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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 of 10 books on Microsoft technologies including Microsoft SharePoint: Building Office 2007 Solutions in C# 2005. 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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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 | 4 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 | 2038 Links to this post

Apr21

Tech Days Recordings

Recently, I finished up the Tech Days conference in Belgium. Follow this link to see the recorded sessions from that conference including my presentations on Sandboxed Solutions, LINQ to SharePoint, WCF Data Services, and Business Connectivity Servi ...[Read More]
Published: Apr-21-10 | 0 Comments | 1 Link to this post

Apr12

Web Parts for Synchronizing with SharePoint Workspace

I just finished a new addition to the Sandboxed Solutions project on Codeplex. This is a set of two web parts. One web part lists all of the sites in the current collection. The other lists the SharePoint lists in the current site. Each item is pres ...[Read More]
Published: Apr-12-10 | 0 Comments | 2 Links to this post

Mar17

SharePoint Pro Conference

This week, I’m at the SharePoint Pro conference in Las Vegas. Info on my sessions is below. If you’re looking for the session code go to hillier.codeplex.com.   Best Practices for Accessing SharePoint 2010 List Data Level: 300 In this session, a ...[Read More]
Published: Mar-17-10 | 0 Comments | 2036 Links to this post

Feb20

Detecting the Sandbox in SharePoint 2010

When you create Sandboxed Solutions, these features are capable of running either inside or outside of the sandbox. Because there are many restrictions on solutions running in the sandbox, you may want to detect if the current solution is running in ...[Read More]
Published: Feb-20-10 | 0 Comments | 2041 Links to this post

Jan18

Where is My Timer Job?

SharePoint Timer Jobs are great for accomplishing tasks asynchronously throughout the farm. You can create your own custom Timer Job by inheriting from SPJobDefinition. Recently a question arose regarding the exact nature of custom Timer Job exe ...[Read More]
Published: Jan-18-10 | 0 Comments | 2265 Links to this post

Jan18

SharePoint Pro Summit 2010

The SharePoint Connections Conference has been renamed to SharePoint Pro Summit 2010 and will be held this spring in Las Vegas at the Bellagio hotel for those of you who can stand a third trip to Vegas in under a year. This promises to be a big ...[Read More]
Published: Jan-18-10 | 0 Comments | 2184 Links to this post

Jan18

Setting up PowerShell ISE for SharePoint 2010

PowerShell is a great companion for SharePoint 2010. As a developer, I find the best way to use it is through the Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE). The only problem is, the SharePoint snap-in doesn't load automatically when I start PowerSh ...[Read More]
Published: Jan-18-10 | 0 Comments | 2089 Links to this post

Jan18

Integrating External Document Repositories with SharePoint Server 2007

Yesterday my article Integrating External Document Repositories with SharePoint Server 2007 went live. This article show how to take external repositories (Documentum, Interwoven, etc) and surface them in SharePoint as if they were a document librar ...[Read More]
Published: Jan-18-10 | 0 Comments | 2131 Links to this post

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