Jan Tielens' Bloggings

Next week (December, 17th) the Belgian Information Worker User Group (BIWUG, http://www.biwug.be) is organizing an evening full of SharePoint 2010 development topics. I'm talking about the Client Object Models at 19:30, but make sure to check out the full agenda:

Recently I ran into the following issue when I tried to deploy a SharePoint 2010 Project in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. In the output window the following message was displayed and the deployment failed:

Finally the public betas of SharePoint 2010 (both SharePoint Foundation and SharePoint Server), Office 2010, SharePoint Designer 2010 and Visio 2010 are available on MSDN Subscriptions, so start your download engines right now! :-)

During the last couple of weeks, we at U2U have been very busy building course material for our upcoming SharePoint 2010 courses. We expect that lots of experienced SharePoint developers, power users and administrators are very eager to get up to speed with the new version of SharePoint as soon as possible. That’s why the first course that we’ve build is titled Upgrade to SharePoint 2010. This course will focus on all the exciting new stuff in SharePoint 2010, so people with SharePoint experience will get all the relevant info as quickly as possible. Because an administrator is probably not interested in developer stuff, we’ve chosen to split the course into three different parts:

I’ve got the pleasure to be able to present a Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) session at TechEd Europe next week: BOF14 Microsoft SharePoint, jQuery and Microsoft Silverlight: Better Together. If you are interested in these technologies please join the discussion on Thursday, 12:20 in Theater 6 – Pink.

In 20 minutes a very important event is going to get started: the SharePoint Conference 2009! If you're not in Vegas (like me), get yourself in front of a computer with a big bag of chips, popcorn or whatever snack you prefer, and watch the keynote (featuring Steve Ballmer) live! I'm sure it will be a nice show and expect an avalanche of SharePoint 2010 information to be released shortly afterwards. Also make sure you keep an eye on Twitter, blogs, Facebook etc. to see the reactions of SharePoint fans all over the world. My buddies at EndUserSharePoint are going to cover the conference with lots of real time content, so these pages will be open on my pc as well. Have fun!

Summary: The SmartTools jQueryLoader enables the jQuery Javascript library in your SharePoint sites using an effortless and Assembly-Free deployment technique. Additionally the jQueryLoader will dynamically load custom Javascript files, deployed to a Document Library. Seeing is believing: watch this short screencast that shows the deployment and some sample scripts!

When I was installing a brand new demo environment using Microsoft's latest and greatest platforms (Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008) I ran into an annoying issue related to SharePoint. The slipstreamed installation (including SP2) went fine, but when I tried to create a new Collaboration Portal or Publishing Portal I got the error: "The Office SharePoint Server Standard Web application features feature must be activated at the web application level before this feature can be activated.".