Archives for January 2010

SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services and Offline Synchronisation – Developer Video How-To

January 25, 2010 by Joel Jeffery 1 Comment

You can now find us on iTunes as “joelblogs tv” :o) and also on blip.tv.

Welcome to the second in my SharePoint 2010 series of how-to videos for developers. This one is all about Business Connectivity Services, the technology previously known as the Business Data Catalog.

SharePoint 2010 Solution Sandbox – Developer How-To

January 15, 2010 by Joel Jeffery 1 Comment

It’s been my pleasure over the last few weeks to teach SharePoint 2010 to an audience of developers for Microsoft during their Ignite event in Dublin.

One of my favourite features of the news development platform has got to be Sandbox Solutions and the User Code Service. This allows developers to write code, packaged up as a SharePoint .WSP solution, and deploy it at the site collection level in a security sandbox. This feature is aimed at hosted and multi-tenant SharePoint customers, and also the incredibly security conscious.