Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 SharePoint Labs

Just a quick followup to my latest post, Microsoft just announced the availability of new HOLS that includes a dedicated lab for the SharePoint support in Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 which includes a practical step-by-step exercises over the following features:

1- Unit testing SharePoint development artifacts using SharePoint Emulator assemblies. Microsoft SharePoint Emulators basically intercept the calls to Microsoft.SharePoint dlls which reduce the testing/maintenace time of SharePoint development.

2- Intellitrace support for SharePoint Improvement.

3- Web and Load testing SharePoint applications.

You can download the lab directly from here.

SharePoint Server MVP Renewal – 2012

It’s an honor that I have been selected again for the fifth year by Microsoft to receive the MVP award for 2012 in SharePoint competency.

Yesterday, I also received a mail from my MVP lead saying that I’ve been awarded with a custom disk to add to the MVP Crystal Wedge Award, this milestone disk was provided for achieving the MVP award for 5 years straight.

I would like to thank Microsoft and all the community fellows.

If you are interested in learning more about the MVP Award Program, check the following program links:

1. Microsoft MVP Award Program.
2. About MVP.
3. How to become an MVP.

And finally congratulation for all the new and renewed MVPs for this year.

Speaking at Expotech Palestine (Again)

 

Last year, I spoke at the Expotech Conference in Palestine. They kindly invited me to speak again this year. The speaking tour will start on November 28 until the 1st of December and will take place in four universities in different Palestinian cities.

I will be giving talks about “Understanding Application Lifecycle Management and Custom Development”, “Understanding Cloud Platforms”, and “SharePoint Composite Development”.

So, if you are interested and it happens that you are in Palestine by then, you are more than welcome to join me at any of these events, I will be glad to see you there.

For more information about the schedule; click here.

My Speaking Schedule for 2011

 

So, I published my speaking engagements for this year on this blog into a separate page:

I will be updating the schedule information whenever I have any new speaking engagement.

If you’re in the area and interested in the topics, feel free to stop by.

Weekly Readings Recap #2

This is the second post in my weekly reading recap series, In this week I read and try some walkthroughs in different topics and domains including the following:

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) & BizTalk:

1. Walkthrough: Publishing WCF Services with the WCF-NetMsmq Adapter
2. Walkthrough: Custom Message Processing with the WCF-NetTcp Adapter
3. BizTalk to WCF Data Services (OData Service)
4. Consuming OData from BizTalk Server using AtomPub

 

Windows Azure, SharePoint, Office 365:

1. Book: Chapter 3: Consuming SQL Azure Data [Developing SP Apps using Windows Azure Book]
2. Video: Developing Custom Workflow Actions with Visual Studio 2010 [Office 365 Video Training Kit]
3. Blog Post: Using SharePoint REST API $filter to specify multiple columns