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I’m excited to share that another one of my courses was published in Pluralsight’s catalog: SharePoint 2013 Workflow - Advanced Topics.

Building off the SharePoint 2013 Workflow - Fundamentals and SharePoint 2013 Workflow - Advanced Topics courses, this course will demonstrate how you can use web services within your SharePoint 2013 workflows.

Sharing my experience setting up a Provider-Hosted app for SharePoint 2013 on-premises. It was challenging & required a lot of trial and error.

This article touches on one of the things that Microsoft added to SharePoint 2013 to support the new style of creating custom workflow forms: the improvements to the CSOM and addition of the Workflow Services CSOM API.

Demonstrates how SharePoint now relies on Workflow Manager 1.0 for all workflow processing and management, and demonstrates debugging options.

Get a detailed look inside SharePoint 2013—and master the intricacies of developing intranets, extranets, and Web-based applications. I was a contributor to this project.

The goal of this course is to build off my previous course and tackle some of the more complex things you’ll need to accomplish in your day-to-day SharePoint workflow development. The target audience for this course are developers as I cover building workflows using Visual Studio primarily. There is no specific customer focus… everything I show you works both in an on-premises deployment as well as a hosted environment such as Office 365.

In this course students will learn how to consume and interact with external data sources as well as how to create a custom .NET Assembly Connector.

In this course you will learn how to create lists and document libraries using the SharePoint development tools in Visual Studio 2012. Students will also learn about the various events in SharePoint 2013 including the new remote event receiver capability.

In this course students will learn the basics of security and permissions in SharePoint 2013, specifically AuthN, AuthZ and claims based security.

In this course you will learn how to create custom application pages as well as content pages and the details around customizing pages.

SharePoint extensibility has traditionally been done using solution packages (*.wsp’s). The two types of solutions, farm and sandbox, are covered in depth in this module. Students will learn when they are available depending on the deployments.

In this course students will get up to speed on SharePoint 2013 both from a SKU/license perspective as well as from a capability and architectural perspective.

This course covers all the security aspects in SharePoint 2010. New to SharePoint 2010 is the support for claims based authentication. Students will learn how to configure a site for claims based authentication and how to do various security programming tasks. In addition the business intelligence (BI) capabilities of SharePoint 2010 are covered. You will see how to create custom dashboards using KPIs and filters along with SQL Server Reporting Services and SQL Server Analysis Services. By the end of this course you should be able to create dashboards using provided Dashboard Designer included with Performance Point Services.

Enterprise Content Management & Web Content Management - this course will teach you about the content management capabilities in SharePoint 2010 including Enterprise Content Management features and creating Publishing sites with Web Content.

The goal of this course is to help people immediately get up to speed and productive in creating automated business processes as workflows in SharePoint 2013. The target audience for this course are developers and power users as I cover building workflows and assigning tasks using both SharePoint Designer 2013 and Visual Studio 2012. There no specific customer focus… everything I show you works both in an on-premises deployment as well as a hosted environment such as Office 365.

Automating Business Process, Enterprise Data & Search - this course covers automating business process with workflow in SharePoint 2010 as well as the improved support for working with data that does not live in SharePoint.

Information Architecture Storage and Data Access - learn how SharePoint 2010 stores data and how you can access that data both from server-side code (including using the new support for LINQ) and client-side code.

Customizing and Extending SharePoint - this course covers the SharePoint 2010 user experience for developers.

Students will also get an introduction to the new developer tools included in Visual Studio 2010 as well as how to develop in terms of Features and Solutions.

Learn how to use SharePoint Designer, the browser and InfoPath to create robust business solutions for SharePoint 2010.

I’ve refreshed & republished my samples using the latest SharePoint 2013 & Visual Studio 2012 developer tools. Check them out now.

The sample fleet manager workflow for SharePoint helps manage a company’s fleet of vehicles by starting a workflow when a new vehicle is added

Microosft recently published 2 of my How To’s: Create Remote Event Receivers (RER) & Start Workflows in SharePoint.

The document review and approval workflow assigns a task to a reviewer to evaluate and comment on a draft, concluding with approval or rejection

Explore updated Visual Studio 2012 workflow samples for SharePoint 2013, featuring external web service calls and custom activities.

I’m thrilled to announce we’ve published our complete SharePoint 2013 Set up Guide. This guide follows on our popular set up guide for SharePoint 2010.

This sample workflow is linked to the Customers list, where users can manually run it after entering a value for CustomerID to search for customers

A sample workflow in SharePoint bound to a Customers list uses a manually run workflow to search for customers via CustomerID in OData service

Get a detailed look inside SharePoint 2010—and master the intricacies of developing intranets, extranets, and Web-based applications. I was a contributor to this project.

Microsoft published an article that I authored for them on customizing & extending the ribbon in SharePoint Server 2010.

Microsoft recently published a visual how-to that I created for them on creating document sets in SharePoint Server 2010 with Visual Studio.

Learn about the components that make up the SharePoint 2010 Server ribbon and how to customize the ribbon by walking through two ribbon customization scenarios.

I contributed one chapter on WCM along with chapters written by the most well-known SharePoint experts in the field, this book arms you with in-depth information on the critical areas within the platform.

Learn essential concepts to help you create engaging user interface designs in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 publishing sites.

Learn about the new logging and debugging capabilities in SharePoint Foundation 2010 that enable developers to build more reliable and testable solutions.

Developers and managers should use this article to create guidelines that fit their team’s size, background, and project type

Learn how to create SharePoint Server 2010 document sets by using Visual Studio 2010 instead of by using the browser-based user interface.

Learn how to create custom SharePoint 2010 service applications for robust, scalable, and fault tolerant shared services. This Visual How To demonstrates how to create custom SharePoint 2010 service applications and consumers that take advantage of the service.

Learn how to use the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 managed client object model to read and write data in SharePoint sites from Microsoft .NET Framework–based applications.

This article covers the details on creating a Silverlight 3 application, deploying and leveraging it in a custom field type and field control sample for SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 Publishing sites.

Microsoft recently published an article I wrote for them: Creating Custom SharePoint Server 2010 Field Types and Field Controls with Silverlight 3.

Understand Microsoft .NET Framework code access security (CAS) and how to work with it in custom SharePoint solutions. Explore configuration options, get best practices for managing CAS in SharePoint environments, and walk through a complex CAS scenario.

Learn about the Web Content Management features in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 that enable organizations to deploy Internet-facing publishing sites, and considerations for developers and designers when designing and building high-performance publishing sites.

Learn the essential concepts needed to create an engaging user interface design in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 publishing sites. This article is part 2 of 2.

Learn the essential concepts needed to create an engaging user interface design in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 publishing sites. This article is part 1 of 2.

Explore and learn how to address security and performance issues of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 publishing sites before launching them as Internet-facing publishing sites.

Learn the details of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 field controls and Web Parts and how they differ, and best practices for when to use each type of control.

Learn two ways in which developers and designers can create Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 master pages that define a site’s global appearance and to create page layouts that define the rendering of specific content pages in Microsoft Office SharePoint Sever 2007 publishing sites.

The article provides guidance on finding essential resources for developers working with Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies