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My Upcoming Speaking Schedule

ivansanders — Wed, 02 May 2012 05:00:00 GMT

#SPSOrlando Creating Business Intelligence SharePoint 2010 & SQL2012 & Windows 8 http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/orlando/Pages/meetings.aspx
please join us for this Business Intelligence session on the SharePoint and Office set of BI features to build and integrate data-driven spreadsheets and applications with SharePoint 2010. This session will cover topics such as SharePoint 2010, with Windows 8, and SQL2012 PowerPivot, PowerView PerformancePoint Services, Reporting Services, Excel Services, KPIs, and much more...
June 09, 2012 - June 09, 2012
Orlando FLA

#SPSSV Creating Business Intelligence with SharePoint 2010
http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/siliconvalley/Pages/meetings.aspx
Please join us for this Business Intelligence session on the SharePoint and Office set of BI features to build and integrate data-driven spreadsheets and applications with SharePoint 2010. This session will cover topics such as PowerPivot, PerformancePoint Services, Reporting Services, Excel Services, KPIs, and much more
June 2, 2012 - June 2, 2012
Palo Alto California

#RMTT Developing List Definitions and Event Receivers in Visual Studio 11
http://www.rmtechtrifecta.com/
This session demonstrates how to create a List Definition with a corresponding List Instance, and then attach an Event Receiver to the list to perform some tasks. The objective of this session is to learn how to build List Definitions, List Instances, and Event Receivers using Visual Studio 2010 and how to use the Developer Dashboard in SharePoint 2010.
• Create a SharePoint List Definition Project with List Instance
• Customize the SharePoint List Definition and List Instance
• Add an Event Receiver
• Enable the Developer Dashboard
• Use the Developer Dashboard
May 19, 2012 – May 19, 2012
Denver Colorado

#SFVSPUG Search and Enterprise Content Management
http://sfvspug.org/SitePages/Home.aspx
This session discusses strategies and techniques for deploying taxonomies in SharePoint 2010 and also includes a discussion of how to jump-start a taxonomy project by using pre-built foundational taxonomies. How many of you have copied contents from File Shares only to find that you can still not find anything just not find it faster?

I will show with a few simple steps how to implement automatic tagging or in place tagging so you don’t have to wait for your next migration or force management to use s spreadsheet to identify every document by using Boolean search not just synonyms as part of your Term Set.

If you choose to only use the Enterprise Keyword Settings on every document library I will give you a script to enable this feature on every document library. If you choose to use your own site columns I will provide a script that will make your Content Type the primary and apply it to every document library, then show how to modify the search result refiners so that you can drill through your search results. You don’t have to wait to make search work today
December 3, 2011 - December 3, 2011
May 9 2012
San Fernando Valley California

I hope to see many old faces and meet many new and these upcoming events. SharePoint is all about community

-Ivan

Technorati Tags: SharePoint 2010,Business Intelligence,Visual Studio 11,Speaking Engagments

Long Live VB!!! or not?

Anonymous — Mon, 05 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Ok, first a disclaimer: I'm a Microsoft MVP with a competency in Visual Basic.

Normally I would not give this much thought, I've always favored VB (I started using it back when it was in version 3) over all other languages and thought very little of the debates that went on online comparing it to other languages.

Even when I read columns like this one, I felt nothing of it. 'VB will prevail' I used to tell myself, after all, no sane company in its right mind would alienate its 'largest group of developers'. I still think so.

However, when I am asked to 'consider' switching over to C# by my company, and specifically my boss and friend, who he himself is a former VB MVP, a few different thought-storms are brewing in my mind.

But probably the most important question is: how did this happen?

That is when I decided to write this blog. The fact of the matter is, there are many reasons for this to happen. The migration of developers from other platforms, J2EE for example, find a more familiar face in C#. VB6ers NOT migrating to the .Net world is another factor. And perhaps, the mere fact that VB is dumbed the hobbyists language of choice (after all, it is the most downloaded setup of Microsoft's 'express' editions) is yet another reason why 'professionals' are migrating.

But perhaps most importantly is universities worldwide offering C# as the development language of choice (or any semicolon language for that matter).

All the rest, is merely the chain reaction set in motion. C# books becoming more popular and better selling. C# developers becoming more desirable and thus paid better. Resources for C# are becoming much more available than for VB. And now Microsoft, the company that popularized the language, are treating it as a second-class citizen.

I don't mind becoming 'multilingual', but I've grown to love and respect VB throughout the years, and I won't go down without a fight! In my opinion, VB is and will remain the 'easiest' most efficient language to develop applications in; plus I don't think it is fair. Bill Gates: help!!

Anyway I'll take C#, with a grain of salt.

What do you think?

Links:

http://visualstudiomagazine.com/columns/article.aspx?editorialsid=2540

Search Command Ribbon for Office 2007

Anonymous — Sun, 04 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Don't know about you, but personally I love Office 2007. Despite what I hear and read about it, it is much easier than its predecessor (which ultimately means it is more efficient).

Having said that, the number one problem users new to Office 2007 face is the 'ribbon'. To them, everything's NOT where they used to have it and that actually reduces efficiency.

Therefore, the guys at OfficeLabs (online at http://www.officelabs.com, BTW powered by SharePoint) have come up with what they think would be the solution to some of their troubles; the search command ribbon.

What this does, is allow you to search for whatever command you're looking for and the search result will actually be displayed in the ribbon itself.

A picture is worth a thousand words:

Remember, if you decide to download and install this, you should bear in mind that Microsoft will be gathering information with regards to your usage, and you can NOT disable this.

IMHO we 'developers' should be doing more with regards to integrating solutions into Office using the new 'VSTO' (Visual Studio Tools for Office). Right?

What is Business Intelligence? How to obtain complete tools suite to test?

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT

Business Intelligence (BI) - is the new term from Microsoft for all Data Warehousing & Data Mining requirement since the SQL Server 2005 version is released. Say many organization face challenges with the Data Explode, this BI offers management and development tools for IT department and Business segment within your organization with a perfect analysis and consumption tools for non-technical business users. If you are new to the SQL Server field and to make use of BI within your needs then try...(read more)

New feature in SQL Server 2008 - compression how it works?

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 05:00:00 GMT

Since the release of SQL Server 2008 (last 2 CTPs) users are anxiously awaiting for data compression feature, so how it is handled in this version and what it does, is it a good thing? Data compression enables you to store your data more effectively and reduce the storage requirements for your data. SQL Server 2008 provides significant performance improvements for large I/O bound workloads such as data warehousing. Not only the data compression even SQL development team are looking to input native...(read more)

Visual Basic Power Packs 2.0

Anonymous — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 05:00:00 GMT

Line and Shape controls, PrintForm component, and Printer Compatibility LibraryMicrosoft Visual Basic 2005 Power Packs 2.0 includes a new set of Line and Shape controls and updated versions of the two previously released Visual Basic 2005 Power Packs, the PrintForm Component and the Printer Compatibility Library. All three are now included in a single assembly making them even easier to use and redistribute with your application.

Links:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/bb735936.aspx

Partnership: Microsoft & Facebook

Anonymous — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 05:00:00 GMT

Hey, all you Facebook fans out there, Microsoft and Facebook have launched a partnership and Microsoft has released a 'Facebook Developer Toolkit' which allows you to create applications for Facebook using Microsoft Popfly and Visual Studio Express.

You can even create a Windows Forms application that connects to Facebook using Facebook's API!! Now that I like!

Enjoy!!

Links:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/express/bb510381.aspx

Developer Fusion - Upcoming UK Events

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 05:00:00 GMT

The Agile Enterprise and Independent Software Vendors (FREE - Wednesday, 12 September 2007, 19:00 - 21:00, Glasgow, United Kingdom) Agile software engineering is not the same across the enterprise and ISVs. In this talk we'll look at some of the different ways in which agile software engineering principles are applied in the enterprise and in ISVs; where it's easy, where it's hard, and how to make it just that little bit less painful for everyone. Exploring Windows Server 2008 Part I (FREE - Thursday,...(read more)

Next installment of SQL Server 2008 July CTP is available for download from Connect site

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 05:00:00 GMT

Here it is, next installment of SQL 2008 CTP which is July CTP of SQL Server 2008 is now available for download on the SQL Connect site (you need to have a passport login to download). There are few enhancements to the Reporting services, introduction of new date & time data types including the performance data colleciton. The ones I like are Object dependancies improvement & database mirroring enhancements. I like the nice graphical interface that gives you the idea of Improvement Pillars...(read more)

Microsoft releases: VS2008 Beta 2, .Net Framework 3.5 Beta 2 and SilverLight 1.0 RC

Anonymous — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 05:00:00 GMT

New releases from Microsoft for all you developers out there:

Happy downloading!

Links:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/default.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/install.aspx