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My SharePoint Developer Session Slides
This post contains the slides and content I presented at the 2012 Australian and New Zealand SharePoint conferences
Detect if WP7 has a data connection
This post explains some issues I had determining the state of the data connection in Windows Phone 7
SharePoint developer survey
This post is advertising a survey I have put together to gather some data for an upcoming presentation at the Australian SharePoint Conference
How I migrted to FunnelWeb from WordPress
This post explains the process of how I went about migrating to FunnelWeb from WordPress
Converting WordPress export to BlogML
This post describes a tool I created that can convert the output of a WordPress export in to BlogML
External lists - where is my "Connect to outlook" button?
This post describes how to enable the "Connect to outlook" button on a SharePoint 2010 list when the button doesn't appear
Checking permissions in SharePoint from the client object model
This post introduces some concepts to do with using the SharePoint 2010 client object model, using it to check permissions on an object
Dialog boxes and long running operations
This post describes how you can use the SPLongOperation object in SharePoint 2010 within a dialog frame
Deploying and setting permissions on a BCS model via PowerShell
This post describes how you can deploy and set permissions for a BCS entity in SharePoint 2010 through PowerShell
CSS not rendering for SharePoint date picker control
This post describes a CSS issue found with the datetime control in SharePoint 2010 and how to fix it
Australian SharePoint Saturday Dates for 2011
This post announces the data for SharePoint Saturday events in Australia for 2011
My “Developing advanced user experience for SharePoint 2010” session
This post shares a range of links that relate to a session I presented at the Australian SharePoint conference in 2011
Configuring Windows NLB with PowerShell (aka. my AutoSPInstaller bit)
This post describes how PowerShell can be used to configure network load balancing for a SharePoint site, and how I included it in AutoSPInstaller
Configuring PowerPoint broadcast in Office 2010
This post describes how you can configure PowerPoint broadcast in your SharePoint farm (part of Office Web Apps)
Problem setting values of an InfoPath form from SharePoint Designer based workflows
This post describes how to correctly set properties to be promoted from an InfoPath form so they can be used in SharePoint workflow
Error: Cannot insert duplicate key row in object 'dbo.Solutions'
This post describes an issue that can arise when working with SharePoint 2010 solutions in Visual Studio 2010
Retrieving the ID of an External Data Item field
This post describes how you can obtain the ID's of individual entities returned from the SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services service app
I’m on the talking shop down under podcast with Jeremy Thake
This post links to a podcast that I was interviewed on during Tech.Ed 2010
New CodePlex Project: SPJumpList – quick launch links for pinned sites
This post describes the SPJumpList project, now available for download
Project Server PSI Error - System.Data.SqlTypes.SqlNullValueException: Data is Null.
This issue describes a problem I came across when trying to work with Project Server 2010 data through the PSI
Using abstract classes in a WCF service
This post discusses an issue I came across when trying to pass classes that inherit from an abstract class in to a WCF service method, and my fix
Creating a mail merge in c# with the OpenXML SDK
This post describes how to create a Word document ready for mail merging with custom data, using the OpenXML SDK
Changing namespaces in WebPart projects for VS2010
This post describes an issue that can occur when changing namespaces in a SharePoint 2010 project in Visual Studio 2010
Can’t set selected email field for BCS contacts lists
This post describes an issue with trying to set the selected email field for an Outlook contact created in an external list in SharePoint 2010
Problems using the Contacts Web Database template (Access Services)
This post describes some issues I had with the Contacts web database template for Access Services in SharePoint 2010
Twitter/Bing Maps web part – How I did it
This post describes the twitter/bing maps web part that I demo'ed as part of the Office 2010 national launch parties
ClientContext.Current = null in Silverlight web part
This post describes a problem I ran in to working with my first Silverlight web part for SharePoint 2010
LINQ and SharePoint 2010 Site Definitions
This post introduces the idea of associating site templates/definitions with LINQ entites to make querying data a simpler task
Update: Programmatically listing delegate controls
This post describes an issue with my previous post about reading delegate controls through code - as well as how to resolve it
Programatically listing delegate controls
This post discusses how to retrieve a collection of delegate controls in SharePoint through code so that you can render them on the screen yourself