Vinod Unny
16 Aug 2010
Adding App Page Ribbon - Dialogs on SharePoint 2010
Vinod Unny writes
"...Now it’s easy to get a “global” Ribbon by simply omitting the RegistrationId and RegistrationType attributes in the Elements.xml file...What is not so obvious...add a Ribbon to a particular Application Page when the page does not host any Web part or user control...I’ll also take a look at interacting with a modal dialog using the new framework in SharePoint from this ribbon. First, open up VS2010..."
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Andrew Brust
28 Apr 2010
Office 2010 is Looking Like a Worthwhile Upgrade
Andrew Brust writes
"...Perhaps it’s not earth-shattering, but it offers a combination of incremental improvements and a few new major capabilities that I think are quite compelling. I provide a brief roundup of them here. It’s admittedly arbitrary and not comprehensive, but I think it tells the Office 2010 story effectively..."
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Vinod Unny
22 Feb 2010
SharePoint 2010 Install Tips on Win08R2
Vinod Unny writes
"...If you are planning to install it for testing on a Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 machine here are some small install tips for you that’ll take some small irritations away from installing the beta..."
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Andrew Brust
21 Jan 2010
Microsoft BI, Late at the Office
Andrew Brust writes
"...No matter how dedicated of a Microsoft shop some customers are, the time between release and broad deployment of Office and SharePoint will be non-trivial. Users of competing BI stacks...don’t have this problem, and that creates a competitive disadvantage for Microsoft. By tying much of its BI stack to Office, Microsoft limits its ability to refresh its stack to a frequency of once every three years or so. And because of the lag time..."
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Ciprian Jichici
12 Jan 2010
PowerPivot Yet Another Way To Get Your Data
Ciprian Jichici writes
"...One particularly interesting example of ATOM feed consumer for Reporting Services is the new PowerPivot technology available in Excel and SharePoint 2010...anything that understands data feeds can benefit from this new functionality. So… how do you get the ATOM feed? It’s as simple as using an URL access string like..."
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