Thursday, July 30, 2009

Office 2010 revealed in more detail

Since the launch of the Office 2010 technical preview, Microsoft has revealed most of the anticipated Office 2010 release in great detail way ahead of the expected official announcement that was expected to be done at the Microsoft Worldwide Partners Conference 2009

To unfold the secrets watch out for the introduction videos office twenty ten videos available at

http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/

Peronsally I was impressed with the new features in outlook 2010 that will help keep emails and our meetings more organized then what we have today, significant changes done to OneNote 2010, I always love OneNote whether it was 2003 or 2010, hats off to its online/offline capabilities. I was not much excited about office 2010 except for the fact that it allows live communication between users from a document management standpoint.

I was dying to know more about Infopath 2010 but was disappointed to know not much is available yet. Infopath 2010 is suppose to fix all the paint points that its preceeder 2007 version had specially with the forms services integration in sharepoint.

So I hope you all will find this information valuable and interesting. More secrets yet to be revealed ....... keep watching out this space.

Monday, July 27, 2009

Sharepoint 2010 developer document released

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 team has released a download for SharePoint 2010 developer documentation which contains white papers and help files. To review your copy, Please download zip file from Microsoft.com

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=94afe886-3b20-4bc9-9a0d-acd8cd232c24&displaylang=en

Preparing for Sharepoint 2010 Upgrade Today

I was looking for new references available for sharepoint twenty ten on internet, I happen to look at this cool presentation by Joel Oleson that talks about high level task involved with the sharepoint twenty ten upgrade. Click here to look at the presentation.

Thanks Joel for sharing this great piece of information, I hope everyone will find this information interesting and valuable.

SharepointAge Rocks !!!!!

Monday, July 20, 2009

What is SharePoint 2010

What is SharePoint 2010? SharePoint 2010 is the business collaboration platform for the Enterprise & the Web that enables you to connect & empower people through an integrated set of rich features. Whether deployed on-premises or as hosted services, SharePoint 2010 helps you cut costs with a unified infrastructure while allowing you to rapidly respond to your business needs.



Watch out for a sneak preview here I am very excited to expose more about the sharepoint twenty ten so keeping watching .......

Friday, July 10, 2009

BDC Meta Man Web Edition Released

Lightning Tools has recently released a web edition for BDC Meta Man to generate the Business Data Catalog Application Definition file. The web edition is designed to address the user paint point about SharePoint can communicate with their Line-of-Business Systems, but why they need to use a desktop application(BDC Meta Man Desktop Version) to create the Application Definition File.

Other goals for the web versions are as follows.
  • Allow users to create Application Definition File from within the browser (Figure 1 - BDC Meta Man Web Edition)
  • Give the ability to create Application Definition File to Site Collection Administrators
  • Give users functionality of BDC Meta Man from within the browser
  • Streamline the process of creating an Application Definition File.
  • Imitate BDC Meta Man desktop application (Figure 2 - BDC Meta Man)

Some screencasts and demos are available at their website Lightning Tools

Enjoy the great enterprise suites with sharepoint with the ease of these awesome tools.

Happy Sharepointing !!!!

Thursday, July 2, 2009

How to disable edit forms fields with sharepoint

While working on one of the projects, an sharepoint edit form needed to have some fields to be disabled or readonly. I did not wanted to write custom code to achieve this, also was looking for a solution that would be quick, handy and would utilize the web developement experience, I thought of giving it a shot with Javascript ..... while researching more on this I saw Andrey Shchurov Blog where Andrey has discussed the similar solution using Javascript.

Thanks Andrey for pointing this out, you have saved lot of my developement time.