Community

SharePoint MVP since 2006MSDN community contributor awards

The notion of community is important to us, so is educating people on the true power of SharePoint products and technologies!

Our practice lead, Reza Alirezaei, has been a fixture of the SharePoint community for many years.He has been a Microsoft MVP for SharePoint Server since 2006 which he still is today. Our development team reviewed and provided feedback to the SPG team for their amazing work in building the proven patterns and best practices. Our development team also used many of the building blocks of this amazing collection in their projects in real life projects.
Development Horizon has been recognized by Microsoft for notable contributions to MSDN for 2007,2008 and 2011.Technical staff at Development Horizon have been delivering sessions in conferences, user groups and local events since 2007. Below, you will find a summary of their involvement in the local and international SharePoint communities.

2011 – 2012

Coming Soon

2010 – 2011

SharePoint Summit 2011 (Feb/2011)


Markham .Net/SharePoint User Group (Dec/2010)


Techdays Winnipeg (Dec/2010)


Techdays Calgary (Dec/2010)


Toronto SharePoint User Group (Nov/2010)


Toronto SharePoint Saturday (Nov/2010) – Session 1


Toronto SharePoint Saturday (Nov/2010) – Session 2


Techdays Ottawa (Nov/2010)


Techdays Montreal (Nov/2010)


Techdays Toronto (Oct/2010)


Techdays Vancouver (Sept/2010)


Why SharePoint is a great application development platform
Do you want to find out why SharePoint is a great application development platform? Join this session and learn why SharePoint is rapidly becoming many organizations #1 platform for building and deploying enterprise-scale applications. This session will also include an overview and demonstration of the new features in SharePoint 2010. This session will be split 40/60 between lecture and demonstrations.[More]


Architectural and Code Level Best Practices for Developing Applications in SharePoint 2010
In this 400-level session we will explore some of the best practices that you should know for developing enterprise-level applications, built on the top of SharePoint 2010 platform. We will also cover some of the architectural decisions you need to make upfront, and then will deep dive into code-level best practices and some of the IT Pro enhancements, made to the core platform, that may affect the design and implementation of your applications. This presentation will be split 70/30 between lecture and the actual demonstrations.[More]


Building InfoPath Applications in SharePoint 2010
With the power of SharePoint Server 2010 platform, Forms Services 2010 represents even more significant improvement over its predecessor. Some of the improvement came from the core platform itself and some of them were made available in InfoPath 2010 and Forms Services 2010. In this session, we will explore new features in InfoPath and Forms Services 2010 from form authoring all the way to publishing your forms to SharePoint.[More]


Markham .Net/SharePoint User Group (April/2010)


2009 – 2010

Toronto SharePoint Camp 2010


Montreal SharePoint Summit 2010 Session #1


Montreal SharePoint Summit 2010 Session #2


Toronto Code Camp 2009


SharePoint Saturdays 2009


Microsoft Techdays 2009


Keynote – Markham User Group Second Meeting


Keynote – Markham User Group Third Meeting


Keynote – Markham User Group Fourth Meeting


Turning Chaos into Order: Best Practices for Developing SharePoint Applications
Toronto : Toronto Code Camp – April 25, 2009 [More]


Get the Best out of Your Investment- Integrating Reporting Services with SharePoint
Montreal : SharePoint Summit 2009 – April 8,2009 [More]


Get the Best out of Your Investment- Integrating Reporting Services with SharePoint
Webcast : Microsoft Tech Days Virtual Tour 2009 – April 1,2009 [More]


SharePoint Q&A with Reza Alirezaei
Tehran (IRAN) : SharePoint User Group – February 15 , 2009 [More]


Interview with Reza Alirezaei
Podcast : Conducted by Stephen Ibaraki – January 14,2009 [More]


Information and Collaboration in One Place – Integrating SQL Server Reporting Services with SharePoint
Vancouver : Microsoft Tech Days Canada 2008 Tour – January 22, 2009 [More]


Information and Collaboration in One Place – Integrating SQL Server Reporting Services with SharePoint
Vancouver : SQL Server User Group – January 22, 2009


2008 – 2009

Information and Collaboration in One Place – Integrating SQL Server Reporting Services with SharePoint
Calgary : Microsoft Tech Days Canada 2008 Tour – December 11, 2008 [More]


Information and Collaboration in One Place – Integrating SQL Server Reporting Services with SharePoint
Winnipeg : Microsoft Tech Days Canada 2008 Tour – December 04, 2008 [More]


Information and Collaboration in One Place – Integrating SQL Server Reporting Services with SharePoint
Toronto : Microsoft Tech Days Canada 2008 Tour – Oct 29, 2008 [More]


Deep dive into the SharePoint Community Kit (CKS): IEE project
Stockholm (Sweden) : SEF 2008 – Sep 8, 2008 [More]


Provide Access to Business Data Securely and Manageably
Toronto : Microsoft EnergizeIT – May 24,2008 [More]


Provide Access to Business Data Securely and Manageably
Toronto : DevTeach / SQLTeach – May 12-16,2008 [More]


Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint In ASP.NET 2.0
Toronto : DevTeach / SQLTeach – May 12-16,2008 [More]


Build Your Community by integrating Microsoft CRM and SharePoint
Washington (USA) : Protech Customer Conference – April 30,2008 [More]


Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint In ASP.NET 2.0
Toronto : Code Camp 2008 – March 1,2008 [More]


Information and Collaboration in One Place – Integrating SQL Server Reporting Services with SharePoint
Toronto : SharePoint Camp – January 24 , 2008 [More]


Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint In ASP.NET 2.0
Toronto : SharePoint User Group – January 16,2008


2007 – 2008

SharePoint Programming API Kick Start
Toronto : Visual Basic User Group – November 5,2007


SharePoint Programming API Kick Start
Toronto : SharePoint Camp – October 20,2007


Creating Workflows with ASP.NET Forms
Toronto : SharePoint Camp – October 20,2007 [More]


Top Tips to write better code for SharePoint
Toronto : SharePoint User Group – June 20,2007 [More]


How to build 3-tier applications in MOSS 2007
Toronto : Code Camp 2008 – March 31,2007 [More]


Site Columns, Content Types and more!
Toronto : SharePoint User Group – January 10,2007 [More]