By Oliver N.
As we approach the new major release of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 it is important to review the newset of features and how your organization can benefit from them:
First, SharePoint is more than just another application, it is a Software Platform, and it is platform in the sense where not only developers can build with the Rapid Application Development Tools, but also end users through Composites and Mashup Tools, enabling them to really customize and adapt the product to their needs.
SharePoint provides a unified technology infrastructure and costs for your organization. No more separate purchases for a Collaboration System, another for a Business Intelligence Sys...
By Edith Colegio
If you haven’t already, you should think about adding social capabilities to your website. This will help you attract new users, and keep them on your website for longer and get them to come back more often. The use of existing toolkits like the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit can be very useful to achieve this.
Using the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit
You can use this toolkit to integrate presence, instant messaging, and contact information using the following interfaces
Windows Live Messenger UI Controls
These controls are a set of UI building blocks. The UI Controls are easy to add to an existing XHTML page. They provide a professional UI ...
By Otoniel Diaz
We are always looking our databases as a bunch of tables and columns designed to store the data according to an application requirements. But when you are in charge of talking care of these tables and rows you actually need to review you start to wonder how to do it, and how SQL Server does manage the so called Metadata.
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 metadata is represented in system views which are divided in 16 main categories.
System views objects can belong to a different type of objects which can be:
1. Dynamic Management View
2. Dynamic Management Function ()
3. Catalog View
4. System Administration
The most famous view may be is the ...
By Edith C
Building a SharePoint solution can be a mess, but using this tool, the process becomes very easy and intuitive.
Feature creation
Prerequisites:
· Install WSP Builder tool
1. Create a new project on Visual Studio (i.e. Feeds)
2. Add a new item on the project, right clicking Project Name, Add… New Item… WSP Builder Templates, select Web Part Feature set a name for it (i.e. Feeds), and click Add.
3. Set the name and description of the new feature, and set the scope: Web, Site, WebApplication or Farm. Click OK.
4. Your feature its created, and the generated files are:
· 12/TEMPLATE/FEATURES/Feeds folder (this is...
Silverlight provides a great set of controls, with which you can capture and display data. While the properties for the controls can be assigned directly to each control, in our .XAML file using attributes, some properties can be duplicated among different controls, causing difficulties in our .XAML maintenance.Here is an example of this issue.
<Button x:Name=”btnSubmit” FontFamily=”Arial”
FontWeight=”Bold” Width=”100″ Height=”25″ Margin=”10″ />
<Button x:Name=”btnCancel” FontFamily=”Arial”
FontWeight=”Bold” Width=”100″ Height=”25″
Margin=”10″ />You can see that both controls define the same value for FontFamily, FontWeight, Width, Height and Margin. Maybe this XAML works...