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Visio 2007 crashing on exit on Vista 64bit
I had a minor success today. For the longest time, every time I closed Visio 2007 SP1 on my Vista...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 10/23/2008
POP3 on Windows Server 2008 MOSS Dev Env
Just a quick note... If you are a MOSS dev setting up a new development environment on Windows...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 10/10/2008
A SharePoint adventure in "Publish Links to Office"
So I had a need to do a little thing such as get a link to a MOSS site to show up in the "My...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 10/08/2008
My SharePoint Best Practices Presentation
While we are waiting for the decks to be officially postes on the sharepoint best practices portal,...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 09/16/2008
SharePoint and CRM
It isn't too often that I get to share publicly some of the work we do at the MTC for customers....
Author: Ed Hild Date: 09/05/2008
Best Practices SharePoint Conference
There is a new SharePoint conference coming to the DC area on Sept 15-17. This conference is being...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 08/18/2008
Workaround for the SharePoint Asset Inventory Tool ';' error
I was preparing for the upcoming conference and wanted to demo some of the new tools coming for...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 06/25/2008
Just Released: WSS 3.0 Tools for Visual Studio 2008
The wait is over... change your dev environment!...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 06/20/2008
Book Review: Beginning Web Development, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX: From Novice to Professional
Beginning Web Development, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX: From Novice to Professional by Laurence...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 06/17/2008
I actually got the Silverlight BluePrint for SharePoint samples to work
And from reading the forums, blog comments, etc it seems like others are having a tough time. After...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 05/30/2008
Summer Regional SharePoint Conference announced
The SharePoint User Group of DC/VA is hosting their second conference. I will be delivering the...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 05/12/2008
Book Review: Dreaming in Code by Scott Rosenberg
I came across a really good read while at the book store. "Dreaming in Code" is written by Scott...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 05/12/2008
My fan club in Norway
Well not really... But Bjørn in Norway has taken some of my content from my Apress book and created...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 04/10/2008
Playing with Popfly Explorer in VS.NET 2008
I continued today to play around with more Popfly goodness. My favorite part is that there is a new...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 03/21/2008
Book Review: Foundations of Popfly. Rapid Mashup Development
Foundations of Popfly: Rapid Mashup Development by Eric Driffin is a must read for SharePoint...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 03/20/2008
So I ran into an interesting problem in my MOSS development environment
It happened last week and I am not sure of the exact cause... I have a few demonstrations that...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 03/17/2008
My SharePoint Conference Wrap Up
All went well with my presentation on "Enforcing Governance by Provisioning Sites with Workflow"....
Author: Ed Hild Date: 03/11/2008
Site Provisioning Workflow with Custom SharePoint Designer Activity
I've been working on my presentation and demos for the upcoming SharePoint Conference in Seattle. If...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 02/27/2008
How To: Add security trimming info to custom actions in SharePoint
I have been asked the same question a few times in the last few weeks about custom actions in...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 01/16/2008
Video: Building Presentations from SharePoint Site Content
First sorry for the long time away from posting. It was quite a busy fourth quarter. But welcome to...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 01/03/2008
Adding a "twist" to Out of the Box SharePoint Workflows: Site Provisioning
I recently gave a talk on governance at a SharePoint conference and came up with a quick demo about...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 11/08/2007
Using OOB Workflows to Provision Sites
A large part of a governance strategy is having some control on how and where SharePoint sites get...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 11/08/2007
Announcing: Regional SharePoint Users' Conference
Several user groups here on the east coast are putting on a regional SharePoint users' conference....
Author: Ed Hild Date: 09/20/2007
My Photo Op: Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, & Kevin Turner
For fiscal year 2007, I received the Circle of Excellence award at Microsoft. This is a prestigious...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 09/05/2007
Video: Demo of Extending SharePoint to Collab on Document Fragments
I have had many requests from customers and peers to have a look at my solution for supporting...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 09/03/2007
New MOSS SDK includes new BDC Tool
There is a gold nugget in the new MOSS SDK that was just released. Included in the download is a new...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 08/24/2007
Book Review: Essential SharePoint 2007 by Scott Jamison and others
This book fills a niche that has long been lacking in the SharePoint space. Where most books are...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 08/03/2007
MOSSMenu
The product team has released the code for the menu control used in WSS v3 and MOSS 2007. This menu...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 07/05/2007
Excel Services Chapter is on MSDN
Get a preview of one of the chapters of the book on MSDN. This was derived from a near final draft...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 06/21/2007
TechEd 2007: Day 2 & 3
So I admit to being out a bit too late after Day 2 to have written a post. So you get two days in 1....
Author: Ed Hild Date: 06/06/2007
TechEd 2007: Day 1
So a good kickoff to TechEd 2007. I got to enjoy the day as my first presentation isn't scheduled...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 06/04/2007
Some Important Links for my book
If you read this blog often, you'll know that I have a book that just became available: Pro...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 05/31/2007
How To: Add a feature to an out-of-the-box site definition
I often get asked how one should approach adding features to the out-of-the-box site definitions. On...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 05/23/2007
Book Review: Microsoft SharePoint Building Office 2007 Solutions in C# 2005
This is the C# version of Scot Hillier's new book. I was really anticipating this book as Scot's...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 05/19/2007
How To: Display browser enabled InfoPath forms in a web part supporting connections
Here is a little something from one of the chapters in the book...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 05/08/2007
How To: Connect web parts during site provisioning
If you have been following the How To's recently posted here, you will remember that I have a site...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 04/17/2007
My SharePoint developers' book is done
So I am all done with the book. We have written all 15 chapters, had them reviewed by the techical...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 04/17/2007
Book Review: Speak Like a CEO
So I picked up this book looking for some insight onto strategies to improve my presentation skills...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 03/31/2007
How To: Build a Custom Filter Provider Web Part
If you have been following the recent How To posts, here you'll recognize a common thread. At this...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 03/28/2007
Book Review: The Search by John Battelle
Now that my book is in a phase of grammar reviews, I have time to read. And after the labor of my...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 03/18/2007
Update on the SharePoint book: Almost there
So lots of progress to report on. First: All of the first drafts are in... In fact, since we have...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 03/06/2007
How To: Create a site collection in a workflow
So if you have been reading this blog for a while, you know that I am a big fan of site collections...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 03/03/2007
Chapter 5 (Excel Smart Document) is complete
We are almost done! The first draft of Chapter 5: Maintaining Content from Multiple Sites Offline is...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 02/20/2007
I'm in a video blog for the OBA team
Yes I was cornered and forced to be in front of a camera... Not really, I agreed to do it. The OBA...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 02/14/2007
How to: Supply a doc template for a Content Type in a Feature
So if you have played with MOSS features at all, you probably know that it is possible to deploy all...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 02/05/2007
The InfoPath / Forms Services chapter is complete.
Another book update. Susie Adams (my co-author) has completed the InfoPath/Forms Services chapter....
Author: Ed Hild Date: 02/04/2007
SharePoint Book Update
Just chiming in on where we stand on the book. I just finished writing up the conclusion chapter....
Author: Ed Hild Date: 01/28/2007
The unwritten work-arounds for using the SharePoint Solution Generator
So I have been working on a demonstration lately with the new SharePoint Solution Generator which is...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 01/25/2007
This tagging thing is getting out of hand
So I have now been tagged twice in the last week. Once by my partner in crime Bob German out of the...
Author: Ed Hild Date: 01/16/2007