Ben Walters InfoPath MVP : MOSSIG

Using InfoPath 2010 Today

Ben Walters — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:44:59 GMT

Well this has taken a lot longer than I would have liked to get this recording up on the web. Here it is, my session that I presented at the MOSSIG September meeting enjoy. Unfortunately the original recording I made on the night didn’t come out as well...(read more)

MOSSIG follow up SharePoint installer project from Codeplex

Ben Walters — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:00:33 GMT

Hey everyone as promised here is the link to the SharePoint web Part project template for Visual Studio 2008 that I showed last night.

Also don't forget Will mentioned that a full VSE for Visual Studio 2008 is due out in the next couple of months. I'll do my best to put up link to this as soon as I know more.

Finally a big thanks to all who attended and presented last night, and don't forget to checkout MOSSIG.Net for all details on upcoming presentations and news.

Technorati Tags: Codeplex,SharePoint,MOSS,Webpart

MOSSIG Agenda for 27th Feb

Ben Walters — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:33:12 GMT

So as promised here is the agenda for the upcoming MOSSIG meeting on the 27th of Feb, be sure to head on over to the MOSSIG site and register so we have an idea of catering requirements

Ben Walters – “Developing Web Parts using Visual Studio 2008 and the Web Part Template Project”

SDM

Ben will be showing you how to develop Web Parts for SharePoint2007 quickly and easily using the Web Part Template project from Codeplex.

Tim Wragg – ‘Adventures in the SharePointDesigner’

Professional Advantage

The SP Designer is one of the great unknowns with little help and guidance available.

In this session, Tim will help crack open some of its great features and take us through a recent implementation of the Sanctuary Lakes site which incorporates Forms Authentication and integrations with Dynamics CRM and Great Plains – all done through the Designer!.

Chris O’Connor – Visio Integration with SharePoint – using K2 Workflow's

SDM

Chris will present the new Visio 2007 product, focusing on integrating list data from SharePoint for flowcharting, and viewing workflow tasks graphically. The demo will also focus on the new K2[black pearl]workflow tool, with the Visio designer used to create SharePoint workflow's without the need for any coding or programming skills required.

Also Microsoft Developer Evangelist Andrew Coates contacted us with some awesome news for members who might be interested in sitting certification exams. Microsoft is launching a new certification offer to all User Group members (including MOSSIG members) to encourage MCP / MCTS certification.

This is an opportunity for you to save some money on exams and for the MOSSIG group a chance to win $3000.- worth of goodies to give away.

Here’s what Andrew had to say:

“* We're making it attractive for UG members to get certified - We've got 100 free exam vouchers for UG members who get an MCP or MCTS cert between now and May 31 (pass 1, get 1 free)

* We're making it competitive between User Groups - the UG with the highest number of MCTS/MCP certifications passed between now and May 31 get a $3000-worth hamper of SWAG to distribute”

For full details head on over to: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/cc182196.aspx

Final MOSSIG for 2008

Ben Walters — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:05:24 GMT

Last night was the final MOSSIG meeting for 2008 this was a great night with a broad range of presentations on the entire office system.

A big thanks to all who attended and an even bigger thanks to Elaine, Eben, Kevin and Rai for presenting you guys rock.

Finally congratulations to those who walked away with the copies of Office Ultimate and Visual Studio.

Don't forget to check out MOSSIG.net for details on the presentations and also to register so we can keep you informed of all the upcoming events next year.

Office TR -> RTM Install

Ben Walters — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:56:00 GMT

So as you may have read yesterday I was heading home to download Office 2007 RTM and get it up and running.

I'm happy to say I've come through the experience pretty much unscathed, after finally getting the program suite down and burning it to disc I was ready to go.

Now because this is an RTM and not just an upgrade from TR I had to uninstall all my existing Office 2007 programs including the beta of VSTO (still haven't got to installing that yet). Anyway once I had my old version of Office taken care of it was simply a matter of running the install and following the bouncing ball.

At present MSDN has the office programs broken up into 2 categories (at least on my Professional subscription anyway)

The Office Professional product suite which contains Access, Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher and Word.
Office Desktop programs, which contains all the other client applications for office so InfoPath, OneNote, Groove, Visio and Project Professional (no SharePoint designer however I suspect this will be released when MOSS goes RTM)

There is one problem I have run into however, as part of my MSDN subscription I have been provided 2 product keys 1 for the Office Professional Install and one for the remaining desktop programs. Originally I didn't think to much of this however I installed InfoPath (first of the remaining desktop programs) then installed OneNote, each with the same product key. Naturally I activated InfoPath first when I went to activate OneNote I was told that the product key I had used had already been activated.

After going through the phone activation process I found out that I'm going to have to activate each of the remaining products Visio, Groove, Project Professional via the same process. This seems like a bit of stuff up as there are a lot of people out there who will be wanting to get their Office 2007 RTM up and running and to have to call to get each product activated is going to slow the process down considerably.

I've also sent a mail to a couple of internal people at MS to see if there is anything being done about this so I'll keep you posted.

So bar the noted activation issues the install was reasonably hassle free and I was up and running with in an hour or so. Although I'm now a little worried that when the Vista RTM is released in the next couple of weeks I'm going to have to put a couple of hours aside to call the office phone activation service.

Now because my ability to segway into other topics is really bad I'm now going to jump straight in and plug the L.O.V.E tour taking place at Crown tomorrow. This is where Microsoft will be doing their Melbourne Launch of Office Vista and Exchange.

This should be a great day with lots of chances to see the new product suite up close and personal. If you haven't had a chance to check out the beta's then I would recommend heading down. Plus both Ed Richard and myself will be there pressing the flesh and getting the MOSSIG name known throughout the office community. I'll have my trusty Vista Laptop with me running Office 2007, as well as my WACOM Tablet so feel free to drop by and check it out.

Finally MOSSIG will be meeting tomorrow night at Microsoft's new Diggs in Southbank 4 lvl5 Freshwater place 6:30pm.

We have Alex Angus a work colleague of mine presenting some of the new features of Project Server 2007 this should be great having done a little work with Project Server it would be good to see what's changed.

Ed Richard will also be showing off VSTO 2005 SE and how you can use these new tools to create addins for your office applications.