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
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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
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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
The local farm is not accessible. Cmdlets with FeatureDependencyId are not registered
The SharePoint 2010 Management Shell shot me this message earlier this week. I was logged on as a local administrator and farm administrator to boot. I was able to manage the farm using the Central Administration site PowerShell simply refused to load the cmdlets. This warning is displayed when the logged in account does not have the correct permissions. When you get this warning as show above the...
May 26th, 2010 by Darrin
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Live Chats to Learn more about SharePoint
Live Chats to Learn more about SharePoint – with 28 MVP Experts Do you have questions about SharePoint? Want to learn more about the recently launched SharePoint 2010? By popular request, 28 SharePoint MVPs from around the world are participating in two live chat events about SharePoint: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/chats/default.aspx . These events are a great opportunity to tap into the...
May 25th, 2010 by Darrin
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SharePoint 2010 SneakPeek!
Head to the SharePoint 2010 Sneak Peek to view three videos of what you can expect from SharePoint 2010! These are quick looks into what SharePoint 2010 might ship with. Trust me there are some amazing demos in these videos.
July 13th, 2009 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.
