Amar Galla's Weblog

.NET Adoption in Startups

A very interesting article over at Aaronontheweb about .NET Adoption in Startups. Some really excellent comments also giving very different viewpoints. Quite an interesting read.

HTML 5 with Visual Studio 2010

If you have tried to create / edit an HTML 5 document in Visual Studio, you must have got a lot of validation errors. The current validator in Visual Studio 2010 supports HTML 4.01 or XHTML 1.1 Transitional as the highest standards. To enable Intellisense to work with HTML 5, perform the following steps: Download the HTML5 [...]

Unable to connect to SQL Server 2008

When you first install SQL Server 2008, you are unable to connect to the SQL Server from another machine in the network. You have enabled remote connections and still whenever you try to connect, you get an access denied error. Make sure the SQL Server Browser service is running. It is required in order to listen [...]

SharePoint 2010 editions

If you are getting confused about which edition of SharePoint you need, there is a nice handy chart over at Microsoft. Thanks to my friend Tobias who tweeted about it. A very handy reference when you are trying to match required features with the editions.

SharePoint 2010 advanced training

If you are an existing MOSS developer, and are tired of going thru training material which tells you what a webpart is and the difference between SPSite and SPWeb, there is some good news. Just stumbled across some free SharePoint 2010 training from Microsoft specifically aimed at existing MOSS developers. Definitely worth having a look [...]

SharePoint 2010 Quick Start

For existing developers who want to quickly start developing for the SharePoint 2010 platform, Microsoft has published some quick start videos which are quite helpful and recommended.

SharePoint 2010 Launch Videos

For anyone who missed the Launch yesterday, just a reminder that they can see some of the videos online. Head over to the SharePoint 2010 Launch site and be a part of the launch of this fantastic new platform.

SharePoint 2010 Books

Recently someone asked me if any of the SharePoint 2010 books are out yet. I know there are quite a few books which are scheduled to release this spring / summer however not sure if there are any books currently available in the market. Will update once I find some good book recommendations for SharePoint 2010.

Product Development

Recently I have started developing a few products for the SharePoint 2010 space. It has been quite a satisfying experience. Hopefully if everything is on schedule, you should be seeing first glimpses of some of our products this summer. We have been working quite hard in getting some unique and interesting concepts in the market. [...]

SharePoint 2010

Not sure how many of you have started working seriously with SharePoint 2010. I am pretty impressed with it, and am looking to do more and more work with it in the coming days. Going to try migrating a few test 2007 portals to 2010 and hopefully, the migration story will be a smooth success [...]