With the release date of SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 closing in, I wonder what’s next for Microsoft. They’re probably already planning on the next release; the one that comes after 2010, may be 2014 or something like that :-) I say that because if you ... [Read More]

During the past couple weeks, I had the opportunity to work with a client that was interested in putting together an eye-catching web site that would be purely informational in nature.  Knowing that Silverlight 3 has a new project template for nav ... [Read More]

With the upcoming release of Microsoft Windows 7 many enterprises are re-evaluating the state of their legacy desktop applications, both custom developed and purchased from third-parties, and are finding that migrating those applications to Window ... [Read More]

Value converters are a simple object implementing the IValueConverter interface that are used to take in a value and based on that value, derive another value.  Typically, value converters are used for display logic.  For example, we may create a ... [Read More]

Hello and welcome to our blog. My name is Johnny Harbieh and I lead our Portals and Collaboration Practice here in the Twin Cities. I am currently working with my peers across the nation to help build and support our key Microsoft Service offering ... [Read More]

I was recently tasked with creating a demonstration for a company that involved creating a video player to place into a SharePoint Web Part.  The end result turned out to be very nice and was based upon the Silverlight SharePoint Blueprint proje ... [Read More]

I was recently brought into a SharePoint project to help fix some bugs and generally be there as an extra resource while the team prepared for various “go live” dates.  One issue we were having was a failure to post form data to another web site f ... [Read More]

Introduction: Hello and welcome to the Analysts International Microsoft Practice Blog! I am Jay Lendl, a member of AIC’s Microsoft National Practice.  I have been with Analysts for about six months.  I am excited to launch this blog and look fo ... [Read More]