Dot Net Mafia : Office 365, SharePoint 2010

Slides and Video from my Lync and Learn Session on SharePoint Online Development

Dot Net Mafia — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:36:15 GMT

Thanks to everyone who attended my Office 365 Lync and Learn session last week. I enjoyed the opportunity to show everyone how they can use Visual Studio 2012 RC to get started with SharePoint Online development. I’ve attached a link to my...(read more)

TechEd Readiness Checklist

Dot Net Mafia — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 17:28:33 GMT

TechEd North America ( #msteched ) is just next week in Orlando, FL. This is my first TechEd and I’m excited to see what’s in store. With any conference, it’s always best to be prepared. You want to make sure you bring the right things...(read more)

Excited to be speaking at TechEd this year

Dot Net Mafia — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:48:29 GMT

I am excited to say that I’ll be speaking at both TechEd North America and TechEd Europe . This is my first time to even attend a TechEd so I am looking forward to see what is in store. Both events are sure to be exciting but I am particularly...(read more)

Understanding versioning with Excel Web App

Dot Net Mafia — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:19:26 GMT

If you have used Excel Web App (part of Office Web Apps), you are familiar with the fact that there is no “Save” button. The changes you make are immediately saved back to SharePoint and you even have multiple people editing the spreadsheet at the...(read more)

A look at content type hubs in SharePoint Online (Office 365)

Dot Net Mafia — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 02:29:02 GMT

For those of you familiar with SharePoint 2010, the content type hub is nothing new to you. However, in SharePoint Online, the content type hub works a little differently. The first thing to know is that a content type hub has been set up...(read more)

A look at the list editor in Visual Studio 11

Dot Net Mafia — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:28:10 GMT

I’ve written a number of posts in the last couple of weeks about the new SharePoint features in the Visual Studio 11 developer preview. These posts include publishing to SharePoint Online , Visual Web Parts , Silverlight Web Part , and the Content...(read more)

How to: Use the Silverlight web part with Visual Studio 11

Dot Net Mafia — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:11:14 GMT

Visual Studio 11 adds a new feature that makes working with Silverlight in SharePoint 2010 a bit easier. The new Silverlight Web Part feature automates deploying your Silverlight applications to SharePoint and can really save you a bit of time. ...(read more)

How to: Query sites and site collections using SharePoint Search

Dot Net Mafia — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:41:21 GMT

I often refer to my Handy Keywords in SharePoint Search because it forms the building blocks you need to become a rock star at writing SharePoint keyword queries. Today, I want to expand upon that post on how you can use search to return a...(read more)

Quick Tip: Use % to return all items in the search index

Dot Net Mafia — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:55:40 GMT

Ever wanted to see what exactly is in your SharePoint search index with a simple query? Sure, you can take a look at the crawl log, but you can’t see that in SharePoint Online. With SharePoint 2010, you can use queries using the ContentSource...(read more)

Quick Tip: Use % to return all items in the search index (FAST Search for SharePoint and SharePoint Online)

Dot Net Mafia — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:55:40 GMT

How to: Query People Search in SharePoint Online (and other SharePoint platforms too!)

Dot Net Mafia — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 04:38:12 GMT

At my Search talk at SPC11, I demoed how to build a Silverlight application that could query search in SharePoint Online . I also built a separate application that could query people search, but I haven’t posted on it yet until today. To query...(read more)

Dealing with that pesky SharePoint server in another time zone

Dot Net Mafia — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:17:07 GMT

Working at an International company now, I found that I was often running into issues looking at the time stamps of documents. Our collaboration server was in EST while I was in CST. It could be confusing at times when you were working on...(read more)

Slides from my talk at SharePoint Saturday Denver

Dot Net Mafia — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:13:57 GMT

I had the honor of speaking at SharePoint Saturday Denver this weekend. Clayton Cobb ( @warrtalon ) and the people from Denver did a great job putting together this event. I spoke about how to improve your SharePoint Search experience. ...(read more)

Building a SharePoint advanced search application with Silverlight 4

Dot Net Mafia — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:29:00 GMT

At SharePoint Conference 2011, I showed off a great looking advanced search application using Silverlight 4. This application queried the Search web service at /_vti_bin/search.asmx to retrieve results and display them directly inside the application...(read more)

Using SharePoint Online (Office365) for Extranets

Dot Net Mafia — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:39:27 GMT

This week at SharePoint Conference ( #SPC11 ), I had the pleasure of giving a talk about the benefits of using SharePoint as an Extranet platform. I discuss the benefits and considerations of using SharePoint for an Extranet when it comes to on...(read more)