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SharePoint 2010 Quick Start
Amar Galla
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:
Module 1: Getting Started: Building Web Parts in SharePoint 2010
Module 2: What Developers Need to Know About SharePoint 2010
Module 3: Building Blocks for Web Part Development in SharePoint 2010
Module 4: Accessing SharePoint 2010 Data and Objects with Se [read].
Posted: Fri, Jun 4th '10 |
Edit in Datasheet View not working
Amar Galla
If you are using a fresh install of Office 2010 and try to connect to a Windows SharePoint 2007 site to edit a list in datasheet view, you can get this error :
The list cannot be displayed in Datasheet View for one or more of the following reasons:
-A datasheet component compatible with Windows SharePoint Services is not installed. -Your web browser does not support ActiveX controls. -Support for ActiveX controls is disabled.
The datasheet view uses the Access 2007 engine to render itself, a [read].
Posted: Thu, May 27th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 Launch Videos
Amar Galla
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. [read].
Posted: Thu, May 13th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 Books
Amar Galla
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. [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 3rd '10 |
Product Development
Amar Galla
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. [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 2nd '10 |
SharePoint 2010
Amar Galla
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 [read].
Posted: Wed, Jan 20th '10 |
Happy New Year
Amar Galla
Wishing everyone a happy 2010. It has been a long time since I blogged. After around 5+ years of blogging, I guess I was a bit burnt out. Personal and professional life was also demanding more time, and I somehow felt less and less inclined to blog. Without any kind of plans, I suddenly felt like checking my blog today. Upgraded to the latest version of Wordpress. Will fix the theme a bit so that it does not look broken. Let’s see how it goes. No promises if I will be blogging regularly. [read].
Posted: Sun, Jan 10th '10 |
Microsoft Bing goes live
Amar Galla
I suddenly noticed that Bing.com, Microsoft’s new revolutionary search engine, was now up. It is showing a beta logo, but the search engine is up and running. Have heard lots of good things about it, so going to give it a try for a few days.
Do we have a Google killer here? What do you think? [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 4th '09 |
Typemock ASP.NET Bundle
Amar Galla
Hi everyone. After using Typemock on one of my projects, I can definitely say that it is a fantastic product for your unit testing. Have just heard about a promotion which Typemock is running currently to promote their new produt and giving away licences. See the details below:
Unit Testing ASP.NET? ASP.NET unit testing has never been this easy.
Typemock is launching a new product for ASP.NET developers – the ASP.NET Bundle - and for the launch will be giving out FREE licenses to bloggers and [read].
Posted: Thu, May 21st '09 |
Getting all XML Key Value pairs in XSL
Amar Galla
May times when I try to design a XSL against an unknown data stream, I would like to know what all values are available. Here is a nifty XSL which I have been using for a while. ( I am sure there are many versions out there ).
?????? Name: Value:
?
It gives a list of all??elements with their values. Quite handy to check if you have got the element name wrong etc. [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 30th '09 |
SharePoint developer introduction
Amar Galla
Just came across a nice site to introduce SharePoint to .NET developers. A nice resource area for existing .NET developers who want to get up to speed with SharePoint. [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 15th '09 |
Happy New Year
Amar Galla
Finally 2008 is over. What a year it has been. Hoping that 2009 brings lots of hope, prosperity, happiness and joy to everyone. Wishing everyone a very happy 2009 [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 1st '09 |
SharePoint RTM Support Going Away
Amar Galla
Just heard it over at Spence Harbar’s blog that from January 13th 2009, no support will be provided for SharePoint systems which are not SP1 patched. If you have not already applied SP1, don’t delay and be caught out with an unsupported system.
See: Microsoft Support Lifecycle for their products [read].
Posted: Thu, Dec 11th '08 |
Blog Changes
Amar Galla
While recently migrating hosting servers, I got an opportunity to re-examine my choice of a blogging engine. I had stopped blogging for a while, and hence was tempted to start anew, however had some good past content which I wanted to preserve for myself.
I initially started blogging with Wordpress, and went thru a painful process to migrate all content to Community Server a few years ago. It was a good system. It still is, but it is meant for very large blogging networks, and not very suitable [read].
Posted: Thu, Nov 27th '08 |
Changes to my Feed
Amar Galla
I have decided to migrate my blog from Community Server back to Wordpress. The blog URL will also change from amargalla.com/blog to amargalla.com. The RSS feed for this blog will be available at http://amargalla.com/feed , however I will be updating my Feedburner setting and hence, no change is necessary for people who subscribe via Feedburner URL. [read].
Posted: Wed, Nov 26th '08 |
Configure ASP.NET Websites to output XHTML to W3C Validator
Amar Galla
In my previous blog entry, I showed how to configure ASP.NET to output XHTML to the browsers. However, when the W3C Validator checks the page, ASP.NET does not know the W3C user agent and hence sends out non compliant code. The trick is in the w3cvalidator.browser file available on idunno.org. Just drop the file in your App_Browsers folder and ASP.NET will send out XHTML compliant code to the Validator. [read].
Posted: Wed, Nov 12th '08 |
Making ASP.NET XHTML Compliant
Amar Galla
ASP.NET by default does not emit XHTML compliant code. Consider this scenario. You have carefully created an XHTML compliant design. Created your pages using ASP.NET and when you try to validate your page, it fails with the error :
Line x, Column y: there is no attribute “name”.
This leaves you a bit stunned, as ASP.NET adds the name tag to the form on compile and you don't have any control over it. However, don't worry. There is a solution. Just add to following under system.web in your [read].
Posted: Wed, Nov 12th '08 |
Configure ASP.NET Websites to output XHTML to W3C Validator
Amar Galla
In my previous blog entry, I showed how to configure ASP.NET to output XHTML to the browsers. However, when the W3C Validator checks the page, ASP.NET does not know the W3C user agent and hence sends out non compliant code. The trick is in the w3cvalidator.browser file available on idunno.org. Just drop the file in your App_Browsers folder and ASP.NET will send out XHTML compliant code to the Validator. [read].
Posted: Wed, Nov 12th '08 |
Free CodeRush Xpress
Amar Galla
Just came across this page from Microsoft about an announcement for the availability of a free version of CodeRush called CodeRush Xpress. Might be worth looking into for faster development and refactoring. Definitely worth having a look if you have never used CodeRush before. Good news for those who have been in the sidelines due to the cost involved. Now you get a chance to use some functionality of CodeRush for free. [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 10th '08 |
Windows 2008 as a Workstation
Amar Galla
This is definitley old news, however I have using the steps outlined on this site to configure my Windows Server 2008 x64 environment to run as a workstation. It's been over 2 months since I have been running it and it is just fantastic. Everything works beautifully.
Definitely a great resource in you want to use Windows Server 2008 on your development laptop. Recommended. [read].
Posted: Sun, Nov 9th '08 |
Hyper-V Gadget for Windows Sidebar
Amar Galla
One of the pains I have with Hyper-V is that evertime I want to launch my VM, I have to open the Hyper-V Manager ( accept the UAC prompt ) and then launch my VM. I found a very nice gadget called the Hyper-V Monitor Gadget for Windows Sidebar written by Tore Lervik. It resides on the Windows Sidebar and shows the satus of all the VM's. Also provides single click interfaces ( with any UAC prompt ) to start / stop / pause VM's and also to open the Virtual Machine Connection for quick connection to [read].
Posted: Sat, Nov 8th '08 |
Umbraco
Amar Galla
During last month, I have been playing with a lot of open source / free CMS systems. I particularly liked Umbraco a lot and am really impressed at their approach. If you are looking for a CMS system to base your next website on, I would definitely suggest you to have a look at Umbraco. [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 3rd '08 |
A new beginning
Amar Galla
It's been a while since I posted. I have been involved in bringing my dream to reality. For a quick update, I have left my job to start my own company Toolagen Limited. Currently keeping very busy in giving shape to this organisation while working on several consulting projects on SharePoint / MOSS. Working for myself will enable me to work on even more engaging and complex SharePoint / MOSS projects while creating a service delivery team to develop and deploy complex MOSS solutions.
We are als [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 3rd '08 |
Virtualization on Windows Server 2008
Amar Galla
One of the features of Windows 2008 I really wanted to try was HyperV. It's good, faster than Virtual Server, supports HyperVisor etc. etc. However, I have removed the Hyper V Role from my system. The reason being loss of sleep. I just can't live with it. I know the Hyper V team has given some explaination about the technical problems etc. but to me those are more like excuses. Why will a laptop with Hyper V not go in sleep mode when there are no VM's running? I can understand that they have kep [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 31st '08 |
Loving Windows 2008
Amar Galla
I recently installed Windows Server 2008 64 bit edition to my laptop. I agree getting all drivers were a little bit of effort, and I still have a driver missing for an unknown device which keeps prompting me, but I will say the effort and pain was well worth it. The installation process was really smooth. I did format my hard drive and make a clean install. It was nice to finally make a move to 64 bit and what better than Server 2008. It's a fantastic OS. Possibly one of the best Microsoft has p [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 31st '08 |
Windows Server 2008 Step by Step Guide
Amar Galla
I have been taking quite a bit of interest in Windows Server 2008 these days. Along with getting ready for the next server platform it also seems like the best platform to run natively on my development laptop. would make the perfect environment for MOSS development.
For those interested, Microsoft has released a bunch of Step by Step Guides which will help get up to speed with Windows Server 2008. Definitely worth a look if you ever get stuck trying to configure the server and can't find the re [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 7th '08 |
Open XML SDK Released
Amar Galla
The release version of the Open XML SDK is now out. The download page mentions April CTP under the Description, however, this is the June 08 version. The download details will show that it was published on 6/10/2008. So go ahead and start playing with it, if you have not done so in the past. Will see if I can write a few articles on using this soon. [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 11th '08 |
Analyse your Source Code
Amar Galla
I recently gave Microsoft Source Analysis a try. It was released sometime ago, and act's as an add-in in Visual Studio to check the source code with some coding rules. This is different from FxCop which checks assemblies. This checks your source code before it is compiled right in Visual Studio editor.I did like the tool. Quite handy, but will need a little bit getting used to.
Some companies may need to change some rules to match their coding standards. For people who don't have a particularly [read].
Posted: Fri, Jun 6th '08 |
Blogging again
Amar Galla
Some of my old readers would have noticed that I've stopped blogging for quite a while now. Thing in my personal life, kept me busy and off blogging.
However, I am very much here, and dying to start blogging again. While I was in hibernation, the world has moved ahead leaps and bounds. MOSS is getting more and more popularity, and I am seeing people get excited about SharePoint more than I have ever seen before. I have been working with MOSS for a little while now, and it is HUGE. So while I be [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 2nd '08 |
Top 10 New Features of Windows Server 2008
Amar Galla
As Windows 2008 is now officially released ( and people suspect that the release of Vista SP1 is similar to the codebase of Windows Server 2008 ), it would be nice recap the top new features which are making its way to us. I found this nice article which introduces to some of the fantastic changes coming with Windows Server 2008. I am really looking forward to a GUI less set of servers running on a dual core machine and providing multiple services. Oh, and the self healing NTFS sounds cool. Chec [read].
Posted: Thu, Feb 7th '08 |
Article on Microsoft's proposed offer to Yahoo!
Amar Galla
SearchEngineLand has a nice write up about this proposed acquisition. It discusses the event in detail and portrays a nice picture of what is going on and why. Definitely worth a read.
There are also live blogged notes from the Microsoft conference call for the Yahoo! bid at 8:30. [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 1st '08 |
Microsoft's offer letter to Yahoo!
Amar Galla
Steve Ballmer's letter to the board of Yahoo! is available for us to read at the Microsoft Presspass site. Definitely worth a read. I skipped the financial figures, and tried to find out what is Microsoft looking after with this acquisition. Search dominance, online advertising market share, or just an increase in long term profits by bringing Yahoo! financial figures in it's Balance Sheet.
We keep hearing things about Microsoft and Yahoo acquiring various firms related to Search, Advertising an [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 1st '08 |
Microsoft proposes to Yahoo!
Amar Galla
Definitely one of the biggest news I have seen in my career. Microsoft today proposed to acquire Yahoo! for $31 per share. That puts the value of Yahoo! at approximately $44.6 billion.
Financials apart, this will have a BIG effect on the search and online advertising landscape. Combined together, it will become a bigger and meaner rival to Google, and we can definitely see exciting things happening in the search and online advertising space. One thing is for sure. Exciting things ahead in the o [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 1st '08 |
Debugging .NET Source Code
Amar Galla
Shawn Burke has a nice article which explains how to enable Visual Studio to download the symbol files and enable debugging for the .NET Source Code in your project. This is definitely a big help, as we no longer have to treat internal .NET assemblies as a black box, but gives us a the power to find out why an error happened and what kind of data the runtime expects?
Have a look at this excellent article and start configuring your development environment to support it. [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 17th '08 |
NewsGator for Free
Amar Galla
One of the biggest new announcements I have heard in a while. Newsgator which is the leader for RSS Clients, has recently announced that it is making it's clients FREE. Yes, you heard it. They are free to download and use. Yipeeeee. This includes FeedDemon, NewsGator Inbox, NewsGator Go ( most exciting ), and also allows free sync with NewsGator online. NewsGator Go and my Windows mobile is the perfect combination. Head over to NewsGator and download the Free Clients today. [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 10th '08 |
Happy New Year
Amar Galla
Wishing all my readers a very Happy New Year. May this year bring lots of joys and happiness into your lives, cause after all, those are the things which matter most. I am not a person who religiously makes resolutions and tried to keep them, but this year, I will definitely keep one promise. That is to all of you. I will write more often and write stuff of better quality. As you all know, my blog migration story is over. This blog is up and running. Spent most part of the last year in getting a [read].
Posted: Wed, Jan 2nd '08 |
Success at last
Amar Galla
I have finally managed to port my blog from Wordpress to Community Server 2007. It was not at all a pleasant affair, but a very rough one. However, I am quite pleased with the result. I lost quite a bit of links as it was difficult to retain old links, and hence will loose my google rating, but don't care. It will rebuilt again in course of time as I write more content. The one thing I managed to get it right was to retain all comments. Hence, as far as I am concerned, this migration is a succes [read].
Posted: Thu, Dec 13th '07 |
Migrating from Wordpress to Community Server
Amar Galla
Hello,
I have been thinking about shifting to Community Server for quite a while, but due to lack of migration tools decided to hold back. Finally I have taken the dip and decided to migrate to Community Server. It has been quite a painful process and am currently migrating my posts over to this system. I hope to have all the old posts migrated very soon to this new system. [read].
Posted: Thu, Dec 6th '07 |
dotNet 3.5 Namespace Poster
Amar Galla
Just a quick update. Found this cool poster of .net 1.0 - 3.5 namespaces. Definitely a must to hang around any developer's cubicle ;) Download it straight from Microsoft. [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 20th '07 |
New laptop
Amar Galla
As promised I am back. My development laptop has arrived. It is more like beauty and the beast put together. ( A real beauty to look at and work on while performing like a beast ). Many people have asked me more details about the laptop and I will try to review it later on sometime.
I finally decided to buy a Rock Xtreme 770 from Rock Direct. The configuration I went for is as follows :
Intel Core 2 Duo T7500
New Nvidia GeForce 8700M GT 512MB (DX10) Graphics Card
Hi-res 17" WUXGA+ Display
2GB D [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 30th '07 |
Hello Everyone
Amar Galla
I know I have been unable to keep my promise to start writing to this blog again. There are several reasons for that. After so long on not updating my blog, I was thinking that I will hardly have any readers left but all your comments proved me wrong. Logged in after ages to see a lot of encouraging comments which did in fact motivate me to start writing again. One of the factors for not writing much about MOSS 2007 was unavailability of a decent machine at home to run MOSS. I am happy to said t [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 2nd '07 |
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