Some of the DevTeach highlight sessions this year are :

Keynote by Scott Hanselman, Microsoft
Scott Hanselman is one of the most prolific, renowned and respected blogger (http://www.hanselman.com) and podcaster (http://www.hanselminutes.com) about technologies. Scott is a hands-on thinker, a renowned speaker and writer. He has written a few books, most recently with Bill Evjen and Devin Rader on Professional ASP.NET. In July 2007, he joined Microsoft as a Senior Program Manager in the Developer Division. In his new role he’ll continue to explore and explain a broad portfolio of technologies, both inside and outside Microsoft. He aims to spread the good word about developing software, most often on the Microsoft stack. Before this he was the Chief Architect at Corillian Corporation, now a part of Checkfree, for 6+ years and before that he was a Principal Consultant at STEP Technology for nearly 7 years.

Silverlight 2.0 workshop
For the first time an independent conference is having a workshop on Building Business Applications with Silverlight 2.0. Join Rod Paddock and Jim Duffy as they give you a head start down the road to developing business-oriented Rich Internet Applications (RIA) with Microsoft Silverlight 2.0. In case you just crawled out from under a rock, Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 is a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in positioned to revolutionize the way next generation Rich Internet Applications are developed. Microsoft???s commitment to providing an extensive platform for developers and designers to collaborate on creating the next generation of RIAs is very clear and its name is Silverlight 2.0. In this intensive, full-day workshop, Rod and Jim will share their insight and experience building business applications with Silverlight 2.0 including a review of some of the Internet???s more visible Silverlight web applications. This workshop is happening on Friday May 16 at the Hilton Toronto.

Bonus session: .NET Rock host a panel May 14th at 18:00
This year the bonus session (Wednesday May 14 at 18:00) will be a panel of speakers debating the Future of .NET. Where is .NET going? How will new development influence .NET and be influenced by .NET? Join Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell from .NET Rocks as they moderate a discussion on the future directions of .NET. The panellists include individuals who have strong visions of the future of software development and the role that .NET can play in that future. Attend this session and bring your questions to get some insight into the potential future of .NET! This bonus session is free for everyone. Panelists are: Ted Neward,Oren Eini , Scott Bellware

I will not be able to make it for DevTeach but will be attending tonight’s Party with Palermo, DevTeach Toronto Edition - Jeffrey Palermo (MVP) is hosting Monday May 12th in Toronto is acclaimed “Party with Palermo”. This is the official social event kicking off DevTeach Toronto. The event is not just for the attendees of Toronto it???s a free event for everyone. It???s a unique chance for the attendees, speakers and locals to meet and talk with a free beer. The event will be held at the Menage club location and you need to RSVP to attend.

Why? I am constantly reading the latest rss feed items from my collection of 250+ SharePoint RSS feeds (majority from SharePoint bloggers) and sharing the ones that are very well written, useful.? I do this to help myself and hopefully you to see what is worth reading.

Without further adieu, here are today’s latest SharePoint posts:

• Gregory S. MacBeth posts MOSS SP1 Upgrade Process Step By Step using Deploy software updates for Office SharePoint Server 2007 as a guide.? Use this guide to go through the four (4) steps: database maintenance, upgrade presteps and install sequence
• Robin @ zevenseas posts about the newly released beta Tagged Links. Dave @ zevenseas also has two posts related to this release, Introducing the Tagged Links Solution (beta) Social Bookmarking for SharePoint and Tagged Links Walk-through
• SharePoint Joel posts on Browse Strategies and Site Directory discusses how search and recently replaced browsing
• Barb Mosher @ CMSWIRE gives an overview of the blog features of the SharePoint Community Kit for SharePoint in her post Blogging with SharePoint’s Enhanced Blog Edition
• Here’s a quick post on how to add a “Back” Link After Deleting a?Site in SharePoint 2007

Technical Resource Links

• SharePoint Products and Technologies Service Pack 1 Resource Center - TechNet - if you have an existing installation of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or SharePoint Server 2007, follow the Deployment Roadmaps on this page

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.NET University - SharePoint Fundamentals Course Material

• Installation PPTs * video
• What’s New PPTs * video
• Core Concepts PPTs * video
• Web Parts PPTs * video
• Hands on Labs

I think I speak for everyone, that Twitter helps us all out in various ways and would love to see more SharePoint community members including MVPs join, follow and share on Twitter!

In this session we’ll explore different scenarios for integrating SharePoint 2007 and Silverlight. We?ll explore different ways on how you can leverage the SharePoint 2007 amazing framework to expose content and data in a much richer way.

Speaker:? Andy Nogueira (MCTS, MCPD, MCAD) has over 10 years of professional experience in the IT industry. He is the Team Lead for the Microsoft Practice Group at nonlinear creations Inc. (nonlinear.ca), a Microsoft Gold Partner. He is responsible for designing and implementing several successful technology solutions based on MOSS 2007 (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) integrated with technologies such as Enterprise Search, Windows Workflow, K2, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), and Silverlight. He is also a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) in WSS 3.0 (Application Development) and MOSS 2007 (Configuration and Application Development).
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Time: 6:00pm

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• Configuration stores names instead of IDs - with version 1.2 of the ContentByType webpart, the XML configuration stored on the webpart properties holds the internal field names of fields and the name of the selected content type. In the previous version, the ID’s (Guids and ContentTypeIDs) were saved. Now you can export the webpart and re-use it in another site collection / site variations
• Introducing the Autocomplete Text Field for SharePoint 2007 - the idea is pretty simple: you’ve got a SharePoint list (or document library) that contains some interesting lookup data, now you can make use of the Autocomplete Text Field to display a textbox to the user that will show a dropdown list of items that start with the text the user already entered. When the user types more (or less) text, the dropdown list will adapt to that and update the contents
• Visual Studio 2008 and SharePoint Workflows - a simple walkthrough with screenshots, on how to create SharePoint workflows with Visual Studio 2008
• Debugging Web Parts in SharePoint 2007 - learn how to debug web parts in SharePoint 2007

I’d like to leave you with a video:

Video: SharePoint Integration With Windows Media Services Video 1
First in a multi-part video series demonstrating integrating Windows Media Services with SharePoint. In this video I demonstrate setting up a unicast with an asx publishing point and then integrating that via a link list:

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NTLM Authentication with SharePoint

Most SharePoint environments today are using NTLM (the default) as the authentication protocol. This has some hidden performance implications that are not widely known. But before we dive into the world of NTLM Performance bottlenecks with SharePoint lets address the NTLM authentication process first…

NTLM Authentication with SharePoint part 2

In my last post I laid out the basic flow of NTLM authentication with SharePoint when all the accounts (user, service and machine) reside in the same domain. In this post I will discuss the implications of multiple domains in two different scenarios…

SharePoint 2007 Forms Authentication

An internet presence site working with Forms Authentication and anonymous access. Perfect for an public facing internet site run on SharePoint 2007. So here?s the step by step guide on how to do it (with pictures!)…

Sharepoint 2007 - Enabling Custom Authentication using a Custom Membership Provider

Well, in Sharepoint 2007, things are changing. Sure you do have Windows Authentication out of the box, but really you could plug in any Membership Provider. WoW !! Try doing that in Sharepoint 2003 :)…

Enabling Custom Authentication for SharePoint 2007

In SharePoint 2007, you can use any membership provider to enable custom authentication. This article discusses how to switch the membership provider on a SharePoint Web application…

Mark of EndUserSharePoint.com fame is looking to giveaway his ebook SharePoint 101: Tricks and Traps to all registered email subscribers via his weekly newsletters.

Mark has been blogging about all the trials and tribulations of End users who are throw into the world of SharePoint.? Microsoft has done quite a bit to improve on the user interface and navigation of WSS / MOSS sites but there is still a slight learning curve for those new to SharePoint.? Mark’s blog is a definite read on my blogroll and I am constantly sharing it on my Shared Item Feed.

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If you are not aware of this, then visit SharePointBuzz.com and view the items that I am constantly sharing on the sidebar.? It’s probably the least used features by SharePoint Buzz visitors. I do plan on beginning more focus to it in the near future.

• Modular Theme Framework (”MTF”) that allows for the development of rich themes
• Support for Akismet comment spam detection
• Multiple categories/tags can be mapped to each blog entry/post
• Friendly URL (”FURL”) for the blog’s posts
• Friendly URL for the blog’s RSS feed (and support for FeedBurner)
• And more…

Now if you are not one of the 20 people that accepted, SharePoint Buzz is always looking for people interested in guest bloggers on our site.?? Feel free to contact us if you are interested.

Displaying Search Results in a Grid View in SharePoint Server 2007 (direct link to video)

Summary: Learn how you can bind search engine results to an SPGridView control to display the results in a grid format in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides various ways to display search results. This Microsoft Office Visual How To shows how you can bind the results from the search engine to an SPGridView control to display the results in a grid format. Using a grid to display the search results makes it much easier to compare results and their metadata. You can extend this example to provide additional functionality, for example, to perform bulk actions on the search results.

Putting Multiple Items on Hold in SharePoint Server 2007 (direct link to video)

Summary: Learn how to programmatically apply a hold to all items in a folder in a records center in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

The records center in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 lets you define and apply holds to records. Applying a hold prevents records from going through disposition, which means that all expiration policies are suspended until the hold is removed. In the records center, you can apply holds to individual records or to all records that are returned in a search result. This Microsoft Office Visual How To shows you how to programmatically apply a hold to all items in a folder.