The following videos are taken from the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Advanced IT Pro Training.   * * *   This Getting Started with SharePoint Server 2010 module (1 of 11) introduces Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 capabilities to IT professionals. Concepts covered include document sharing, lists, alerts, team sites, metadata, and more.   Presented by: John D. Ross, SharePoint MVP, SharePoint 911 Length: 54 minutes 15 seconds VIDEO: 1 | What can SharePoint Server 2010 Do for me?   * * *   This Getting Started with SharePoint Server 2010 module (2 of 11) covers software and hardware requirements, and the basic concepts of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.   Presented by: Randy...

By Cesar O.   Fonts are one of the biggest troubles for web designers to date. For ages we have been either using images or scripts to work around this issue.  If you want to use a fancy font, you have only a couple of alternatives: you could use @font-face, you could just use images (the most common way to do it), or you could use a rendering engine like SIFR  or cufon. This blog will explain roughly what these 2 alternatives are, some pros and cons and just an overview of how they work. If you want to learn in depth what they can do at its fullest I recommend going to http://wiki.novemberborn.net/sifr/ for SIFR3 and http://cufon.shoqolate.com/generate/ for cufon. SIFR This techniq...

By Omar L. In this tutorial, I will explain how to easily create an autocomplete with simple steps, with help of Microsoft Expression Blend 3.0 1 – We create a new application type: Silverlight 3 APPLICATION + WEBSITE, WE CLICK THE PATH, where Our solution will stay,  Then we choose the language and press the OK button. 2 – On the project tab, we open the MainPage.xaml archive, where we have the following code.   We now implement a  StackPanel control with the following properties, which will be the container of our Autocomplete control. <Grid x:Name=”LayoutRoot” Background=””>    <StackPanel HorizontalAlignment="Center" Margin="0" Width="400&...

 By Edith C.   When you are working on a SharePoint site, you usually do it on a development environment, so you need to think (even if you don’t want to) about the migration of the project to a production environment. This could be a nightmare if you are not prepared, but try to follow these tips on the deployment phase, and things will go much easier. Before deployment: ·         If you are deploying a publishing site, be sure you don’t have “Draft” or “Pending” documents or items. All unpublished items are not visible to anonymous users. A little tip: use the “Manage Content and Structure” option (for publishing sites) to filter all site items by “Drafts”, “Pending”, “Checked-out...

By Brenda V.   We all know the meaning of the term community; however it is in these past few years that the word has taken a larger significance because of the boom caused by the social media revolution. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a community is “a group of people with a common characteristic or interest living together within a larger society”. In the end it all refers to an entity made by a group of people that somehow communicate and collaborate toward achieving a common goal or are bounded together by similar interests. We can find communities in places like churches, schools, work, neighborhoods, etc., the main point here is that we as human beings like to b...

By Edith C. 1.       Insert the XML Web Part on your page: 2.       Open the Tool Pane, and click on XSL Editor button. A popup will appear, then copy and paste the following XSL code: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <xsl:stylesheet      version="1.0"      xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">      <xsl:output method="html" />      <xsl:template match="rss/channel">         <style type="text/css">             .twit_tweet a {                 font-size: 13px;                 color: blue;             }             .twit_date {                 ...

By Brenda V.   Outsourcing is referred as the act of a company to contract a third party vendor to provide that specific service, due to the fact that accomplishing those activities in-house would represent (most of the time) higher costs and the need of additional staff. The act of outsourcing has been around for many years now, small to large companies are born from the act of specializing in a certain activity to offer that experience and specialization to other companies whose core activity is completely different. When speaking about IT outsourcing, the interest for this type of service providers is normally focused on eastern countries like India or Pakistan, but sometimes ou...

by Sieena Giving customers real-time data access is a major advantage that many of them will be able to utilize in making their business practices that much more effective. By having direct access to their data as well as informational and comparative reports using the latest results, your clients will be empowered in maintaining and bettering their day-to-day operations. Instead of having to deal with waiting on reports that are not exactly up-to-date, your clients can now have instant access to the latest information as well as any analyses that have been done for them automatically.  With real-time data access and instant access to the latest results and analysis reports, not only i...

In the business world, nearshore outsourcing, or simply, nearshoring, refers to the use of another business for certain activities that are close to home.  In other words, it is the same thing as traditional outsourcing, only the companies that are being outsourced to, are in a close vicinity to the country in which the company that hired them is located.  For example, suppose a small software development firm in the US wants to find another company for IT outsourcing purposes.  It would not be unheard of in this particular industry to outsource that type of work to India or China.  If the US based company instead goes with a company from Mexico, then that would be an example of nearsho...

By Irvin G. When you are working with Windows Presentation Foundation, sooner or later you will find yourself working with floating panels. Once you are there, it will take no time until you need a floating panel that changes its height and/or width according to the area below. This is quite easy to do directly on the XAML, with no need to write a single line of code in C#. Let’s explore how it is done. First, you need to put all the controls you want to cover with your floating panel inside a StackPanel. <StackPanel x:Name="MainContent" Margin="25,50,25,0" VerticalAlignment="Top"> <Grid…> <Grid…> <Grid…> <Grid…> <...