Last Wednesday, May 12th was a special day. We had fun celebrating the Egyptian community launch of SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010. I have presented about “Visual Studio Tools for SharePoint 2010”, people were really excited to learn that they no longer need third-party tools for developing SharePoint Solutions. Finally Visual Studio 2010 is enough along with its great extensibility features!
I would like to extend a special thank-you to AvePoint and USPJA for sponsoring the event.
Tomorrow May 11th will be an interesting day, Microsoft will be hosting a launch event for Microsoft® Office 2010, Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010, Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 and Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 at Grand Hyatt Hotel – Laylaty BallroomTime: 09:00 am – 05:00 pm
I will be there in the Ask the experts with my fellow SharePoint MVPs , Marwan Tarek and Shady Khorshied. If you have any SharePoint related questions, please drop by.
There will be a pickup bus from Lebanon Square.
2:00 to 2:15 > Gathering in-front of Mo’men
2:15 to 3:15 > Moving to Microsoft Egypt
7:45 to 8:00 > gathering in-front of Microsoft
8:00 to 8:45 > back to Lebanon Square
Please if you have any problem regarding transportation, don’t hesitate to call Shady Khorshied on 010 19 11 216 .
I would like also to announce that AvePoint is sponsoring the event, stay tuned to their giveaways 😉
Yesterday, I stumbled upon LINQ Quiz, try to answer as much as you can from the 17 questions posted there, this will help you evaluate and test your LINQ knowledge.
Oh, and before you start writing LINQ queries against your SharePoint lists, you should take a look at this tool (LINQPad), I found it very useful to refresh my LINQ knowledge before diving deep into LINQ to SharePoint. Let me know what you think about LINQPad, I really love it!
It seems that May 2010 will be an interesting month for me, I’ll be busy presenting 3 different SharePoint topics for different user groups and events. The sessions will be in 2 different languages for different audience and nationalities. Two of them will be online and the other will be offline. Below is my speaking schedule in Cairo local time (GMT+3)
May 12 is going to be an exciting time. Not only because SharePoint 2010 Launch, but because a lot of usare really going to be getting together to celebrate the most important launch!. Join us On May 12 at 3:30 PM @ Microsoft Egypt, Smart Village to celebrate the launch and learn about the great features in SharePoint 2010.
Till now, there will be more than 60 community launch parties across 5 continents running simultaneously, celebrating one of the most important launches in Microsoft history and we are really glad to be part of this huge global initiative. I would like also to extend a special thank-you to AvePoint for sponsoring Egypt SharePoint User Group.
The following code snippet shows how to programmatically modify a field to enforce the uniqueness of its values (like the unique constraint in SQL Server).
As I promised yesterday in my wrap-up post, SharePoint Saturday Arabia recordings are now available for download. I have just uploaded 15 hours of great SharePoint content to SkyDrive, please let me know if you have any issues in downloading the recordings!
During the event, Jose Antonio Morales received lots of questions about Public Facing Sites with WSS 3.0 so he decided to create two more videos to answer the attendees questions, you can get Jose’s videos from the links below.
WSS 3.0 For Public Facing Sites – Part 1
WSS 3.0 For Public Facing Sites – Part 2
Another question that we received more than once during the event was about installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7, my dear friend Mohamed Moses has done a great job summarizing the process in a short video, you can get Mohamed’s video from the link below.
Thanks again for all our attendees, speakers and all people who helped me in organizing SharePoint Saturday Arabia, stay tuned for more videos on SharePoint4Arabs.com !
I’m really happy to announce that I’ll be presenting at CairoCodeCamp’10, my session title is “What’s New in SharePoint Designer 2010?”
Session Abstract :
SharePoint Designer 2010 is the core design tool for designing, prototyping, and customizing both SharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint Foundation 2010 sites, from small sites to enterprise-level internet sites and intranets. In this session, you will learn how to :
• Customize a site from the early stages of prototyping and design to the final deployment phase
• Build powerful workflows and align them to your business processes
• Integrate and present external data into SharePoint sites
• Create and manage Data Views and Data Sources
• Use InfoPath 2010 to customize SharePoint List Forms
And here is the official announcement from CairoCodeCamp orgainzers :
CairoCodeCamp’10 is going to be even bigger it has 8 international speakers and 12 domestic speakers presenting 40+ sessions to 1000+ attendees.
Cairo Code Camp’10 is an extra step towards our strategic goal, by having Scott Hanselman, the principalprogram manager of Microsoft as a speaker and due to his publicity and exposure, Cairo Code Camp’10 will have huge publicity by the enthusiastic global software community.
Cairo Code Camp’10 sessions will be recorded and distributed offline and online.
For more information & to get your ticket , please visit: http://www.CairoCodeCamp.com
Check out the speakers at http://www.cairocodecamp.com/Speakers
Check out the agenda at http://www.CairoCodeCamp.com/Agenda
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