Well, looks like I'm hitting the Best Practices Conference to soak up somemore SharePoint goodness.  This conference has all the top folks from all over speaking on a veritable ton of SharePoint stuff.  Follow the up-to-date on Twitter at #BPC10.

From here it's a hop-skip-jump to Baltimore for their SharePoint Saturday where I'll be doing my talk (see previous post).  You can find me there, or, wandering the halls of their Comic-Con!  Geek Nirvana!

Hope to see a bunch of folks there enjoying all things SharePoint! - M

Hey folks, heading down south this time to the Inner Harbor in Baltimore for SharePoint Saturday - Baltimore!  Just got accepted to do my Features/Solutions talk, so come on out and soak up all that SharePoint goodness!  Saturday, August 28th, details here.

Note: This weekend is also the 11th annual Baltimore Comic-Con!  SharePoint and comics!  Sweet!!

- M

Just uploaded, my slide deck and related example code on the SharePoint 2010 Features and Solutions talk from last week's SharePoint Saturday event in NYC.  Yet again, an awesome event put on by the NY folks.  My assets are at the bottom of this post.  To see all of the assets from last week head on over to SlideShare here.

Thanks for coming out! - M

SPSNY-20100731.zip (473.24 kb)

The next one of these is this coming Wednesday, July 21, 9am PST / 12pm EST.  We have a great bunch of people slated to be on the call.  In addition to myself we have Adam Buenz, Alex Pearce (UK), Amanda Perran (Canada), Arno Nel (UK), Bryan Phillips , Dan Attis, Darrin Bishop, Eli Robillard (Canada), Jason Medero, Matthew McDermott, Muhanad Omar (Jordan), Randy Drisgill, Sahil Malik, Sean Wallbridge (Canada), Serge Tremblay (Canada), Shane Perran (Canada), Shane Young.  So dial in, ask a question, listen on about all things SharePoint.

Twitter tag: #spmvpchat

MSDN Live Chat link

Thanks! - M

Remember when (days long ago...) you tried to instantiate to a list in SharePoint via either SPWeb.Lists["List Name"] or SPWeb.GetList("list URL"), you'd not know if the list was truly there until your code went along it's merry way, or it exceptioned out?  Well here comes SPListCollection.TryGetList().  Passing in the title of the list will either return the SPList itself or null.  At this point you can then do a null check and address it accordingly, instead of relying on an exception.

Something a little cool I just came across... - M

SPListCollection.TryGetList Method

Ben Curry (SharePoint MVP extraordinaire, CISSP, MCT, MCP and all-around great guy) asked me to help contribute to this book (scheduled to now be out on July 4th) and let me tell you, what a learning experience this was.  It was my first foray into the realm of publishing and it was a lot of work for something relatively small (in terms of amount of pages that I was responsible for) and while it took up a ton of time (as you could tell from my lack of recent blog posts) it was an exceptional learning experience.  My contribution was the My Sites / User Profiles chapter and while it's a bit of a what/how-to, there are a couple "whys" thrown in there as well.  I'm really looking forward to checking out the finished product.

Big/huge thanks again to Ben for letting me help out on this! - M

Amazon link to Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrator's Pocket Consultant

Back up for air!  And with that, I'll be presenting my SharePoint 2010 Features and Solutions with Visual Studio 2010 at the upcoming SharePoint Saturday - NYC event, coming up on July 31st.  Remember, there's no better place to find a wealth of knowledge on all things SharePoint at these SharePoint Saturday events.  We're talking networking, SharePoint, speakers, SharePoint, MVPs, and did I mention SharePoint?  Again, come on out for a day of all things SharePoint with industry experts, learn a bunch of great stuff, and to top it off, it's FREE!  Head on over to the SharePoint Saturday - NYC site and register!  It'd be great to meet you all.

- M

Well folks, it's that time again!  SharePoint Saturday rolls into Philadelphia (the Fort Washington area to be specific) for a Saturday full of SharePoint stuff.  Come on out and join SharePoint architects, administrators, developers, and other professionals who work with SharePoint for this SharePoint Saturday event on May 8th, 2010.  The day will be filled with educational and informative SharePoint 2010 sessions and provide you with an excellent opportunity to network with Microsoft MVPs and other SharePoint professionals in Philadelphia area.

SharePoint Saturday is FREE and is open to the public!  Click here to register cause it'll fill up fast!

Date: May 8th, 2010
Time: 8:00am - 5:00 pm
Location: DeVry University Campus, 1140 Virginia Drive, Fort Washington, PA 19034

Follow us on Twitter too! #SPSPHILLY

So register, come on out, mingle with folk of like mind, and just have an all around great day of SharePoint sessions! - M

MSDN is having 2 online chats on SharePoint, April 27 from 7pm - 8pm EST, and April 28 from 12pm - 1pm EST.  Why don't you sign up and catch up on some SharePoint technical goodness?  I'm lucky enough ot be on the April 28th call.  Sign up, sign in, sign on, and have at it! - M

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/chats/default.aspx

Getting closer to GA folks...the 2010 bits (see screens) appeared for me on my TechNet subscription...have at it! - M