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Migrating to Office 365

Amar — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:49:11 +0000

Finally we have migrated the Toolagen email and intranet to Office 365. The BPOS migration schedule was after 3-4 months and being a Microsoft Partner, we just could not wait to get migrated. Hence the decision was made to manually migrate everything over and if needed delete archived content and re-create items. Will write about it in details in the coming weeks. It was not a very smooth process and sometime very crude, however be prepared to have a few email bounces. Make sure you allow full 48-72 hours for DNS propagation to work properly.

Office 365 now available to purchase

Amar — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 05:48:16 +0000

Just saw that the new Microsoft Office 365 site is now up and out of beta. Office 365 subscriptions are available to purchase in the UK for £4/user. We are working on a few exciting enhancements to Office 365 and can’t wait to announce them soon.

Visual Studio 2010 code formatting bug

Amar — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:01:53 +0000

There is a bit of an issue with VS 2010 code formatting for HTML. Be default you will see HTML code formatted as :

General

To fix this, go to Tools –> Options

Select Text Editor-> HTML –> Formatting from the left panel.

Click on the Tag Specific Options.

Select Default Settings –> Client tag supports contents

On the right panel, under Line breaks, select Before and after.

This will give you a code formatting as :

General

Happy New Year

Amar — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 08:48:36 +0000

Wishing everyone a very happy 2011. Every year I make a resolution to start blogging more but have failed since last few years. 2010 was an eventful year as my son was born. Hence took most of my time and energy to support my wife and enjoy the joys of Fatherhood. Another big milestone hit in 2010 was the formation of my offshore development company. We are very close to starting operations and hence pretty excited about it.

Hopefully now that life has settled back a bit and work and life look more organised, I will get more and more time to blog and write more about my experiences of entrepreneurship and working with technology. Hoping for a great 2011 and wish all of you all a great year ahead.

Ultimate SharePoint 2010 Development Rig

Amar — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 12:31:59 +0000

I have been researching on building the best SharePoint 2010 development environment for quite sometime now. I am happy to say that my new rig has arrived and it is a blast to work with it. Have been using it for around a month now. Will soon have a few blog posts for people who are interested in building similar rigs and setup a good development environment.

.NET Adoption in Startups

Amar — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 06:53:11 +0000

A very interesting article over at Aaronontheweb about .NET Adoption in Startups. Some really excellent comments also giving very different viewpoints. Quite an interesting read.

HTML 5 with Visual Studio 2010

Amar — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:55:04 +0000

If you have tried to create / edit an HTML 5 document in Visual Studio, you must have got a lot of validation errors. The current validator in Visual Studio 2010 supports HTML 4.01 or XHTML 1.1 Transitional as the highest standards.

To enable Intellisense to work with HTML 5, perform the following steps:

Download the HTML5 support package for Visual Studio 2008 from the Visual Web Developer team here.
Copy the html_5.xsd in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\Packages\schemas\html
Edit the correct registry file and replace 9.0 with 10.0
The file will look like this ( 64 bit VS 2010 Ultimate for me ):

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Packages\{1B437D20-F8FE-11D2-A6AE-00104BCC7269}\Schemas\Schema 23]
"File"="html\\html_5.xsd"
"Friendly Name"="HTML 5"
"URI"="http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/html-5"

Run the registry file to merge it with your registry.
Open Visual Studio 2010
Go to Tools->Options->Text Editor->HTML->Validation
Select target as HTML 5

This would allow you to get Intellisense for your HTML 5 based projects.

Unable to connect to SQL Server 2008

Amar — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 06:06:00 +0000

When you first install SQL Server 2008, you are unable to connect to the SQL Server from another machine in the network. You have enabled remote connections and still whenever you try to connect, you get an access denied error.

Make sure the SQL Server Browser service is running. It is required in order to listen for incoming connections. It may even be Disabled ( as in the case of SQL 2008 R2 Enterprise ).

SharePoint 2010 editions

Amar — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 20:57:51 +0000

If you are getting confused about which edition of SharePoint you need, there is a nice handy chart over at Microsoft.

Thanks to my friend Tobias who tweeted about it. A very handy reference when you are trying to match required features with the editions.

SharePoint 2010 advanced training

Amar — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:44:00 +0000

If you are an existing MOSS developer, and are tired of going thru training material which tells you what a webpart is and the difference between SPSite and SPWeb, there is some good news. Just stumbled across some free SharePoint 2010 training from Microsoft specifically aimed at existing MOSS developers. Definitely worth having a look if you want to quickly get an overview of this new and exciting platform.