Using SPAllSitesJobDefinition to Process Site by Site
Introduction Timer Jobs are commonly used by the SharePoint platform to perform various tasks from maintenance such as cleaning up dead sites and old history to processing ratings and notifications. There is even a Timer Job to recycle the timer service that manages the Timer Jobs (Timer Job Recycle). Developers commonly create, deploy and schedule Timer Jobs to solve business requirements that happen...
October 1st, 2012 by Darrin
Windows Phone 7 SharePoint Social Demo at Conference
SharePoint Conference is a short time away and Todd, Matt, Gary and I just finished up the demo app ( well more than just a demo) that Todd will be using in the “Integrating SharePoint Social features into your Windows Phone 7 Application” session. This session runs at 3:45PM-5PM PT on Monday October 3rd. We put a lot of hours into this demo so stop by Todd’s sessions and check out...
September 14th, 2011 by Darrin
Connecting Windows Phone 7 to SharePoint using Basic Authentication
Todd, Matt and I have been working with SharePoint and Windows Phone 7 a lot lately. There are a lot of great scenarios for connecting Windows Phone 7 to your SharePoint farm. The phone platform provides a great reach scenario for many SharePoint applications. Unfortunately Windows Phone 7 does not support NTLM in custom development scenario and that is the most common authentication scenario we...
September 5th, 2011 by Darrin
SharePoint and Azure Training Course
While I am on a streak pushing new training courses I might as well point out that the SharePoint 2010 and Windows Azure Training Course is available as well. Todd Baginiski of Aptillon worked on some of the content in this training course. This training course will get you started with integrating SharePoint 2010 and Windows Azure. Download the course from: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/SPAzureTrainingCourse. Check...
August 1st, 2011 by Darrin
SharePoint Connections Coast to Coast Tour In Chicago
Next month I will be heading to Chicago to speak at the SharePoint Connections Coast to Coast event. The event will be held at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place August 8-10. The sessions I will be speaking on are: Building a Windows Phone 7 – SharePoint Application Integrating Azure DataMarket into Your SharePoint Farm The Big SharePoint Push – Integrating Push Notification with SharePoint 2010 There...
July 28th, 2011 by Darrin
SharePoint and Silverlight Training Course
I am playing catch up here… In April Microsoft released the SharePoint and Silverlight Training Course located at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/SharePointAndSilverlightTrainingCourse. Todd Baginiski, David Mann and I from Aptillon worked with Paul Stubbs to create over 30 SharePoint and Silverlight labs. The modules included in the SharePoint and Silverlight Training Course includes: Introduction...
July 28th, 2011 by Darrin
New SharePoint 2010 and Windows Phone 7 Training Course Available
Got WP7? Got SharePoint? Then you need to have a look at the new SharePoint 2010 and Windows Phone 7 Training Course. Microsoft has just released the new course as a few online or downloadable training course. You can find the new course here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/SharePointAndWindowsPhone7TrainingCourse. Todd Baginski, Matthew McDermott and I worked with Paul Stubbs and Dave Pae to...
July 28th, 2011 by Darrin
Developing Applications for SharePoint 2010 Released
Many of you know that I have been involved in an advisory role with the Patterns & Practice team for SharePoint. Yesterday the P&P team wrapped up the 2010 guidance for developing apps using SharePoint 2010. If you are a SharePoint developer then at an absolute minimum, you MUST read the documentation that is included in the downloads. The P&P team has some of the best guidance on the...
July 1st, 2010 by Darrin
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SharePoint 2010 Hangs after Visual Studio 2010 F5 Debugging
Lately I have been having some issues with debugging a fairly simple Visual Studio 2010/SharePoint 2010 project. Whenever I deploy the project to the farm, Internet Explorer launches, tries to connect to the SharePoint site and more often than not the web server times out before the debugger is attached and the site is up and running. Occasionally it loads after a long wait period but will normally...
June 24th, 2010 by Darrin
Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Power Tools Available
Mike Morton and the Visual Studio team that created the SharePoint tools have released a VS 2010 SP Power Tools pack. The Power Tools pack includes a Visual Web Part that can be deployed as part of a Sandbox Solution and an extension to display build errors when a developer inadventantly uses types or members in a sandbox solution that are not allowed. For those who have not yet used a Visual Web...
June 18th, 2010 by Darrin
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Darrin has been around SharePoint since the Tahoe days. For those that have not been working in SharePoint that long, Tahoe was the code name for SharePoint Portal Server 2001.
Lately Darrin has been working with SharePoint with Windows Phone 7 and Azure. His blog is primarily about SharePoint along with some WP7, Azure and other topics such as Data Entity Framework and Silverlight.
Darrin is a founding member of Aptillon along with Todd, Matt, Maurice, Gary, Dan and Dave. We all work together on some really interesting projects along with some of our trusted partners.
Need to contact Darrin? Drop him a line at www.aptillon.com.
