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Today’s post comes to us from Spencer Harbar, a SharePoint MVP, at http://www.harbar.net. He graciously offered to let us use his User Profiles graphic and accompanying text. You can find his guides on User Profiles at http://www.harbar.net/articles/sp2010ups.aspx and http://www.harbar.net/articles/sp2010ups2.aspx. Thank you, Spencer! This diagram shows the high level architecture and the various components that make up the User Profile subsystem in SharePoint Server 2010. The key components are briefly described below. User Profile Service Application (UPA) A logical component which encompasses: · An IIS Application which sits in

the SharePoint Web Services IIS Web Site. The IIS Web Site is on every machine in the farm. When we start the User Profile Service machine instance later, the IIS Application will be created on that machine. It will be named with a GUID and hosts two of WCF services. This is known as a Service Application Endpoint. · Pages for managing the Service Application are hosted in Central Administration and are called using a GUID in the query string. The WCFs don’t actually do any work themselves but provide an interface to calling clients and calls other elements...(Read whole news on source site)

In 2010, Microsoft announced LightSwitch, a product aimed at developing Line-of-Business applications with ease. In July 2011, the beta tag was finally removed from the product as Microsoft officially introduced Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 as a new member of the Visual Studio family. Many however are still unsure about the product. Questions crossing a lot of minds include “Is it something for me?”, “What can I do with it?”, “Where should I use it?”, “Is it more than Microsoft Access?”, “Am I limited to what’s in the box?” and quite a few more. For this reason, I have decided that

a few articles are in place to give you a clear understanding of LightSwitch. I won’t be saying that you should LightSwitch for this or that. Using a sample application we will build throughout the series, I will try giving you an overview of how we can use it to build a real-world application. By reading these articles, I hope you’ll be able to make up your mind whether or not LightSwitch is something for you. More specifically, I plan the following topics to be tackled along the way: What is LightSwitch and where I see it being...(Read whole news on source site)

NHibernate 3.2 was released some weeks ago. Get the source code from the SVN repository here: https://nhibernate.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/nhibernate. Binaries here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nhibernate/files/. Release notes: https://nhibernate.jira.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10000&version=10440. JIRA issue tracking: https://nhibernate.jira.com. As always, you can get help from the NHibernate Users mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/nhusers. Lots of bug fixes and some new features. My favorite ones are: Mapping by code: fluent configuration, no more .hbm.xml files required; Subselect: ability to map SQL views as entities; HQL paging: TAKE and SKIP

on HQL; Integrated bytecode provider: one less DLL to deploy. Fabio Maulo, the NHibernate development team leader, has blogged about some of the new features in his blog. Have a look! The binary distribution of NHContrib was not yet updated, but you can get the latest trunk from here: https://nhcontrib.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/nhcontrib/trunk/. ...(Read whole news on source site)

The ToggleButton control is similar to the CheckBox control, in that allows the user to toggle something on/off in an application.  Instead of looking like a checkmark next to a label, however, the ToggleButton looks like a normal button.  The button appears to stay pressed in after you click it.  When you click the ToggleButton [...]

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source: channel9 Project Basics Upon launching the app, there’s not much to see.  You can touch the car icon in the Map region in order to set your car’s parking location.  To make things easier, you can also touch the camera icon to take a picture of your parking spot or nearby landmark to make it easier to find later.  The data is saved between runs so you don’t need to leave it running. The application takes advantage of a small set of pages: MainPage: Summary screen to see the map and photo in the same place. 

Essentially, this uses two Image controls and a Map control.  The upper region shows a small map if you’ve set your parking spot.  It also caches a small version of the map in case you can’t get a GPS or data connection when you need to find your car. MapSet: Allows the user to set their car’s position on a map.  It starts out centered on the current location and the user can swipe around to place their car. MapPage: A larger map with panning/zooming support.  This is the one you see...(Read whole news on source site)

source: youtube Using Windows Phone as an external storage device.

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This is a short story about how you can get and resolve stale Managed Metadata Service (MMS) databases in SharePoint 2010. I've been working with Managed Metadata quite much and done some backup/restore juggling from production to test and to dev environments. Which by the way works really smooth. I've also recreated the MMS databases a couple of times.  After applying Service Pack and the re-released June 2011 CU I went into Central Administration to take a look at the databases and their upgrade status. This is what I found: four MMS databases, of which two didn't upgrade,

and I only have two MMS service applications in this particular environment. As you can see two of the databases reports "Database is in compatibility range and upgrade is recommended". There's no link to click to upgrade and there's no PowerShell command either to update them. These two databases were not connected to any MMS service application so it's no big deal, but who wants these kind of "warnings" in their CA. To create these stale MMS databases is an easy task; just go to Properties of the MMS SA and change the name of...(Read whole news on source site)

I usually like to think about the responsibilities of the system by showing up the UI. It is a great way to communicate with both customers and developers. Here is the main screen for the application: This is actually a bad place to start with, in terms of coding start points, because it requires so many other things as well. This particular screen is likely to be viewed pretty much everywhere, this is what the prison commanders and the cell blocks commanders have at their desktop, what the officers are using to do their daily work (usually for

Counting, admittedly). Even before we can start , it reveals quite a lot about the actual way things work. In this screen, we can see that we have Flagged Dossiers, those are Inmates that have some problem with their Dossier. We can accept Inmates with problematic Dossiers, but we want to fix that as soon as possible, so we make this something that is very much front and center. The “Action required” section detail Inmates that we have to take some action about. Whatever it is a court date that this inmate have to be at or his sentence is...(Read whole news on source site)

One of my friends asked me to ask him a very different and tricky interview question. I asked him to come up with the code that passes parameter to getdate() function ie use any code where getdate(something) is part of the code. Although it is very interesting he did not come up with an answer. Here is the answer for this trickey query. It is not possible to pass a parameter to getdate function. The follows fails select getdate(5) with the following error Msg 174, Level 15, State 1, Line 2 The getdate function requires... Read more

I've been getting some general HTTP 400 while trying to invoke a certain WCF method. I've also noticed that it did not happened all the times but for some requests. HTTP 400 indicates that The Web server (running the Web site) thinks that the data stream sent by the client (e.g. your Web browser) was 'malformed' i.e. did not respect the HTTP protocol completely. So the Web server was unable to understand the request and process it. I suspected that I was getting those errors for a large requests (I'm using an order service that get a

list of items it should include in the order form), but the exception was a general web exception. So I decided to go deeper and test the WCF logs using the SVC trace viewer which is a MUST tool to have when working with WCF. Scanning the logs for my error confirm my suspicions : You can see on the right, that the actual exception is a service model protocol exception : The maximum message size quota for incoming messages (65536) has been exceeded I remembered that I've configured my binding...(Read whole news on source site)