FitzBlog
Mike Fitzmaurice [MSFT] shares as much as he can get away with about what Microsoft is doing with SharePoint Products and Technologies development
I'm Back -- Just In Time To Move On...
The good news is that I'm going to be blogging again. The not-exactly-bad news is that I'll be...
Date: 05/22/2008
The RTM SDKs Will Be Downloadable on November 28th, 2006
I jumped the gun in yesterday's second post when I said the SDKs were ready along with the...
Date: 11/17/2006
Early Xmas Present from the Search and BDC Teams: Custom Security Trimming
While we generally lock down features many months before we get to RTM and spend all of the...
Date: 11/16/2006
Using ASP.NET for AJAX in SharePoint Sites: Tread Gently for Now
We get asked about what we're doing about AJAX quite a lot these days, especially about ASP.NET for...
Date: 11/16/2006
WSRP and JSR168 Are Two Completely Different Things...
WSRP, as I covered a few days ago, is an interoperability standard. It’s platform- and...
Date: 02/10/2006
I Am Back In The Saddle and Ready to Pontificate
My blog isn’t so much a running news log as it is an opinion column and platform for...
Date: 01/18/2006
Ghosting, Schmosting!
This is one item I’ve been holding back for a while. FrontPage “12” will be a...
Date: 09/15/2005
PDC Day 3 (Day 2 for SharePoint Technology Sessions)
So it’s 10am as I start this posting, which I’m typing while I bounce back and forth...
Date: 09/15/2005
Welcome Aboard, PJ 'n' Pals!!!
Two new blogs have been created in the past few days that I thought you should bookmark: If...
Date: 09/15/2005
FitzBlog : Web Part Interoperability -- Good News and Bad News
That post I made on Monday? Namely: “FitzBlog : Web Part Interoperability -- Good News and Bad...
Date: 09/14/2005
The Kimono Is Open, The Veil Is Lifted, The Gags Are Removed.....
I just got out of Steven Sinofsky’s keynote session on Office “12” here at the...
Date: 09/14/2005
Web Part Interoperability -- Good News and Bad News
So we’re getting ready to unveil a little bit tomorrow and a lot on Wednesday regarding WSS...
Date: 09/12/2005
Supportable Customizations: Don't Panic
I’ve been at a lot of conferences in the past few months, and the question I was asked most...
Date: 08/04/2005
Will Windows SharePoint Services Work With SQL Server 2005?
The short answer: Heck, yeah! The long answer: For the love of God, don’t try it in production yet....
Date: 07/15/2005
PDC Sessions Have Been Posted!!!
Head over to https://commnet.microsoftpdc.com/content/sessions.aspx to see a nearly-complete list of...
Date: 07/15/2005
I've Been Gone A While
I know that, while I’m travelling, I should just file blog postings from the road since...
Date: 07/15/2005
Site Definition KickStart Project
Want some help building and deploying site definitions, complete with resources like Web Parts, CSS...
Date: 06/10/2005
SharePad Has Been Updated
The SharePad workspace on GotDotNet has been updated. It now supports getting/setting custom...
Date: 06/10/2005
There's an Office/SharePoint Development Track at This Year's PDC...
The fact that there’s an Office/SharePoint Development track at this year’s Professional Developers...
Date: 05/30/2005
Want a Good Example of FPRPC? Try SharePad!
I haven’t blogged for a while, but I’m hoping to make up for it — starting with...
Date: 05/30/2005
SharePoint Advisor Magazine Hits the Newsstand!!!
I cannot begin to tell you how happy I am about the first issue of SharePoint Advisor magazine. I...
Date: 04/13/2005
One More Time...
Comments like "Unless of course you want to use them next year" made in reponse to my posting...
Date: 04/04/2005
Please Stay Out Of The Database!!!
We had a fun internal debate this week on a new tool developed in France. If you can read French,...
Date: 04/01/2005
Why do the WSS/SPS teams seem to be so darned tight-lipped about futures?
You may have noticed this blog’s byline,.in which I refer to myself as “sharing whatever...
Date: 04/01/2005
Update on the ASP.NET 2.0 warning
Several of you have reported having successfully installed the .NET 2.0 runtime on a machine running...
Date: 04/01/2005
Make sure you attend this year's PDC
I’m not going to say anything more at this time, but I’d strongly suggest that attending...
Date: 04/01/2005
SharePoint Sites are Data
Next week I’m going to post something that explains the relative merits of efforts like...
Date: 03/24/2005
Web Parts ⊃ Portlets
To say “Web Parts are Microsoft’s ASP.NET technology for implementing portlets”...
Date: 03/18/2005
Keep Writing SharePoint Web Parts Until (at least) 2006
ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts rock. We in SharePoint-land love them. We’re building “v3”...
Date: 03/17/2005
Custom Forms-Based Authentication Solutions for WSS/SPS, Hand-Rolled or Partner-Supported
There’s a nice article on TheServerSide.NET entitled Integrating 3rd Party Single Sign On in...
Date: 03/16/2005
Good "SharePoint Development" = Good .NET Development
Gregory MacBeth provides a nice enumeration of the skills you need to be a “SharePoint...
Date: 03/15/2005
Webcastapalooza
Just about every presentation we did in the area of SharePoint Products and Technologies at last...
Date: 03/15/2005
Don' t think we don't still love iOra
The majority of my posts are for developer issues (not — normally — developer...
Date: 03/15/2005
Welcome, Groove!
Microsoft has a large number of internal distribution lists for discussing specific topics (more...
Date: 03/15/2005
WSS Isn't Just For Collaboration
A number of times, people have said that we can solve the problem of confusion around the word...
Date: 03/14/2005
Dev Tools: What We Can Do and What You'll Have To Do
Renaud Comte made a great observation on my CAML comments (see CAML ? Stay for long time dixit Mike...
Date: 03/14/2005
FrontPage RPCs are Here To Stay, Too
If you’ve been at a talk delivered by me, Bryan Jeffries, or Richard Mareno entitled something...
Date: 03/14/2005
One more thing a good "SharePoint subject matter expert" ought to know...
I’d add one extra item to Tim Heuer’s fantastic article on what a good sharepoint...
Date: 03/14/2005
CAML is Here To Stay
I did three presentations at last week's Book Publisher's Summit, talking to publishers and authors...
Date: 03/13/2005
Developer Training
Following on to my previous post, another observation that's been made out there is that our...
Date: 12/15/2004
I should clearly be more careful when I contribute to threads...
A colleague of mine emailed me last weekend to tell me I'd been quoted in the blogosphere. Patrick...
Date: 12/15/2004