Presenting on Word Content Types for MOSSIG

Tomorrow, september the 24th the Mossig meeting is all about Word '07, SharePoint and Content Controls. Definitely high on my list of favorite topics.

Tag Driven Information Customising the Document Information Panel in Office
William Cornwill, SharePoint Technology Solutions Professional – Microsoft

Join William Cornwill from Microsoft as he creates a SharePoint document library, defines a new Site Content Type and customises the Document Information Panel.
William will demonstrate the following;
• Create Word Template
• Create Site Columns
• Create Site Content Type
• Create Document Library
• Add Content Type to Doc Library
• Show default Document Information Panel
• Create a new Document Information Panel
• Extend the Document Information Panel

Increasing business productivity by making good use of OpenXML, SharePoint Events and Word Content Controls.
Ed Richard, SharePoint Solutions Principle – Stargate Global Consulting – MVP SharePoint

Join Ed as he talks about setting up MS-Word templates and make SharePoint events generate or change Documents using the OpenXML SDK.
Ed will show a range of options using real life projects demonstrating the power an capabilities of Word and SharePoint working as a team. He’ll also show some VSTO integration and explain how to make clever use of Document Building Blocks and Word Content Controls.

Please rsvp to info@mossig.net so we can arrange the catering, pizza @5.30pm

Patrick, we will miss you

My sincere condolences to Patrick's family, friends and collegues.

http://www.u2u.be/

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/09/05/we-ll-miss-you-patrick.aspx


http://blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh/archive/2008/09/05/patrick-tisseghem-one-of-a-kind.aspx

Patrick has inspired me as I am sure he has many others in the SharePoint community.

The above posts say it all...

Please pick up your MVP Logo wind-up generator torch-key ring

If you are registered for Tech Ed Australia this year, come along to MVP Theatre to watch MVPs delivering sessions ranging from 20 minutes to the full 75 minutes. There are only 20 seats in MVP Theatre, so you need to be quick getting to the Expo Hall if you’re serious about catching an MVP Session. The Agenda for MVP Theatre is here (please watch it for last minute updates). To attend, you must be a registered delegate, so if you haven’t bought your Tech Ed ticket yet, you can register here.
I’m presenting on Wednesday from 16:00-16:30 on my pet topic generating Word Documents from LOB systems using the OpenXML SDK.
Seated attendees to MVP Theatre each receive an MVP Logo wind-up torch keyring (no battery!), so you need to be quick!
You can’t pre-register for MVP Theatre sessions; it’s first in first seated.

SharePoint Professionals, now's the time to harvest

We all know it, SharePoint is hot and judging from what I'm hearing through the grapevine vNext is going to be even hotter. What I'm also seeing and hearing is that SharePoint ranks very high amongst the skills companies and head-hunters are looking for so now would be a good time for that career change!

SharePoint certification would be a good move as well obviously, especially now that the industry recognizes that the MOSS and WSS 3.0 exams are not to be taken lightly. So, act now, go and find a good training, read up, practice and sit in on the exams, how about at Tech-Ed next month?

To seriously prepare I'd like to point out that fellow MVP's and SharePoint experts Todd Bleeker, Ben Curry, Steve Smith and Kathy Hughes are hosting a 'SharePoint Summit' in August in Sydney and that will be the perfect opportunity to get trained up and ready to go for those certifications! I highly recommend this course, check out the details here.

BTW, I'll be attending Tech Ed in Sydney this year and you'll find me presenting in the MVP Theatre and assisting in the Hands-on labs.

Cya in Sydney!

SharePoint is maturing

What's a product without a dedicated magazine? And in this day and age, it should really be a nice on-line one don't you think? And what about a globally oriented association so that we can all join and share experiences?

This week this has all been established, after long planning and preparation the ISPA is finally launched and at the same time an on-line magazine dedicated to SharePoint has gone live! Great news for the global SharePoint community.

If you want to know more about ISPA, read this detailed post by Bob Fox about the ambitious aims for this organisation.

As board member of MOSSIG I am proud and excited to be involved in this project and I hope I can keep contributing and help grow this initiative.

SharePoint Developers can switch to VS 2008 now

The WSS team has released version 1.2 of the Visual Studio Extensions and it works with both WSS and MOSS. If you want to read all about it go to the team blog here. If you just want to download, here it is.

This version is for Visual Studio 2008 only, it contains Project Templates, Item templates and a solution generator that allows you to generate a Visual Studio solution based on an existing site template.
They have also written a great user guide which can be downloaded as a .chm file (this is still the 1.1 version for 2005).

The other good news on the dev front for SharePoint is that there is a new site, all in silverlight pointing to heaps of resources and samples: http://www.mssharepointdeveloper.com worth the look just for the Silverlight experience ;-).

Cheers to the SharePoint team!

Never noticed this, content types on folders

You may know that I'm keen on Content Types, I really like this feature of SharePoint. Someone in a newsgroup pointed me to this blogpost by Ton Stegeman , I can't believe I never noticed that you can actually set what content types are showing up in the new button 'at the folder level'.

Makes you wonder how many other gems are hidden in SharePoint.

Good stuff ! Thanks for pointing that out Ton!