DevDays 2009

Is has been announced for a few days now, but it is still important to make the alert:
The DevDays 2009 will take place at the 18th and 19th February in the TagusPark Técnico Campus.  Because it will probably be the event of 2009 and has limited places, do register fast.
The topics of this year will [...]

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Announcing Azure Services Platform

From PDC 2008 day 1 the anouncement of the Azure Services Platform, an exciting services platform that will allow “developers to create applications and services that run in the cloud or to create web, mobile, or hybrid applications that extend the value of on-premises applications“.
References:
Sharepoint Team Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/10/27/pdc-2008-announcing-azure-services-platform-and-microsoft-sharepoint-services.aspx
Joel Oleson: http://www.sharepointjoel.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=0cd1a63d%2D183c%2D4fc2%2D8320%2Dba5369008acb&ID=119
Mark Harrison:
http://markharrison.co.uk/blog/2008/10/pdc-day-1-windows-azure.htm
http://markharrison.co.uk/blog/2008/10/windows-azure-software-development-kit.htm
http://markharrison.co.uk/blog/2008/10/windows-azure-datasheets.htm
http://markharrison.co.uk/blog/2008/10/introducing-azure-services-platform.htm

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Silverlight 2.0 is available

Microsoft has announced the release of Silverlight 2.0.
“Silverlight 2 delivers a wide range of new features and tools that enable designers and developers to better collaborate while creating more accessible, more discoverable and more secure user experiences.
. . .
New Silverlight 2 features include the following:
• .NET Framework support with a rich base class library. This [...]

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The importance of reusable development

When you develop a project you have to take into consideration a lot of things, but one that it is often forgotten is to build components you can later reuse in other projects, there are a lot of reasons for this to happen (short projects, not enough time, specific specifications, etc…).
Well instead of looking at [...]

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TechDays 2007 – Review

Well the 3 days of the TechDays event have finished and the evaluation is very good, 3 days of technical sessions, hand on labs, communities interaction and most of all technical brainstorming with the other participants.
I will only reference the sessions I attended and some other feedback from other people.

Day 1
10:00 People Ready – opening [...]

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Microsoft TechDays 2007

The portuguese Microsoft TechDays 2007 is going to happen between 20th and the 22nd of March, in Lisbon.

With an agenda full of almost everything new we need to check out, the only downside is that MOSS is the topic with less presentations and focus . . .
The topics of the event:
* System Center e Forefront
* [...]

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MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 SDK’s available

The so awaited Sharepoint SDK’s are available for download.
Download:
MOSS 2007 SDK and ECM Starter Kit
WSSv3 and Workflow Starter Kit

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Usercontrols (ascx), webparts and SharePoint 2007

From Joris Poelmans (JOPX) blog, an article on using user controls, web parts and MOSS 2007.
“One of the few things we are still missing in Visual Studio 2005 is the ability to visually design webparts for SharePoint 2007“
You can find this article here.

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VS 2005 Web Application Project V1.0 Released

From Scott Gu's Blog, a very good article about the new release of VS 2005 Web Application Project: 
I am very happy to announce that the final release of the VS 2005 Web Application Project is now available.   You can download it for free here.
 
The VS 2005 Web Application Project option provides an alternate web project model [...]

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Create a Sharepoint 2007 webpart step by step

Mart Muller's on his weblog has written an article were he describes step by step the creation of a webpart in Sahrepoint 2007:
 . . .Before I describe those detailed steps, there are a few things that you have to keep in mind:

WebParts are now based on the ASP.Net 2.0 Framework en become part of the ‘System.Web.UI.WebControls’ [...]

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