I don’t know about you, but I’m somewhat confused about all the hype over “cloud computing”. Don’t get me wrong, accessing services on the Internet makes sense, sometimes. What I don’t understand is how many people tout cloud computing as the silver ...[Read More]

The Next Web reports that a deal between Twitter and Microsoft will be announced at the Web 2.0 Summit. “What’s particularly unique is the deal is with both Microsoft AND Facebook and the company plans to integrate deeply with both company’s pr ...[Read More]

Microsoft issued a press release announcing the both the public beta of SharePoint 2010 and its general release. The public beta will be available November 2009, along with the public betas of Office 2010, Project 2010 and Visio 2010. The general re ...[Read More]

Do you wish you were at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009? Me too. Watch selected conference video highlights here: http://www.mssharepointconference.com/Pages/videohighlights.aspx   Tom Rizzo, Senior Director for SharePoint, recaps the ne ...[Read More]

Do you wish you were at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009? Me too. But, you can watch the keynote here: http://www.mssharepointconference.com/Pages/default.aspx   The keynote had lots of great content including loads of SharePoint demos su ...[Read More]

Download the Visual Studio 2010 beta and check out the SharePoint 2010 walkthroughs and how to’s here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd441784.aspx   Walkthroughs Add Feature Event Receivers Create a Custom Field, Content Type, L ...[Read More]

Table of contents Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4   <--- You are here This is the fourth part of my series on getting paid for your SharePoint software. If you have not already done so, please read part 1, part 2, and par ...[Read More]

When creating web parts, event receivers, timer jobs and other SharePoint code, I often find that I need to temporarily grant the code more permissions than the current user has. I’ve found that many developers either don’t know what options they ha ...[Read More]

I just upgraded my Vista x64 computer to Windows 7. When I started VMware Workstation 6.5.3 for the first time after the upgrade and launched a virtual machine, VMware displayed the following error: The virtual network drivers on the host are in ...[Read More]