Chris Mayo's Blog - Languages, Frameworks, Tools... https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/cmayo/feed.xml What's happening in the world of Visual Studio, C# and frameworks. Tue, 16 Apr 2019 04:55:47 GMT en-US hourly 1 Follow Developer Camps @DeveloperCamps on Twitter https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/cmayo/follow-developer-camps-developercamps-on-twitter Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:55:19 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/cmayo/2011/10/05/follow-developer-camps-developercamps-on-twitter/ Interested in attending a Developer Camp?  Follow us @DeveloperCamps on Twitter.

]]> Developer Camps: Learn from Experts, Free, Informal and Coming Soon! https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/cmayo/developer-camps-learn-from-experts-free-informal-and-coming-soon Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:23:44 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/cmayo/2011/10/05/developer-camps-learn-from-experts-free-informal-and-coming-soon/ Back in June, I had the opportunity to attend a 2-day Web Camp here in Redmond.  I was blown away.  On Day 1, I learned a ton about HTML5/CSS/JavaScript.  The instructors (maybe I should say “camp counselors”?), were true experts in each technology. The format was informal, which led to great discussions during the sessions and breaks.  On Day 2, I was able to apply what I learned on Day 1 in hands on labs.  Others that were more familiar with web development, did some app building in a hack-a-thon style, showing what they built at the end of the day.

When I got back to the office, we started talking about applying the DevCamps formula to other technologies to help developers build solutions for Azure and Windows Phone as well.  So that’s what we did.

Azure Developer Camps and Windows Phone Developer Camps are being scheduled now.  I’ll post dates and locations as they are scheduled.

The first Azure Developer Camp will be in the Silicon Valley Center in Mountain View, CA on 10/28-10/29 and registration is open.  Hope to see you there!

]]> New SharePoint Online Workflow article on MSDN Magazine https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/cmayo/new-sharepoint-online-workflow-article-on-msdn-magazine Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:51:29 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/cmayo/2011/07/13/new-sharepoint-online-workflow-article-on-msdn-magazine/ I’ve gotten a lot of questions about building workflows that run in the Sandbox with SharePoint Online.  So many in fact, that I wanted to write an article on the subject for MSDN Magazine.  Well, the article was just published in the July 2011 issue.  The article includes details on building declarative workflows with SharePoint Designer 2010 and how to add custom workflow actions via the sandbox using Visual Studio 2010. 

]]> Follow me on Twitter @chrisdmayo! https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/cmayo/follow-me-on-twitter-chrisdmayo Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:48:34 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/cmayo/2011/06/30/follow-me-on-twitter-chrisdmayo/ I’m now on Twitter @chrisdmayo.

]]> Office 365 is Now Available! https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/cmayo/office-365-is-now-available Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:37:36 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/cmayo/2011/06/28/office-365-is-now-available/ Office 365 was released to General Availability today with Steve Ballmer hosting the worldwide launch event in New York City. With this release, Office 365 (including SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, Lync Online and Office 2010 Professional Plus) can now be purchased directly from the Office 365 web site.

To coincide with the launch, I’m happy to announce an updated Office 365 Developer Training Course to help you get started building solutions for the cloud with Office 365.  The course includes 8 sessions, over 12 hours of video and 19 labs as both an offline training kit as well as an online training course on MSDN.

The Office 365 Developer Training Course includes the following training units:

  • Developing in the Cloud with Office 365 (Updated)
    • Office 365 provides a communication and collaboration service in the cloud that
      you can leverage to build custom solutions for SharePoint Online, Exchange
      Online and Lync Online. In this session, you’ll learn about this new cloud
      service and the breadth of solutions that can be developed using the same
      skills, tools and SDKs you use today when building on-premises solutions.
  • Developing for SharePoint Online with Sandbox Solutions (Updated)
    • Sandboxed Solutions are the development paradigm for SharePoint Online. In this
      session, you’ll learn about sandboxed solutions including how to develop, debug
      and deploy solutions. You’ll also learn the breadth of solutions that can be
      developed in the sandbox and strategies for developing common scenarios that are
      not enabled in the sandbox.
  • Building Workflow Solutions for SharePoint Online (Updated)
    • Building Workflow solutions for SharePoint Online allows you to automate
      collaboration-centric business processes and surface them to your users via
      SharePoint Online. In this session, you’ll learn the differences between
      declarative and code-based workflows, design a workflow using Visio 2010,
      implement that workflow in SharePoint Designer 2010 and customize the workflow
      using Visual Studio 2010 and custom actions.
  • Developing SharePoint Online Solutions with the Client Object Model (Updated)
    • The SharePoint Client Object Model provides libraries for programmatically
      accessing SharePoint Online via Silverlight and JavaScript. In this session,
      we’ll go deep into the Client Object Model and show you how to develop solutions
      using both Silverlight and JavaScript.
  • SharePoint Online Branding (New)
    • Customizing an intranet site with your company's identity and branding can help create a more effective collaboration experience. In this video, you'll learn how SharePoint Online allows users, designers and developers to customize the look and feel of a site. This can range from simple changes like setting a site logo and Theme to completely changing the user experience with custom styles and Master Pages. In this session, you'll learn how to make these customizations to brand your SharePoint Online site.
  • Leveraging Excel and Access Services in SharePoint Online (Updated)
    • Excel and Access Services provide powerful features for building SharePoint
      Online solutions. In this session, you’ll get an inside look at both Excel and
      Access services and how each can be accessed programmatically when building
      SharePoint Online solutions.
  • Developing Communication Solutions for Lync Online (Updated)
    • In this session, you learn how to integrate Lync features into your WPF and
      Silverlight clients much in the same way that Office and SharePoint do,
      including presence, contact lists and click-to-communicate features. You will
      also learn how to extend Lync communications to include data and features from
      your client applications much in the same way that Outlook 2010 does with the
      "IM" and "Call" features within an email.
  • Developing Messaging Solutions for Exchange Online (Updated)
    • In this session, you'll learn how to integrate Exchange Online mailbox data such
      as mail, calendar and task items as well as Exchange Online services such as the
      free-busy service into your applications using an easy to discover and easy to
      use managed API.

To use this training course as self-paced training, you’ll need to do the following:

1. Set up a local SharePoint development environment (or download and configure the Information Worker VMs).

2. Download and install the Office 365 Developer Training Kit onto your development machine.

3. Sign up for an Office 365 trial to gain access to the service.

4. Visit the Office 365 Training Course on MSDN to watch the videos and get started with the labs.

-Mayo

]]> Developing Powerful Workflows in the Cloud with Microsoft SharePoint Online from TechEd 2011 North America https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/cmayo/developing-powerful-workflows-in-the-cloud-with-microsoft-sharepoint-online-from-teched-2011-north-america Wed, 25 May 2011 08:34:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/cmayo/2011/05/25/developing-powerful-workflows-in-the-cloud-with-microsoft-sharepoint-online-from-teched-2011-north-america/ A common misconception about SharePoint Online is that you can’t develop workflows in the Sandbox.  In my Developing Powerful Workflows in the Cloud with Microsoft SharePoint Online session, I show how you can create workflows that run in the sandbox using SharePoint Designer 2010, how to develop custom workflow activities using Visual Studio 2010 and sandbox solutions and how to deploy those workflows to SharePoint Online.

Video of the session and slides at the link above.

-Mayo.

]]> Developing Collaboration Solutions in the Cloud with Microsoft SharePoint Online from TechEd North America 2011 https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/cmayo/developing-collaboration-solutions-in-the-cloud-with-microsoft-sharepoint-online-from-teched-north-america-2011 Tue, 24 May 2011 06:31:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/cmayo/2011/05/24/developing-collaboration-solutions-in-the-cloud-with-microsoft-sharepoint-online-from-teched-north-america-2011/ In my Developing Collaboration Solutions in the Cloud with Microsoft SharePoint Online session at TechEd, my goal was to provide SharePoint 2010 developers some perspective on developing for SharePoint Online in Office 365.  What’s different?  What do I need to learn?  What’s the same? How much of what I know today applies to SPO?

The session turned out great and lead to some really deep discussions afterwards.  Watch the video and check out the slides at the link above.

-Mayo

]]> Collaboration in the Cloud with SharePoint: A New World of Productivity from TechEd North America 2011 https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/cmayo/collaboration-in-the-cloud-with-sharepoint-a-new-world-of-productivity-from-teched-north-america-2011 Mon, 23 May 2011 14:23:14 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/cmayo/2011/05/23/collaboration-in-the-cloud-with-sharepoint-a-new-world-of-productivity-from-teched-north-america-2011/ Donovan Follette, Girish Raja, Augusto Valdez and I delivered the demos in Eron Kelly’s foundation session at TechEd, Collaboration in the Cloud with SharePoint: A New World of Productivity.  The session turned out great and the feedback has been really positive.  Check out the recording and the slides at the link above.

-Mayo

]]> Professional Unified Communications Development with Microsoft Lync Server 2010 https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/cmayo/professional-unified-communications-development-with-microsoft-lync-server-2010 Mon, 23 May 2011 11:23:50 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/cmayo/2011/05/23/professional-unified-communications-development-with-microsoft-lync-server-2010/ George Durzi and Michael Greenlee just published Professional Unified Communications Development with Microsoft Lync Server 2010 on Wrox.  George and I worked on the UC “14” early adopter program together since the early alpha bits leading up to the release of the Unified Communications “14” Training Course.  I’m not exaggerating when I say few people outside of Microsoft have been developing with these bits longer than George.

It’s sure to be a must have resource for Lync development.  Check it out.

-Mayo

]]> New Technical Articles on Exchange Online Development https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/cmayo/new-technical-articles-on-exchange-online-development Thu, 19 May 2011 06:17:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/cmayo/2011/05/19/new-technical-articles-on-exchange-online-development/ The Exchange Online team has just published some really great Technical Articles on Exchange Online development.  Check them out.

-Mayo

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