Wes Hackett
Chief Technical Officer at AddIn365
Welcome to my technology blog.
You’ll find articles about Office 365, Azure and other Microsoft technologies. Day to day I work as the Chief Technical Officer at AddIn365, a Microsoft ISV Partner based in London. As CTO my main responsibilities include designing the AddIn365 product roadmaps and supporting clients and partners in understanding and using Office 365.
I’ve been a Microsoft MVP for a number of years specialising in Office 365, SharePoint and development.
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Hotmail sync error WP7
About a week ago my Windows Phone 7 decided that after months of perfect operation it would have its first coffee break. To preserve the battery I have most of the email synchronisations set to manual, one morning when requesting an update to my Hotmail I was greeted by nothing more than an error message and code. At first I thought this might be just a glitch at the Hotmail side, but after three days I still had no sync.
SharePoint Governance and Information Architecture Master Class
The SharePoint Governance and Information Architecture Master Class was a course I recently attended. Led by Paul Culmsee the content of the modules was a collection of tools and techniques to aid SharePoint project success from a non-technical angle. This was the most insightful two days of my SharePoint career.
Free SP2010 Development VM guide
One of my colleagues Tristan Watkins has done a fantastic job building ready to go environments for Content and Code, this guide will come in useful for those wishing to build their own personal environments.
Tristan also covers a whole host of useful performance metrics and recommendations for those building SharePoint 2010 development environments.
I’m speaking at SharePoint Saturday India
I’m speaking at SharePoint India. For those of you who missed my session at SharePoint Saturday UK at the NEC earlier this month you’ve got another chance to catch it at the upcoming SPSIndia.
Visit http://sharepointsaturday.org/india/default.aspx to register for this free event.
Visio SharePoint 2010 Shapes
John Chapman has just released some really useful Visio SharePoint shapes available from his blog…
MySite Tweaking – Blogging
When customising the SharePoint 2010 MySite there are a whole host of things you need to understand but the main one is that you can’t really modify the provisioned page in a very supportable way. Modifying the underlying MySite site definition is extremely unsupported! There are some articles on the internet which detail a process of adding a control to the masterpage which checks a manifest and makes changes to the default.aspx page contents on load. Subsequent loads are more ‘quick’ checks of the page state.
SharePoint Saturday
Review of the first SharePoint Saturday UK at the NEC Birmingham. I also had the opportunity to present at this awesome event.
Getting at internal Resource strings in SharePoint assemblies
One of the most useful tools in a SharePoint developers arsenal is Reflector. Just in case you haven’t heard or used it before here’s the link: http://www.red-gate.com/products/reflector/index.htm. While it’s great to see the raw code behind SharePoint there is the occasional moment where the use of a resource string hinders understanding. This post aims to give a quick example code snippet which extracts the string value from an assembly.
MCTS SharePoint 2010 Application Development 70-573 Study Guide
I recently sat and passed the MCTS SharePoint 2010 Application Development 70-573 exam. I thought I’d share the list of resources that helped me with my revision.
CKSDev Version 1.1 Released
Highlights include: Improved SPMetal SPI Improved Full Trust Proxy SPI New grouped content types and import function New site columns and import function New Fluent UI Visual web part SPI Improvements to quick deploy Under the cover code improvements Improved...
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