The SharePoint Road Show is heading back to Chicago
The SharePoint Road Show will be in Chicago on Jan 29 for a free SharePoint 2010 event. I will be heading up to Chicago on Fri and will be presenting on Saturday. The Roadshow is a great way to learn about SharePoint 2010 and get some of your questions answered. The event is free but you do need to register. Updated: Looks like I will do a session on Windows Phone7 and SharePoint 2010. Everyone...
January 5th, 2011 by Darrin
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Another Year as a SharePoint MVP
Yes, looks like I will be back for at least another year. Microsoft has decided to award me MVP for SharePoint for another year. And if the end of 2010 is any indication of how the 2011 will be, well it’s going to be busy. Silverlight, SharePoint, Windows Phone 7 and tablets are big on my list. I am constantly amazed at some of the code I see utilizing Silverlight and SharePoint. Let’s...
January 4th, 2011 by Darrin
SharePoint Saturday Chicago: October 16, Will You Be There?
This year SharePoint Saturday Chicago is at McCormick Place and I plan on being there. My main session will be “PerformancePoint Services 2010 – Build a Dashboard in an Hour“. Pretty simple, we will walk through building a dashboard and attempt do it in 60 minutes or less. It’s still longer than getting a pizza delivered but the sessions are 60 minutes, what’s a speaker...
October 11th, 2010 by Darrin
The SharePoint Shepherd’s Guide for End Users – 2010 edition now Available!
Rob Bogue has followed up the 2007 version of the Sheperd’s Guide with the 2010 version. This is one of the few End User guides for SharePoint 2010. This book focuses on common topics and tasks end users need in order to be productive with SharePoint 2010. While you can read this book cover to cover you will more than likely pick up the book for guidance on a task you are trying to accomplish,...
October 11th, 2010 by Darrin
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ASP.Net Vulnerability Patch to be released at 10 PST
Microsoft will be releasing an out-of-band security patch today for the ASP.Net vulnerability issue made public last week. It will be made available on the Microsoft Download site. Check out the SharePoint team blog for more information. SharePoint Team Blog posting: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepoint/archive/2010/09/28/out-of-band-release-to-address-microsoft-security-advisory-2416728.aspx
September 28th, 2010 by Darrin
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Live SharePoint MVP chat on Sept 29th
Got questions? The next live MVP chat is scheduled for September 29th. When: Wednesday @9am PDT or noon EST Where: The MSDN Chat Room http://www.microsoft.com/communities/chats/default.mspx No password required. Join in and post your questions.
September 28th, 2010 by Darrin
Aptillon, A New SharePoint Adventure…
Early this morning we opened up the doors on our new adventure, Aptillon. Aptillon is new company founded by Todd Baginski, Dan Holme, Gary Lapointe, David Mann, Maurice Prather, Matt McDermott and myself. All of were community-minded independents who realized the value of working together to create great SharePoint solutions. SharePoint as a platform is huge and while no one single person has done...
August 24th, 2010 by Darrin
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Live Chat with the SharePoint MVPs on July 21
Got a question about SharePoint? Join 18 SharePoint MVPs on a live chat on July 21 where you get to ask the panel questions around SharePoint. Eighteen MVPs are scheduled to answer your questions. The MVPs select for the July 21 chat session include those with administration, development, design and end user specialties. Visit http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/chats/default.aspx for more information.
July 1st, 2010 by Darrin
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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
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.
