Trial and Test of Office365 – Part I

Posted: December 13, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Sharepoint | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment »

Finally I made up my mind and have started using the free trial of Office365. The setup is a breeze. I choose the P1 plan. Basically I am interested in Sharepoint Online part of the Office365. But it also come up with Exchange online and Lync Online. Additionally we get Office Webapps and Calendar apps.

The admin page is clean and intuitive. Calendar and Exchange reminds me of the Hotmail UI except everything has tint of orange instead of blue. Office Webapp reminds me of the Skydrive product. In future I hope Microsoft integrates all these into one. I dont have  office Mac so couldnt try the offline document management part.

Coming to the Sharepoint Online side, after setup it creates a Teamsite (Intranet) and an external facing Website. The external facing website home page looks lame and I might need to create my own home page. The Site features and Site Collection Features available are very less compared to an on-premise Sharepoint installation. I was expecting to have Publishing feature available but its not. But I think I can live with that.

I was able to connect to the external site using Sharepoint Designer 2010 which was seamless(surprisingly). Haven’t tried modifying existing pages or Master pages yet. But creation of new Webpart page and Blog subsite worked!!. As expected creation of Publishing subsite failed.

So far I am impressed. Will keep testing the various Sharepoint and other office features of office365.

Aero Experience on Windows 2008 R2

Posted: September 27, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Leave a comment »

I didnt know that we can install Aero Desktop experience on Windows 2008R2 server.

I was totally unhappy with the Windows 2008 R2′s classic windows desktop.  After following the steps  at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/What-is-the-Aero-desktop-experience

I was able to get Aero experience on my Windows 2k8 R2 machine.

Sharepoint 2007 server

Posted: September 2, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Sharepoint | Leave a comment »

My Atom based mini-itx machine where I was running MOSS 2007 is not booting up since yesterday :( I suspect the power supply has failed and hope the mother board is safe. For now cant use MOSS 2007 and need to stick with SP2010 in my laptop for all Sharepoint related stuff. Need to fix the machine some time soon.

Entity Framework Code First with SQL Server

Posted: July 26, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , | 3 Comments »

As you know EF 4.1 Code First can create tables out of the model classes. If connection string is not provided in the config file, EF looks for local Sql express instance. If available, it connects to the instance and creates Database with table names same as your model classes.

But, what if you have a local SQL server instance instead of SQLExpress or your instance name is not SQLExpress? EF won’t connect automatically to the Instance in either of these cases,unless you explicitly provide your connection string.  How can you use the local SQL Instance without specifiying the connection string?

It is possible. Here is where we need to see what exactly EF looks for connecting to a SQL instance. To be precise EF looks for .\SQLExpress instance  in your local system. To make EF connect to any SQL instance just create an alias named “.\SQLExpress” for your SQL Instance. This can be done via SQL Server Configuration Manager tool as shown below.

Now EF connects to the SQL instance just fine as if it were local .\SQLExpress instance.

Entity Framework 4.1 Code First

Posted: July 2, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Asp.net MVC | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment »

I really like the new Entity Framework Code First. The best feature I like is the offloading the overhead  creation of Data Model or Database itself which EF takes care on its own. It also supports setting up initial seed data in the table too. Wow!!! This is the feature I have been longing for a while.

Starting up with EF 4.1  can be found here and resources found here.

Walkthru video can be found here.

In conjunction with Asp.net MVC3 EF Code First in EF 4.1 is the robust platform to develop Web applications.

How to set Html.RadioButtonFor as selected by default in Asp.net MVC3

Posted: March 20, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Asp.net MVC, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

The below is the code snippet of how to use the Html helper for Radio Button in Asp.net MVC.

<td> Will Accept?</td>

 <td>

@Html.RadioButtonFor(x => x.WillAccept, true)

@Html.RadioButtonFor(x => x.WillAccept, false)

</td>

 

Now how can we show one radio button selected by default? There are two ways of doing it.

The first option is to pass the “checked” html attribute as a parameter to the Html helper method by creating an anonymous object as below

<td> Will Accept?</td>

<td>

@Html.RadioButtonFor(x => x.WillAccept, true, new { @checked = “checked” })

@Html.RadioButtonFor(x => x.WillAccept, false)

</td>

The Second option is to set the value of the corresponding model property in the controller itself

public ActionResult Feedback()

{

UserResponse usr= new UserResponse();

usr.WillAccept = false;

return View(“Feedback”,usr);

}

Both work perfectly, but note that, setting the value via model overrides passing via html parameter. So if both of the above options are used the default value of the radio button will be false.

Leave a reply if you find it useful

Cheap TFS hosting

Posted: January 3, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

Discount Asp.net offers limited time offer of 30days free TFS 2010 hosting and 20$/month. Looks reasonable offering. Details in the below link

http://www.discountasp.net/tfs/tfs-hosting-features-pricing.aspx

Asp.net vs LAMP – Case of Digg and StackOverflow Sites

Posted: October 13, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment »

ScottGu retweeted an interesting post today about Digg and StackOverflow

Nice RT @spolsky Digg: 200MM page views, 500 servers. Stack Overflow: 60MM page views, 5 servers. What am I missing?

then goes on to retweet the reason too

RT @spolsky (nb Stack Overflow is ASP.NET MVC + SQL Server, Digg was LAMP)

now that is very bold to claim isnt it..? Is PHP on Linux that bad in terms of performance..? I did some search and it seems the claim might be indeed valid at least as per the below link

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9017778/How_Digg.com_uses_the_LAMP_stack_to_scale_upward_

I will try to post some ASP.net MVC related stuff in coming weeks.

History of C# – Past present and future

Posted: June 1, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment »

Here is a nice summary of the past present and future of C# I captured from a  nice blog

  • C#1 was all about delivering a new language for a new platform.
  • C#2 was all about providing generics to improve strong typing, especially in collection handling situations.
  • C#3 was all about letting write strongly typed queries abstracted from the date source. As a consequence C#3 fosters a more declarative way of programming.
  • C#4 was mainly about dynamic programming to inter-operate with dynamic programming environment.
  • C#5 will be concerned with meta-programming.

.net posts vs Sharepoint posts

Posted: May 13, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment »

Lately, my posts to this blog have been mostly on Sharepoint. Though thats not the intention of creating this site, somehow my posts have been more biased towards Sharepoint. I have to admit that since I started posting on Sharepoint this blog’s hit rate has skyrocketed. Though thats encouraging, its not the vision with which I created this blog. I am planning to give Sharepoint posts some rest and start posting on general .net technologies covering clr to c# and wpf to ASP.net.

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