#spc09 Notes: Introduction to Service Applications
This is one in a series of notes I will be making while attending the SharePoint Conference in Vegas. These are not intended to be complete, polished, edited blog posts. Its simply the highlights, as I saw it, from the sessions I attended. New, flexible, extensible services architecture that can be used by developers Overview What is a Services Application? An Application Server Tier feature that performs the useful function of providing data or processing resources to SharePoint features. Search is a good example of a Services Application Service Application Configured logical instance of a service Pr

#spc09 Notes: Introduction to Service Applications
This is one in a series of notes I will be making while attending the SharePoint Conference in Vegas. These are not intended to be complete, polished, edited blog posts. Its simply the highlights, as I saw it, from the sessions I attended. New, flexible, extensible services architecture that can be used by developers Overview What is a Services Application? An Application Server Tier feature that performs the useful function of providing data or processing resources to SharePoint features. Search is a good example of a Services Application Service Application Configured logical instance of a service Pr

#spc09 Notes: Sandboxed Solutions
This is the first of a series of notes I will be making while attending the SharePoint Conference in Vegas. These are not intended to be complete, polished, edited blog posts. Its simply the highlights, as I saw it, from the sessions I attended. Its all about balancing Security/Stability and Business Agility Sandboxed solutions balance these two things out. Sandboxed solutions should be the default approach to developing solutions on SharePoint. You build them this way UNTIL you hit a limitation you just cant get around. Difficult to come up with a list that describe what you can do with Sandboxed Solutions: Content Types, Site C

#spc09 Notes: Sandboxed Solutions
This is the first of a series of notes I will be making while attending the SharePoint Conference in Vegas. These are not intended to be complete, polished, edited blog posts. Its simply the highlights, as I saw it, from the sessions I attended. Its all about balancing Security/Stability and Business Agility Sandboxed solutions balance these two things out. Sandboxed solutions should be the default approach to developing solutions on SharePoint. You build them this way UNTIL you hit a limitation you just cant get around. Difficult to come up with a list that describe what you can do with Sandboxed Solutions: Content Types, Site C

#SPC09 Notes: Visual Studio Development Overview
This is the first of a series of notes I will be making while attending the SharePoint Conference in Vegas. These are not intended to be complete, polished, edited blog posts. Its simply the highlights, as I saw it, from the sessions I attended. Tools are designed to make development for SharePoint a LOT easier and a LOT more productive Supports Sandboxed and Farm solutions Provides a number of Project and Item Templates Provides a number of Visual Designers Provides a number of Workflow improvements Templates You are going to generally start with an empty project and then add the items you need as you