For those of you (like me) who are interested in Accessibility and/or need to ensure your websites remain in compliance with section 508 you'll be interested to know that the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 was published as a W3C Proposed Recommendation on Nov. 3, 2008. This means that the technical material of WCAG 2.0 is complete and it ...

The P&P group released a new set of SharePoint Guidance today...Links below    Quick Links –                     MSDN site: SharePoint Guidance ...

Version 1.2 of the Visual Studio extensions for WSS has been released and available for download.  Version 1.2 provides support for Visual Studio 2008 in building SharePoint-based solutions.  The following tools are included: Visual Studio 2008 Project Templates Web Part Team Site Definition Blank Site Definition List ...

[Cross-posted from Lamont's Blog] Announced on the SharePoint Team Blog, the SharePoint Deployment Planning Services program has been launched and is geared at helping our Software Assurance (SA) customers sucessfully plan and deploy SharePoint Products & Technologies.  I think this program provides a great resource for those ...

[Cross-Posted from Lamont's Blog]  Version 2.0 of the OBA Composition Reference Toolkit was released to the web today, on schedule and with all the great new features promised for the release. Version 1.0 of the toolkit was released at the Office Developer’s Conference in February 2008. Watch the OBA Composition Reference Toolkit ...

[Cross-Posted from Lamont's Blog] Zach Rosenfield (a Program Manager on the SharePoint Team) posted an announcment introducing the SharePoint Administration Toolkit.  This promises to be a great resource for administering your MOSS and WSS v3.0 deployments.  The initial version of the toolkit contains a couple of useful ...

Register today for our upcoming webcasts! DATE TIME LOCATION TITLE AND REGISTRATION LINK PRESENTERS OWNER TARGET AUDIENCE April 9, 2008 14:00 -15:30 EST Webcast Geospatially Enabling SharePoint with IDV Solutions’ Visual Fusion Suite Marc Schweigert Marc Schweigert Developers April 11, ...

Microsoft has just recently released the latest updates to the SharePoint SDK's.  If you are a SharePoint Developer, this is important for you, because there are usually changes/updates in the API documentation and occasionally new Samples. Here are the downloads: The WSS SDK: Click here download The SharePoint SDK: Click here to ...

On behalf of Microsoft, I invite you to the Microsoft Office Share Point Server Development evening event in New York, NY on February 7, 2008. Please read on for agenda and registration information   ACTION REQUESTED: Please register today as space is limited!!    Conference Title  Microsoft Office Share Point ...

Thanks to everyone who attended.  All of my demos are based on Visual Studio 2008 / .NET Framework 3.5 RTM.  Here are the downloads: Introduction to LINQ + LINQ to SQL - deck, demo code NOTE: You will need to install both the Northwind (available here) and AdventureWorks (available here) sample databases for the LINQ to SQL demos to ...