.NET Adoption in Startups
July 6th, 2010 // 7:53 am @ Amar
A very interesting article over at Aaronontheweb about .NET Adoption in Startups. Some really excellent comments also giving very different viewpoints. Quite an interesting read.
Category : dotNet
HTML 5 with Visual Studio 2010
July 1st, 2010 // 12:55 pm @ Amar
If you have tried to create / edit an HTML 5 document in Visual Studio, you must have got a lot of validation errors. The current validator in Visual Studio 2010 supports HTML 4.01 or XHTML 1.1 Transitional as the highest standards.
To enable Intellisense to work with HTML 5, perform the following steps:
- Download the HTML5 support package for Visual Studio 2008 from the Visual Web Developer team here.
- Copy the html_5.xsd in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\Packages\schemas\html
- Edit the correct registry file and replace 9.0 with 10.0
The file will look like this ( 64 bit VS 2010 Ultimate for me ): - Run the registry file to merge it with your registry.
- Open Visual Studio 2010
- Go to Tools->Options->Text Editor->HTML->Validation
- Select target as HTML 5
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Packages\{1B437D20-F8FE-11D2-A6AE-00104BCC7269}\Schemas\Schema 23]
"File"="html\\html_5.xsd"
"Friendly Name"="HTML 5"
"URI"="http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/html-5"
This would allow you to get Intellisense for your HTML 5 based projects.
Unable to connect to SQL Server 2008
June 4th, 2010 // 11:06 pm @ Amar
When you first install SQL Server 2008, you are unable to connect to the SQL Server from another machine in the network. You have enabled remote connections and still whenever you try to connect, you get an access denied error.
Make sure the SQL Server Browser service is running. It is required in order to listen for incoming connections. It may even be Disabled ( as in the case of SQL 2008 R2 Enterprise ).
Category : SQL Server
SharePoint 2010 editions
June 4th, 2010 // 1:57 pm @ Amar
If you are getting confused about which edition of SharePoint you need, there is a nice handy chart over at Microsoft.
Thanks to my friend Tobias who tweeted about it. A very handy reference when you are trying to match required features with the editions.
Category : SharePoint
SharePoint 2010 advanced training
June 4th, 2010 // 10:44 am @ Amar
If you are an existing MOSS developer, and are tired of going thru training material which tells you what a webpart is and the difference between SPSite and SPWeb, there is some good news. Just stumbled across some free SharePoint 2010 training from Microsoft specifically aimed at existing MOSS developers. Definitely worth having a look if you want to quickly get an overview of this new and exciting platform.
- Developer Roadmap and Tools
- Core Development
- User Interfaces and Lists
- Data Access in Technologies
- Composite Solutions
- Enterprise Content Management
- Enterprise Search
- Business Intelligence
- Communities
- Development Life Cycle
Category : Featured & SharePoint
SharePoint 2010 Quick Start
June 4th, 2010 // 6:36 am @ Amar
For existing developers who want to quickly start developing for the SharePoint 2010 platform, Microsoft has published some quick start videos which are quite helpful and recommended.
You can view the 10 modules by clicking on the links below:
Category : Featured & SharePoint
SharePoint 2010 Launch Videos
May 13th, 2010 // 7:36 am @ Amar
For anyone who missed the Launch yesterday, just a reminder that they can see some of the videos online. Head over to the SharePoint 2010 Launch site and be a part of the launch of this fantastic new platform.
Category : Featured & SharePoint
SharePoint 2010 Books
March 3rd, 2010 // 1:00 am @ Amar
Recently someone asked me if any of the SharePoint 2010 books are out yet. I know there are quite a few books which are scheduled to release this spring / summer however not sure if there are any books currently available in the market. Will update once I find some good book recommendations for SharePoint 2010.
Category : SharePoint
Product Development
March 2nd, 2010 // 4:21 pm @ Amar
Recently I have started developing a few products for the SharePoint 2010 space. It has been quite a satisfying experience. Hopefully if everything is on schedule, you should be seeing first glimpses of some of our products this summer. We have been working quite hard in getting some unique and interesting concepts in the market. Hopefully it will help make your SharePoint 2010 experience even more enjoyable.
Category : SharePoint
SharePoint 2010
January 20th, 2010 // 2:05 pm @ Amar
Not sure how many of you have started working seriously with SharePoint 2010. I am pretty impressed with it, and am looking to do more and more work with it in the coming days. Going to try migrating a few test 2007 portals to 2010 and hopefully, the migration story will be a smooth success even for sites with complex customisations.
I have been playing with the API for a while and have migrated a few of the webparts we are working on for 2010. It was quite a smooth process. We are spending more and more time developing some exciting products for 2010, so looking forward to releasing the beta versions in a few months. Stay tuned.
Category : SharePoint