Yesterday I thought its time to convert my SharePoint 2010 development environment Hyper-V vhd to a new vhdx. Why bother? I used my environment hosted on my lovely Lenovo W520 to develop a migration tool to convert a SP2007 environment to a SP2010 environment. Therefore I needed ~300GB free space – easy with Hyper-V. Just extend your virtual drive and you are good to go. Afterwards you can easily shrink the disk back again – at least I thought so.

A ShareCamp.at Retrospective My colleague Sebastian and I arrived at ShareCamp in Vienna (Austria) at Friday evening. And it started well – we meet a lot of people very known in the German – and now Austrian Community. To name a bunch: Toni Pohl, Martina Grom, Christian Glessner, Thorsten Hans, Hans Brender, Heike Ritter - not a complete list. We had a, lets call it pre-conference party. A great start of a ShareCamp.

Thorsten Hans (@ThorstenHans) and Christian Glessner (@cglessner) showed us how to develop SharePoint Apps (SharePoint hosted, Provider hosted). Live coding Thorsten recommended to use the REST calls instead the JS client object model – they are faster and “more” future-proof. Their experience was that autohosted is a little odd, the price conditions are not very clear. So there is provider hosted (Azure) or SharePoint hosted remaining. Key takeaway I really like their sessions – zero slides sessions – good content.