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Visual Studio Team System – VSTS 2010 Editions

Jul 14th

Posted by Jibran Jamshad in Visual Studio - Team System

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Visual Studio Team System 2010 comes along Client and Server components:

Server Component:

Team Foundation Server 2010 is the Server component which manages the source control, assets, communication between VSTS client tools and integration of VSTS with other Microsoft family products like Project, Exchange, BizTalk, SharePoint etc.

Client Component:

Architecture Edition:

Helps Architects to visually model the applications, automatically generates code, logically verifies deployments etc.

Development Edition:

In the 2010 release Microsoft has merged the Database and Development editions. The combined editions now facilitate you with profiling tools, database design and development tools and .NET code analysis.

Test Edition:

Tool for testers for load testing, quality testing, test modeling, More >

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.NET API Get Facebook User Status, Comments, Picture and other details

Jun 28th

Posted by Jibran Jamshad in Facebook

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Before you just jump into reading and implementing this post, please take a look on my posts earlier on how to get access_token and profile id (uid) for the current user on whose behalf you are making requests to Facebook.

http://geekdeck.com/vb-net-facebook-get-access-token-for-desktop-application/

http://geekdeck.com/net-get-facebook-user-profile-id-uid/

Once you have access to Access Token, Profile Id and you know to make HTTP requests and how to deal with XML responses, you can query Facebook to return you user status XML

Dim uristatus As String = “https://api.facebook.com/method/status.get?uids=” & _ProfileID & “&access_token=” & accesstoken & “&limit=3″        requesturl = GetPageAsString(uristatus)        ParseXML(requesturl)        TextBox1.Text = requesturl

You can have User’s last 3 statuses More >

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How to access Facebook API from .NET?

Jun 28th

Posted by Jibran Jamshad in Facebook

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 No doubt Facebook has turned out to be the largest ever social networking platform. This gives an opportunity to developers to storm ideas and turn them into Facebook Apps which indeed are really popular in users today. I also tried to play around with data calling in Facebook API or using Facebook SDK. So if you are working on Microsoft Platform then Facebook doesn’t offers you much as all the layered SDKs which you will see available and documented on Facebook site are supporting JAVA, PHP, Python, Android, IPhone., So there is no deal available for developers who are on More >

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Multi Touch – Top Usage Scenarios Identified

Jun 2nd

Posted by Jibran Jamshad in Visual Studio - Team System

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According to a recent research by Microsoft the following have been identified as Top Customer scenarios for Multi Touch technology:

Web Browsing: Browsing web pages, Zooming in on  parts of the web page, Snipping sections of web page to paste elsewhere.

Photos: Flicking through photos in an album, Spreading photos out like you would do on a table, Zooming in and out/ Resizing, Simple editing

Media: Scrolling through playlists and other Media

Email & Calendar: Triaging email, dragging and dropping, Moving appointments, Handwriting an email with a stylus, Signing name =more personalized

Casual Games: Simple games like chess and solitaire that don’t require multiple controllers, children’s learning More >

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Team Foundation Server 2010 Security Permissions

May 7th

Posted by Jibran Jamshad in SQL Server - BI

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Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 is a system not a product and is a combination of WSS, SQL Server and TFS it’s self and most of the Errors and Issues We face during during its Installation and Deployment are releated to SECURITY this might not be possible in every case but if you go online and check this will be the case and that’s what i have learnt during my professional career and deploying TFS multiple times.

We need to understand the following components and the User(s) access rights on them are very important and are the root cause!.

1) SQL Server

a) Reporting Services User More >

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Whats New in Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010

May 7th

Posted by Jibran Jamshad in SQL Server - BI

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This week around I spent some time in exploring Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010. If you are familiar with 2008 and earlier releases of the Product you would find it a bit different and following are the changes which I have identified.

1) The Product is first installed and the files are copied on C:\Program Files\Your Path and then there comes a Configuration Wizard where the main game starts and you are required to configure TFS.

2) The Configuration Wizard is a cool add-up has a rich UI and allows you to configure the product in multiple ways such as you want More >

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Installing and Configuring Team Foundation Server 2010 (Step by Step)

May 6th

Posted by Jibran Jamshad in SQL Server - BI

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Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 is already available and you can deploy and start using it. One ideal scenario for it’s installation is as follows:

1) Take a machine and Install Windows Server 2008 (Enterprise)

2) Create a User Named TFS with Admin rights

3) Then You need to install its Service Pack 2 (NOT R2), Just Service Pack 2

4) Install SQL Server 2008 (Enterprise Edition with all components. Mind you Install Reporting Services in Native mode (not the SharePoint Integrated mode) and DON’T Configure the Reporting Services NOW!

5) Download and Install WSS 3.0 + SP2 and You should be able to successfully More >

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Windows phone 7 developer tools CTP

May 1st

Posted by Nadeem Ahmed in Visual Studio - Team System

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Microsoft has just released an updated version of its existing Windows phone 7 developer tools CTP that was announced in MIX conference in March. With new release, developers can now build windows phone 7 applications on the final release of visual studio 2010. This is refresh is available at http://developer.windowsphone.com.

New and changed features in the latest CTP are as followed.

  • The release is compatible with Visual Studio 2010
  • An updated Windows Phone 7 OS image for the Windows Phone Emulator.
  • A few APIs in the frameworks have been added and or changed.
  • The documentation has been updated with new and expanded topics.
  • limited support for More >
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The dot Net Client Profile

Apr 24th

Posted by Nadeem Ahmed in Visual Studio - Team System

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The .NET Client Profile

The client profile is the subset of the .NET Framework that’s required for rich client applications like

WPF (windows presentation foundation). It doesn’t include server-side features such as ASP.NET, debuggers, developer tools, code compilers, and legacy features (such as Oracle database support). More importantly, the client is smaller—it requires a download that’s about 30 MB, while the full .NET Framework 4 redistributable

tops 100 MB. Of course, if your application targets the .NET Framework 4 Client Profile and the client

has the full version of the .NET Framework, it will still run without a hitch.

The client profile concept was introduced More >

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Windows Presentation Foundation New Features

Apr 24th

Posted by Nadeem Ahmed in Visual Studio - Team System

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New features in WPF 4.0 are as following

More controls.

The family of WPF elements keeps growing. It now includes a professional DataGrid, a standard DatePicker and Calendar,and a native WebBrowser for HTML viewing and web surfing. A separate download also adds the useful Ribbon control, which can give any application a slick, modern look.

2-D drawing improvements.

Now the visual appearance of any element can be radically altered with PhotoShop-style effects through pixel shaders (using up to version 3 of the pixel-shader standard). Developers who want to manipulate individual pixels by hand can also generate and modify images with the WriteableBitmap class.

Animation More >

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