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Installing SharePoint 2013 on Windows 2012- standalone installation
In this article, I am going to share my experience while installing SharePoint 2013 on Windows 2012. This was the first time I tried SharePoint 2013. So I thought sharing the same will benefit somebody who would like to install SharePoint 2013 as a standalone installation. Standalone installation is meant for evaluation/development purposes. For production environments, you need to follow the best practices and create required service accounts. Microsoft has published the deployment guide for SharePoint 2013, you can download this from the below link.
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NuGet package manager in Visual Studio 2012
NuGet is a package manager that helps developers to automate the process of installing and upgrading packages in Visual Studio projects. It is free and open source. You can see the project in codeplex from the below link.
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Coexistence of projects between Visual Studio 2010 and 2012
Microsoft has released another version of Visual Studio named Visual Studio 2012. As you can see there are user interface (UI) changes in all/most of the Microsoft applications as Microsoft is moving towards Windows 8 and changing the UI scheme for all of the applications. Visual Studio 2012 is a move to adapt the new interface requirements that are in coherent with Windows 8. Not only this Visual Studio 2012 has lots of improvements in several areas and it supports .Net framework 4.5.
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Change default language settings in Visual Studio 2012
The first thing you need to do after the installation of Visual Studio 2012 is to choose the IDE preferences. Once you select your preferred collection of settings, the IDE will always choose dialogs and other options according to your selection. Nowadays developer’s needs to work with different programming environments and due to this, developers might need to reset the default settings. In this article, I am going to demonstrate how you can change the default settings in Visual Studio 2012.
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Extension methods in .Net framework
Recently one of my friend asked me about extension method. Though it was introduced in .Net framework 3.0, lots of people are not using this or not aware of the power of extension methods. So I decided to write a blog post about this to give an introduction to the extension methods.
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Integrate Bing Search API into ASP.Net application
Couple of months back, I wrote an article about how to integrate Bing Search engine (API 2.0) with ASP.Net website. You can refer the article here
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Integrating Flickr with ASP.Net application
Flickr is the popular photo management and sharing application offered by yahoo. The services from flicker allow you to store and share photos and videos online. Flicker offers strong API support for almost all services they provide. Using this API, developers can integrate photos to their public website. Since 2005, developers have collaborated on top of Flickr's APIs to build fun, creative, and gorgeous experiences around photos that extend beyond Flickr.
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Using custom fonts in your web pages
From the start of web, people were restricted to use standard fonts(those are globally available in all platforms) such as Arial, Times etc, for displaying content in web pages. The main issue was that the browser did not have the capability to read the font from server. Due to this companies were forced to use different font than their branding for the web pages, which created dissatisfaction for the brand owners. Though internet explorer addressed this by allowing embedding font starting from version 4, there was no common method that works universally in all browsers. With HTML 5 specification, things are changing. HTML 5 have a @font-face element, that can be used to link your page with a font that resides in remote location.
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Configure Email notifications on SharePoint 2010 list
In this article I am going to demonstrate how you can configure email notification feature on SharePoint List. For the purpose of demonstration I chose the default tasks list that is coming with almost all default SharePoint sites. Tasks list have one column “Assigned To”. When an item is created in the task list, I would like to send an email to the user to whom the task is assigned. The scenario is very simple and straight forward.
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Getting started with LINQ to SharePoint
One of the major advantages of SharePoint 2010 is the support for LINQ. If you are new to LINQ, I would recommend you to read the below article from MSDN.
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Display weather information in your site using jQuery and Yahoo services
Few months back, I wrote an article about how to retrieve weather information from www.weather.com using XOAP services. In that article I was subscribing the data from server side, caching data to SQL server database and then retrieving the information from SQL to display on the page. You can read that article from the link http://weblogs.asp.net/sreejukg/archive/2011/02/21/include-weather-information-to-your-site-using-weather-com-xmloap-service.aspx . After published the article, I received certain queries about retrieving the weather information without using any server side technology, so I decided to write this.
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Integrate BING API for Search inside ASP.Net web application
Update: Since Bing has moved Search API to Windows Azure Market place, I wrote a new article about the new Bing Search API. You can read this from the below link
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Installing Windows 8 Developer Preview in Oracle Virtual Box
Microsoft has released Developer Preview for Windows 8 a while ago. Developer Preview is a pre-beta release of the software. You can download the developer preview from here.
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SharePoint 2010 : Sharing data between Visual Web Parts
Web Parts are essential parts of SharePoint 2010 that helps developers and site owners to customize the SharePoint portal. There are lots of out of the box web parts available in SharePoint 2010. When you are building business portals definitely you will be in need to create your own web parts corresponding to your business requirements. SharePoint 2010 supports Visual web parts. Visual web parts allow developers to easily design the user interface as they are doing in conventional ASP.Net applications.
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Developing custom field type for SharePoint 2010
The ECM features of SharePoint 2010 are excellent. The best thing is the extendibility of the platform using SharePoint designer and Visual Studio. By default SharePoint includes field types such as Single line text, multi-line text etc. The following is the snapshot of the fields available in SharePoint 2010
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Walkthrough: Wizard control in ASP.Net
In this article I am going to explain about the ASP.Net Wizard control and how you can use it in your application. When there are large forms, the wizard control is a useful tool that helps the end user to fill the form quiet easily. When you have large forms, it is a better approach to split the forms to various steps. In this article I am going to demonstrate how ASP.Net wizard control can be applied to multi-step form application. I am using ASP.Net 4.0 with Visual Studio 2010 for this demonstration.
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SharePoint 2010: Missing new and edit options from the Site Menu
Recently one of SharePoint WCM client has reported that they were not able to update the site. All the edit/new/upload menu items were missing from the site. It was fine till the week before and suddenly it happened. I thought of publishing the steps for troubleshooting the issue as it may help somebody facing similar issues.