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For those who are unsure where to start with SharePoint 2010 development, I suggest watching my SharePoint Pro Magazine video that covers the basics.

Microsoft clarifies that only the user code part of sandboxed solutions is deprecated, running in the sandboxed user code service.

Common questions about deploying Workflow Manager 1.0 and Service Bus 1.0 for SharePoint 2013. Focus on HA, scalability, and certificates.

Earlier this week I watched a dialog progress between a few people: which client-side API they prefer in SharePoint 2013. In this post, I share my opinion.

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.

In this article, I share additional thoughts from my recent sessions about workflow development and SharePoint Hosted apps at SharePoint Evolutions.

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

Learn how to create custom tasks in SharePoint 2013 workflows using Visual Studio 2012 with this helpful demonstration.

In this article, learn how to bypass the SharePoint 2013 workflow engine bug and create custom task outcome buttons with my workaround and tips.

In this article, I share my thoughts on the history of InfoPath 2013 as a forms solution for Microsoft Office and SharePoint.

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

Grace Kochavi shares SharePoint 2013 workflow updates, tips for creating workflows with Office Developer Tools, and essential undocumented publishing step.

Site change prompts questions about Orchard engine choice, while Azure selection deemed a no brainer compared to SharePoint & WordPress options

The post discusses an easier way to understand the feature matrix for SharePoint 2013 deployment options and license types.

SharePoint REST API can’t filter lookup field by name of the item. Lookup field returns object ID only. Here’s how to filter by lookup ID

The article provides a link to a page listing all features of SharePoint 2013 and its various flavors, including Office 365 versions

Learn the changes in SharePoint 2013 workflow development that requires using JavaScript to capture & submit form values, opening up new possibilities.

Reflecting on my experience building workflows in previous versions of SharePoint, specifically the pain of building them in Visual Studio.

Despite the convenience of building apps, SharePoint 2013 RTMs developer tools have debugging issues for local sites.

In this article, learn about the release of Critical Path Training’s ‘SharePoint Server 2013 RTM Set up Guide for Developers’.

Excited to share that Pluralsight just published the SharePoint 2013 developer ramp-up series by Critical Path Training.

As a SharePoint dev, I share my time-saving PowerShell script for registering self-signed certificates. Learn how to speed SharePoint 2013 on-prem app dev.

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.

I explain debugging workflows in SharePoint 2013 using Fiddler and recommend recycling SharePoint services after closing Fiddler to avoid issues.

I recently ran into a weird issue with workflows in my SharePoint 2013 Beta 2 environment. In this article, learn what the issue & resolution was.

I successfully set up a provider-hosted app for SharePoint 2013 on-premises with the help of an informative MSDN article.

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

MSDN shared numerous SharePoint 2013 code samples, including one on creating a workflow in Visual Studio 2012 that calls an external web service.

In this post, I explain what you have to build in order to implement a MetaNav in your SharePoint 2010 (SP2010) Publishing site.

In this post, I explain the virtues of implementing a MetaNav: the idea of using taxonomies provided by the Managed Metadata Service (MMS) in SharePoint Server.

Let me guide you through implementing metadata-based navigation on your SharePoint 2010 publishing sites using the powerful Managed Metadata Service (MMS).

The series explains how to use Managed Metadata Service (MMS) in SharePoint 2010 Publishing sites for navigation with metadata-based approach