What is SharePoint Retreat South West London 2011?

It's on a Saturday morning for SharePoint 2010 developers and architects. Our goal is to improve communication allowing technical folk to see how things can be done in SP2010.

On the day

• 08:45 - Registration
• 09:00 - Session 1: LINQ to SharePoint presentation (What is it, when to use it, common issues, demo)
• 09:45 - Practice Exercise (Pair program practice exercise)
• 10:15 - Retrospective
• 10:30 - Practice Exercise (Pair program practice exercise)
• 11:00 - Retrospective
• 11:15 - Tea, coffee and pastries.
• 11:30 - Session 2: InfoPath 2010 presentation (New features, best practice, issues, future prospects, demo)
• 12:15 - Practice Exercise (Design and publish InfoPath forms)
• 12:45 - Retrospective
• 13:00 - Day ends or join us for a general discussion over lunch
  

As we pair program, you will need a laptop with:

• SharePoint 2010 (Enterprise edition preferable)
• Visual Studio 2010 (CKSDev 1.2 & SharePoint 2010 Power Tool extensions installed)
• InfoPath 2010
  

Sessions

Session 1 - Paul Beck

Demonstrate LINQ to SharePoint 2010. Use Visual Studio 2010 to creating a visual web part to perform CRUD operations on 2 SharePoint lists within a sandbox solution.

Session 2 - Ashraf Islam

Discuss and demonstrate integration of InfoPath with SharePoint. I will also discuss some of the new features that are helping InfoPath become a mainstream tool.

What Next?

If you’re a SharePoint architect or developer and you fancy spending a few hours with other like-minded people understanding SharePoint development options. Sign up.

This first event is limited to 10 candidates – so be quick.

If you fail to make the first 10, put your name down on the waiting list. We do ask that people who have signed up but for whatever reason can’t make it please make the space available to others.

How Much? – It's Free

Best of all this is a community activity, we are funding this event through sponsorship.

Thanks to: Infinity Consulting (UK) for sponsoring the day & Andrew Woodward for his advice and guidance

These technical presentations are aimed at level 200-300 on the Microsoft scale.

Twitter hash tag: #SPRetreat

My twitter: @PaulBeck1