Dev Team Assemble

Day three was a lot of fun as I got to spend three hours in the labs and ran through some pretty cool stuff.  Linq to Sharepoint, Upgrading sites, REST API etc.

As far as the sessions went I was hoping the MultiLingual sites session was going to make me happy with some great news about variations.  Instead it seems to be status quo on that system with MS playing the line that you need to plan ahead for this...makes sense but not always possible.  The multi language user interface or MUI for all the chrome is available in every site now and you can switch languages off the site actions bar.

MindSharp had an awesome evangelistical session in the big room on Developiong with REST and LINQ in Sharepoint 2010.  This was another really great session on developing against the new Client Object Model, the Server OM, the ListData.svc REST service.

All in all it was another good day...If I didn't have to spend thenight doing homework it actually would haev been mouch more fun

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The second day of the conference was great and a couple of sessions really stood out above the others in my mind....there was a great session in the morning on web part development and some of the new things coming up in that.  AJAX is baked into SP now which is great but there is also a bit of a learning curve surrounding XSS and making sure we understand cross-site scripting and how SharePoint really cracks down on this.

There was an amazing session on SharePoints new COM or client object model that exposes all sharepoint objects to the client (.NET CLR, silverlight and javascript).  Essentially we will be able to a LOT more work on the client side which makes me feel warm inside.

I finally got to play around with SharePoint 2010 in the labs which was great.  I was dying to get a feel for the product because it feels weird listening to all these sessions without actually having your hands on it.  I definitely will be spending more time in the labs.

The Huey Lewis and the News Beach Party was a lot of fun but I left there feeling a little...drunk for lack of a better word.  Good times in vegas...

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I came across this problem recently. Its a little strange and only happened once I changed my base webpart class to inherit from Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.WebPart. There seems to be two fixes for this problem that I implemented:

• remove the XMlNamespace from class declaration
• Use a .dwp file instead of a .webpart file in your feature folder

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