Technology Blog - Vikas Goyal

Free eBook on Claims based Identity and Access Control

noreply@blogger.com (Vikas Goyal) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:55:00 +0000

Starts with discussing basics of claims based identity and moves to advanced topics. Following industry standards are discussed : Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) Security Association Management Protocol (SAMP) and Internet Security Association and Key Management...

What’s new in ASP.NET 4.0 ?

noreply@blogger.com (Vikas Goyal) — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:36:00 +0000

Here is a very useful whitepaper which covers what’s new in ASP.NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 for Web Development. http://www.asp.net/whitepapers/aspnet4

On Demand training on latest web technologies

noreply@blogger.com (Vikas Goyal) — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 06:13:00 +0000

Programming with HTML5 and related technologies http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/in/details/4f39070b-c435-4de5-9f50-0d2852c1dfbe Visual Studio 2010 SP1 for Web Developers http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/in/details/90b79e80-eae9-47c8-a4f4-a2431e62178d ASP.NET MVC3...

Feedback on Visual Studio ALM or TFS

noreply@blogger.com (Vikas Goyal) — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:33:00 +0000

Now you can directly provide feedback on TFS to the team in terms of new features which you want to see in next version. You can also vote on existing new features requested. Reach to this site for providing feedback http://visualstudioalm.uservoice.com/forums/100197-visual-studio-alm

Whitepaper on exploit mitigation technologies

noreply@blogger.com (Vikas Goyal) — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 07:26:00 +0000

A new whitepaper has been recently published which discusses about various exploit mitigation technologies and how to use them. Release by Microsoft Security Engineering Center. A must for every person on software development team. Covers following: economics of exploitation – attacker’s...

Watch what is coming in next one year.

noreply@blogger.com (Vikas Goyal) — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:27:00 +0000

Even if you are not visiting Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference currently running, make sure you watch the keynotes LIVE/Recorded to get glimpse of all the products coming in next one year. Here are few of them : Windows Phone ‘Mango’ Windows 8 Windows Server 8 System Center 2012...

What’s new in Visual Studio vNext ?

noreply@blogger.com (Vikas Goyal) — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 05:26:00 +0000

There are still few months before we start getting the beta of Visual Studio vNext including TFS but the recent public announcements and demos have already created lot of excitement. This will be a next major release after Visual Studio 2010. Here are few of the important features coming up in...

* SharePoint 2010 : Notes on Search

noreply@blogger.com (Vikas Goyal) — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:50:00 +0000

Goals · Enterprise data from multiple Information stores (heterogeneous systems & data stores) can be indexed & queried with unified results presented to the user. · Information stores can be SharePoint sites, external sites, file shares, database systems, web services, mail systems or...

* SharePoint : Add custom search provider to IE for SharePoint site

noreply@blogger.com (Vikas Goyal) — Thu, 20 May 2010 13:37:00 +0000

Both IE8 and SharePoint/MOSS 2007 are OpenSearch compliant. This enables SharePoint admins to publish a custom search provider for IE users so that users can search the site content from browser search bar. Here are the steps: Start with identifying the search URL for your site. A typical...

* IndiMix 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Vikas Goyal) — Wed, 19 May 2010 14:41:00 +0000

http://www.microsoftindimix.com/default.aspx

* MSDN and TechNet Blogging platforms getting updated

noreply@blogger.com (Vikas Goyal) — Tue, 18 May 2010 12:55:00 +0000

MSDN and TechNet blogs have become the most efficient ways of receiving latest updates on Microsoft products. While most of the blogs are unofficial, the official product team blogs provide the latest updates really fast and best too. After many years these blogging platforms are finally getting...

* Windows Search : Add SharePoint Search Connector

noreply@blogger.com (Vikas Goyal) — Mon, 17 May 2010 13:35:00 +0000

With Windows 7, Search is integrated with Operating System. Apart from ability to index any kind of local content like files, mails , others, Windows 7 also supports federated search. With federated search users can even search content outside local desktop. Windows 7 support search...

* Gartner : CIOs Top 10 Business and Technology Priorities in 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Vikas Goyal) — Fri, 14 May 2010 13:33:00 +0000

http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1283413 Top 10 Business Priorities Ranking Top 10 Technology Priorities Ranking Business...

* Software Architecture : SATURN 2010 announced

noreply@blogger.com (Vikas Goyal) — Thu, 13 May 2010 14:41:00 +0000

Each year, the SEI Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Conference brings together experts from around the world to exchange best architecture-centric practices in developing, acquiring, and maintaining software-reliant systems. Architects at all levels meet to share ideas and lessons...

* SharePoint Designer 2010 available as free download

noreply@blogger.com (Vikas Goyal) — Mon, 10 May 2010 13:34:00 +0000

As SharePoint 2010 reaches RTM status, SharePoint Designer 2010 is now available for free download. Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions are available. Important Note : SharePoint Designer 2010 only connects to SharePoint 2010. To connect to SharePoint 2007 and earlier sites you must continue to...

* SharePoint 2010 : 12th May is Launch Day

noreply@blogger.com (Vikas Goyal) — Fri, 07 May 2010 11:11:00 +0000

Watch Stephen Elop, President of the Microsoft Business Division, announce the launch of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 on May 12, 2010 at 8 a.m PST or 11 a.m. EST. The live Microsoft keynote focuses on the next wave of productivity that delivers: End user productivity across the PC, phone and...

* OpenSearch and SharePoint

noreply@blogger.com (Vikas Goyal) — Thu, 06 May 2010 14:38:00 +0000

OpenSearch is a specification which can be used to publish and consume search results in a standard way and thus enabling federated searches. This helps in multiple servers indexing & storing the content in their own format but still share results with others in standard way. It helps in...

* OASIS Members Approve Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Standard

noreply@blogger.com (Vikas Goyal) — Wed, 05 May 2010 14:10:00 +0000

Adobe, Alfresco, ASG, Booz Allen Hamilton, Day Software, dotCMS, EMC, FatWire, fme AG, IBM, ISIS Papyrus, Liferay, Microsoft, Nuxeo, Open Text, Oracle, SAP, Saperion, WeWebU, and Others Agree on Standard to Link Disparate Content Systems Boston, MA, USA; 4 May 2010 - The OASIS international...

* Windows Search : Saving Search results to text file

noreply@blogger.com (Vikas Goyal) — Tue, 04 May 2010 14:34:00 +0000

In Windows 7, when you perform search using Windows Explorer, there is no direct way of exporting the results to a text file. Here is a small trick to copy them to a text file. 1 - Open Windows Explorer and search for what you want 2 - When the search results populate, select all (Ctrl + A)...

* Free Silverlight 4 Training

noreply@blogger.com (Vikas Goyal) — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:40:00 +0000

Silverlight 4 is out and so is the free training from Microsoft for Silverlight 4. If you already have some experience with Silverlight, this training is most recommended to move to Silverlight 4. It is available for both online and offline consumption. Download Silverlight 4 Training Kit ...

* SharePoint and CMIS – Content Management Interoperability Services

noreply@blogger.com (Vikas Goyal) — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:09:00 +0000

What is CMIS – Content Management Interoperability Services Specification ? A Web services interface specification that will enable greater interoperability of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems. CMIS uses Web services and Web 2.0 interfaces to enable rich information to be shared...

* Gartner reviews SharePoint 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Vikas Goyal) — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:55:00 +0000

Gartner recently published its research note on SharePoint 2010 and here what it says : “Gartner expects it to compete increasingly in the traditional high-end content management market.”. Other highlights: Key Findings SharePoint 2010 remains a horizontal content management offering....

* Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 Released

noreply@blogger.com (Vikas Goyal) — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:51:00 +0000

Enterprise Library is one free code library which is recommended for every development team who wants to focus on writing business code instead of spending too much time on writing framework code. By using EL you automatically bring lots of best practices and patterns to your application. P&P...

* SharePoint : 28 MVPs answer your queries

noreply@blogger.com (Vikas Goyal) — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:31:00 +0000

Do you have questions about SharePoint ? 28 SharePoint MVPs are participating in two live chat events about SharePoint. On Tuesday April 27, tune in between 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Pacific time to chat with the following MVPs: Agnes Molnar Asif Rehmani Becky Bertram Bill English ...

* Installing VS 2010 help .. read this first

noreply@blogger.com (Vikas Goyal) — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:49:00 +0000

While installing documentation, you will be asked for value of ‘Library Location’ which is actually the place where local help will be installed. This cannot be changed once given and even uninstall/install of VS 2010 won’t help. So be careful. VS 2010 uses new help system called Microsoft Help...