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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.technet.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Chris Parkes: A PC is not just for Christmas... : Developer</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/chrisp/archive/tags/Developer/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: Developer</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>SharePoint Designer 2007 Now Available as Free Download</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/chrisp/archive/2009/04/03/sharepoint-designer-2007-now-available-as-free-download.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:49:49 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3221979</guid><dc:creator>chrisp</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/chrisp/comments/3221979.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.technet.com/chrisp/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3221979</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;SharePoint Designer is now available as a free download from Microsoft.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;SharePoint Designer can be used to customise SharePoint sites. I recorded a two minute webcast on how to use it to apply the sample themes which you can view &lt;a href="http://communityclips.officelabs.com/Video.aspx?videoId=47da7e09-4daf-420a-8ab3-03d5ec8525ef" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/photos/chrisp/images/3221976/original.aspx" width="171" height="198" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;You can download the full version directly from &lt;a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/bb190710.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and more information on the product can be found &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/spd" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Please note that if you are using &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/online/sharepoint-online.mspx" target="_blank"&gt;SharePoint Online&lt;/a&gt; (part of BPOS,) there are some customisation capabilities that are not supported in the current version of SharePoint Online, primarily the use of code in workflows or forms, or modifications that require deployment and configuration on the server (for example, security policies, web.config changes, etc.) or that require changes to the database schema.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Enjoy!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3221979" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/chrisp/archive/tags/SharePoint/default.aspx">SharePoint</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/chrisp/archive/tags/Developer/default.aspx">Developer</category></item><item><title>VS 2008 Extensions for SharePoint - March 2009 CTP Released</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/chrisp/archive/2009/03/20/vs-2008-extensions-for-sharepoint-march-2009-ctp-released.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:51:46 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3215663</guid><dc:creator>chrisp</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/chrisp/comments/3215663.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.technet.com/chrisp/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3215663</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;The March 2009 CTP Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint are now available.&amp;#160; You can download them directly from &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&amp;amp;FamilyID=fb9d4b85-da2a-432e-91fb-d505199c49f6" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/photos/chrisp/images/3215659/original.aspx" width="300" height="300" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Also included in this release are ten new themes for SharePoint built as VSeWSS projects.&amp;#160; You can download them from &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&amp;amp;FamilyID=0a87658f-20b8-4dcc-ad7a-09ad22641f3a" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Ciao for now :)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3215663" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/chrisp/archive/tags/ISV/default.aspx">ISV</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/chrisp/archive/tags/Microsoft+Office+System/default.aspx">Microsoft Office System</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/chrisp/archive/tags/SharePoint/default.aspx">SharePoint</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/chrisp/archive/tags/Developer/default.aspx">Developer</category></item></channel></rss>