3 Degrees of SharePoint Development: Recent Comments

Comment on MSDN SharePoint Event–Slides and Code

Dave — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:48:16 GMT

Hi Tyler. Not yet but I'll update the blog article with a link reference when they are up.

Dave

Comment on MSDN SharePoint Event–Slides and Code

Tyler — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:09:56 GMT

Thanks, Dave. Have you been able to track down the slides/demos used by Paul?

Comment on Pro ASP.NET SharePoint 2010 Solutions: Techniques for Building SharePoint Functionality into ASP.NET Applications

Dave Milner — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:51:46 GMT

Gary,

Thanks for the interest. Apress had the TOC up for a while in the book description but since chapters changed in the writing process the latest iteration is not up. I'll follow up with them. Until then the Chapter titles are:

1. SharePoint as a Development Platform
2. Visual Studio 2010 - Advancing the SharePoint Development Environment.
3. SharePoint, IIS, and the .NET Framework
4. SharePoint Architecture - File System, Database, and the Provider Pattern
5. Web Parts and Master Pages
6. The Client Object Model
7. Business Connectivity Services
8. Touch Points - Integrating SharePoint 2010 and ASP.NET
9. Medium Touch Point Solutions
10. High Touch Point Solutions

Thanks again for your interest.

Dave

Comment on Pro ASP.NET SharePoint 2010 Solutions: Techniques for Building SharePoint Functionality into ASP.NET Applications

Gary — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:31:12 GMT

Dave, book sounds very interesting but there's no table of contents available for your book on either the apress.com website or amazon. So very difficult to tell then if the book covers anything I might be interested in. Can you publish the Table of Contents? Critical to have TOC visible to sell the book.

Comment on SharePoint 2010 Virtualization

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Comment on SharePoint 2010 Virtualization

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Comment on SharePoint and the File System UX model

Gary — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:45:01 GMT

I pretty much agree with you Dave, expecting users to understand a file system, much less the workings of a data base, is too much.

I was introduced to file systems over the course of a decade or so before really 'getting it' at an inode level, and the bill-of-materials model gave me a headache for about a month before I could really get any good use out of it in an application.

Every organization that I have worked in had 'power users' who loved Excel. This has resulted in me hating Excel, especially when asked to integrate data back into a data warehouse or (shudder) operational system. Users do not understand my gripes about data consistency, so they just keep plugging away with it.

Which brings us to Sharepoint Lists! users see an interface like their familiar old friend Excel and take to it like cats to a litter box, plus we can use templates and enforce some sort of control over data entry, apply security groups for access etc...

Sounds good eh? Well, just try using a list with about 150,000 rows in it (slow and hard to back up), or complex parent-child relationships (doable, but its a hack), or...

We have started deploying web-apps within Sharepoint that support complex data models (outside of the user's view). The users get a 'listy' looking application (plus they can export to Excel), our admins get to use the Sharepoint security model and I get to support a database driven web-app.

So, I sent a couple developers to the 2010 conference and they came back excited about Silverlight and the degree of development that can be done directly in Sharepoint. My questions to you are; Will the Silverlight interface still make the users all happy with an Excel look and feel? Will I be able to define a decent data model? Will 'lists' ever gain a sound database implementation?

Comment on Community Server SDK Overview & Customization

software developers — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:37:49 GMT

Humm... interesting,

Keep up the good work,

Anyway, thanks for the post