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Speaking at the Roanoke Code Camp on March 1st

It's true, I'll be speaking at another code camp and I'm really excited about this code camp because I'll be featuring a new session. My new session is called "SharePoint Security Management for the Business User" and it will have a lot of demos on how to setup and maintain SharePoint user security from the business user perspective. I'll also be doing the InfoPath 2007/InfoPath Forms Services and Visual Studio 2008 session which is my bread and butter session. You might be thinking that I'm losing my mind because I'm doing so many of these code camps but let me assure you that I'm really having a goodtime sharing my experiences and not losing my mind. I'm also very proud to say that Nas will be doing his first code camp session at Roanoke and I'm really excited about attending his session on configuring FBA for MOSS. His session goes into details on how to do the FBA for regular SharePoint sites but also My Sites. He and I have already talked a lot about the session details during are 24 hour road trip to the South Florida Code Camp. I also think he will be talking about setting up a custom ASP.NET application for creating user accounts. This should be another good session. He has got me so revved up about FBA and I'm already thinking about creating some InfoPath 2007 browser based forms for creating FBA accounts and roles and maybe doing a joint session with him. You can register and view the schedule for the Roanoke Code...

Speaking at the Raleigh Code Camp on February 16th

For most of the people that read my blog don't know that I live in a small town outside of Raleigh, NC and unfortunately I'm not that involved in the local SharePoint or .NET community because I travel so much but I'm going to get the great pleasure to speak at the Raleigh Code Camp this weekend. This is a big surprise for me because I missed the call for speakers for the Raleigh Code Camp (don't know how but I did) and I didn't think I had a chance to get in but I figured I would try and pull some strings and see if I could sneak in and to great surprise I was able to pull it off with help from Josh Carlisle . Josh and I used to work together at a past company called TAKE Solutions but since we both departed we haven't seen much of each other unless we bump into each other at a conference or code camp. The funny thing is that Josh's company (Viewfusion Solutions) and B&R Business Solutions do a lot of business together but he works almost a 100% remotely so we sort of stay in contact but not really (if that makes since). Enough of my rambling and to the point, so I sent Josh an email several weeks ago about the code camp and asked him to see if he could get me squeezed in since he knew Chris Love from the Triangle .NET User Group . Well weeks went by without hearing anything and I figured things didn't work out and I wasn't going to have the chance to speak but thankfully I was wrong because I got an email from Josh while I was in NYC....

South Florida Code Camp now doing 2 sessions

Just wanted to let everybody know that I am now doing 2 sessions at the South Florida code camp and my second session title is "Creating custom commands for STSADM with C#". The session goes into the details of extending the STSADM utility and how to debug the code. The code being reviewed is currently being used in the real world. I'm pretty excited about doing this session because it's something totally different from my normal subject. Please come out to the code camp on February 2 nd but remember you need to register first. You can check out the agenda and register from the http://codecamp08.fladotnet.com/ website. Cheers Posted on SharePoint Blogs Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

Speaking at the South Florida Code Camp on February 2nd

That's right it's time for the South Florida Code Camp and I'll be down there giving a new session on InfoPath 2007 and Visual Studio 2008. For this session I'm thinking about changing a couple of things around and doing some really new stuff that includes C# code for updating AD and XMLFormView control for displaying an InfoPath 2007 form. I'm thinking that the InfoPath 2007 form will be a data entry form that allows users to update their AD information. I've been thinking about this new presentation for a while and since Visual Studio 2008 was officially released I figured that I should also change up the InfoPath part. I'm really excited about building the new code and presenting it and after the code camp is over I'll post it on my Code Camp and User Group page. All the information about the South Florida Code Camp can be found on the http://codecamp08.fladotnet.com/ website. From what I heard while at Philly Code Camp from other speakers this code camp is suppose to be as big as or bigger than the Philly Code Camp one. To see what sessions are currently on tap checkout the agenda page http://codecamp08.fladotnet.com/agenda.aspx . The code camp is going to have 12 different tracks and that means tons of sessions. The "SharePoint/ Office" track already has my "InfoPath 2007 and Visual Studio 2008" session and "Utilizing Visual Studio 2008 capabilities for better SharePoint Development Part 1 and Part 2" sessions...

Philly Code Camp was a blast

Last weekend was the Philly Code Camp and Nas and I had a blast with the other 375 people that attended the event. The one day extravaganza featured 50 different speakers and in many sessions it was standing room only. If you work with Microsoft technologies on the dev side and local to the area or in driving distance then I would definitely try to make it out to one of their other two code camps this year. My InfoPath 2007 and Visual Studio 2008 session went really well I think and I really enjoyed myself. I would like to thank David Mann for letting me speak and all the other people that put together this great event. When at the Philly Code Camp I got to meet a couple other great SharePoint speakers. After my session I got to speak with Susan Lennon ( http://wss.lennontechnologies.com/blog/default.aspx ) who did a session on "Using SharePoint Designer to Build a Dashboard-type View of Lists" and got to sit in on the session by Tony Testa ( http://www.tonytestasworld.com/ ) called "AJAX in SharePoint". Susan and I didn't have a long time to talk but she seemed to be a great person with some interesting experience with SharePoint 2007. I'm hoping to have another chance to talk with her while out at Office Developer Conference in February. Dave Mann did his session after mine and it was a great session on you guessed it Workflow and SharePoint. As promised my presentation and code solutions are up on my Code Camp and User Group page and I just sent...

Code Camp and User Group presentations and code projects

Over the last few months I've spoke at 4 different events and have really enjoyed myself but I hadn't got around posting my presentations and code projects because other things kept me busy and I kept forgetting to. This week I'm at home finishing up some code projects and have found some extra time to spend on my blog and catching up on other things. Today I got around adding a new page to my blog for the presentations and code projects and just a few minutes ago uploaded all my presentations. You can find them at http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mdlotter/pages/code-camp-and-user-group-presentations.aspx and later this week I'll add my code projects to. I've really enjoyed speaking at these events and meeting a lot of new people. I'm hoping that I'll have a lot more entries on this page this year and mean years to come. Cheers Posted on SharePoint Blogs Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

Speaking at Philly Code Camp on January 12th

The Philly.Net Code Camp is coming up on Saturday, January 12 th at DeVry University in Fort Washington, PA and I'm happy to say that I will be giving a presentation at the event. The presentation is titled "InfoPath 2007 with Visual Studio 2008". The session walks through building a new InfoPath 2007 form, Web Service, .NET Class, Workflow and LDAP query with Visual Studio 2008. The form will call the web service on opening to retrieve the current user Active Directory information and State list from SQL 2005 database to populate an InfoPath form drop down list. A simple workflow will be created and deployed with Visual Studio 2008 for sending an email. This presentation will cover more details than what I usually do and it will all be using Visual Studio 2008 and not 2005. Information on attending and a list of all the tracks for the code camp can be found at http://www.philly.net . In my opinion the Office track is jammed pack with great sessions and we have Bob Fox doing a session on SharePoint Disaster Recovery and Backup (Wow can't what to see what type of code Bob has). A full list of all the Office sessions is listed below. David Mann - Delivering Modular SharePoint Workflow Functionality via Components Bob Fox - SharePoint Disaster Recovery, Backup and more... Tony Testa - AJAX in SharePoint Michael Lotter - InfoPath 2007 with Visual Studio 2008 Russ Basuira - Programming Composite Applications that use the SharePoint Business Data Catalog Gary Blatt...

NJSPUG Meeting Details for December 19th

The NJSPUG has launched a new website at http://nj.sharepointgroups.org/default.aspx and all the details and future details of user group meetings can found here. As I previously mentioned that I'll be speaking at the December 19 th meeting and all the details are below. Hope to see you there. NJ SHAREPOINT USER GROUP: Wednesday, December 19 https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=121800 Creating InfoPath 2007 forms with InfoPath Forms Service for the enterprise Guest Speaker: Michael Lotter MCP, MCTS SharePoint Solutions Architect | B&R Business Solutions, LLC "With the new version of SharePoint and InfoPath being officially released this year the concept of building and using e-forms in the enterprise has officially become a reality by using InfoPath 2007, InfoPath Forms Services and SharePoint 2007 Enterprise. This presentation will describe how to use InfoPath 2007 and InfoPath Forms Services (part of SharePoint 2007 Enterprise) to accomplish this with your existing or new SharePoint 2007 Enterprise installation. A demo will be given to show how to build and publish an InfoPath 2007 form to InfoPath Forms Services and how to active the forms from InfoPath Forms Services to a Site Collection." AGENDA: 5:30 PM EAT + GREET Networking, Free Food/Drink 6:00 PM Guest Speaker "Creating InfoPath 2007 forms with InfoPath Forms Service for the enterprise" 6:45 PM WRAP UP discussion, prize giveaways Posted on SharePoint Blogs Del.icio.us | Digg...

My first TechNet presentation in Newcastle

Today I performed my first 'Official' Microsoft presentation at the TechNet briefing event in Newcastle. I got to present on the same stage as seasoned presenters James O'Neill , Steve Lamb and new Evangelist team member Andrew Fryer . I got Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

Speaking at Nova Code Camp on November 17th

The Nova Code Camp is coming up on Saturday, November 17 th in Reston, VA and I’m happy to say that I will be giving a presentation at the event. The presentation is titled “Pre-populating Active Directory User Information InfoPath 2007 and C# and create a workflow with SharePoint Designer for routing”. This is the same presentation that I did at South Carolina Code Camp but I’ve modified it from the feedback that I got from the South Carolina Code Camp. The presentation is based off work that I did for recent project. Information on attending the code camp can be found at http://novacodecamp.org/. I’m really excited about this opportunity because it gives me another opportunity to meet new people and to work on my speaking and presentation skills. My big dream is to get enough practice at speaking and then try to do one of the bigger conferences. Writing and speaking skills have always haunted me since being a little kid but I’m determined to improve these skills and have them as assets. The last code camp was a blast and I’m sure this one will be to, please come out and join us for a great time. Hope to see you there. Cheers Posted on SharePoint Blogs Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

Speaking at the New Jersey SharePoint User Group meeting in December

After having such a great time at the South Carolina Code Camp I decided to look for other speaking opportunities to share my knowledge on InfoPath 2007, InfoPath Forms Services and SharePoint 2007 and since I've been in Newark/New York area I decided to talk with Jason Medero and Bob Fox to see if they could hook me up at either New York or New Jersey SharePoint user group. After submitting a proposal I got accepted for the New Jersey SharePoint user group meeting and will be speaking at the December meeting. I'm really excited to have this opportunity but little nervous because it will be my second speaking opportunity but I'm sure it will go just as smooth as previous one. I'll be speaking on InfoPath 2007, InfoPath Forms Services and SharePoint 2007 and below is a description of what then presentation will be on. With the new version of SharePoint and InfoPath being officially released this year the concept of building and using e-forms in the enterprise has officially become a reality by using InfoPath 2007, InfoPath Forms Services and SharePoint 2007 Enterprise. This presentation will describe how to use InfoPath 2007 and InfoPath Forms Services (part of SharePoint 2007 Enterprise) to accomplish this with your existing or new SharePoint 2007 Enterprise installation. A demo will be given to show how to build and publish an InfoPath 2007 form to InfoPath Forms Services and how to active the forms from InfoPath Forms Services to a Site Collection. After submitting...

Real Job Mark 2 and Public Speaking Woes

My new job with Terracon starts on Monday officially, even though technically I have been working there as a consultant for 6 months. I am really excited, because I get to stay in one city and work with Sharepoint only. No more consulting for a while at least. I also get a huge salary bump and probably a slight tax bump. That means I may be able to buy myself more toys...Maybe if I can bribe my boyfriend with a video ipod I will be able to get an Iphone:) I'm also speaking at the Office Developer User Group in Kansas City in November. I am trying to come up with an abstract and a biography, but failing miserably. I am going to try and speak about backing scripts for Sharepoint and restoring Sharepoint in the event that a site fails or the entire collection fails. I am a bit nervous, because I have never actually spoken in front of a bunch of developers outside of meetings. I have been doing a bit of in house Sharepoint Training via Webex, but it is nothing like speaking in front of a group of people. I am hoping that I can start down a track where I get more involved in the Sharepoint Community. This will be a test on how I will do in the future. I really really hope that I don't freak out or stutter. Posted on SharePoint Blogs Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks