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No VSE WSS for VS 2008 Until Summer

Tariq — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:23:07 GMT

Dated: March/2008

Yes as saddening that sounds, it seems it is true.

Having a bit of slack time and not being able to give VS2008 a whirl earlier due to project pressures, I broke it out today all eager to gauge what elegance this IDE brings, specially since I had the need to write a test WebPart.

Out of instinct I went File -> New Project -> *hold up where is the SharePoint Category.

So then me thinks ah! its not built in to the product, maybe another extension for Visual Studio.

So googled and found this post on Somarsegar's blog

Looks like I will have to be content with VS 2005 till Summer (hopefully).

Technorati Tags: SharePoint,MOSS,WebPart,IDE,VS2008,VSEWSS

Cross-posted from tariqayad.com

.NET Videos

Tariq — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:09:06 GMT

A couple of days back Ravi gave me a shout out to this .NET Video youtube-wannabe site.

Check it out: www.dotnetvideos.net

But guess what he's there is a tempting offer at the site as well, a free subscription to asp.netPRO magazine on registration.

Thanks for the link Ravi

Technorati tags: .Net Videos, Tutorials

Cross-posted from tariqayad.com

Motiah.net

Tariq — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:48:17 GMT

Tools written in Csharp for Video and Audio work.

Check it out - http://moitah.net/. There's some cool stuff there (if you are into that kinda thing anyways)

Technorati tags: audio, video, tools, csharp, .net

Cross-posted from tariqayad.com

ASP.NET NavBars

Tariq — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:05:00 GMT

I went through this big list of vendors providing Outlook style navigation bars.

Out of the list, 3 stand out in terms of quality of their products.

My ultimate goal was to use the control in a webpart, hence I was using the control entirely through code (no utilization of a designer/SmartPart capabilities)

Out of the 3 above, the telerik product is just exceptional in terms of ease of programability. Its a very good product, is of very good quality, and telerik support is very responsive.

The DevExpress product was equally good, but it had one hiccup which I will mention later.

ComponentArt is a good product, but requires a lot more effort in terms of programming it to get the end result you want. The ComponentArt liscensin is also a bit limited in terms of redistribution.

Comming back to DevExpress vs Telerik, for the cost of the Telerik r.a.d. panel, you could get the entire navigation suite from DevExpress, but the hiccup with DevExpress was, in my very limited time to evaluate the control I couldn't find out how to do nested (i.e. like a tree control) items within a panel.

But other than for that DevExpress seems like better value for money purely on the fact that you get more controls for the same price as Telerik.

If nested items is your requirement then go for telerik.

All the controls mentioned above vendors have live demos of their their respective sites.

tags: sharepoint, nav bars, outlook 2003 bar

Cross-posted from tariqayad.com

#1 on my Wishlist for the Zune

Tariq — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:34:00 GMT

Not sure if MS will listen to me but my #1 request for the Zune/Argo is that it should support the Compact Framework.

I am very dissatissfied with the ipod, I mean the ipod in itself is the most closed system I have ever come across. You can not do anything with the content you store on the device other than what is in built. I do hope that Microsoft sees this shortcomming and makes the Zune a cool platform mobile content platform for which apps can be written for.

Technorati : Argo, Zune

Cross-posted from tariqayad.com

.NET 3.0 = 2.0? Oh God! My head hurts.

Tariq — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 22:22:00 GMT

Check out www.netfx3.com.

Its the community site for everything 3.0 in the framework.

To tell you the honest truth I spent some good time trying to understand this 3.0 business.

"I mean you take the 2.0 Framework, you add Avalon, Indigo etc and then call it .NET Framework 3.0. But in fact its nothing more than .NET 2.0 (Compiler, run time etc.) with additions."

So overall when you get the .NET Framework 3.0 you will not be getting the language enhancements in C# 3.0, VB.NET 3.0, you will not be getting the 3.0 compilers.

Overall thats a bad decision. MS get your head in gear.

Whats bad about it is that it causes confusion. For instance it took me x amount of time to figure what this all was about. It really shouldnt be that way. It should have been a naturual evolution, and if I am confused just imagine how this going to sit with actual customers.

There is a lot of comments/disapproval at Somarsegar's and Jason Zander's blog.

And I agree with Wasim Sadiq on Microsoft screwing up totally cool names.

But does all these add-ons require a major versioning change to .NET? I guess the bigger question is could the .NET Framework do without them, and the answer is yes (we have 2.0).

It would have made more sense to call it .NET Framework 2.0 with .NET Framework Extensions 1.0 (similar to what Dragan Sretenovic mentioned on Jason's blog) and then merge both to 3.0 when the framework actually goes up to 3.0. But to take an existing 2.0 and rename it to 3.0 is just nonsense.

And Edmundo T. Mendiola raises some good points on Somarsegar's blog. Just to quote him

"Better make it clear across all sites in Microsoft and MSDN that .Net Framework 3.0 is the next version and that VB/C#.Net 3.0 are not the real VB/C#.Net 3.0. Unless you can promise to deliver them with .Net Framework 3.0. "

And he's damn right!

But I dont see Microsoft revoking this decision.

Technorati : .NET

Cross-posted from tariqayad.com

Postback problem? Check your WebResource.axd file in the Cache

Tariq — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 16:50:00 GMT

I ran in to a problem with ASP.NET 2.0 where postbacks werent working over the weekend.

The problem as it seemed was that there was a corrupt copy of the webresource.axd file in my local cache.

Cleaning the list of cache files that were associated with the target site and reloading the page solved the issue.

Just a friendly tip for anyone having this problem

Technorati : ASP.NET 2.0, Caching, Development, Postback

FeedBurnerized

Tariq — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 03:05:00 GMT

Hi Guys,

I created a few Feedburner Urls to the feeds on my blog.

SharePoint Content only – http://feeds.feedburner.com/TT_SharePoint
All blog content – http://feeds.feedburner.com/TangibleThoughts

Currently they point to this blog so you might have to still tolerate the ads (I am looking into what I can do about that).

but for starters they are FeeBurner Urls.

SharePoint Content only – http://feeds.feedburner.com/TT_SharePoint
All blog content – http://feeds.feedburner.com/TangibleThoughts

Would appreciate if you could sign up to them.

.NET 1.1, Configuration Application Block - want a lighter version?

Tariq — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 12:17:00 GMT

Was looking for a lighter vesion of the Configuration Application Block – something that could do its job of writing settings to a ini flie or xml file.

And found this http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/ReadWriteXmlIni.asp

MSBee Betas published!!

Tariq — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 06:22:00 GMT

If you havent seen it yet MSBee Beta has been release.

Check it out here http://www.gotdotnet.com/codegallery/codegallery.aspx?id=9ac94da5-8e5a-4a33-beda-9b8d00970371

In addition to this there are 2 additional tools that the MSBee team have apprently published. These are (in their own words)

“Managed Stack Explorer

MSE is a lightweight tool for monitoring .NET 2.0 processes and stack traces. Just copy and run. No installation required.

Download Managed Stack Explorer v1.1

TFS Admin Tool (Joe's Announcement)

For anybody who has used any of the betas or CTPs of Team Foundation Server, you are probably aware of the pain around user administration. Simply put, a TFS administrator must add users (and their appropriate permissions roles) in TFS, Sharepoint, and SQL Reporting Services servers separately to completely setup their TFS installation. This process is time-consuming at best and downright confusing at worst.

I originally blogged about whether or not a tool to solve this pain point was worth pursuing a couple of months ago. From the feedback we received on that blog post, and the MSDN Product Feedback Center suggestion filed for such a tool, we decided to create the tool as a Visual Studio Power Toy.

Download TFS Admin Tool Beta 1 “

According to Josh who sent me the announcement, the forum for feedback is over here and you can post bugs here.