Chris JohnsonAll about Chris Johnson, SharePoint Products & Technologies & Other Stuff.Bills last day- June 27, 2008 Today is BillGs last day full time at Microsoft. I just finished watching a live web cast of Bills last town hall meeting. These are meetings where the execs of the company talk about the business and how we are doing etc Todays was obviously dedicated to Bill. I have a sneaking suspicion that I dont fully realize what a monumental day today is. I suspect in 10, 20 or 30 years time I will look back and realize that today was the day that really defines Bills legacy. As..http://blogs.msdn.com/cjohnson/archive/2008/06/28/bill-s-last-day.aspx UPDATED: Building a simple ASP.Net page based SharePoint application in Visual Studio with the Visual Studio Extensions for WSS 1.2 with Visual Studi- June 7, 2008 I have had a lot of feedback from people via email and comments that they really like the blog post I did about ASP.Net applications in SharePoint. However,&160; there were a few bugs with that post, so I have decided to redo it with those fixed.&160; This post builds the same example but with: Visual Studio 2008 VSeWSS 1.2 fewer bugs Here goes. We will use Visual Studio 2008 & the Visual Studio 2008 Extensions, Version 1.2 to build a very simple 2 page ASP.Net page based..http://blogs.msdn.com/cjohnson/archive/2008/06/07/updated-building-a-simple-asp-net-page-b... VSeWSS v1.2 is available! - VS 2008 support!- June 4, 2008 Hi Everyone, I just posted the announcement on the SharePoint team blog here: http:blogs.msdn.comsharepointarchive20080604announcing-the-vsewss-version-1-2.aspx This will address the number one ask from our developers ... Visual Studio 2008 support! Happy SharePoint development. -Chris.http://blogs.msdn.com/cjohnson/archive/2008/06/05/vsewss-v1-2-is-available-vs-2008-support... Become a SharePoint Developer -www.MSSharePointDeveloper.com- June 3, 2008 SharePoint is taking off in ways we only could have imagined a few years ago.&160; Along with that comes a demand for developers to help implement and customize it for customers.&160; We are seeing a huge need for people with these skills in the market. If you were ever thinking about becoming a SharePoint developer, now is a great time to do it. To help you with that process MS has put together a great resource for helping you get started ... http:www.mssharepointdeveloper.com It has a...http://blogs.msdn.com/cjohnson/archive/2008/06/04/become-a-sharepoint-developer-www-msshar... Shuttle docking, New Zealand & XP- June 2, 2008 If there is one thing I love the Internet for its watching stuff happening in space.&160; I regularly tune in to Nasa TV when the shuttle is up to watch the goings on. As I write this the shuttle is preparing to dock with ISS.&160; Its cool being able to watch this. Along with realtime video footage you get shots of some animations of where the shuttle and ISS are at, like the one below. Couple of things caught my eye a few mins ago ... 1) they were over home (New Zealand) & 2) the app...http://blogs.msdn.com/cjohnson/archive/2008/06/03/shuttle-docking-new-zealand-xp.aspx |