Jan Tielens' Bloggings

Just like Patrick and Joris, I’ve upload my TechEd photos to my Flickr account, you can find them in this set. Btw, I’m really a big Flickr fan (I’ve got a Pro account) and the recently added geotagging features very cool. The thing that makes Flickr my preferred choice above SmugMug and others is that fact that they have an API. There’s even a .NET wrapper which I recently used to create a mash-up with Flickr and Microsoft Virtual Earth (more on that later if I can find some time to finish this pet project). Anyway, here are some of my favorites:

Thursday, November 16, 2006. Remember this day as the day that SharePoint 2007 was released! You can download Windows SharePoint Service 3.0 (WSSv3) from the Microsoft Download site (for free of course).

I just got back from an extended week in Barcelona, so I don’t know how long this thing is already available but you can download the Office 2007 Client Applications from the MSDN Subscribers Downloads!

I just got back from a really cool Tech Ed session: OFF205 Office Developer 101: How to get started building Office 2007 solutions. Although the name doesn’t give it away, it also covered some SharePoint stuff. The first part of the session discussed some basic Office client development topics (Hello World ribbon buttons and custom Task Panes) but the interesting stuff was in the second part: Alexander Malek talked about the Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services v3. It was released earlier today, see Alexanders post, and Joris’ (aka Jopx) post (he was sitting next to me in this session and told me it works for B2TR). (download link).

Perfect in line with the start of Tech Ed: Developers in Barcelona Spain: 2007 Microsoft Office System Is Golden. So the long awaited RTM versions should hit the MS Download site really soon now… :-)

I’m sitting here in room 119 were Patrick and Ted are doing the first part of their WSS Pre Conference session. So far Ted has been doing the speaking and Patrick has played the demo monkey (he’s really good at it!). Here are some pictures and a small movie of their performance.

What a coincidence: last week a student asked a question that I couldn’t answer straight away and probably at the same time somebody posted a blog post solving the question! The question was how to customize the edit form that you get when you create or edit a list item in a SharePoint 2007 list (EditForm.aspx). In SharePoint 2003 you could do this trick by editing the page in FrontPage 2003, when your right clicked on the control on the page you could actually break the control into different controls. Optimistically I tried to do the same thing in the SharePoint Designer, although the right click menu didn’t show to option that I was looking for (there went my street credibility for that course :-) ). Kristian Kalsing explains it on this blog post how this works in the 2007 world:

Last week I did a Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 Course at the Microsoft Portugal Campus in Lisbon. The training room was pretty crowded: more than 30 enthusiastic students! Even though it was a public holiday on Wednesday in Portugal (and in Belgium) everybody showed up, thanks everybody! Anyway there were some avid readers (even some fans!) of my blog that asked to post some pictures of the course. So here they are! Kudos go to everybody that was involved: it was a great week!