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Andrew Connell

Andrew Connell is a developer, speaker, author and co-founder of Critical Path Training, which offers training courses to SharePoint developers, administrators, designers, power users and end users. He is a six-time MVP for Content Management Server (2005-2006) and SharePoint Server (2007-2010).
Email: andrew.connell@criticalpathtraining.com

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Using Custom Actions to Empower SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflows

By Andrew Connell, 10/04/2011

Andrew Connell shows you how to limit custom code while helping more users create custom workflows using SharePoint Designer 2010.

Performance Tips for Silverlight SharePoint Applications

By Andrew Connell, 04/15/2011

Andrew Connell demonstrates two techniques that developers can use to make their custom applications load faster and be more responsive when using the SharePoint 2010 Silverlight ...

How to Use LINQ in SharePoint 2010 Projects

By Andrew Connell, 03/28/2011

Microsoft introduced native support for LINQ in SharePoint 2010. If don’t have a firm grasp of how LINQ works, here’s what you need to know to use it in SharePoint 2010 projects, ...

How SharePoint 2010 Beefs Up Enterprise Content Management

By Andrew Connell, 12/01/2010

SharePoint 2010 is different: It brings ECM capabilities to where users use them, at SharePoint sites.

SharePoint Page Components: A Quick Dive

By Andrew Connell, 11/17/2010

Why and how to use SharePoint page components.

SharePoint Logging: What's New in SharePoint 2010

By Andrew Connell, 09/22/2010

Let's look at SharePoint 2010's new logging and debugging capabilities--they can help developers include additional monitoring and troubleshooting in their custom applications.

Extending LINQ to SharePoint Entity Models

By Andrew Connell, 08/11/2010

SharePoint 2010's support for LINQ makes it much easier to read and write data to/from SharePoint lists. You run a utility SPMETAL.EXE to generate the entity model used as the ...

SharePoint 2010's Client Object Model

By Andrew Connell, 05/26/2010

In this article, Andrew Connell introduces you to the three SharePoint 2010 client object models. You no longer have to create custom services to talk to SharePoint to satisfy ...

Using the OpenXML Productivity Tool

By Andrew Connell, 05/19/2010

This Microsoft tool can help to automate a tedious process.



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