If you're going to be in the Jacksonville area next weekend, the Jacksonville Developers User Group (JAXDUG) is hosting the Jacksonville Code Camp 2007 - a *free* full day of sessions (more than 50) from Microsoft Employees, Microsoft MVPs, National, Regional and Local speakers on a variety of topics, including:

• Visual Studio 2008
• Microsoft Silverlight
• WPF, WCF, WWF, LINQ
• SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS
• WSS, MOSS, OBA

There will be 3 types of sessions:

• Presentation/Code Focused
• Chalk Talks
• Developing the Developer (Business/Soft Skills)

There will be a SharePoint developer track with presentations by myself, Andrew Connell, John Ross, and a bunch of other folks, so come join the fun! 

To register, go to https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=119680.

Hope to see you there!

Registration for the 3rd annual Atlanta Code Camp is now open!

Here's the link to register (you'd better hurry):
https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=113135

The 3rd annual Atlanta Code Camp will take place on January 20th. The event is completely free and lunch is included. Doors open at 7:30am at the Decatur campus of DeVry University. Here's the address:

250 North Arcadia Ave
Decatur , GA 30030

If you are coming in from out of town, the event organizers are recommending the Holiday Inn in Decatur. Ask for the DeVry University rate to get a $99/night rate. Parking is extra and costs $7/day.

Holiday Inn
130 Clairemont Ave
Decatur, GA 30030
404-372-0204

And be sure to catch my session, "Building Document Management Solutions using Windows SharePoint Services v3.0 Content Types". Here's the session abstract:

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 introduces a new concept called "Content Types" that will dramatically alter the Enterprise Content Management landscape. On the surface, Content Types make it easier to encapsulate field definitions into a nice neat package, but there is a lot more going on under the covers. In this session, we'll take a deep dive into the world of content types and see how to declare them using XML and how to create them programmatically. Then we'll apply content types to create a real-world document management solution with custom policies that we'll use to control every stage of the document lifecycle. At the end of this session, you will have a thorough understanding of what content types are with a deeper appreciation of the value they bring to document management solution development.

Hope to see you in Atlanta!

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As a developer, it is hard enough just keeping up with all the new technology. To that end, Microsoft has created a Developer Map for the 2007 Microsoft Office System that you can download. This is a great way to get the "big picture" of how everything fits together and to share it with the other members of your development team.

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The Microsoft 2007 Office System suite has now been released to manufacturing and is available for download. This includes Windows SharePoint Services v3, and a 30-day trial version of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Additional titles will become available in the coming weeks. Stay tuned.

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I know it. You know it. Your wife or girlfriend, husband or brother surely knows it. If you're reading this, you might as well admit it - you're a geek. The question is: are you an "Office Geek"?

We're not like other geeks. We have so much more fun!

Think about it.

We've got shared add-ins to build, custom toolbars to configure, task panes to create.

We've got smart tags, web services, VSTO, InfoPath, SharePoint, Groove...whew! Lots to do. Lots to learn. Lots to talk about.

Jacksonville Office Developer SIG site is now up and running!

If you're in the Jacksonville area, come join us at the next JOG meeting on September 28th. We'll have David McNamee, Information Worker Platform Specialist with Microsoft speaking on "SharePoint & Workflow: A Technology Deep Dive". Whether you're in Jacksonville or not, drop by the new JOG site at www.JacksonvilleOfficeGeeks.org. There, you'll find info on the group, meeting times, location & directions.

Office Development - it's not about macros anymore.

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As we all know, tabbed controls make it a lot easier to enter data on a form. Surprisingly, InfoPath does not provide a built-in tab control. This leads to form designs that are much less intuitive than they could be.

There is a nice article on the InfoPath Team Blog that shows how to create tabbed views using table cells and buttons. Unfortunately, this technique is limited to switching between form views. What if you want to have a set of tabs for the data within a view? Or what if you want to have more than one set of tabs on the same view?

In this Camtasia video, I demonstrate a variation of the technique that lets you display as many tabbed sections as you like on any view of a form.

The basic idea is the same. We'll use a table with shading to give the visual effect of tabs, and we'll use buttons for each tab. But instead of placing the content of each tab within a view, we'll place the content in a table cell. And instead of using a rule that switches the current view when the user clicks a button, we'll use javascript in a button click event to update the form so that the 'active' tab is made visible and the other tabs are hidden.

Enjoy

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