010 Branding Tip #11 – Un-Floating the Ribbon in custom Master Pages
3. SharePoint 2010 – Hosting a Tenant in a Web App vs Site Collection
4. New Features in SharePoint 2010
5. SharePoint 2010: Assemblies and Namespaces
6. SharePoint: 2010 Namespace and Assembly Changes
7. Manage data in your SharePoint Lists using the InfoPath Form Web Part

Silverlight 3

1. New Article – Getting Started with WCF RIA Services
2. AutoMagically Implementing INotifyPropertyChanged
3. Using Silverlight Upload control with ASP.NET MVC
4. Create First Silverlight Application
5. Silverlight 3 API listing in one big text file
6. Persistable View Models & XAML for Config
7. Create First WPF Application
8. Flash to Silverlight Guide – Graphics, Images and Display List
9. How To Create a Flexible Striped Gradient In Silverlight and WPF
10. How to Layout a Data Entry Form
11. Silverlight Breakpoints Not Being Hit

Silverlight 4

1. Silverlight TV Episode 1: The Joys of Trusted Out-of-Browser Applications
2. How To: Print your DataGrid (or any UIElement) on multiple pages with Silverlight 4
3. Silverlight 4 – Make Commanding use lesser code
4. Silverlight – Navigate to a specific Page using a Hyperlink
5. Silverlight – About validation when binding to custom forms
6. Silverlight – About validation when binding to custom forms – Part 2 using Silverlight 4
7. Aspen – A sample app using Silverlight 4 and .Net 4.0 – part 1 of X
8. Aspen – A sample app using Silverlight 4 and .Net 4.0 – part 2 of X – MEF and EF 4 code-only
9. Aspen – A sample app using Silverlight 4 and .Net 4.0 – part 3 of X – Repository implementation
10. Aspen – A sample app using Silverlight 4 and .Net 4.0 – part 4 of X – DomainService, using DTO and Unity
11. Silverlight 4 Training

Links (1/14/2010)

SharePoint 2007

1. 10 DIY SharePoint Web Parts #10
2. Dumping SPList Items to a Feature
3. SharePoint Objects – Insight in usage of your SharePoint artifacts
4. How to get an SPD Workflow to Run at a Specific Time – Employee Vacation Reminder: Part 1
5. How to get an SPD Workflow to Run at a Specific Time – Employee Vacation Reminder: Part 2
6. A jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (WSS 3.0 and MOSS): Real World Example – Part 3
7. How to get an SPD Workflow to Run at a Specific Time – Employee Vacation Reminder: Part 4
8. Explaining the “SharePoint Application Platform” to novices…
9. Change SharePoint Search Icon with Just CSS
10. 6 SharePoint Tools
11. Create your own search provider for SharePoint

SharePoint 2010

1. SharePoint 2010 List Schema Designer for Visual Studio 2010 published
2. Skewer Click Saves the Day – Page and Master Page Styling Tips
3. Participating in the Page Rendering Pipeline in SharePoint 2010 Sandbox Solutions – SPUserCodeWebPart
4. Creating a SharePoint 2010 Ribbon extension – part 2
5. SharePoint 2010 PnP Guidance Drop 1 Released

Silverlight 3

1. ARCast.TV Special – An Architects Perspective on Silverlight 3 featuring Tim Heuer
2. DataForm Control in Silverlight 3 and Customization
3. Flexible Progress Control
4. Minimizing your designer footprint
5. BizzySpinner 2 – A WPF Spinning Busy State Indicator (with source)
6. Using Model View Presenter in WPF
7. [Silverlight] An image loading control
8. [Silverlight] A busy mouse pointer
9. My Silverlight App Was Fine Until Chrome Came To Town
10. Silverlight – Navigate to a specific Page using a Hyperlink
11. WPF / Silverlight tutorial: Visibility property and binding
12. Accessing the full range of colors in procedural code
13. Set Margin and Canvas programmatically
14. Converting Hexadecimals to Colors in code for Silverlight
15. WPF & Silverlight Layout Controls
16. A Field Guide to WPF Presentation Patterns

Silverlight 4

1. Silverlight and Desktop .NET Integration
2. WPF & Silverlight Design-Time Code Sharing – Part I
3. WPF & Silverlight Design-Time Code Sharing – Part II
4. New Silverlight 4 Video Tutorial: How to make an Out Of Browser SL4 Template Project
5. Auto-Discoverable Views using Fluent PRISM in Silverlight
6. “I feel the need… the need for SPEED!” [Seven simple, performance-boosting tweaks for common Silverlight/WPF Charting scenarios]
7. Setting Up Visual Studio for WPF and Silverlight Development
8. Quick tip: Finding Silverlight 4 documentation fast

Silverlight: Tooltip for each ListBox item

Below is a code example of defining a tooltip for each ListBox item.

<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
 <DataTemplate>
  <StackPanel>
   <ToolTipService.ToolTip>
    <ToolTip>
     <TextBlock Text="{Binding Summary}" Style="{StaticResource TooltipFont}"/>
    </ToolTip>
   </ToolTipService.ToolTip>
   <HyperlinkButton NavigateUri="{Binding DisplayLinkUrl}" TargetName="_blank" BorderThickness="0">
    <TextBlock Text="{Binding Published, Converter={StaticResource ShortDateConverter}}" Style="{StaticResource TitleFont}"/>
   </HyperlinkButton>
   <TextBlock Text="{Binding TruncSummary}" Style="{StaticResource SummaryFont}"/>
  </StackPanel>
 </DataTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemTemplate>

Links (1/10/2010)

SharePoint 2007

1. SharePoint 2007 – Manage Checked Out Files
2. Using XPath to manage data returned by a SharePoint Web Service

SharePoint 2010

1. SharePoint 2010 Base CSS Classes
2. SharePoint 2010 and XHTML Validation
3. Some SharePoint 2010 User Interface Terms
4. SharePoint 2010 Certification and SharePoint 2007 Certification
5. SharePoint 2010: Professional Developer Evaluation Guide and Walkthroughs
6. SharePoint 2010 List View Blog Series: Part 2 – Using the New SharePoint Lists
7. Exploring the SharePoint 2010 JavaScript ClientOM
8. Sandbox solutions are pretty damn good
9. A Reply to Sahil Malik’s Defense of the Sandbox Architecture

Silverlight 3

1. Automated Silverlight Unit Testing Using StatLight
2. Promoting reuse using Behaviors: RotateRefreshBehavior
3. Image Blitting in Silverlight with WriteableBitmapEx
4. Fluent Silverlight – static reflection
5. Reverse ICommands for MVVM
6. Using a ViewModel as a value converter
7. Creating Custom Message Box in Silverlight 3
8. Silverlight MVVM Lib And FileUploader Using HttpHandler
9. New Silvelright Video Tutorial: How to Create a Scrolling Banner

Silverlight 4

1. Silverlight 4’s New Notification Windows

Links (1/7/2010)

SharePoint 2007

1. Upcoming SharePoint Activities (January 2010)
2. Is your SharePoint 2007 farm already on Service Pack 2? If not, read this!
3. How to embed video in SharePoint
4. Google Analytics data in a SharePoint list
5. MOSS2007 – JavaScript Item Menus Part 1 (Real World Examples)
6. MOSS2007 – JavaScript Item Menus Part 2 (Real World Examples)
7. MOSS2007 – JavaScript Item Menus Part 3 (Real World)
8. HOW TO: Add web parts to SharePoint Item pages
9. Add Web Part to Page Programmatically
10. HTML Calculated Column and Unicode Graphics
11. How SharePoint manages web.config via SPWebConfigModification
12. GREAT ULS Log viewing tool

SharePoint 2010

1. Creating a SharePoint 2010 Ribbon extension – part 1
2. Use SharePoint 2010 ClientOM to Show a Generated GUID as Toast in the Notification Area
3. List Validations in SharePoint 2010
4. Accessing Term Sets using SharePoint 2010 object model
5. Updated Excel Services Web Services API in SharePoint 2010
6. Feature Versioning and Upgrades in SharePoint 2010
7. Code to Hide the Ribbon and Site Actions Menu for Anonymous Users
8. Creating filtered lookups in SharePoint 2010 with InfoPath 2010
9. The SharePoint 2010 Developer Experience
10. Create tabbed navigation using picture button controls

Silverlight 3

1. Silverlight Unit Testing Framework: Asynchronous Testing of Behaviors
2. Silverlight XAML Viewer with info callouts and links to MSDN docs
3. Silverlight Experimental Hacks (SLEX) – EventTrigger, PropertyTrigger, ReactiveTrigger, InvokeMethodAction, StoryBoardAction, etc. for Silverlight
4. Using Autofac as an IoC Container in Silverlight Applications
5. DataGrid Customization Silverlight 3
6. Customizing the Tree view in Silevrlight 3 Part 2
7. Datagrid TemplateColumn Sorting in Silverlight 3
8. Fluent Silverlight – Binding dependency properties to model properties
9. Application Library Caching in RadControls for Silverlight
10. The ultimate hack for Silverlight in Blend
11. Silverlight and styles
12. Asynchronous Image Loading in Silverlight
13. Make the TreeView control to be MVVM compliant

Silverlight 4

1. Managed Extensibility Framework in Silverlight Screencasts
2. PRISM, MEF, and MVVM Part 3 of 3: Dynamic MEF Modules in PRISM
3. Honey, I MEF-fed the Silverlight Gallery (for Christmas), Part 1
4. Silverlight 4 Find: No More Whitelisting Fonts
5. RIA Services and relational data
6. Silverlight 4’s New Managed Extensibility Framework

Links (1/3/2010)

SharePoint 2007

1. SharePoint List Usage and Statistics
2. SharePoint Wednesday CodePlex Roundup #4
3. SharePoint, WebDAV, and a Case of the 405 Status Codes
4. Alerts not moved when moving sites
5. Migration to BPOS – Initial thoughts
6. BPOS – Single sign-on for the Mac
7. SharePoint: Exploring SharePoint CMP Export Files (and a demo application)
8. “Send To” function in WSS 3.0 does not copy look-up fields
9. List Field added using InfoPath does not filter on [Me]
10. InfoPath Cascading Drop-Down (Screencast)
11. How to develop a custom SharePoint search webpart
12. How to add multiple SPGridView in one single custom webpart
13. The form template associated with this form was moved or cannot be accessed. The form template on your computer has the same form ID as the template
14. Using a View as the basis for querying a List
15. Deploying SharePoint Solution Files to Non-12 Hive Locations on Multiple Web Front Ends
16. After Properties go blank in ItemUpdated event for Office 2007 Documents..
17. How to get Search Query API calls to be logged in search usage analysis reports
18. Follow-Up on JQuery and SharePoint Performance
19. SharePoint DatePicker control CSS issue
20. Top 10 Requirements for a Successful SharePoint Deployment
21. Application Master Page Changer Project

SharePoint 2010

1. SharePoint 2010 lets you put the ECB Menu on any column
2. Setting Up SharePoint 2010 forms-based authentication for claims based web applications
3. SharePoint CEWP – source includes dynamic content
4. SP 2010 – Sandbox Solutions – Mysterious but truly awesome
5. SharePoint Solution using BCS: Part II
6. Styling Web Parts in SharePoint 2010 (Add round corners via CSS)
7. SharePoint 2010: New Branching feature in Surveys

Silverlight 3

1. Using Autofac as an IoC Container in Silverlight Applications
2. Fluent Silverlight – Implementing a fluent API
3. Fluent Silverlight – Fluent API and inheritance
4. Closed Captioning with Silverlight (using MVVM)
5. An IoC-Agnostic Prism Bootstrapper
6. Silverlight Preloader
7. Day #26: Silverlight Data Grid
8. Day #27: Templating Controls In Silverlight
9. Day #28: Silverlight Application Themes
10. Day #29: Using Isolated Storage in Silverlight
11. Day #30: Bing Maps In Silverlight
12. Day #31: Geocoding and More Fun In Bing Maps for Silverlight
13. How to Create a Silverlight Color Resource in a ResourceDictionary
14. New Silverlight Video Tutorial: How to Create a Color Resource in a ResourceDictionary
15. Debug Silverlight and JavaScript together
16. Developing Business Applications with Silverlight 3 ,Prism and Ria Services
17. Silverlight Pagination (DataPager)
18. Embedding fonts in Silverlight
19. Silverlight – Creating Image Map with Hotspots

Silverlight 4

1. ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET MVC, and Silverlight 4 Videos of my Talks in Europe
2. PRISM, MEF, and MVVM Part 2 of 3: Making PRISM MEF Friendly
3. PRISM, MEF, and MVVM Part 3 of 3: Dynamic MEF Modules in PRISM
4. Architecting SL4 Apps with RIA Services, MEF and MVVM – Part 4 (of 3)
5. Silverlight 4 Screencasts – the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)
6. MEF and Prism exploration, MEF module loading
7. COM Automation with OpenOffice – Silverlight 4
8. Saving Snapshots to PNG in Silverlight 4 and the WebCam
9. Opening up Silverlight 4 Navigation: Authentication/Authorization in an INavigationContentLoader
10. Silverlight 4 and command line execution
11. Silverlight 4 – WebCams.OnceMoreWithAudio()
12. Silverlight HVP Design, Refinements