David Sobiecki

These are exciting times for SharePoint developers. SharePoint 2013 RTM is right around the corner. If you want to get a jump start on developing with SharePoint 2013 then sign up for the Office 365 Preview.     Once you’re signed up, you will recieve an email from Microsoft welcoming you to the Office 365 […]

In my investigations of some of the new features of SharePoint 2010, I was interested to learn how I could programmatically walk the tree of a managed metadata hierarchy. This article walks through a program that will create a breadcrumb from a managed metadata hierarchy. The first thing we need to do is to create […]

I’m going to show a couple of free iPhone apps that access SharePoint 2010. The first SharePoint iPhone Client is Moshare from Moprise (green theme) and the second is iShare from Spyk Software (orange theme). Let’s see how they stack up. First take a look at the launch icons. I’m not sure what the Moshare […]

I thought I’d share a couple of thoughts on using SharePoint 2010 on the iPad. The iPad is not capable of displaying Silverlight or Flash content. It seems that when a page is rendering, I can scroll but once it’s done rendering and I let go, it jumps to the top and won’t scroll again. […]

Last Saturday I had the opportunity to attend SharePoint Saturday at McCormick Place in Chicago. It was an event where you could attend seminars, network with peers and make new connections. There were several MVP’s and MCM’s (Microsoft Certified Master) in attendance; Anthony Handley – Expression Blend, Asif Rehmani – SharePoint Server: Training, Becky Bertram […]

SharePoint 2010 has improved browser support over previous versions of SharePoint. SharePoint 2010 supports Internet Explorer versions 7.0 and 8.0 (32-bit) with no known limitations. Internet Explorer 7.0 and 8.0 (64-bit), Firefox version 3.6 and above, and Safari 4.04 and above on Windows operating systems need additional ActiveX control support that in most cases is […]

I thought I would add this note about doing the configuration of FAST Search for SharePoint 2010. It seems that the typical scenario is to turn off Windows Firewall within the enterprise. More than one client I have been at has had it turned off. When I was ready to hit the configure button, I […]

I thought I’d share these images of Office Web Apps with the full version of the applications. The applications provide basic view and edit capabilities but for more advanced features you’ll want to open up the desktop version. I’m only displaying the Home tab but you can see the differences in the number of tab […]

I’ve been working on a SharePoint 2007 Search project using BDC lately and one of the things that bit me was trying to make a change to a managed property.The change could be due to a misspelling of the property name or the mapping to the crawled property.You’ll find the Managed Properties in Central Administration […]