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EF Code First Cookbook — Recipe #1: Creating a Simple Code First Application

In this new series of posts about Entity Framework I’d like to help those software developers who intend to use Entity Framework Code First in their projects — either coding for business or fun. I assume no special prerequisites...

Posted to DiveDeeper's blog by inovak on Mon, Jul 11 2011

Filed under: EF Code First

Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 RTM Launch Event on July 26 — With My New LightSwitch Book

For a long time, it was officially not announced, when we can expect Visual Studio LightSwitch to be released. In a few days ago, Microsoft announced that the product is launching on July 26. In this announcement the new offical name of the product is...

Posted to DiveDeeper's blog by inovak on Sun, Jul 10 2011

SurfCube on Mango Part 1 – Passing the Smoke Test

Note: If you don’t know what SurfCube is and would like to follow this post series: it is a popular Windows Phone 7 web browser with a 3D twist. Here is a demo video you should look at to understand what I am talking about. Better yet, download SurfCube...

Posted to VBandi's blog by vbandi on Tue, Jul 5 2011

Filed under: Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, SurfCube on Mango, Mango, SurfCube

MVP Again!

How time flies… July has already started. This time of the year I am checking my Inbox every 5 minutes, with excitement, hoping to see an email from Microsoft about my MVP status. It’s a strange thing. At the beginning of April I have to summarize all...

Posted to VBandi's blog by vbandi on Mon, Jul 4 2011

Filed under: Silverlight

How to check the Crawl Status of a Content Source

Body: As you know I’m playing working with SharePoint/FAST Search a lot. I have a lot of tasks when I have to sit on the button F5 while crawling and check...

Posted to SharePoint and Aghy by Aghy Blog (English): Posts on Mon, Jun 20 2011

Filed under: PowerShell; search; SharePoint 2010; FAST Search

How to Schedule Crawl Start/Pause in SharePoint 2010 Search by PowerShell

Body: In case of having not strong enough hardware there’s a pretty common request for start the crawl in the evening and pause in the next morning, before...

Posted to SharePoint and Aghy by Aghy Blog (English): Posts on Mon, Jun 20 2011

Filed under: administration; SharePoint 2010; search; PowerShell

SurfCube Wins Microsoft Innovation Award, V3.0 Released with YouTube support!

Today, SurfCube has been honored with a Microsoft Innovation Award in Smartphone Application category! SurfCube is a revolutionary web browser for Windows Phone 7, with an innovative and exciting 3D User Interface. It is not just full of features, such...

Posted to VBandi's blog by vbandi on Thu, Jun 2 2011

Filed under: User Experience, Windows Phone 7

Kinect Maps UX Lessons – Getting Users Up to Speed

With our Kinect Maps project , we had the rare opportunity to study user behavior in an exhibition setting. The application was seen by thousands, while hundreds of people actually tried it themselves. We had a very wide range of users – from 4...

Posted to VBandi's blog by vbandi on Sat, May 21 2011

Filed under: Kinect

Beginning Visual Studio 2010 LightSwitch Development

Since last September I work with Wiley (Wrox) on a new book titled Beginning Visual Studio 2010 LightSwitch Development . The job was interesting, because I managed to learn a lot of important details about LightSwitch. Of course, as the title of the...

Posted to DiveDeeper's blog by inovak on Sat, May 21 2011

Troubleshooting: FAST Admin DB

Body: The environment : A farm with three servers: SharePoint 2010 (all rules), FAST Admin, FAST non-admin. SQL is on the SharePoint box too. The story...

Posted to SharePoint and Aghy by Aghy Blog (English): Posts on Wed, May 18 2011

Filed under: configuration; database; administration; FAST Search; SharePoint 2010

Kinect + Bing Maps–the gestures

Note: If you don’t want to read this much, just jump to the end of the article, where you can find a video of the application with all the gestures. As I said in my introductory post , with the Kinect Maps solution we wanted to discover a new set of gestures...

Posted to VBandi's blog by vbandi on Tue, May 10 2011

Filed under: Kinect

Introducing Response’s Kinect + Bing Maps application

We have these fancy new 3D maps, like Microsoft’s Virtual Earth. (It is actually so new that it is already being phased out …) We have the fancy new Kinect controller, which is the best selling consumer device – ever. What happens when the two are put...

Posted to VBandi's blog by vbandi on Mon, May 9 2011

Filed under: Kinect

Five Sessions at Two Conferences in Germany

Body: I’m really happy because we have more and more great SharePoint events in Europe. Germany is a great example, with two major SP Conferences in this...

Posted to SharePoint and Aghy by Aghy Blog (English): Posts on Thu, May 5 2011

Filed under: conference; SharePoint 2010

PowerShell script for exporting Crawled Properties (FS4SP)

Body: Recently, I was working with FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint (FS4SP) and had to provide a list of all crawled properties in the category Read...

Posted to SharePoint and Aghy by Aghy Blog (English): Posts on Sun, May 1 2011

Filed under: SharePoint 2010; search; PowerShell

VBandi at MIX Part 2 - Dave Campbell and Tony Champion

I got Dave and Tony in front of my camera on the first day, after the first (HTML) keynote. They are both Silverlight MVPs, and Dave is the tireless editor of Silverlight Cream , the #1 Silverlight resource!

Posted to VBandi's blog by vbandi on Sat, Apr 23 2011

Filed under: vbandi at MIX

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