SharePoint 2010 Quick Start
June 4th, 2010 // 6:36 am @ Amar
For existing developers who want to quickly start developing for the SharePoint 2010 platform, Microsoft has published some quick start videos which are quite helpful and recommended.
You can view the 10 modules by clicking on the links below:
Category : Featured &SharePoint
SharePoint 2010 Launch Videos
May 13th, 2010 // 7:36 am @ Amar
For anyone who missed the Launch yesterday, just a reminder that they can see some of the videos online. Head over to the SharePoint 2010 Launch site and be a part of the launch of this fantastic new platform.
Category : Featured &SharePoint
SharePoint 2010 Books
March 3rd, 2010 // 1:00 am @ Amar
Recently someone asked me if any of the SharePoint 2010 books are out yet. I know there are quite a few books which are scheduled to release this spring / summer however not sure if there are any books currently available in the market. Will update once I find some good book recommendations for SharePoint 2010.
Category : SharePoint
Product Development
March 2nd, 2010 // 4:21 pm @ Amar
Recently I have started developing a few products for the SharePoint 2010 space. It has been quite a satisfying experience. Hopefully if everything is on schedule, you should be seeing first glimpses of some of our products this summer. We have been working quite hard in getting some unique and interesting concepts in the market. Hopefully it will help make your SharePoint 2010 experience even more enjoyable.
Category : SharePoint
SharePoint 2010
January 20th, 2010 // 2:05 pm @ Amar
Not sure how many of you have started working seriously with SharePoint 2010. I am pretty impressed with it, and am looking to do more and more work with it in the coming days. Going to try migrating a few test 2007 portals to 2010 and hopefully, the migration story will be a smooth success even for sites with complex customisations.
I have been playing with the API for a while and have migrated a few of the webparts we are working on for 2010. It was quite a smooth process. We are spending more and more time developing some exciting products for 2010, so looking forward to releasing the beta versions in a few months. Stay tuned.
Category : SharePoint
Happy New Year
January 10th, 2010 // 5:48 pm @ Amar
Wishing everyone a happy 2010. It has been a long time since I blogged. After around 5+ years of blogging, I guess I was a bit burnt out. Personal and professional life was also demanding more time, and I somehow felt less and less inclined to blog. Without any kind of plans, I suddenly felt like checking my blog today. Upgraded to the latest version of WordPress. Will fix the theme a bit so that it does not look broken. Let’s see how it goes. No promises if I will be blogging regularly. Hopefully I will get a lot of exciting things to write about, as I am playing with SharePoint 2010, Office 2010, Windows and SQL Azure and a lot of fantastic new technologies. If I feel like, I will start blogging again. If not, I guess I need a longer vacation from blogging.
Thanks to everyone who read my blogs in the past. I has been a very exciting experience. Apologies for drifting away from blogging without telling. I did not have any plans for leaving, however personal and professional life took their toll and I just did not have any time to blog. For those who don’t know, I got married in 2007. I started my own company Toolagen Limited in 2008. 2009 had been a very hectic year for work, as a small startup we were struggling to stay alive and grow in the midst of recession. It was a very challenging time, but we grew from strength to strength and now have exciting plans for times ahead. Let’s see where 2010 take us.
Anyways, if you read so far, many thanks. Hope I get time and the motivation to start writing again, and again get a chance to know you all. Till then, wishing everyone a very happy 2010.
Category : General &SharePoint
Microsoft Bing goes live
June 4th, 2009 // 3:56 pm @ Amar
I suddenly noticed that Bing.com, Microsoft’s new revolutionary search engine, was now up. It is showing a beta logo, but the search engine is up and running. Have heard lots of good things about it, so going to give it a try for a few days.
Do we have a Google killer here? What do you think?
Category : General
Typemock ASP.NET Bundle
May 21st, 2009 // 2:30 am @ Amar
Hi everyone. After using Typemock on one of my projects, I can definitely say that it is a fantastic product for your unit testing. Have just heard about a promotion which Typemock is running currently to promote their new produt and giving away licences. See the details below:
Unit Testing ASP.NET? ASP.NET unit testing has never been this easy.
Typemock is launching a new product for ASP.NET developers – the ASP.NET Bundle – and for the launch will be giving out FREE licenses to bloggers and their readers.
The ASP.NET Bundle is the ultimate ASP.NET unit testing solution, and offers both Typemock Isolator, a unit test tool and Ivonna, the Isolator add-on for ASP.NET unit testing, for a bargain price.
Typemock Isolator is a leading .NET unit testing tool (C# and VB.NET) for many ‘hard to test’ technologies such as SharePoint, ASP.NET, MVC, WCF, WPF, Silverlight and more. Note that for unit testing Silverlight there is an open source Isolator add-on called SilverUnit.
The first 60 bloggers who will blog this text in their blog and tell us about it, will get a Free Isolator ASP.NET Bundle license (Typemock Isolator + Ivonna). If you post this in an ASP.NET dedicated blog, you’ll get a license automatically (even if more than 60 submit) during the first week of this announcement.
Also 8 bloggers will get an additional 2 licenses (each) to give away to their readers / friends.
Go ahead, click the following link for more information on how to get your free license.
Category : dotNet
Getting all XML Key Value pairs in XSL
January 30th, 2009 // 2:13 am @ Amar
May times when I try to design a XSL against an unknown data stream, I would like to know what all values are available. Here is a nifty XSL which I have been using for a while. ( I am sure there are many versions out there ).
<xsl:for-each select="@*">
   <br/> Name: <xsl:value-of select="name()" /> Value:<xsl:value-of select="." />
</xsl:for-each>Â
It gives a list of all elements with their values. Quite handy to check if you have got the element name wrong etc.
Category : dotNet
SharePoint developer introduction
January 15th, 2009 // 2:49 am @ Amar
Just came across a nice site to introduce SharePoint to .NET developers. A nice resource area for existing .NET developers who want to get up to speed with SharePoint.
Category : SharePoint