One of the sorely missing pieces in the Silverlight toolbox for SharePoint developers is a people picker control. There is a control that SharePoint provides, which you can use in a web part or custom layouts page (the PeopleEditor class). Silverlight...

Okay, this will hopefully be the longest titled post I ever write, but I wanted to make sure it covered all the relevant technologies being discussed. This is an area that I’ve heard a more rumbling about recently, which is really all about how...

I recently spent too much time trying to get an ADFS Server upgraded, in my case from Windows Server 2008 to 2008 R2. Like many SharePoint folks that are just trying to get along in a claims happy world, seemingly simple things like this can cause a surprising...

I know that there have been a number of posts and articles out there about using diagnostics in Windows Azure. This, in fact, was part of the problem when I went to flesh out the details of what’s available recently. I found a bunch of different...