On Monday,after the SharePoint Online session here at PDC we asked some questions afterwards about the SharePoint Services that were announced at the Keynote as the SharePoint version in the cloud. We were curious whether it would be anything like the current SharePoint version, whether it would be build from scratch, or whether it would be build on top of the current SharePoint versions. The answer was that they have no idea yet. Microsoft didn't even start serious preparations for moving SharePoint to the cloud, so it will be some time before we can visit SharePoint in...

On the PDC site there is an announcement today about the PDC 2009. It will be November 17–20  2009 in LA. I'm pretty sure that this will be the PDC to announce Office and SharePoint 14. I'm already looking forward to coming back here next year! http://www.microsoftpdc.com/View.aspx?post=http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/PDCNews/Save-the-Date-PDC09/&tag=

I just attended the "SharePoint 2007: Creating SharePoint Applications with Visual Studio 2008" session by Chris Johnson, who's a Program Manager on the SharePoint team. The session itself was ok, but not really shocking if you've worked with the Visual Studio Extensions for Visual Studio 2005. The more revealing bit was the Q&A at the end of the session. When asked questions about updating list en content types features Chris answered that the best practice for updating the lists and the content types is actually to build a new feature with a featurereceiver, where the featurereceiver will contain code...

It has been a while since I last posted a blog here, but I hope to make up for some of that this week, as I'm in Los Angeles at the PDC 2008. This morning in the first keynote Ray Ozzie announced that Microsoft will be putting it's money on "Services in the Cloud". The "Cloud" is an environment hosted by Microsoft itself that exposes services to the Internet. The cloud version of SharePoint will be "SharePoint Online". This is a SharePoint environment hosted by Microsoft in the Cloud, so no SharePoint Server deployment and configuration is needed on...