Here are few features I liked from the VS 2010 Power Tools released last week :
(Although there are few limitations which are mentioned in the tool description tab here)
Here are some gems I found last month and half:
Right from the RFP meetings to the daily scrums and the final PROD release calls/emails, it has been a tremendously exciting journey once again with this project. I am immensely happy to announce the launch of our new SharePoint site: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com
The entire team learnt & applied a ton of exciting stuff in SharePoint 2010 including :
SharePoint 2010 is a huge successor of 2007 and since last 1 year I have been enjoying more and more working on this product . . . . . .
I just downloaded the Windows Phone Developer Tools and tried the Code Samples on my Windows 7 PDC Laptop. Here are few snapshots of the emulator:
If you want to get your hands more dirty than here is the Windows Phone 7 Series Developer Training Kit
IE9 Developer Platform Preview : http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/
Just saw these interesting Tips from Randy Drisgrill on branding SharePoint 2010 sites and also a Starter Master Page for SharePoint 2010, with all the detailed comments to understand each and every section of the 2010 Master page. . . . .
One of the New User Interface Platforms in SharePoint 2010 is ‘The Dialog Platform’
A dialog is essentially a <div> which gets visible on demand and renders the HTML using a background overlay creating a modal dialog like user experience.
We can show an existing div from within the page or a different page using a URL inside the dialogs.
When we pass the URL to the dialog it looks for the Querystring parameter “IsDlg=1”. If this parameters exists than it would dynamically load the "/_layouts/styles/dlgframe.css” file. This file overrides the “s4-notdlg” class items as “display:none”, which means that all items with this class would not get displayed in Dialog Mode.
So if we go to the v4.master page we can see that this class is used by the Ribbon control to hide the ribbon when in dialog mode:
In SharePoint 2010 The URL for opening the Edit Form of any list item looks like something like this :
”http://intranet.contoso.com/<SiteName>/Lists/<ListName>/EditForm.aspx?ID=1&IsDlg=1”
ID is the list item row identifier and as discussed above the IsDlg is for the dialog mode.
Now to open a dialog we need to use the SP.UI.ModalDialog.showModalDialog method from the ECMAScript Client Object model and pass in the url of the page, width & height of the dialog and also a callback function in case we want some code to run after the dialog is closed.
<script type="text/javascript">
//Handle the DialogCallback callback
function DialogCallback(dialogResult, returnValue){
}
//Open the Dialog
function OpenEditDialog(id){
var options = {
url:"http://intranet.contoso.com/<SiteName>/Lists/<ListName>/EditForm.aspx?ID=" + id + "&IsDlg=1",
width: 700,
height: 700,
dialogReturnValueCallback: DialogCallback
};
SP.UI.ModalDialog.showModalDialog(options);
}
</script>
The .js files for the ECMAScript Object Model (SP.js, SP.Core.js, SP.Ribbon.js, and SP.Runtime.js ) are installed in the %ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS directory.
Here is a good MSDN link explaining the Client Object Model Distribution and Deployment options available in SharePoint 2010.
SharePoint Web Services
REST
Demo . . .
REST query is converted to CAML query…..
Integrated Development Experience in VS 2010 and VS 2008 SP1 using just “Add Reference”
Client Object Model
WCF Services
Demo of creating custom WCF service inside sharepoint
WCF Service Configuration
Multi touch
Microsoft surface and WPF4
WPF 4 Touch Capabilities
Demo of sample code
Multitouch in Web in Silverligh
Demo WPF Multitouch Manipulation Events
Demo Manipulation Inertia (s
Inertia behaviors – 1/96th DIP (Device Independent Pixel) per milli sec
Touch Panning Support
Microsoft Surface Extensions of WPF
Surface WPF controls
Drawing with Surface Controls
Announcing – Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch
Surface is not just multi touch
Announcing – Surface SDK 1.0 is available for public download
Getting Data into Silverlight :
Data Access Examples :
These are some very rough notes from the today’s keynote at PDC 09’ . . . .
Topic : Windows 7
Developing windows 7 : Learning
Behind the scenes - “funny video”
Telemetry figures (this one was interesting)
Developing windows 7 : Research
Feature explanations and their videos on why they were added : \
Ecosystem Energy – Michael Angiulo
All hardware demos discussing the hardware optimization and enhancements done
Making of a laptop : hardware / software
IE-9 already in progress
- ACID3 (32/100) IE-8 had (20/100)
- multi system performance (picture)
IE-9 Demo
Windows 7 : Call of Action
(today – channel9 videos on IE-9)
Scott Guthrie enters in and a huge applaud and woooh from the crowd !!!!
Silverlight 3
Silverlight on 45% of internet PC’s
Silverlight 4 Beta Download : http://silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight-4-beta/
Silverlight 4 Training Course : http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/Silverlight4/
Below are the new feature List :
Demo of Silverlight 4 (RIA and databinding) by Scott Hanselman
Snapflow.com demo
Silverlight SDK for facebook published last week
Reference facebook application would be shipped soon (excellent application demo)
Schedule for Silverlight 4
Kurt Delbene – Office and SharePoint 2010
Microsoft Business Productivity Infrastructure
SharePoint 2010 Public Beta Download : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ee388573.aspx
Another gem coming out of the Channel9 Learning Center Courses is the new ‘SharePoint 2010 Developer’ Course. The course material is presented by Ted Pattison and Andrew Connell themselves which makes it even more interesting.
Currently there are around 37 videos along with the presentation decks being posted on various improvements done in SharePoint 2010 around many areas like :
The videos would soon follow by the Hands On Labs, Source Code and other materials for ITPro’s as well, so keep watching the updates on this course . . .
Here are some screenshots of VS 2010 Beta 2 (Ultimate) and some of the new features coming along with it :
I just liked the new curvy splash screen . . .
That is the new ‘Startup’ Page. If you are new to Visual Studio or want to know ‘What’s New’, this page has ton’s of information to get you started and also lots of guidance and resources links for various platforms including Windows, Web, Cloud, Office, SharePoint and Data.
Here is the Project Templates Screen. A bunch of templates are now included out-of-the-box in VS 2010 including Cloud, SharePoint, Silverlight and off-course the new Visual F# templates for Windows & Silverlight applications
Some of the new Explorer’s including the ‘Architecture Explorer’ and other windows – F# Interactive, Performance Explorer, Code Metrics Results
Performance Analysis as well as the much interesting ‘IntelliTrace’ feature. Find out more about IntelliTrace here
Performance Analysis Report. . .
The ‘Generate Dependency Graph’ feature which generates a DGML document, part of the Architecture Tools in VS 2010
Also you can downloaded the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit - October Preview which has lots of Presentations & Demos on many of the new features and language enhancements coming up in .NET 4.0
Since last 2 months Me and my team went through an exciting journey of migrating the existing Sharepoint.Microsoft.com site (which we created a while back) to the upcoming version of SharePoint, i.e SharePoint 2010.
When we started the project, the product was hardly in its beta stages. So we had a bit of struggle initially to understand some of the advancements but overall with the excellent support from out college Todd and the MS team we not only understood the product well but also successfully launched the site just before the SharePoint Conference 2009.
There are various materials out now to know more about SharePoint 2010.
Andrew Connell has posted some great articles on his blog explaining some of the new advancements done in the product :
There are bunch of resources including the SharePoint 2010 (Beta) Developer center and other links on the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog as well as,
Paul Andrew has posted some really good links of a white paper by David Chappell, SharePoint 2010 Developer Platform Post and many other resource links here
We are about to start the Phase II of the project and would be adding cool new features on the 2010 site showcasing some of the new advancements of the product, so stay tuned . . . . .
A must watch features Video from Mr. Guthrie himself on VS2010 & .Net 4.0
Lots more in the Video so check it out. . . .
