May 2006 - Posts

• Go on, scoot. Get the beta.

  What?  Still reading? Go on, now!  Get the beta! (Please note: The above link, which came from here, keeps going up and down as of this post, but I think that's just growing pains.  The link, however, allows you to register to download betas for the following apps -- product keys ARE included) Microsoft® Office Professional Plus 2007 Microsoft® Office Visio® Professional 2007 Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2007 with Business Contact Manager Microsoft® Office Project Server 2007 Microsoft® Office Project Professional 2007 Microsoft® Office Groove® Microsoft® Office Groove® Microsoft® Office OneNote® 2007 Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Designer 2007 Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 - Enterprise(x64) Microsoft® Office Forms Server 2007 Microsoft® Office Forms Server 2007 (x64) Posted May 23 2006, 10:59 AM by Dustin Miller with no comments

• Dive into Microsoft SharePoint XSLT DataView Web Part

  Unknown to most developers because you have to use FrontPage 2003 to create the Data View Web Part, it lets you display data from any SharePoint site to which you can connect, from any database with a functional OLEDB provider; parse and display XML files; and connect to SOAP Web Services. Using Web Part Connections, the Data View can pass parameters to Web sites that return XML, and even pass parameters to SOAP Web Services. All this without writing a single line of code. Find out how to put the Data View Web Part to use. Do you subscribe to Advisor Guide to Microsoft SharePoint?  If not, you're missing out on the first in a series of articles I'm writing -- each focused on my favorite web part, the XSLT Data View Web Part.  This part is a hacker's dream, and makes it trivial to create high impact (and, if you're the AJAX type, heavily scripted) user experiences on the SharePoint platform.  Get the subscription, go to the Advisor Summit in Phoenix this August, and come to our classes to get all the Data View knowledge you can! Posted May 14 2006, 09:00 AM by Dustin Miller with no comments

• Another First for SharePoint Experts

  Attendees of next week's SharePoint Bootcamps (regular and developer flavors) will be privy to another “premier”, brought to you by your favorite training company, SharePoint Experts.  From what we can tell from scanning the web sites of “those others guys“, they will be the first students to receive training on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 / Windows SharePoint Services V3 from any US-based training company (Ascend materials notwithstanding).  I'm proud of the effort put into this exciting new development.  Hats off especially to Todd Baginski for his tireless contributions to this new material. Why are we waiting to teach full-week courses on the next version of SharePoint?  Well, a little perspective is in order.  And a clarification.  First, the clarification: If you're looking for on-site training on V3, we're ready now.  In fact, we've been delivering V3 content since the NDA was lifted.  This “wait and see“ approach only affects our public classes. MOSS 2007 and WSS V3 won't be released until, last I saw published, end of this year.  Corporations who are choosing to jump to the next release will probably begin that process this summer (supported, of course, by our on-site training if they'd like!).  Once those people have had a chance to work through their migration issues, and learn a bit of the new UI, they'll be hungry for some serious V3 development and customization training.  Cue our SharePoint Bootcamp “2007” and the SharePoint Development Bootcamp “2007”.  And we're going to begin our full-featured V3 classes with a big entrance: Las Vegas, with multiple instructors in each classroom to support up to 50 students.  Each of the two 2007 courses will have five days of brand-spanking-new material, tons of prizes, and special surprises for alumni of previous classes who come back for more. This is going to be a big year for the SharePoint Bootcamp, folks.  Stay tuned... Posted May 05 2006, 09:14 AM by Dustin Miller with no comments