I have been quite busy last months with presenting at several conferences, finishing projects, but most of all attending the Microsoft Certified Master Program. Once again, the organisation of the Developers Days did a great job in selecting sessions and speakers from all over the world. With a line up of David Chappell, Mike Taulty, Ingo Rammer, Keith Brown, Gert Drapers, Aaron Skonnard, and many more, they may have one of the best conference in europe. I did the session "Web Content Management with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007" together with my colleague Reinhard Brongers. The session is recorded and hosted at Channel 9. For those who understand the dutch langauge, have fun!
In the demo's we showed a jQeury menu, jQuery image webpart and a Silverlight 2 video player field control. The source code can be downloaded here. The solutions are just for demoing purpose only, so do not use it in production. Before you open the solution in Visual Studio 2008, make sure you have installed Visual Studio SP1, .NET framework 3.5 with SP1, Silverlight 2 and the Silverlight tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1. If you want to deploy the solution, install STSDEV, and make sure you have configured youre website for Silverlight (.xap extension in IIS) and the .Net framework 3.5 SP1 (web.config modifications). Deploying and configuring a SharePoint solution with Silverlight can be hard. For a basic walkthrough of developing a Silverlight Webpart take a look at the MSDN Ramp up for SharePoint
The attached solution includes:
- Sitedefintion for Devdays2009
- Masterpage
- Pagelayouts
- Fieldcontrol for Silverlight 2 player
- Image carousel webpart with jQuery
- jQuery menu
Have fun!
Just back from my MCM SharePoint experience in Redmond I received an email from the dutch Software Development Network (SDN) organisation to give a talk on friday june 26th. It seems that Bob Fox couldn't make it, so they needed a stand-in. Duo presentations are my favorite, so I was lucky that Mirjam van Olst wanted to join the presentation about Architectural Design and Development Considerations. Despite the short preperation time and beeing jetlagged, I think we did a good job. For those who are interested in the sql scripts, they can be downloaded here.