Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Access and Visio Services in SharePoint

Visio Services lets users share and view Visio Web drawings and when used with SharePoint 2010, Access Services allows users to create new databases with forms and reports that run in the browser. Access and Visio services have a strong appeal to many developers as they are able to offer a hosted browser-based version of their app. This could be particularly helpful in developing in-house applications as well commercial ones. Read complete article -
http://www.sharepointbriefing.com/spservices/access-visio-services-in-sharepoint-2010.html

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Creating a Complete Web Page With HTML5

In this article we shall make a web page using the features of HTML5 and CSS. It is assumed that reader is more or less conversant with CSS in general and HTML tags in particular. You do not have to be a professional but you should at least have an idea of what goes where. Read full article-
http://www.developer.com/lang/creating-a-complete-web-page-with-html5.html

Metro Style Application - How to Work with Data and Controls Using C#

Using Microsoft .NET framework, developers can now create a Metro style application with C++, C#, VB.Net, HTML5 and JavaScript. Like any other data driven applications you can display data in Metro application controls too. Metro Application Type allows developers to create the applications in various platforms like web, desktop, tablets and mobile devices. In Metro Applications data can be a simple value, a business object or a collection of business objects and you can bind data with simple controls like TextBox or with a data control like ListBox, ListView etc. In this article I will explain, how to bind different controls to a single item or bind a collection of items to a data control.
Read full article - http://www.codeguru.com/csharp/.net/article.php/c19877/

New Business Intelligence features in SharePoint 2010

Microsoft has introduced some excellent Business Intelligence features in SharePoint 2010. Some are brand new while others have been updated. Here we shall take a look at the four most important features incorporated in SharePoint enhancing productivity.

Read full article here.. http://www.sharepointbriefing.com/features/new-business-intelligence-features-in-sharepoint-2010.html



Friday, December 09, 2011

Develop Your First Metro Application

Metro style application is a new concept of designing and developing a full screen user interface application. It gives the flexibility to the developers to manipulate each pixel of the system screen in their applications while the end users can be completely engaged with the content they love in a full screen view. It lets developers create the applications in various platforms like web, desktop, tablets and mobile devices with use of technologies like HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, C++, C# and VB.NET. More details? Read article in Codeguru...

http://www.codeguru.com/csharp/.net/article.php/c19745/

Working with Dundas Charts in SQL Server Reporting Service


Dundas data visualization provides third party chart controls for developers used for creating embedded chart based RDL reports with SQL server reporting service. Dundas also provides gauge, map and other visual controls for different Microsoft development platforms (ASP.NET, Windows Forms, SQL Reporting Services and SharePoint). Dundas charts for reporting services can be very easily incorporate into RDL reports and easy to use. These chart control offers more features, additional graph types and more reporting abilities.  For more details read my article in Codeguru.

http://www.codeguru.com/vb/article.php/c17821/

Saturday, December 03, 2011

Top 10 SharePoint Features Increasing Developer's Productivity and Efficiency


Introduction
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 now makes it easier for developers to work together. We have seen some major enhancement of SharePoint 2010 in comparison with its 2007 counterpart. Here I delineate major 10 of them which in my opinion increase developer’s productivity and efficiency.
Read complete article....
http://www.sharepointbriefing.com/spother/top-10-sharepoint-features-increasing-developers-productivity-and-efficiency.html

Mocking API Responses in Azure API Management Portal

A mock API imitates a real API call by providing a realistic JSON or XML response to the requester. Mock APIs can be designed on a developer...