Ben Hickman's blog
Eval VM for SharePoint 2010 RTM now available
A virtual machine for the RTM 2010 wave of product releases is now available for download: 2010...
Date: 05/12/2010
New Eval Guides for SharePoint 2010
We published evaluation guides for SharePoint 2010 at the conference a few weeks ago. Reading these...
Date: 11/02/2009
How To Automatically Changing Permissions in a Doc Lib
Or, how do you get Item-Level Permissions settings for a document library? This frequently comes up...
Date: 06/05/2009
SharePoint Designer Workflows – what user identity?
When a SharePoint Designer (SPD) workflow runs, it runs in the context of the workflow initiator....
Date: 06/04/2009
Secondary Workflow Example in SharePoint Designer
I recently built a prototype to show how SharePoint and SharePoint Designer workflows can be used to...
Date: 05/26/2009
Content Query Web Part example
I recently got deeper into using the Content Query Web Part (CQWP) than I had in a while and learned...
Date: 05/22/2009
Accessing columns in the User Information List
I was recently asked how to programmatically retrieve custom fields from the User Information List...
Date: 05/22/2009
One Part of Microsoft.com now running on SharePoint
Yesterday https://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint converted over to SharePoint and Silverlight. It’s...
Date: 05/21/2009
SharePoint Server 2010 announced
I will need to switch from saying SharePoint 14 to SharePoint 2010 now. Details of the announcement...
Date: 04/15/2009
New Capabilities for SharePoint
Today we announced the ESP for SharePoint product that provides high end search capabilities within...
Date: 02/10/2009
New SharePoint for Developers Ramp Up Training
As part of the MSDN Ramp Up training program, there is now a track for SharePoint Developers:...
Date: 11/12/2008
SharePoint Guidance from Patterns & Practices
The Patterns & Practices group at Microsoft has just released SharePoint Guidance documents....
Date: 11/07/2008
New Home for Ben Hickman's Blog
If you got a slew of RSS feed updates today it's because I moved my blog over to MSDN. I've moved...
Date: 11/06/2008
Office 14 for the Web
Yesterday at the PDC2008 conference, we announced Office 14 for the Web. There is a great Channel 9...
Date: 10/29/2008
Good SharePoint Designer Book
It's good to see some SharePoint Designer books starting to appear. Even though I use Visual Studio...
Date: 10/01/2008
Content Rating for MOSS Released on CodePlex
I just found out that a Content Rating solution for MOSS 2007 was released to CodePlex earlier this...
Date: 06/24/2008
SharePoint Licensing Info
I gave an overview presentation last week on SharePoint for Internet and extranet sites. During the...
Date: 06/17/2008
SharePoint Firestarter Recordings
The recordings of the SharePoint Firestarter event that I presented at last week are now online:...
Date: 06/17/2008
New Portland User Group Web site
I am very happy to announce that the kind folks at Netropole have created and host a site for the...
Date: 06/17/2008
June 2008 PSUG Meeting
For June we have a great presentation from James Curry, an instructor with Mindsharp. We also have a...
Date: 06/17/2008
SharePoint and Web 2.0 Developer Event
Very late notice, but I am presenting at a great day long event on SharePoint & Web 2.0...
Date: 06/06/2008
Now Here's a T-Shirt
"My WebPart can beat up your server control." Warms the heart of a SharePoint Developer.
Date: 06/02/2008
Released: MOSS Search Connectors for FileNet and Documentum
We have released indexing connectors for IBM FileNet and EMC Documentum for crawling and returning...
Date: 05/30/2008
May Portland SharePoint User Group Meeting
We had a great SharePoint user group meeting this week here in Portland, OR. Jason Noble from...
Date: 05/29/2008
SharePoint for .NET Developers webcast series
Starting tomorrow, there is a 10-part webcast series led by two SharePoint MVPs: Robert Bogue and...
Date: 05/19/2008
Master Page development presentation at May 28 user group
I am very excited to announce that we will have Jason Noble from Neudesic presenting on Master Page...
Date: 05/15/2008
Numonyx.com on MOSS with faceted search
Here is another public Internet site running MOSS, www.numonyx.com. The search implementation...
Date: 05/14/2008
Routing Documents in Records Center
I recently was asked if the record routing rules in Records Center support inheritance relationships...
Date: 05/13/2008
Connecting the dots
Here is an MSDN article I co-wrote a looong time ago: ATL Server and Visual Studio .NET...
Date: 04/15/2008