Silverlight 2.0 Beta1 SDK & Tools

Silverlight 2.0 Beta1 SDK & Tools

After seeing that there is a possibility to Developing Silverlight2B1 with Visual Express ( you all know about my dotNetExpress project ) I have decided to take it ( Silverlight ) more seriously. The fact that there is a Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint ( Services ) and that Nokia is working with Microsoft to enable Silverlight in all it's mobile phones , just adhere this fact.

Ok, now to the point of this article - this weekend I have decided to install the Silverlight 2.0 Beta1 Tools for VisualStudio 2008 ( it's about time ). Well it seems that the Microsoft Silverlight Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008 refuse to install it self if you have already installed Microsoft® Silverlight™ 2 Software Development Kit Beta 1 - This is might be due to the fact that the Tools already contain in it the SDK - but I don't this that should bother, but it seems that it does. In short if you have installed the SDK and now want to install the Tools, UnInstall the SDK and all should work :(

BTW,  as soon as i'll get this ( Developing Silverlight2B1 with Visual Express ) working i'll do a webcast ( EN & HE ) - For now, I succeded in compiling, but I can't find any "ClientBin" directory ( in the Visual C# Express )

Vista SP1 and Camtasia

Vista SP1 and Camtasia

I don't know about you , but I'm disappointed of the SP1 - why ? both camtasia 4.0 and 5.0 don't work on Vista SP1 machine ( mine anyway , vista business 32bit )

So if you're recording using Camtasia, beware before you install the SP1 - I've uninstalled mine !

Webcast Series: SharePoint for Developers

Here's a nice collection of Webcast series I've come across

• Part 1 – SharePoint for Developers : Join the first webcast of this four-part series to find out what you need to know about Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 as a developer. We cover the basics of SharePoint Server 2007, and we show how you can use this new product to simplify collaboration, development, and management of your software projects. Learn what it takes to set up SharePoint Server 2007, customize the master pages, and how you can use other tools to develop custom applications. Attend this session to discover compelling reasons for choosing the new 2007 Microsoft Office system and SharePoint Server 2007 for your solution development needs.
• Part 2 – SharePoint Designer 2007 : There are many tools to choose from for developing Web sites; in this second installment of our series, we look at Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007, a new product for creating standards-based Web sites. See how you can build powerful applications on the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies platform to enhance your productivity and deliver rich-looking sites. Join this session to learn how you can use SharePoint Designer 2007 to take advantage of Microsoft ASP.NET version 2.0, Web Parts, and integration with SharePoint Products and Technologies.
• Part 3 – Migrating to SharePoint : Do you have a portal site that you would like to host in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services? In this third installment of our series on Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies for developers, see what is involved in the process of moving a portal site to Windows SharePoint Services. Topics we cover include: using Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to customize the master page, creating new content types, and working with workflow.
• Part 4 – SharePoint and Access 2007 : So far in this webcast series, we covered how Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies serve as powerful collaboration tools. In this final session, we take a look at how Microsoft Office Access 2007 integrates with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services. Join this session to learn how Access 2007, the popular data management application, and Windows SharePoint Services enable you to centralize and simplify data management, and share data across your organization.
• Part 5 – SharePoint and Workflow : In this webcast, we discuss the ability to use, update, and create custom workflows that you can employ in your Windows SharePoint Services site. We show the built-in workflow capabilities in Windows SharePoint Services, and we also demonstrate what customizations are available. In addition, we describe how to use Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to open, view, and modify included workflows. We conclude the presentation with a detailed demonstration of the capabilities of the Workflow Designer in SharePoint Designer 2007.
• Part 6 – SharePoint and Content Types  :  Join this webcast as we review the concept of content types as they relate to Windows SharePoint Services sites. We explain the default (included) content types first. We then discuss why you may want to update the built-in content types or create your own. We also demonstrate how to create custom content types and provide several business examples of why and where you might wish to do this. We conclude this session by showing some of the newly created content types in action on a Windows SharePoint Services site.
• Part 7 – SharePoint and Forms Services  :  In this webcast, we explore Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 as a form tool and describe how you can host forms centrally via the InfoPath Forms Services feature of Windows SharePoint Services version 3.0. We provide an overview of InfoPath 2007, demonstrating both how to customize an included template form and how to create a custom form that connects to Microsoft SQL Server. Next, we illustrate how to configure the Windows SharePoint Services administrative Web site, which is required to set up appropriate permissions (and other settings) to use InfoPath Forms Services.
• Part 8 – SharePoint and the Business Data Catalog  : Join this webcast as we explain the concepts surrounding the Business Data Catalog (BDC), a new business integration feature in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. We demonstrate the use of an application definition file (ADF) to create the connection between your Windows SharePoint Services site and a custom data source, and we show you how to use an ADF creation tool. Learn to use BDC-derived data with included Web parts, such as the filtering Web part. We conclude this webcast with a discussion of the various ways we have worked with the BDC in production.
• Part 9 – Web Parts and Work Flows  : In this webcast, we discuss and demonstrate the creation of Web parts and workflows for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. We use Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services and the Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.0 workflow extensions to customize and create both Web parts and workflows. Join us to learn about the concept of features as they relate to SharePoint Server 2007 Web Parts.
• Part 10 – Sites and Templates  : In this webcast, we dive into how the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services can enable you to take Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 even further. We start with an overview of project types and show how you can add event handlers, site definitions, and more into your tool belt. We look at creating site templates and master pages for SharePoint Server 2007, and we provide an example of how to customize and replace templates
• Part 11 – SharePoint and Business Intelligence  : In this webcast, we discuss business intelligence (BI) (advanced reporting) integration with your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Web site. We demonstrate configuration of Excel Services in SharePoint Server 2007, key performance indicators (KPIs), and more. We use the Report Center template and show you how you can easily integrate line-of-business (LOB) data into your site
• Part 12 – Developing SharePoint Workflows  : Windows SharePoint Services provides excellent facilities for working with business processes. In this "webcast by request," we review the workflow development processes associated with Windows SharePoint Services. We look at the included workflows, modifying workflows in Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007, and creating and modifying workflows in the Microsoft Visual Studio development system
• Part 13 - Customizing SharePoint : Ever wondered how you can use SharePoint but have your own custom look and feel? In this webcast we will look at the site customization techniques of creating custom MasterPages, Themes and Layouts to give your web site your own look and feel.
• Part 14 - SharePoint and Authentication : In this  session we cover the basics and how to use the Authentication and Membership Providers. We look at creating a custom provider and CardSpace can be used to login to your SharePoint site. This session will look at the advanced tools available in IIS 7.0 for configuring and deploying SharePoint.
• Part 15 - SharePoint and AJAX : Explore the world of modern web development techniques by looking at how Microsoft’s AJAX library and SharePoint can be used together to deliver compelling user experience. In this webcast we show the various approaches to integrating AJAX in WSS 3.0 and then cover what’s improved in sp1.
• Part 16 - SharePoint and SilverLight : Rich User Experience is getting easier to create with the release of Silverlight. In this session we show how Silverlight takes advantage of XAML and provides an easy way to build compelling user interfaces. We will demonstrate using the 1.0 version of Silverlight as well as what’s new in 2.0 that allows the developer and designer to collaborate to build exciting new applications.

All from BenkoTIPS.com. As far as I know all Webcasts are at level 100. But in order to see MOST of the options that comes with MOSS ( leaving out WSS ) this can be a great starting point.

Point back to old links: Moss 2007 and Designer Webcast How-To is growing , "How do I?" Videos , MOSS 2007 going visual on a screen near you and WSS 3.0 For the people

dotNetExpress > 1GB of Webcasts

I am doing a Backup of my website that contains the dotNetExpress Webcasts ( Using a small FTP Client ) - and what do you know it's more then 1GB of Data !!!

8mb here , 35mb there ... and you reach more then 1GB of WMV ! ( actually 1.2GB )

BTW, there are 3 more movies which I haven't uploaded yet because the site is in the US !

If you want to know what people see the most ( always at a growing rate ) it's :

1. ASP.NET WebService (ASMX) - צעד ראשון, דוגמאת ה HelloWorld, הבנה של רעיון ה WebService
2. ASP.NET WebService (ASMX) הסבר כללי

... and all the rest

people are still working with VS2005 at the basic configuration ( No DotNet 3.0 support )

ESB Guidance PPT resources

ESB Guidance PPT resources

1. ESB Guidance Architects User Group Presentation PPT
2. Best Practices For Integrated SOA Governance Automation [www.mssoaandbpconference.com/SOAPPT/SA400_Wasznicky_11012007_SOA.pdf]
3. Best Practices For Integrated SOA Governance Automation [www.mssoaandbpconference.com/SOAPPT/IA400_Wasznicky_110207_SOA.pdf]
4. SOA-05: Building an Enterprise SOA Using ESB {Dave Chappell - Sonic, Old but good !}

I'm sure there are more , so I'll update this post , or build a ESB Resources page ;)

Moss 2007 and Designer Webcast How-To is growing

Moss 2007 and Designer Webcast How-To is growing

MSDN > MSDN Library > Office Development > 2007 Microsoft Office System > SharePoint Server 2007 > Visual How Tos

• Adding Code-Behind Files to Master Pages and Page Layouts in SharePoint Server 2007
• Adding Custom Quick Access Buttons to the Page Editing Toolbar in SharePoint Server 2007
• Adding Excel Web Parts to Pages Programmatically in SharePoint Server 2007
• Building Custom Activities for Use in SharePoint Designer 2007
• Building Simple Custom Approval Workflows with InfoPath 2007 Forms
• Creating a Custom Search Page and Tabs in the Search Center of SharePoint Server
• Creating and Editing Custom Document Information Panels from Office SharePoint Server 2007
• Creating and Exposing Managed Properties in the Advanced Search Page of SharePoint Server Enterprise Search
• Creating and Exposing Search Scopes in SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Search
• Creating Business Data Catalog Entities in SharePoint Server 2007
• Creating Content Sources to Crawl Business Data in SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Search
• Creating Custom Enterprise Search Web Parts in SharePoint Server 2007
• Creating Managed-Code UDFs for Excel Services
• Creating Search Queries Programmatically by Using the Search Object Model in SharePoint Server 2007
• Creating Search Queries Programmatically by Using the Search Web Service in SharePoint Server 2007
• Creating User Profiles in the User Profile Store in SharePoint Server 2007
• Customizing Content Query Web Parts by Using Custom Properties in Office SharePoint Server 2007
• Customizing Page Editing Toolbar Components in SharePoint Server 2007
• Customizing Search Results with Custom XSLTs in SharePoint Server 2007
• Designing InfoPath Forms for Workflows in SharePoint Server 2007
• Developing Custom Applications by Using Excel Web Services in SharePoint Server 2007
• Displaying Custom Fields in Content Query Web Parts in Office SharePoint Server 2007
• Enabling Users to Act on LOB Data with Business Data Catalog Actions
• Exposing Enterprise Search in SharePoint Server 2007 by Using Internet Explorer 7 and the Office Research Pane
• Filtering One Business Data Catalog List from Another by Using Associations in SharePoint Server 2007
• Refining Business Data Catalog Search with Scopes
• Retrieving an Entire Workbook or a Snapshot of a Workbook in Excel Services
• Using Business Data Catalog Actions to Pass Parameters to InfoPath 2007 Browser Forms

And

MSDN > MSDN Library >  Office Development > 2007 Microsoft Office System > SharePoint Designer 2007 > Visual How Tos

• Customizing List Views with XSLT Transformations in SharePoint Designer 2007
• Customizing SharePoint List Views with SharePoint Designer 2007

Ping back to "How do I?" Videos , MOSS 2007 going visual on a screen near you and WSS 3.0 For the people

LinqToSql - C# vs VB Architecture Consideration : Cache Feature

LinqToSql - C# vs VB Architecture Consideration : Cache Feature

One of the most common Architecture considerations when building a new Application is what is the quality of the Developers them selves - Well some of the times they are VB.NET programmers ( which I didn't say is a bad thing ). Well I had the opportunity to work with VB.NET programmers.

What can I say , once in a while it happens to me too - when talking in English I'm sometimes translating a Hebrew sentence into English as is ( and I'm talking about US English ! British ? I have to brush up a bit ). Never mind, going back to our subject - LinqToSql - it seems that if you do the same for LinqToSql in C# to VB9 : YOU SHOULD LOOK UNDER THE HOOD MORE CAREFULLY !

MA CCA BI ... MA CCA BI

Silverlight Logo - Just good taste

Silverlight Logo - Just good taste

Just a few days a go I ran into this post thoughts on silverlight logo - "default OSX wallpaper". If you'd scroll down the article you'd find the base picture for my "paper clip"

For those with an iPhone you should also have it as one of the backgrounds - Aqua Wallpapers for iPhone

And here's a "live" version ( BTW notice the IE )

Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint ( Services )

Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint ( Services )

Yes, it was filed under MSDN > Developer Centers > Windows SharePoint Services
Isn't it wonderful when you know that such a wonderful thing like Silverlight will be supported on WSS ( so it goes also to MOSS )

It seems that this is a S+S Blueprints which are installed into the Visual Studio environment to give developers easy access to application templates and guidance.

Overview

The Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint is source code and guidance for developers describing how to use Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies together in business applications and Internet Web sites. SharePoint applications that use Web Parts can now be built using Silverlight user interface elements. This capability enables a fresh look at data exposed through SharePoint Products and Technologies using the modern graphics capability in Silverlight.

What is included in the download?

Six application component samples are included in the kit to get you started:

• A simple “hello, world” sample showing Silverlight in a Web part.
• A Silverlight slider control as a SharePoint custom field type.
• A navigation control.
• A Colleague Viewer that uses lookups in Active Directory by using Windows Communication Foundation.
• A Silverlight picture viewer from a SharePoint picture library.
• A visual how-to center, created in Silverlight and based on a SharePoint list, for viewing videos.

Requirements

• Silverlight is required. The example download that is available uses Silverlight.
• Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft Expression Blend are required for designing the Silverlight XAML for the user experience.
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 or Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 are also required to host the SharePoint applications and the contained Silverlight Web Parts.

For more info follow Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint (On MSDN) and http://www.ssblueprints.net/sharepoint/

SQL Server 2008 Server Service Configuration

SQL Server 2008 Server Service Configuration

Due to the fact that the SQL Server 2008 February CTP Is Now Available is the closest thing that there is to the SQL 2008 RTM, counting the seconds. I have decided to install this CTP.

But, each time I have installed I've chosen all  possible options which is the DatabaseEngine AND the AnalysisServices AND the ReportingServices ... and EACH TIME the DatabaseEngine and ReportingServices would fail or if i've didn't check the SSAS then it would work. In the end i've found the right combination - here it is

So don't use NT AUTHORITY\LOCAL SERVICE anywhere except for the SqlBrowser ( that was one of my mistakes )