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User Accounts for SharePoint 2010 Farm Installation

Fri, 18 May 2012 23:25:16 GMT

SharePoint have services that require access to servers in network, it needs a few accounts to use as identity of several its services. For SharePoint Server Farm installation you need a specially configured SETUP account. THE SETUP ACCOUNT Setup Account is used to run SharePoint installation and configuration , which it uses to create configuration database, assign the farm account right to own that configuration database. Setup Account is also used to run the SharePoint preparation tool and the configuration wizard.

SharePoint Sites and Databases

Sun, 13 May 2012 16:13:21 GMT

This post describes the sites and databases that SharePoint create during installation. SharePoint creates at least creates three IIS Web Sites, one site is for SharePoint Central Administration, another site is to use SharePoint's lists, Sub Sites and libraries and third website is to support webservices, such as Business Data Connectivity, Security Token Service and Topology.

Using PowerPivot for SharePoint 2010

Wed, 09 May 2012 22:43:42 GMT

PowerPivot applications are created using Excel 2010 using PowerPivot add-in, You can read my post on configuring PowerPivot in SharePoint 2010 here. After creating a PowerPivot application then you need to upload it to SharePoint 2010 PowerPivot gallery so that it can share across organization.

Extending the Ribbon in SharePoint 2010

Tue, 08 May 2012 22:59:21 GMT

Presentation Layer point of view Ribbon is a big change in SharePoint 2010, which provides the consistent user experience between SharePoint and Microsoft Office products. Ribbon is defined in the form of XML and Javascript is used to provide client side functionality. The client side script is located in the following path %SharePointRootpath%\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\CUI.js Configuration of Ribbon is stored in XML file in %SharePointRootPath%\TEMPLATE\GLOBAL\XML\CMDUI.XML.

Ghosting and Unghosting in SharePoint 2010

Mon, 07 May 2012 22:29:22 GMT

Two main page types in SharePoint are Application Pages and Content Pages. Application Pages are rendered from the file system and Content Pages are usually rendered from content database. Site Pages are often loaded from content database. Master Pages or Page Templates are actually being loaded from the local file system.

SharePoint 2010 Server Object Model

Sun, 06 May 2012 18:28:04 GMT

Create a console project in Visual Studio and write a code snippet for each object to better understand the purpose. The classes in above diagram used for administration and configuration purpose and these are used for implementing service applications. SPFarm SPFarm represents the SharePoint Server Farm, You can use the below code to list the servers in SharePoint Farm

T-SQL features in SQL Server 2012

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:00:30 GMT

This post discuss about new T-SQL features in SQL Server 2012. The features which I am going to discuss here are Window Functions. Windowing and additional analytic functions are very cool and they are replacing cursors in T-SQL. Cursors are still available for use but windowing functions give better performance over cursors.

Single Page Applications using ASP.NET

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:34:20 GMT

Single Page Application is an architecture for web applications. It combines the best of web and desktop, built with HTML5 and JavaScript.Single Page Applications are rich and responsive. You do not need any browser plug-ins needs to install for this architecture, it is a standard web technology that is going to work on any device, operating system and browser.

What's new in Visual Studio 2011 and ASP.NET 4.5

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 23:03:35 GMT

This post discuss about features in upcoming version of ASP.NET and Visual Studio. Most of the features are around HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. It also discuss about tools and abilities that required to built the modern websites. I am summarizing the MadsKristensen presentation on What's new in Visual Studio 2011 and ASP.NET 4.5.

ASP.NET Web API

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:15:59 GMT

ASP.NET Web API is Framework for building for building HTTP services on top of the .NET Framework. It ships with ASP.NET MVC 4. You can install the ASP.NET MVC 4 from here. ASP.NET Web API is a integrated Framework resulted in joint effort from WCF and ASP.NET teams. WCF REST is now replaced by ASP.NET Web API. You can read the post to migrate your existing WCF Web API to ASP.NET Web API. This post briefly discuss about why we need it and how we can use it in ASP.NET and other projects.

Visual Studio 2011 Beta Developer Experience

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 16:08:51 GMT

This post briefly discusses about developer scenarios and improved developer experience in Visual Studio 2011 IDE. The modern IDE inside Visual Studio 2011 looks promising and contain simplified developer workflows.

Web Essentials and CSSCop for Visual Studio 2010

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:17:25 GMT

This post discuss about new features in Web Essentials extension and Image optimizer which helps developers to write web applications faster. A new extension CSSCop which is a FXCop for style sheets. You can download the Web Essentials for Visual Studio 2010 here. The CSSCop can be download from here. Download link for Image Optimizer is here. You can read my previous post on Web Standards update here to refresh your memories.

Visual Studio Achievements

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:22:52 GMT

What is Visual Studio Achievements? Gamification is an idea behind Visual Studio Achievements. Visual Studio is a powerful tool and it contains many features which you may not know about it. Visual Studio Achievement is something you earn when you unlock the Visual Studio feature. It is an add-in to Visual Studio and works with Visual Studio 2010 professional and above. If you are having a Visual Studio professional edition then you need to download FXcop to add-in work.

MVC Asynchronous Controller : The Basics

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:43:37 GMT

When I first saw the Asynchronous Controllers introduced in MVC 2, I couldn't wait to start playing around. I thought that it would be a really easy to get up and running with a simple example, but after searching online for a few working examples - pretty much all of them used an event based pattern that wasn't easy to understand. In this blog post I am going to run through a really simple example that will show you the basics of Asynchronous Controllers, and show you how easy they really are.

Microsoft Codename Cloud Numerics

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:32:54 GMT

Microsoft Codename "Cloud Numerics" is a new .NET programming framework which can be used to perform intensive numeric computations on large distributed data sets. If you are some one who works with large data sets, extracting the data and forming and simulating the models then you might need more computing power and memory.

Windows Store for Developers

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:48:53 GMT

Windows store is really an important part of Windows 8 platform. Windows store is the place where user find the metro-style apps. Windows Store is the distribution point for metro style applications. The idea behind building the windows store is connecting people to as many apps as possible.

Configuring Custom Master Page in SharePoint 2010

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:25:49 GMT

This post discusses about configuring custom master page in SharePoint 2010 website. You might have use custom images, custom style sheets to create new master page in SharePoint. Follow the below steps to apply custom master page in SharePoint 2010.

In Managed Code We Trust: Our Recent Battles With the .Net GC

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:26:37 GMT

Following up an earlier article this week, Sam Saffron of Stackoverflow expands on how they mitigated performance problems caused by the .Net generational garbage collector.

Impersonation and Delegation in WCF

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:37:07 GMT

Impersonation is a technique that WCF Services use to authorize the caller's identity to access to service resources such as files and database tables. Service resources can be located either on local service machine or remotely hosted. The resources are being accessed by WCF Service's process identity or specific windows identity.

Application Lifecycle Management in Visual Studio 11

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:13:20 GMT

This post discusses about new Application Lifecycle Management features in Visual Studio 11. Application Lifecycle Management represents how do you prioritize your requirement, how do you breakdown them into tasks and how do you implement those tasks.

How to choose right WCF binding?

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 21:28:12 GMT

Binding in WCF defines how clients can connect with your service. The base class for all bindings in WCF is System.ServiceModel.Channels.Binding. A Binding includes definition for WS-* protocols used, the message encoding and the transport protocol.

Transport and Message Security in WCF

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 06:15:35 GMT

This post discusses about transport and message security. In Transport Security user credentials and claims are passed using transport layer. The transport protocols are TCP, HTTP, MSMQ and IPC. Each of these protocols have their own mechanism for passing user credentials. The most common approach is using secure socket layer(SSL) for encrypting the details which sent over HTTPS.

WCF 4.5 Features

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:52:45 GMT

This post discusses the new features in WCF 4.5. There have been significant improvements in WCF 4.5 on configuration. Simplifying the generated configuration file in client A client configuration file is generated when you add a service reference in Visual Studio 2010. The configuration files in earlier version of WCF contained the value of every binding property even if it is a default value. In WCF 4.5 Configuration files contain binding properties that are set to non-default value.

OData and Windows Azure

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:25:04 GMT

This post discusses about building a service using CLOUD platform that can reach various devices. What is OData and Where it fits in? OData is a specification that makes very easy to exchange and interact with data on the web. So OData is all about connecting up devices to the CLOUD. This post also discuss how to create a OData Service in Visual Studio 2010 and host it on Windows Azure then explains how to consume the service on Windows phone Mango.

Performance Tricks to Metro Style Web Applications

Sun, 09 Oct 2011 21:45:27 GMT

What is web performance? It is actually when does the user perform an action it self and when does those results occur on the screen. The three key factors to web performance is Network, CPU and Memory.