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Office and SharePoint Developer Discussion from a Documentation Point of View
SharePoint 2010 Developer Documentation Now Live on MSDN!
(Cross-posted from the SharePoint Developer Documentation Team blog.) By now you’ve probably been...
Date: 10/19/2009
Download: Workflow Development Resources Interactive Map
For the last several weeks, I’ve been experimenting with using mind maps, both as a way of...
Date: 02/04/2009
SharePoint SDKs (and Other Documentation Resources) Now Updated for SP1
(Cross-posted from the SharePoint Developer Documentation Team Blog.) By now you’ve no doubt heard...
Date: 12/11/2007
SharePoint Developer Documentation Team Blog Now Live
Now that I’m managing a documentation team, I just don’t get to blog about SharePoint developer...
Date: 12/04/2007
April update to WSS 3.0 SDK online now live!
I’m happy to announce that the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SDK has been updated online on MSDN!...
Date: 04/26/2007
Bulk Editing Workflow Tasks in Office SharePoint Services 2007
OK, we're back. Since it's now officially 2007, it seemed appropriate to focus my first entry of the...
Date: 01/12/2007
WSS 3.0 and MOSS SDKs: Now with MSDN Wiki!
Ever find something wrong/incomplete with an SDK topic on MSDN, and wish you could slap a Post-It...
Date: 12/15/2006
Information Rights Management in Windows SharePoint Services Poster Available for Download
Now that we’ve managed to get the Windows SharePoint Services and Office SharePoint Server SDKs out...
Date: 11/21/2006
How To Rate Articles on MSDN
Something you might have noticed as you perused the updated Windows SharePoint Services or Office...
Date: 11/21/2006
New Tools for SharePoint Development: Visual Studio Extensions for WSS 3.0
So now that you've downloaded Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, you're ready to get serious about...
Date: 11/21/2006
Windows SharePoint Services and Office SharePoint Server SDKs Updated
So by now you no doubt know that Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is available for download. But...
Date: 11/20/2006
Document Parsers in SharePoint (4 of 4): Parser Schema and Interface
For these four entries, I’m going to go over in detail how to construct and register a custom parser...
Date: 07/21/2006
Document Parsers in SharePoint (3 of 4): Parsers and Content Types
For these four entries, I’m going to go over in detail how to construct and register a custom parser...
Date: 07/19/2006
Document Parsers in SharePoint (2 of 4): How Parsers Process Documents
Read part one here. In my last entry, I gave you a brief overview of what document parsers are in...
Date: 07/18/2006
Document Parsers in SharePoint (1 of 4): Overview
Now that I’ve talked about the built-in XML parser, and how you can use it to promote and demote...
Date: 07/14/2006
InfoPath Forms Management in Windows SharePoint Services V3
Today I'd like to talk about how to store and manage XML forms (InfoPath and otherwise) in WSS V3....
Date: 07/10/2006
XML Document Property Parsing in SharePoint (5 of 5): Specifying XPath Namespace Prefixes in Content Types
This is the final post in a five-part series on how to use the built-in XML parser in WSS V3 to...
Date: 07/07/2006
XML Document Property Parsing in SharePoint (4 of 5): Specifying Document Content Type for XML Parsing
This is the fourth in a five-part series on how to use the built-in XML parser in WSS V3 to promote...
Date: 07/06/2006
XML Document Property Parsing in SharePoint (3 of 5): Determining Document Content Type for XML Parsing
This is the third in a five-part series on how to use the built-in XML parser in WSS V3 to promote...
Date: 07/05/2006
XML Document Property Parsing in SharePoint (2 of 5): Using Content Types to Specify XML Document Properties
This is the second in a five-part series on how to use the built-in XML parser in WSS V3 to promote...
Date: 06/30/2006
XML Document Property Parsing in SharePoint (1 of 5): XML Parser Overview
I've just finished putting together a lot of information around how document parsers work within...
Date: 06/29/2006
Document Parsers in SharePoint Poster Now Available for Download
I've got another conceptual poster for download. This one deals with document parsers, and how...
Date: 06/27/2006
What are Content Type IDs?
So, a reader emailed me the other day, asking for more information on content type IDs: what they...
Date: 06/24/2006
3 Things I Got Wrong About Content Types
Gotta love Beta documentation. Turn out that some of the material I wrote in the WSS Beta 2 SDK...
Date: 06/21/2006
SharePoint Terminology: Column vs. Field vs. Property
Today I want to address a piece of SharePoint terminology that confused me no end when I first...
Date: 06/14/2006
InfoPath Forms in Office SharePoint Server 2007
I’m sure it comes as no surprise that Office InfoPath 2007 is the forms designer of choice for...
Date: 06/08/2006
Records Repository Technical Poster for Download
Today I'm making another SharePoint technical poster available for download. This one details the...
Date: 06/06/2006
SharePoint Beta 2: Enterprise Content Management Samples Now Online
If you're interested in extending the enterprise content management features in Office SharePoint...
Date: 06/06/2006
Content Type Technical Posters for Download
The title pretty much says it all. For some of our earlier, internal technical events, I created a...
Date: 05/26/2006
What Are Content Types, Anyway?
One of the major new concepts in Windows SharePoint Services V3 is content types. They're a core...
Date: 05/25/2006
SharePoint Beta 2 SDKs Online and Available for Download
Well, as you've probably already heard, yesterday was a big day for us here, what with the Beta...
Date: 05/24/2006
...Annnnnd we're back.
Okay, so it’s been months since I last blogged. But that’s not because I haven’t been busy, or...
Date: 05/17/2006
Publisher Object Model Overview Article Now Live on MSDN
Yesterday saw the publication of my penultimate article on Publisher 2003, 7 Things Developers...
Date: 09/01/2005
Publisher 2003: Creating and Managing Linked Text Boxes
(Note: This is the third in a series of entries that aim to introduce experienced programmers to the...
Date: 05/13/2005
Working with Publisher Wizards and Templates
Note: This is the second in a series of entries that aim to introduce experienced programmers to the...
Date: 05/09/2005
Publisher 2003: Using the NewDocument and DocumentOpen Events
I got an email the other day from a user who asked if the NewDocument event in Publisher actually...
Date: 05/04/2005
Creating Web Pages with the Publisher Object Model
You know, sometimes it's the obvious things you miss. I was meeting a few days ago with the...
Date: 04/25/2005
Windows Server 2003: Screen Resolution Weirdness
Here's the second of two tips my manager shared with me concerning installing Windows Server 2003....
Date: 04/14/2005
Windows Server 2003: Unable to Connect to the Internet
A few months back, when I first moved over to working on Windows SharePoint Services, I decided to...
Date: 04/14/2005
John Durant Moves On
If you've read his blog lately, or visited the Office Developer Center front page, then you know...
Date: 04/12/2005
Rock Thought for the Day: Garbage
At the risk of further poaching on John Durant's turf, it turns out I have another Rock Thought of...
Date: 04/12/2005
OneNote: Importing Pages that Vanish
Here's an interesting little "gotcha" that was found by Saul Candib, the programmer-writer who is...
Date: 04/01/2005
Know Any Good Object Model and XML Schema Map Notations?
Now that I've told you how I create the technical illustrations I use in my blog entries and MSDN...
Date: 02/24/2005
Creating Object Model and XML Schema Maps
Several people have asked what program(s) I use to create the object model maps and other technical...
Date: 02/22/2005
OneNote: An In-Depth Look at the OneNoteImporter Managed Assembly (Part 5 of 5)
In this series of entries, we're taking an in-depth at the OneNoteImporter manage class, which...
Date: 02/17/2005
OneNote: An In-Depth Look at the OneNoteImporter Managed Assembly (Part 4 of 5)
In this series of entries, we're taking an in-depth at the OneNoteImporter manage class, which...
Date: 02/17/2005
OneNote: An In-Depth Look at the OneNoteImporter Managed Assembly (Part 3 of 5)
In this series of entries, we're taking an in-depth at the OneNoteImporter manage class, which...
Date: 02/16/2005