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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Robert & James each did a webcast for me while I was away on family leave.  I just update My Recorded Webcasts so you can find the recordings.  The titles are Advanced SharePoint Document Workflow with Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft Silverlight for Designers. -Marc Technorati Tags: sharepoint,windows workflow foundation,visual ...

Presenter:  Robert Shelton, Microsoft Evangelist When: November 14th from 2:00-3:30 PM EST Registration Link: Click here to register Abstract: Join me for a 90 minutes demonstrated (i.e., Very few if any PowerPoint slides) on building Document Workflow's for SharePoint (MOSS 2007) with Visual Studio.  In this demonstration I will ...

This video (#5 in the series of How To Videos on SharePoint/MOSS 2007 "Document" Workflow with Visual Studio) addresses one of the most common questions/needs: "How can I build an Escalation workflow in SharePoint?".  It turns out that this is a very Advanced Workflow scenario and therefore will take me a bit longer to ...

The question that I get most often when I talk to developers about SharePoint Document Workflow is on Sending and Tracking tasks for the people participating in a document workflow.  So, in this 4th part of the series that I am doing on "Building Document Workflow" in SharePoint/MOSS 2007, I am demonstrating how to send a basic ...

Sorry for the technical glitches today.  I know it's not the most exciting thing to watch my desktop sharing screen in complete silence as I scramble to figure out why my phone stopped working.  The deck and code are available here.  A recording should be available soon here. -Marc   Technorati Tags: wcf,windows communication ...

Register today for our upcoming webcasts! DATE TIME LOCATION TITLE AND REGISTRATION LINK PRESENTERS TARGET AUDIENCE November 2, 2007 14:00 -15:30 EST Webcast What's New in VSTO and Visual Studio 2008 Joel Reyes Developers November 9, 2007 14:00 -15:30 EST Webcast VSTO Demos  Marathon ...