TechDays DC Event Slides

My slides on ADO.NET Data Services, as well as the other slides yesterdays TechDays event “A Day of REST with WCF, ADO.NET Data Services, and ASP.NET MVC” have been posted to PPT slides from today’s sessions according to Dr. Z’s blog http://blogs.msdn.com/zxue/archive/2008/10/30/techdays-dc-event-contents.aspx. Thank you to everyone that attended, it was a great session.

Customizing the Application master page

My fifth article in a 6 part series on Master Pages and SharePoint has been published to www.sharepointmagazine.net. You can view the article here: http://sharepointmagazine.net/technical/development/customizing-application-master-pages-masterpages-and-sharepoint-part-5-of-6 .

 

This article is the fifth part of a larger series of articles:

1. Introduction to Master Pages.
2. Examining the out of the box Master Pages in SharePoint.
3. Developing a custom Master Page for SharePoint.
4. Deploy a Master Page for a production ready system.
5. Customizing the Application.master Page.
6. Incorporating a Master Page into a SharePoint site definition.

In this series we have discussed master pages and we have shown how to customize a master page. Before we finish up the process (i.e.: incorporating master pages into a SharePoint site definition), I would like to diverge and talk about a frustrating subject – application master pages. Customizing application master pages is a little different than other master pages within SharePoint. Thus, I wanted to break this out into its own article to describe the subtle complexities of them and why they exist.

Deploying the Master Page

My fourth article in a 6 part series on Master Pages and SharePoint has been published to www.sharepointmagazine.net. You can view the article here: http://sharepointmagazine.net/technical/development/deploying-the-master-page .

 

This article is the fourth part of a larger series of articles:

1. Introduction to Master Pages.
2. Examining the out of the box Master Pages in SharePoint.
3. Developing a custom Master Page for SharePoint.
4. Deploy a Master Page for a production ready system.
5. Customizing the Application.master Page.
6. Incorporating a Master Page into a SharePoint site definition.

Previously we discussed customizing and publishing a master page through SharePoint Designer. This article will discuss the other option to customize and deploy a master page for a production ready system. We will discuss the technique of using Features to deploy a master page created in Visual Studio.

I will keep this blog up to date when the rest of the series is published.

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

Here are some upcoming engagements I will be presenting at in October:

RDA SharePoint Best Practices Seminar
Reston, VA
Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2008
8:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Microsoft Corporation
12012 Sunset Hills Rd.Reston, VA 20190
Register

CMAP Code Camp – Discussing the SharePoint Object Model
Columbia, Md
Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008
8:15 a.m. – 5:00 p.m – my session: 10:30 – 11:45
Loyola College Graduate Center
8890 McGaw Road. Columbia, Md 21045
Website

Microsoft Techdays – Discussing ADO.Net Data Services
Arlington, Va
Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008
1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. – I am doing session number 2 of 3
Sheraton National Hotel
900 South Orme St. Arlington, Va 22204
Register

Developing a Custom Master Page in SharePoint

My third article in a 6 part series on Master Pages and SharePoint has been published to www.sharepointmagazine.net. You can view the article here: http://sharepointmagazine.net/technical/customisation/developing-a-custom-master-page-master-pages-and-sharepoint-part-3-of-6 .

This article is the third part of a larger series of articles:

1.       Introduction to Master Pages.
2.       Examining the out of the box Master Pages in SharePoint.
3.       Developing a custom Master Page for SharePoint.
4.       Options to deploy a Master Page for a production ready system.
5.       Customizing the Application.master Page.
6.       Incorporating a Master Page into a SharePoint site definition

 

This article discusses how to develop a custom master page using SharePoint Designer. We examine how to use SharePoint designer to make master page changes and also discuss some of the pros and cons of this technique.

 

I will keep this blog up to date when the rest of the series is published.