Windows Live Writer Flickr plug-in test

Its working! :) More info on the newly released plug-ins here...

SharePoint: Newbie? Unable to find Developer Help?

Are you a newbie to SharePoint development? (or) Are you looking for a one place where you can find information about help in SharePoint products and technologies? Andrew Connell has written an excellent article regarding finding developer help for SharePoint products and technologies . Discover where...

SharePoint: Customising the EntityEditorWithPicker

I am sure many SharePoint users will be familiar with the EntityEditorWithPicker . Well, if you are wondering what the hell is this EntityEditorWithPicker , below is a screen-shot: Yes, that nice little TextBox portion along with the ‘Check for Names’ and ‘Browse’ button is the...

SharePoint: Creating a custom field

In SharePoint, a site column is a reusable column definition, or template, that you can assign to multiple lists across multiple SharePoint sites. Site columns are associated to a particular Data Type. This Data Type is called a Field. For example, when you create a site column, you are also prompted...

Geekzone: End of Year Drinks (2008)

Thanks to Mauricio for organizing the Geekzone End of Year Drinks yesterday ! It was nice to meet some of the Geekzone ‘geeks’ (like Phil Gale ) ;) Some of my snaps :...

SharePoint – Setting Item level permission

[ This is going to be a long post ] Back at work, I had a requirement to set item level permission in a SharePoint Document Library. What does this mean? Below is a ‘diagram’ Diagram 1   It is very simple to explain in simple words – I want to set unique permissions on each file in my document library...

Introduction to Microsoft .Net Services – .Net User Group presentation slides and samples

Thanks to all who came along to my presentation today :) You can download the presentation below : Hello World Sample :...

Windows Azure Table Storage

Windows Azure provides simple data storage services like blobs, tables and queues to store your data in the cloud. They are called as Storage Account Using Table Storage is one of the simplest way to start exploring the Windows Azure Storage. The tables are accessed using a Uri which is: http://{application...

Windows Azure Tables : Going ‘cloud’ from local storage

If you want to take your applications to the ‘cloud’ from the local storage, that is, from http://127.0.0.1:10002 to http://{application-name}.table.core.windows.net/ , all you need to do is edit your ServiceConfiguration.csfg file of your Web Role with the proper values! <?xml version...

WPF Ribbon - ApplicationSplitMenuItem

If you have started working on the newly released WPF Ribbon, you would have noticed that you can use ApplicationMenuItem and ApplicationSplitMenuItem to create menus. What is the basic difference between them? To start with, let me show you via some screenshots: Below is an ApplicationMenuItem And,...