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Visual Studio 11 is now rename to Visual Studio 2012, and is turning from Beta to RC

kenlin — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Following Windows 8 is released its Release Preview, Visual Studio 11 is also having some changes since 1st June 2012. Now Visual Studio 11 is confirmed to be named Visual Studio 2012, and also it is now turning from Beta to RC. This means that it is going to be RTM. in my personal thinking, it might be released in the same date as Windows 8. So as a developer, you really need to catch up some changes on HTML 5 supporting in Visual Studio 2012, and also the Metro Development for Windows 8.

Don't forget to browse to Compare VS2012 Products Page to get their difference between the difference products of VS2012

Ad-Hoc VS Hotspot, and what is Tethering anyway ?

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 05:00:00 GMT

Ad-Hoc, Hotspot, Tethering, three words you keep seeing. Three expressions everyone but you seem to know what is. In one of my more popular articles here on mintywhite we deal with setting up your Windows 7 computer as a Wi-Fi Hotspot. In the comments, on of our readers (who probably felt a bit awkward) asked [...]

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FIX IT: ASP.NET 4.0 registration problem after enabling WCF activation feature in IIS 7

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 06:00:00 GMT

Hi,
If you recently enable WCF HTTP Activation Feature in IIS 7, you might face this prolem when you try to navigate to your WCF service that is targeting .Net Framework 4.0:

Could not load type 'System.ServiceModel.Activation.HttpModule' from assembly 'System.ServiceModel, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'.

To fix it:
1) Open VS Command Prompt.
2) Type the following command to re-install ASP.NET 4.0 and register the right .NET Framework.
aspnet_regiis.exe -iru
3) Refresh your WCF host url, it works :)

Hope this helps.
Regards,
Mostafa Arafa
twitter.com/mostafaelzoghbi

Avoid Run Time Errors while deploying SharePoint 2010 Solutions

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Hi All,

Through my discussions with developers and attendees in SharePoint Events, I was getting a lot of questions about the target .net framework for applications and solutions that are built against Server and Client Object Model in SharePoint 2010.

I decided to list the things you need to take care and set before start compiling and deploying your solutions and getting runtime errors using SharePoint object model.

1) If you are developing a SharePoint 2010 Solutions. You solution has to target .NET Framework 3.5 Only and Not 4.0.

2) Also, if you build your solutions as layers and you have different projects ( Non SharePoint Project) all are used within your SharePoint project, ALL OF THEM HAVE TO TARGET .NET FRAMEWORK 3.5 as well.

3) Your target CPU platform can't be x86. Even if you are building a console application using the client object model. The Solution ? Next Point.

4) It's recommended that all your projects to target Any CPU platform, You can't have some projects are targeting x86 ( Such as Console Application ) that are referencing x64 CPU platform.

5) You have the option "Less Recommended" to target all your project to x64. but in this case your solution will not be able to run on x86 machines. Instead, Select Any CPU platform as recommended on Point 4.

6) If you made all your projects to target Any CPU, the only point you have to put in your consideration is the file size for your solution will be bigger than if you target x64 CPU platform.

7) If you decided to enable x64 configuration, here is the steps you need to do in VS 2010 and the resource of this post:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff407621.aspx

Hope this helps.

Regards,Mostafa Arafa
twitter.com/mostafaelzoghbi

Sandbox Solutions in SharePoint 2010

Anonymous — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Hi All,

Today i was presenting in SharePoint Saturday DC Federal and the event was hosted in Booz Allen Hamilton in McLean,VA.

I enjoyed the questions from Devs,Architects and attendees. It was really awesome meeting you all. The questions were primarily for secured sandbox solutions which are important for the federal employees and secured environments.

In this session i covered the following topics:
1) Sandbox overview.
2) Sandbox life cycle.
3) Developing and Deploying Sandbox solutions.
4) Custom workflow actions in workflow.
5) Custom Validator.
6) Resource Management.
7) Blocking Sandbox Solutions.
8) Points to metrics equation and how to convert points to different units.

And more...

Presentation url:
http://cid-4bc94054914a6469.office.live.com/self.aspx/SharePoint%20DC%20Federal/Sandbox%20Solutions%20In%20SharePoint%202010.pptx

Demos url:
http://cid-4bc94054914a6469.office.live.com/self.aspx/Blog%20Code/SPSDCFederal.zip

Hope this helps.

Regards,Mostafa Arafa
twitter.com/mostafaelzoghbi

How can you deploy Windows LIVE Project Template on Azure

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Hi All,

If you are developing windows live application using Window Live SDK June CTP, You won't be able to deploy your windows live application on windows azure if you didn't update your web.config by adding the following section: diagnostics.

PROBLEM: You won't be able to view any page in your web role project, and you will get a blank page.

CAUSE: Missing web.config section needs to be set on the Windows Live Project Template in VS 2010

To add this section do the following:
1) Create a new web role project in your solution.
2) Open web.config file.
3) Copy the section system.diagnostics and add it in your windows live application.

You will notice that you don't have this section on your windows live application.

Try to run the cloud service now and you will be able to view the default page of your web role.

This blog post is a result summary from my MSDN thread below:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/netservices/thread/cc7d0a30-a12f-4280-acbb-ed77f405acd6/

To download Windows Live SDK - June CTP for VS 2010:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7fdf2281-3ee4-466a-a68f-ac71d47d6620&displaylang=en

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Mostafa Arafa
twitter.com/mostafaelzoghbi

WebMatrix and RAZOR for web development with no cost

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Hi All,

Microsoft released the WebMatrix platform (FREE) that has all you need to build any websites, with WebMatrix you can do:
1) Design your websties.
2) Develop/Deploy your websites using RAZOR: is a new declarative simple language to build your websites.
3) Platform support ASP.NET, WebForms, MVC, AJAX, CSS and all the power of .NET Framework.
4) It’s just 15 M to download.
5) It includes IIS Express, SQL Compact,.NET Framework runtime and all you need to develop websites.
6) Scale up your sites to VS 2010 and SQL Server 2008 if required.
7) Download and build websites on open source CMS such as Word Press, Drupal 7, PHP and MySQL.
8) More….

Get a quick tour:
http://www.microsoft.com/web/default.aspx

Code without boundaries using WebMatrix and start developing websites with no cost for the tools :)

Regards,
Mostafa Arafa
twitter.com/mostafaelzoghbi

Visual Studio 2010 MSDN Gift from VS 2010 Product Team

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Hi All,

I have just got a mail from Microsoft - .Net Framework and Visual Studio Product team including this message:

"On behalf of the entire Visual Studio and .NET Framework product team, i would like to extend our heartfelt thanks for all the hard work you put into helping us make Visual Studio 2010 and .NET framework 4.0 one of the best releases we have ever shipped. We realize that you have invested a lot from your input, and we deeply appreciate your commitment to help us build a better product.

The importance of the community and early adopters providing feedback as we built Visual Studio 2010 and .NET framework 4 cannot be understated. You made the product better,working with us closely through the product development phase by submitting bugs and providing feedback. it is always your goal to empower you to be better developers by bringing you the best quality product with the features you need. You contribution is invaluable in helping us to achieve that goal and deliver the right product.

Again, Thank you so much for helping us build a better Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0.

All the best,
S. Somasegar
Senior Vice President,
Microsoft Developer Division
"

Thanks Microsoft and .NET Framework & Visual Studio Product Team for this valuable gift with 3 MSDN Visual Studio 2010 Licenses.

Will continue providing feedback and enhancements to VS Product team to have most reliable experience for .NET Developers.

Regards,
Mostafa arafa

No confusion for SharePoint Project Templates in VS 2010

Anonymous — Mon, 17 May 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Hi Folks,

VS 2010 has shipped with wide variety of project types for asp.net/sharepoint developers, in this post i will clarify the use for the most common project types and items used for building sharepoint 2010 solutions:

1) Import Sharepoint solution package: this project template allows you to import existing wsp files that you developed before.

2) Import Reusable workflows: this template allows you to extend created/developed workflows using SPD in VS 2010. VS 2010 workflows provide more capabilities that doesn't exist in the SPD workflow designer. Once you are done, you can also deploy using VS 2010.

Note: once you modify the imported workflows from SPD you wont be able to open it back using SPD.

3) State Machine workflow: in this template you can create state machine workflows using VS 2010.

4) Application page: Use this page to add any asp.net pages in sharepoint sites.

5) User Control: this is a regular ascx user control that you can drag-drop it on your application pages.

6) Web part: this is a normal webpart that we use to develop since MOSS 2007.

7) Visual Web part: This is a visual webpart that you dont need to render it is interface, it contains a webpart and a usercontrol item.

Happy sharepointing.....

Regards,
Mostafa arafa

VS 2010 and Silverlight 4 launch

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Hi All,

Try to catch the VS 2010 and Silverlight 4 launch on channel 9.

Follow the updates on twitter: @ch9live

To watch the event online: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/watch-it-live/

Enjoy!

Regards,
Mostafa arafa