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22 hours ago
Microsoft Visio is not a mere diagramming tool! As described on several Microsoft sites, Microsoft Visio 2010 situates diagramming to an advance level with dynamic, data-driven visualization tools, and advanced Web sharing capability. It composes data from various sources, including Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Services list, Microsoft Office Excel workbook, Microsoft Office Access database, Microsoft SQL Server database, and other OLEDB or ODBC data source and presents it using vibrant graphics design. What is more, it facilitates SharePoint workflows creation and publication for instantaneous implementation. The Visio Graphics Service is a SharePoint Server 2010 service application that enables dynamic viewing, refreshing, and sharing of data-driven Microsoft Visio 2010 diagrams through Visio Web Access Web part, Web part Connections, and Visio Services Mash-up API. This piece will provide high-level steps in consuming this service application. Step 1: Enable Visio ...
2 days ago
Office Web Apps are online companions to Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft OneNote applications that allow us to access documents from anywhere. Yes! You read it right! We can view, share, and work on documents within supported Web browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari. Not to mention its availability through Windows Live, Office Web Applications can be greatly hosted in Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 or Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, where this piece will focus. We are three steps away from this groundbreaking technology: Download and Install Office Web Apps Activate Office Web Apps Services Activate Office Web Apps Feature Download and Install Office Web Apps Important notes in installing Office Web Apps: Download Microsoft Office Web Apps from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=27d81b1c-18ae-4983-8e1c-224bb747eb99 We will use the pre-release product ...
8 days ago
Are you now ready to explore Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Beta? This piece will provide us basic installation guide. The first screen that will prompt us provides access to review the hardware and software requirements, and to read the installation and upgrade guides. And naturally, it provides us the facility to install the software prerequisites and the SharePoint Server. Step 1: Review Hardware and Software Requirements Before installing the software prerequisites, we basically need to: Understand the fundamental information about deploying Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. Review the hardware and software requirements. Step 2: Install Software Prerequisites The next step is for us to install the software prerequisites using SharePoint Preparation Tool. It installs the following: Application Server Role, Web Server Role Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Native Client Microsoft “Geneva” Framework Runtime Microsoft Synch Framework Runtime Microsoft ...
29 days ago
An article of Jeff Teper of Microsoft, Corporate Vice President, SharePoint Server, Describing SharePoint 2010 in 1 Sentence, 8 Categories and 40 Feature Areas, clearly describes the significant features of SharePoint 2010. In a sentence, according to him, SharePoint 2010 is “The Business Collaboration Platform for the Enterprise and the Web”. What does it mean? From the same article is it explicated, and I quote: “We decided “Collaboration” was broad enough to cover the spectrum of publishing, sharing, finding, analyzing and managing information that SharePoint enables. We chose “Platform” not only because custom solutions are a major focus of the 2010 release but also "platform" conveyed a solid base for all the out-of-box usage that never requires a developer. Finally, we want to call out “the Web” to highlight both internet scenarios reaching customers and partners and the cloud-based delivery of SharePoint Online.” The entire features of ...
30 days ago
Microsoft has provided us the hands-on lab manuals in C# and Visual Basic for us to get started learning SharePoint 2010 development. Title Description HOL01 - Developing a Visual Web Part in Visual Studio 2010 This hands-on lab introduces the Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint development environment. It shows how to build a Visual Web Part using LINQ to SharePoint, and how to connect one Web Part to another Web Part on the page. HOL02 - Developing a List Definition and Event Receiver in Visual Studio 2010 This hands-on lab walks you through building a list definition for SharePoint 2010 in Visual Studio 2010. It also shows how to build an event receiver for the list in Visual Studio 2010 and deploy it to SharePoint. After the list and event receiver are deployed, you can use the developer dashboard to evaluate the performance of the event receiver. HOL03 - Developing Advanced Web Parts for SharePoint 2010 with Visual Studio 2010 ...
