Tomorrow, I’ll be presenting @EgyGeeks online UG. I’ll speak about SharePoint 2010 Excel Services from both the technical and the business perspective. If you have any questions or if you need me to cover anything related to Excel Services, don’t hesitate to leave me a comment here.
For more info, follow the hashtag #EgyGeeks on twitter.
It might be a bit late, actually too late to announce it. I’ll be presenting tomorrow (June 16, 2010) at Microsoft Technology Week. The sessions will be held at Microsoft Egypt premise in Smart Village, Cairo. I’ll focus on SharePoint from the business perspective and the new features in SharePoint 2010. No code involved here. Oh, and attendance is free and no registration required.
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.
Here are some photos from 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 Ballroom Time: 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.
Since the announcement of the Egyptian SharePoint community launch, I have been receiving a lot of emails about the transportation details. Sorry for the delay, but we finally managed to get everything set.
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 😉
This is a quick reminder of my session tomorrow at Live Online SharePoint Saturday India. I’m really excited about this and looking forward to meeting my fellow Indian SharePointers.
Title: Troubleshooting SharePoint Solutions.
Date and Time: Saturday May, 12th , 13:30 PM (GMT +3)
Language: English
Click here for the complete schedule.
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)
| Date/Time | Topic | User Group/ Event | Language |
| SAT May, 1st – 12:00 AM | SharePoint 2010 Workflows | Online : EgyGeeks Online User Group | Arabic |
| SAT MAY, 8th – 13:30 PM | Troubleshooting SharePoint Solutions | Online: SharePoint Saturday India | English |
| WED May, 12th – 15:45 PM | Visual Studio Tools for SharePoint 2010 | Offline: SharePoint 2010 Community Launch by EGYSUG | Arabic |
After SharePoint Saturday EMEA and SharePoint Saturday Arabia and the great feedback we received from our attendees, it’s now India’s turn!
I have just received an e-mail from Rajendra Shekhawat informing me that my abstract for speaking at Live Online SharePoint Saturday India has been accepted, I’m really glad to be there and share some SharePoint tips and tricks with the Indian SharePoint folks.
Rajendra and his fellow organizers are currently in the process of finalizing the session topics and timings for the event. Previously, they were planning to do multiple tracks for the event on 24th April 2010. However, based on the registrants feedback, they divided the event over two Saturdays – 24th of April 2010 and 8th of May 2010. My session is scheduled to be on 8th of May.
The event is free, click here to register.
Session Details
Title: Troubleshooting SharePoint Solutions
Description: SharePoint troubleshooting can really be a nightmare for those who are new to the platform if it is not performed properly. Bugs, performance and storage issues are the main reasons why you as SharePoint developer are subjected to lengthy and tiresome projects—complete with crabby stakeholders, grouchy quality engineers, missed deadlines, and late nights. This session will help SharePoint developers learn how to author both SharePoint 2007 and 2010 applications with fewer bugs in the first place and walks them through the tools and techniques available at their disposal when encountering any kind of troubles.
Date: 8 May 2010
Time: 10:30 AM ( GMT +0 ) – 12:30 PM ( Cairo Time)
Duration: 1 hour
Language: English
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