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SharePoint 2010 for Developers -
What’s
New and Why YOU Should Care!
with
Roy Ogborn,
Independent SharePoint Solutions Architect and
Developer Consultant |
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Are YOU ready for SharePoint 2010? It will
be here soon! Microsoft has done a fantastic job focusing on
developers’ needs by adding many new tools plus major enhancements to existing
tools -- a very good
thing for YOU! Now be far more productive when
creating custom business solutions by using SharePoint. Some of
these tools are integrated into SharePoint and some will
come built-in to Visual Studio.
Be ready! Adoption of SharePoint is occurring at
an ever increasing rate and the new release, with its
dramatic focus on usability, will accelerate business
adoption. Businesses are rapidly discovering
that they can’t live without SharePoint - and that means
YOU can't either! Has SharePoint emerged as a platform
within your company? Soon you’ll be expected to customize
your solutions using SharePoint. Many developers are already doing just that.
Could you be the hero who introduces SharePoint and builds
solutions for your company’s needs?
Join us to discuss and see live examples of
SharePoint 2010 from a developer's perspective. You will
learn about:
• New - Visual Studio project templates for
SharePoint development
• New - LINQ to SharePoint
• New - SharePoint client
object model
• New - SharePoint code
sandbox
• New - SharePoint Developer
Dashboard
• Preparing a
great 64 bit development environment with hardware
considerations and operating system choices
• Enhanced Silverlight integration with SharePoint
• Open Discussion - Rapid
Custom SharePoint solutions - developer vs. power user.
See all demos using SharePoint 2010
(public beta) – the tools YOU can start using today -- get
ready!
 FMI:
SharePoint 2010. |
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Notes from
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Contributors: Martin
Buchanan
and Chris Wallace.
Roy Ogborn
of SharePointExtenders.com presented
SharePoint features in the upcoming 2010 release (possibly in June
2010 at the same time as MS Office 2010).
Roy showed the nice synergy between SharePoint 2010 and PowerShell,
with about 500 console commands available.
SharePoint 2010 code compiles to .NET 3.5 and may do so even when
VS 2010 is released; set .NET 3.5 as the target in your VS 2010
SharePoint project properties.
SharePoint 2010 is huge. Here are some notable features from both
Roy's talk and the
Microsoft SharePoint
site:
64-bit only
Office-like ribbon interface
several versions of the product including cloud versions
more social networking: personal blogs, wikis, tagging, activity
feeds
offline access
Silverlight support
better Visual Studio integration
read/write access to enterprise data
improved search via FAST Search Server 2010
embedded Office web apps for online editing of Office content
multi-lingual user interface
web standards and web accessibility compliance
can assign unique doc ID's that don't change when document is moved,
for permalinks
Can publish spreadsheets while blocking formulas
PerformancePoint Services in the enterprise product for dashboards,
scorecards, and key performance indicators
admins can control what can be altered using SharePoint Designer
REST access to lists using ADO.NET Data Services
in-place records management, can block updates to managed content
tagging can be controlled (taxonomies) or open and informal (folksonomies)
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Roy Ogborn
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Roy Ogborn is a well known applications architect and
developer in the Denver Metro area. He has been a speaker
here at our Denver Visual Studio User Group many times in
the past, including the Office 2007 Community Launch and the
GotDotNet Building Upon the Framework series.
He began diving into the SharePoint
API back in 2006 when the first public MOSS Beta was
released. Since then he’s designed and built
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several applications (SharePoint
Features) for clients that extend SharePoint’s already huge
capabilities. One of these applications is a Silverlight 3.0
based industrial Carbon Assessment and Planning app that
runs within SharePoint 2007 for a global engineering firm.
He is an applications design architect and developer who has
been specializing in Microsoft technologies since before
.NET was first released. He excels at creating object
oriented designs for business and engineering. He has
expertise in the CSLA and CSLA Light application development
frameworks and is also the technical editor for Joe Mayo’s
upcoming book on Visual Studio 2010 which will be published
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Roy is passionate about his work and he’s excited to
show some of the many new developer extensions and
tools Microsoft has incorporated into SharePoint
2010 to increase your productivity as a Developer
and he believes you’ll be exited to try them out
yourself.
Contact
Roy Ogborn.
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Meeting Sponsor
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Alpine Access - Founded 11 years ago, we are a virtual Call Center employing
3000 employees in 34 states. Clients include top fortune 500
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integrating with state of the art telephony switches and
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Updated 02/04/2010 |
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Notes from Meeting Sponsor |
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Contributors: Martin
Buchanan
and Chris Wallace.
Thanks to our meeting sponsor,
Alpine Access.
Dan Rojas from
Alpine Access is planning a large project to migrate their virtual
call center, which supports 3,000 employees in 34 states, from a mix
of Linux and Windows to Microsoft .NET technologies. Dan is
initially recruiting consultants with .NET expertise and in the
future will probably be adding permanent staff with .NET expertise.
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SharePoint 2010 for Developers - What’s
New and Why YOU Should Care!
with
Roy Ogborn
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Friday,
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2010,
7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
L a b -- t h i s
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Introduction to
F# and Functional Programming
with
Brad Wood,
Software Developer |
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F# is a
highly productive .NET programming language combining
functional programming and object-oriented programming, and
is ideally suited for parallel, algorithmic, technical and
explorative development.
F# is the
result of a close partnership between Microsoft Research and
the Visual Studio team. Since announcing F# in Visual Studio
2010 we’ve seen a surge of interest and uptake in the
language. The F# team has also worked closely with the F#
community and major adopters to ensure it meets the needs of
professional software developers working in these domains --
like YOU!
FMI:
F# Developer Center on MSDN. |
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Updated 02/04/2010 |
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Notes from
Lab |
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Contributors: Martin
Buchanan
and Chris Wallace.
Brad introduced several of us to
Microsoft's very interesting functional programming language, F#,
well summarized in the F# spec as:
F# is a scalable, succinct, type-safe,
type-inferred, efficiently executing
functional/imperative/object-oriented programming language. It aims
to be the premier typed functional programming language for the .NET
framework and other implementations of the Ecma 335 Common Language
Infrastructure (CLI) specification. F# was partly inspired by the
OCaml language and shares some common core constructs with it.
Brad showed us sample code including
the Towers of Hanoi problem solved in F#. Previously a separate
download, the language is fully integrated into Visual Studio 2010
as Visual F# while still available for earlier versions of Visual
Studio as a download.
Brad also described how functional
programming focuses on defining values once and providing a rich set
of functional, mathematical, and data structure operations; while
discouraging and avoiding variable assignment and side effects. F#,
like most functional languages, can manipulate variables and produce
side effects, but with different syntax than what you are used to in
imperative languages.
Brad covered many F# features,
including lightweight syntax (using indentation for scope), strong
typing, type inference, functions as first class objects,
generalized pattern matching on lists and trees, range operators,
various data structures, workflows, and support for asynchronous and
parallel operations. Some of the common functional programming terms
that baffle the non-initiated were presented as well: monads,
closures, lambda, and currying.
After attending Brad's lab, I spent a
few hours reading and skimming the
F# specification.
The 207-page spec is often hard to understand even for someone who
has read many other language specifications, perhaps because large
sections of it are devoted to topics of more interest to the
compiler implementer or spec writer, such as seven pages about name
resolution.
Probably more accessible is Don Syme's
upcoming book,
Programming F#: The
Definitive Guide.
Thanks to Brad for sparking our
interest in this very interesting programming tool now in Visual
Studio. |
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Brad Wood
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Brad Wood is a software developer focusing on .NET
technologies. He started in desktop development with Delphi
and moved to C# web development. He has been coding various
kinds of applications in the fields of records management,
government, insurance, and education for over nine years. He
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Contact
Brad Wood.
See his
blog and . |
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MSDN
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From Zero to
XAML in 4 Hours
with
Paul Sheriff,
President of PDSA, Microsoft RD SoCal, Evangelist,
Author, Speaker, Instructor, and so much more... |
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You will Learn:
1. Introduction to XAML, WPF and Silverlight
2. XAML Controls used in Business Applications
3. Introduction to Styles
4. Data Binding Techniques in WPF
5. Building standard business forms, dialogs and tools
FMI
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Notes from MSDN
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Contributors: Martin
Buchanan
and Chris Wallace.
FMI: see
PDSA Event Presentations
and Downloads
-- To download presentation
materials plus in a video, WPF Part 1: Learning basic XAML for
Business Applications, you will learn the basics of XAML and how to
use WPF to build business applications. You will learn why WPF was
created, how it is different from Windows Forms and why you want to
move to WPF. |
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Silverlight & Windows
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Microsoft Public Sector
Technology Conference
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Wednesday,
January 27,
2010
1:00
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Location:
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Directions and Bing Maps
Address: 7595 Technology Way, 4th Floor, Denver, CO 80237, Phone: 720-528-1700 |
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Microsoft Public Sector
Technology Conference
Building Rich Internet Applications with
Silverlight 3 and 4
with
James Chittenden,
Microsoft Developer Evangelist
Overview of the Windows Azure Platform
with
Jeet Jagasia, Microsoft Developer
Evangelist
PLUS - Panel Discussion
with
James
Chittenden
and
Jeet
Jagasia,
Answering your questions! |
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These sessions will target Developers, Architects and Web
designers, be very much demonstration oriented, and will be
delivered by seasoned developers with experience in
Government and Public Sector. Seize this opportunity to
immerse yourself amidst these exciting new technologies!
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Address: North Classroom Building, Auraria
Campus,
Downtown Denver, CO 80204
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Volunteers are needed! Contact:
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Rocky Mountain Tech Trifecta v2.0
Organized by volunteers from
your local Colorado .NET, PASS,
SharePoint, and Windows Server User
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The Rocky Mountain Tech Tri-Fecta is a free,
information-packed day of practical training and information
concentrated in .NET, SQL Server, SharePoint, and Microsoft Windows
technologies with four different Keynotes; plus, a new
Beginner track and new Beginner Keynote. There will be loads
of sessions on a wide
range of interesting topics by top rock stars in these arenas.
In addition, we'll be
hosting several "Birds of a Feather" (BoF)
sessions where attendees can
interact with top professionals in specialized areas sharing
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plus a new Beginner BoF.
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