Microsoft has launched the Windows PowerShell Command Builder for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products and Microsoft Office 365 allowing you to create PowerShell commands graphically and more easily than if you had to type them yourself.
It is a simple Silverlight application but it allows you to make queries (SharePoint Server 2010, Foundation 2010, and Office 365) that can be more complex:
Happy PowerShell
Next week, I will be at the SharePoint Conference 2011 in Anaheim. This Microsoft event is dedicated to SharePoint and related technologies.
If you attend this event, meet me at the Alcero booth, which will be an exhibitor all week. It will be my pleasure to discuss with you!
When you want to make changes to the web.config file of your SharePoint 2010 application, you can use two methods:
However, when you use the second method and remove the changes from the file using Remove(), the changes are not removed. Even if you use .Update() and .ApplyWebConfigModifications(). This may only result in your modification appearing multiple times in the web.config file, but if you insert more sensitive modifications to uniqueness, such as for an HttpModule, it creates an error that prevents the site from functioning (Error 500).
[Read More]At the end of last year, I had published that Microsoft Research was working on a prototype electronic platform running on NETMF named Gadgeteer. Well, it now seems that it has moved out of the research phase to “commercialize” this platform: Microsoft .NET Gadgeteer.
GHI Electronics has released the first Gadgeteer kit named GHI FEZ Spider Starter Kit. This kit allows you to code your own electronic module using your favorite language (and I am talking about C# ;) ) without knowing the basics of electronics. In fact, it is a hardware abstraction to allow budding hobbyists to start without learning how to solder or connect various electronic components.
[Read More]Here is the next generation of Windows, Windows 8, ideal for tablets and if you have a Windows Phone, you will easily find your way around:
You are developing a SharePoint 2010 application using Visual Studio 2010 on a Windows 2008 64-bit server. You want to run a post-deployment script (PowerShell for example) for debugging:
When you add a script, for example:
powershell $(ProjectDir)\PowerShellScript\MySuperPowerShellScript.ps1
You always get an error when running the script:
Error occurred in deployment step ‘Run Post-Deployment Command’: The command "powershell $(ProjectDir)\PowerShellScript\MySuperPowerShellScript.ps1" exited with error code: 1.
This error is due to the fact that VS2010 runs in 32-bit mode, as well as its post-deployment scripts, and the SharePoint 2010 APIs run in 64-bit mode. This creates errors when executing the script.
[Read More]Microsoft has just published the User Experience Design Guidelines for Windows Phone for Mango (Windows Phone OS 7.1). For anyone developing for WP7, it is a must to create pleasant applications for your users, as some miss the mark!
Here is an example from the guide:
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Happy developing!
In my last post, I suggested a substitute for .Net Reflector. Since then, I came across the beta version of JustDecompile by Telerik. The tool seems efficient and well-designed. The interest in this kind of tool is evident, as replacements did not take long to appear!
Happy decompiling!
If you are like me, you have already used .Net Reflector to decompile some .Net classes. The product has been owned by Red Gate for a few years now, and they have kindly eliminated the free version to make it paid. I came across this article by Corey Roth where he mentions that even the latest version of Reflector contains a Time Bomb, meaning you would be forced to upgrade to the paid version starting June 1st.
[Read More]As I mentioned previously, SharePoint Overflow has now reached the beta stage. So you can find the Stack Overflow environment you know but specialized in everything related to SharePoint.
Go consult the experts!