Tuesday, April 03, 2007

SharePoint Chicago is now moved to www.SharePointCoskun.com

Hi All,

I've moved my blog to a new host and here is the url for it. Please be sure to visit it.
http://www.sharepointcoskun.com

Thursday, April 27, 2006

Building a DAL using Strongly Typed TableAdapters and DataTables in VS 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0

Very good article on how asp.net 2.0 is providing strongly typed TableAdapters and DataTables.

Building a DAL using Strongly Typed TableAdapters and DataTables in VS 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0

M-Dollar: Microsoft's Monad becomes Windows PowerShell

M-Dollar: Microsoft's Monad becomes Windows PowerShell: "Microsoft's Monad becomes Windows PowerShell
Earlier today at the Microsoft Management Summit 2006, Microsoft Senior Vice President Bob Muglia announced that Monad, Microsoft's command line interface and language, would be renamed to Windows PowerShell. Besides the renaming, Muglia also revealed several other juicy tidbits about the tool.
As of today, Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of Windows PowerShell is available for download in both x64 and x86 versions. The documentation has been updated and is available online as well. Muglia also told the audience that Exchange 2007 and Microsoft Operations Manager would be built on top of Windows PowerShell, and future management tools would use similar architecture�a GUI with an underlying Windows PowerShell.
The Windows PowerShell blog contains a plethora of information about the product. In a post today, Jeffrey Snover made two major claims: you can count on Windows PowerShell shipping and it is 'ready for the big leagues'. In the fine print, Snover had an interesting comment on changes that have occurred in the updated API.
The names of many of the APIs have changed to refect [sic] the new name (basically you'll have to search and replace MSH with PS). We're sorry about the inconvience [sic] of this, we always expected the official name to be the Microsoft Shell or Management Shell so we felt confident that MSH was safe to use. When Marketing saw what the technology actually did and the incredibly positive reaction that customers and partners, they decided that we warrented [sic] a 'Marquee' name (I'm not making this up). Marquee names are given to those features that are going to be emphasized during the Marketing push. So here is the net of all that: the downside is that you've got to change your A"

Thursday, March 09, 2006

Intel's Ultra Mobile PC on track for Q1 release | TG Daily

Intel's Ultra Mobile PC on track for Q1 release | TG Daily: "Chicago (IL) - Intel is gearing up for the release of its handtop computer platform later in this quarter: The first 'Ultra Mobile PCs' (UMPCs) will arrive with a standby time of a week and include WWAN and GPS capability. A second batch of UMPCs will follow in the second half of this year and come with Windows Vista preinstalled, TG Daily has learned"

Monday, March 06, 2006

Microsoft Office Assistance: Using SharePoint Configuration Analyzer

Microsoft Office Assistance: Using SharePoint Configuration Analyzer: "SharePoint Configuration Analyzer is a tool that you can download from the Microsoft Download Center to analyze and report on your Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services installation and content. SharePoint Configuration Analyzer reports on a wide range of configuration errors and also copies a set of log files, configuration files, and other data to a results folder for further analysis or archiving. "

Microsoft Office Assistance: Using SharePoint Configuration Analyzer

Microsoft Office Assistance: Using SharePoint Configuration Analyzer: "SharePoint Configuration Analyzer is a tool that you can download from the Microsoft Download Center to analyze and report on your Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services installation and content. SharePoint Configuration Analyzer reports on a wide range of configuration errors and also copies a set of log files, configuration files, and other data to a results folder for further analysis or archiving. "

Thursday, March 02, 2006

ASP.NET HOW DO I Video Series


I've been using these as training it's a must see.


ASP.NET HOW DO I Video Series: Caching (Part 1)
This video is part one of a two-part series introducing the new caching features of ASP.NET 2.0. Start with a demonstration of Page Output Caching followed by an overview of the new ASP.NET 2.0 Database Caching support for SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005. Topics include using the aspnet_regsql.exe utility to add SQL caching support to a SQL Server database, creating a SQL cache dependency to eliminate unnecessary connections to the database, enabling table-level caching, and enabling enhanced caching support using SQL Server 2005 Change Notifications.

ASP.NET HOW DO I Video Series: Caching (Part 2)
This video is part two of a two-part series introducing the new caching features of ASP.NET 2.0. Topics include the new Partial-Page Output Caching feature of ASP.NET 2.0 followed by an overview of the Cache API, which demonstrates how to efficiently bind a data control to an XML file.

ASP.NET HOW DO I Video Series: Create a Full-Featured Customer Login Portal
Get an overview of the major features and improvements introduced with Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition and ASP.NET 2.0. Follow along through the creation of a fictitious customer portal to learn about topics including Master Pages, Themes, database access, Membership, Roles, the Web Site Administration Tool, site navigation, and user profiles.

ASP.NET HOW DO I Video Series: Data
This video illustrates how simple it is to create data-driven web sites using Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition, ASP.NET 2.0, and SQL Server 2005 Express Edition. See the integrated data editing support provided by Visual Web Developer that simplifies database creation and population using the Database Explorer and DataSet Designer. Explore how easy it is to create a master-details view with support for filtering, sorting, paging, and editing with no code using the DropDownList, GridView, DetailsView, and ObjectDataSource controls.

ASP.NET HOW DO I Video Series: Form Building for a "Contact Us" Page
This video introduces a number of the new ASP.NET 2.0 controls for building forms to collect information from the user, validate that information, then send a confirmation e-mail message. Features covered include the Wizard control, Validation controls, and the System.Net.Mail classes for sending e-mail messages.

ASP.NET HOW DO I Video Series: Localization
This video is a tour of the web site localization support in Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition. Learn how to create culture-aware and locale-specific web content with ASP.NET 2.0 with no additional code. Topics include the new declarative binding syntax, page-level vs. application-level resources, and using the rich resource editor.

ASP.NET HOW DO I Video Series: Master Pages and Site Navigation
Create a Web site with a consistent layout and design across all its pages using ASP.NET 2.0 Master Pages. Become familiar with the enhanced designer support for creating and consuming Master Pages in Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition. See the improved Table Editor and Style Builder in action and learn how easy it is to add navigation to a Web site using the new TreeView and SiteMapPath controls.

ASP.NET HOW DO I Video Series: Membership and RolesLearn how to secure a Web site using the new Membership and Roles features of ASP.NET 2.0. Topics include user registration, password recovery, and restricting access to content with roles. Get a tour of how the Web Site Administration Tool simplifies user account administration and makes it easy to control content access permissions.

ASP.NET HOW DO I Video Series: Profiles and Themes
Discover how to create a customizable Web site using Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition and ASP.NET 2.0. Learn how to use Profiles to collect per-user configuration information and apply Themes to extend a consistent look-and-feel throughout the Web site.

ASP.NET HOW DO I Video Series: Tips and Tricks
This Tips & Tricks video covers many useful techniques for enhancing ASP.NET 2.0 web sites using Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition. Topics include encrypting sensitive information stored in web.config, maintaining the browser scroll position across postbacks, posting content to a different page, setting focus on a specific control when a page is loaded, creating a bulleted list of hyperlinks from an XML file, working with the file upload control, simplifying complex URLs using URL remapping, and using the MultiView control to switch between groups of content programmatically.

ASP.NET HOW DO I Video Series: Web Parts and Personalization
This video shows how to use the new Web Parts and Personalization features of ASP.NET 2.0 and the designer support provided by Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition to build customizable web pages whose content and layout can be modified by the user. See how Web Parts enable the user to add new content to a page on-the-fly and restructure the page in the browser using drag-and-drop.

Monday, February 27, 2006

Origami???

Microsoft has anonunced a mini device that people think is going to be the bomb. I wonder how it's going to look. It's a good thing I din't buy a PDA just yet since I wanted to buy for such a long time. A tablet origami is probably better than a PDA.

I went to the project site and it has a promo flash ad running telling me to wait until 3.2.06. Well mark your calendars and visit this URL

Here is a portion of the article I read at red herring

Windows Mobile? Vista?

It is unclear whether Origami will come equipped with Windows Mobile or Windows Vista. It is also unclear whether it will come with a wireless phone, a feature that would put it in competition with smartphones rather than notebooks.



“One of the keys will be the price,” said Roger Kay, president of the market intelligence firm Endpoint Technologies Associates. “If Microsoft intends to sell this device to consumers, it can’t be $1,500 like the other mini-notebooks. It has to be closer to $300. The price point will determine how quickly it takes off.”

“Microsoft has watched Apple stir the music business with the iPod, so this could be a PC that does to the mobile data market what the iPod did in the digital music market,”