Silverlight 3 is available for download

The final version of the Silverlight 3 is already available for download.

You can get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/get-started/install/default.aspx

Mary Jo Foley’s article on this: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=3289

Sharepoint Site and My Site in different languages

A friend on mine asked me if I had any ideia how can a Sharepoint site be in one language (Portuguese) and the correspondant My sites be in another (English).

The reason was that the Sharepoint was in English and had the Portuguese language pack installed, the result of this is that when a user creates his My Site it will be done in English and not Portuguese. Why?

Well, in the Shared Services, User Profiles and My Sites there is an option My Sites Settings. There you have a check box to enable the user to choose the language for their personal site, it should be unchecked . . .

So to sum up, to solve the problem you can check that option, and the users will be asked, on the creation of the personnal sites, in which language they choose.

It isn´t rocket science, but it solves problems.

Portuguese Sharepoint Community is also on LinkedIn

The Portuguese Sharepoint Community is also present in LinkedIn, you can find it in the following address:

http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=996587&trk=hb_side_g

The objective is to have an interactive  group were the Portuguese developers can work as a community.

SharepointGovernance.org

There is a new community web space called SharepointGovernance, the objective is for the community to share the good and the bad experiences and to access some of the Sharepoint Gurus.

The focus is Governance and good practices!

You can access this new site here.

The ten commandments for SharePoint development by Joris Poelman

From JOPX (Joris Poelman) blog theten commandments for a Sharepoint development. They are so true . . .

JOPX essentially states some of the choices one have to make starting a Sharepoint development project.

You can find these commandments here.

Chris O’Brien’s Check List for Optimizing Sharepoint Sites

Chris O’Brienhas posted a very interesting article in his blog on optimizing a Sharepoint Site. One of the downs in Sharepoint sometimes has been performance.

For the developer sometimes is frustrating after building performant code to have a slow Sharepoint site, this can happen due to the amount of JS and CSS that are used out of the box by Sharepoint.

Is it possible to overcome this? Yes ti is . . . so a good start is Chris post.

You can find this post here.

Performance – various methods to retreive one list item

A few months ago we had a workshop on MOSS from our ADC, and one of the topics he talked about was the performance in retrieving list items. This is so important for the performance of a website, so when I found the post from Waldek Mastykarz on the same subject I just had to highlight it.

Just a quick peek, the methods tested were:

• SPQuery on the list instance
• GetItemById(int) method
• SPSiteDataQuery on the parent Web
• SPSiteDataQuery on the parent Web passing the List ID (using the SPSiteDataQuery.Lists Property)
• CrossListQueryCache
• PortalSiteMapProvider

Waldek then explains each approach and event illustrates graphically the differences . . .

Explorer View in IE8 not working !!!

Yes, it is true, in my Windows XP with IE8 I simply cannot work with the Explorer View in a document library, the message is : “Please wait while Explorer View is loaded. If Explorer View does not appear, your browser may not support it.“.

It seems this is a known issue and it only happens in certain environments.

patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance – Drop 12

Well it is never to much to remember that the Sharepoint Guidance is being updated, so be sure to check the updates on the Codeplex.

Do you want to became a Sharepoint Master?

Well, the answer is simple . . . you can try but it isn’t easy!!!

First of all, the Microsoft Certified Sharepoint Master consists of a 3 week intensive course with evaluations, that end with the big Certification. It costs $18,500 (well, you can have some discounts until the 1st January 2010).

There are already some Sharepoint Masters, you can find out more in the Master Blog.

But I saved the best for last, even if you cannot afoard the Course, you can prepare for it by using the SharePoint MCM Recommended Pre-Reading. It consists of a list of 81 topics with urls or book references that should enable you to be ready to attend the Master Certificate.

I won’t be a Master soon, but I will study like one