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FeedBurner Update

Recently I departed MicroLink and have now had the chance to update my FeedBurner settings along with migrating my Live Space Blog to this brand new WordPress blog. For all my FeedBurner fans out there I have had some issues with my original FeedBurner URL so if you re-subscribe to my neeed FeedBurner Feed those issues should be resolved.

Microsoft Silverlight 4 and SharePoint 2010 Integration

Recently I was contacted by PACKT Publishing because they have recently published a book Microsoft Silverlight 4 and SharePoint 2010 Integration and wanted me to review the book. I’m actually quite excited about this opportunity because it is my first invitation to review a book, and the book is talking about two of my favorite technologies!

SharePoint and Membership Providers

Many SharePoint developers have come from a background with ASP.NET and so most are familiar with the Membership Provider concept. SharePoint uses ASP.NET at its core the membership providers you have build for custom web applications can be used in your SharePoint web application. The advantage of this is that you can abstract your web parts, application pages, etc in SharePoint so they use the Membership Provider to get user information rather than coding your own Active Directory calls into a library or the web part/application page itself.

STSDev 2008 New Release

I have just released completed work on STSDev 2008 Version 2.0.1 which provides a number of fixes to the original 2.0 version. Fixes In STSDev 2008 the attempt was made to read through the project file and find all the “dependent” assemblies so they could be deployed with the solution. This lead to a number of issues when trying to find those assemblies, so in STSDev 2008 v2.0.1 only assemblies in the build output folder are included in the Manifest.xml file. This allows developers to “choose” what assemblies to deploy in their solution simply by setting the “copy local” option on your reference assembly. Once the assembly is copied to your build output folder STSDev 2008 will include it in your solution.

SharePoint Lists Web Service

During a recent project I was leveraging the SharePoint Lists Web Service to retrieve information from a list and push it to a Silverlight display. The list I was using was a heavily customized list with about 35 different views and at least as may fields. My Silverlight display would provide information like the “status” of the list item based on a number of other criteria. This status field was stored as a simple “Single line of text” field in the SharePoint list.

A WCF "WHAT THE..."

I’ve been working with WCF and SharePoint 2007 and ran across an issue. The scenario is an Account Registration process which allows the user to request access to “protected” sites within a portal. This solution blends some jQuery and WCF using the JSON format for request and response messages. The issue I ran into was when a user requested access to a/several sites I needed to pass the Site ID to the WCF service as part of the user request object.