Paul Schaeflein

Week3.org webcast

Paul Schaeflein — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:27:02 GMT

Last week, while at the conference, I was lucky to be a part of the virtual user group Week3.org. Virgil Carroll (@vman916) interviewed me early in the week so that I could be part of the group at the same time as my talk. You can view the video of Andrew Woodward (@andrewwoody), Brett Lonsdale (@brettlonsdale) and yours truly to learn about the new features of SharePoint 2010 with excellent commentary by Virgil and Andrew.

SharePoint Conference 2009

Paul Schaeflein — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:57:15 GMT

I’m sure that many of you have heard and read a lot about the SharePoint Conference and SharePoint 2010. I just want to post a quick note about the session that I co-presented with Todd Bleeker.

First, we’ve posted the code and slides on Todd’s blog: http://sharepoint.mindsharpblogs.com/Todd/SPC. Please note that we built the program on an early version of SharePoint 2010. When the beta bits are released in November, please do not be surprised if some of the code does not work. We intend to update the code and will make sure that it gets posted once that is complete.

Second, I want to thank all of you who gave us such good reviews. The compliments in the evaluation notes, and the hallway and the exhibit hall are much appreciated. You are all so very nice.

Lastly, thank you to Todd for inviting me to work with him. To be on the biggest stage at the biggest event for the biggest selling product for the biggest software company was a thrill I will remember for a long time.

Speaking Events: October - November 2009

Paul Schaeflein — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:34:08 GMT

I’m a bit behind on posting my speaking events, so here is a nice 4-pack:

Topic: [I can’t tell you until next week] ;)

October 21st, Las Vegas: SharePoint Conference. (I’m co-presenting with Todd Bleeker. I’m the guy with the short hair.)
October 28th, Cleveland: Cleveland SharePoint User Group
November 5th, Kansas City: Kansas City Office Geeks
November 7th, Chicago: SharePoint 2010 Roadshow

If you are at any of these events, please say hi!

Source Control on a Budget

Paul Schaeflein — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:22:45 GMT

As we developed DeliverPoint, we leveraged the source control and bug tracking that are part of Visual Studio Team System. Lately, as I’ve been working on consulting projects, I’ve missed that ability to branch code and revert changes as needed. I’ve been getting by with copying files to/from virtual images and client servers, but today I got fed up!

VisualSVN Server is a free SVN server, and combined with the VisualSVN Personal license, I now have my familiar security blanket available. I created the source repositories on my host operating system, and while working on the guest systems, it is just as if I’m working on a remote SVN server.

Even though my dev team has one person, source control pays large dividends. I don’t need to merge changes from multiple developers. Branching the trunk for a major upgrade (which takes a while with only one dev) and merging incremental changes as they are tested and installed makes my life much easier.

If you are writing code w/o source control, stop right now! Go get VisualSVN. It is easy to install, they provide excellent online documentation and the Visual Studio integration is top notch.

patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance version 2 released

Paul Schaeflein — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:22:18 GMT

The patterns & practices group has just published version 2 of their guidance for SharePoint! Chris Keyser gave two talks on this version at the recent Best Practices conference, and it is terrific stuff. Well done guys and gals!

Speaking about SharePoint Development tools at IndyNDA SIG

Paul Schaeflein — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:57:05 GMT

The dynamic Indianapolis user group IndyNDA has expanded with a fourth Special Interest Group, this one for SharePoint Developers. I’m delighted to be the first speaker with a talk about developer tools for SharePoint.

Details for the meeting are on the IndyNDA site.

Fix the SharePoint DCOM 10016 error on Windows Server 2008 R2

Paul Schaeflein — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:31:10 GMT

I don’t usually post links, but this page has the answer to the most time-consuming problem I’ve had in many years!

Fix the SharePoint DCOM 10016 error on Windows Server 2008 R2

Thanks Wictor!

SharePoint Nation! – Virtual User Group Meeting

Paul Schaeflein — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:25:05 GMT

I’m excited to participate on the Developer Panel for in a virtual user group meeting hosted by fellow SharePoint MVP Amanda Murphy. I will be a member of the Developer Panel on August 18th, starting at 8pm EST.

SharePoint and Code Access Security – SharePoint Pod Show

Paul Schaeflein — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:50:35 GMT

For over a year, Rob Foster, Brett Lonsdale and Nick Swan have been recording their podcast, the SharePoint Pod Show. I’m honored to be the latest guest discussing Code Access Security.

I was trading emails with Brett about the Lightning Tools Data Viewer Web Part and Brett asked a question arose about Code Access Security. We both lamented how most developers don’t understand the concept and how many don’t even bother to look into it. While I don’t think that I will change the habits of SharePoint developers, I did have fun doing the interview!

I promised during the show that I would post a link to a very helpful article by Jonas Nilsson of Bamboo Solutions. (Thanks Jonas!)

Introducing SharePoint 2010

Paul Schaeflein — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:04:11 GMT

A collection of “sneak peek” videos was posted by the product team. View them at http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/