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Scot Hillier is an independent consultant and Microsoft SharePoint Most Valuable Professional focused on creating solutions for Information Workers with SharePoint, Office, and related .NET technologies. A frequent speaker at TechEd and SharePoint Connections, he is also the author many books on Microsoft technologies including 5 for SharePoint 2010. Scot splits his time between consulting on SharePoint projects and training for Critical Path Training. Scot is a former U. S. Navy submarine officer and graduate of the Virginia Military Institute. Scot can be reached at scot@shillier.com

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Apr05

Calling Public Web Services from a Sandboxed Silverlight Application in SharePoint 2010

This is a "Visual How-To" Published on MSDN that I authored. It shows how to call out from Silverlight to public web services and use the data in SharePoint. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg615590.aspx#Y526 ...[Read More]
Published: Apr-05-11 | 0 Comments | #ERR Links to this post

Apr04

Silverlight SharePoint 2010 Web Parts Visual Studio 2010 Extension

I'm pleased to announce the availability of the Silverlight SharePoint Web Parts extension for Visual Studio 2010. I worked on this project with Paul Stubbs. This extension appears in the "Add Item" dialog when you are working on a Share ...[Read More]
Published: Apr-04-11 | 0 Comments | #ERR Links to this post

Nov24

Central Administration Location and Group IDs : SharePoint 2010

Excellent visual guide to Central Administration Location and Group IDs in SharePoint 2010. ...[Read More]
Published: Nov-24-10 | 0 Comments | #ERR Links to this post

Sep01

Why are my date fields wrong in Business Connectivity Services?

When you create an External Content Type and External List using the SharePoint Designer, DateTime fields are normalized to UTC using the following XML associated with the TypeDescriptor for the DateTime field. <TypeDescriptor TypeName=" ...[Read More]
Published: Sep-01-10 | 0 Comments | #ERR Links to this post

Aug31

Uploading and Downloading Options in SharePoint 2010

There are a wide variety of approaches for uploading and downloading files in SharePoint 2010. The following table provides a description of each and detailed considerations follow. Approach Description WebDAV File management ...[Read More]
Published: Aug-31-10 | 0 Comments | #ERR Links to this post

Aug25

Calling BCS External Lists from Workflow and Sandboxed Solutions in SharePoint 2010

Many developers experience security issues when trying to access External Lists through workflows and Sandboxed Solutions. Read the P&P guidance here to avoid these issues:   http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff798353.aspx ...[Read More]
Published: Aug-25-10 | 0 Comments | #ERR Links to this post

Aug05

Using Business Connectivity Services to Display SharePoint 2010 ULS Logs

When things go wrong in SharePoint, the Unified Logging Service (ULS) logs are one of the main places to go for more information. The problem is that these text files are often hard to read and digest. In this post, I'll take a look at using Busin ...[Read More]
Published: Aug-05-10 | 0 Comments | #ERR Links to this post

Aug04

Creating Multiple and Parallel Tasks in SharePoint 2010 Workflow

Here are two screen casts for creating tasks in SharePoint 2010 workflows:   Parallel Tasks Multiple Tasks   and here is the source code   Muliple Tasks Parallel Tasks ...[Read More]
Published: Aug-04-10 | 0 Comments | #ERR Links to this post

Jun28

New BCS Tools from Microsoft

The BCS team has just released two new tools:   The Solution Packaging Tool The BCS Artifact Generator   The Solution Packaging Tool allows you to create VSTO click-once packages for External Content Types. The BCS Artifact Generator allows you ...[Read More]
Published: Jun-28-10 | 0 Comments | #ERR Links to this post

May16

My SharePoint 2010 Publications

These are the SharePoint 2010 books and videos I am involved with:   The Business Connectivity Services chapter for the Wrox book Professional SharePoint 2010 Development. Co-author with Ted Pattison and Andrew Connell for the MS Press ...[Read More]
Published: May-16-10 | 0 Comments | #ERR Links to this post