Microsoft Commerce Server 2009

I recently twittered (@RandyPerkins) about the release of Microsoft Commerce Server 2009. I can't compare it to any ecommerce packages around at the moment as I haven't used any, however when I last looked at MCS or whatever it was called it compared well. I can only imagine that it now is even more competitive.

Time to build a dev server and test it out.

CAML IntelliSense for WSS 3.0 in Visual Studio 2005

Everyone one knows IntelliSense is great. But the worst thing about it is when you are in Visual Studio and you haven’t got it. If you are a SharePoint Developer using CAML (not necessarily by choice) then CAML IntelliSense is going to be useful. The following should enable CAML IntelliSense for WSS 3.0 in Visual Studio 2005.

In note pad enter the following text:



Save the file as CAML.XML in the following directory:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Xml\Schemas\

You should now have CAML IntelliSense when you next load Visual Studio 2005.

070-631 - TS: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Configuring

I've just passed my Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Configuring exam. I got 100%.

:-)

Office SP2

I had hoped that SP2 for SharePoint 2007 and Office 2007 would be out Q1 2008. There still is a chance that it will be but based on Microsoft's announcement here http://blogs.technet.com/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2008/10/22/announcing-service-pack-2-sp2-for-the-2007-microsoft-office-system.aspx it could slip to Q2 :-(

Also what is disappointing there seems to be few improvements/bug fixes to SharePoint. OR at least they are not giving much away.