OBA, SharePoint and Aghy [MVP]

Announcements: ISPA and SharePoint Magazine

2008-07-17T17:14:00Z

Yesterday was a great day, with two really important announcements: SharePoint Magazine International SharePoint Professionals Association Other interesting things are coming... http://www.lmsolutions.hu Posted on SharePoint Blogs...(read more)

SharePoint Best Practices Conference: My presentation

2008-07-17T17:09:00Z

The agenda has been uploaded, so I can write about my SharePoint Best Practices Conference presentation. The title is: Reinvigorate the Business Client - Best Practices for Extending your OBA over your Imagination (DEV307) OK, but what about my presentation? Of course, main topic are OBA and OCRT .Exactly, I'll show a complex case study and demo: best practices about governing and planning a really complex system with several LOB Systems integrated with OBAs. How to, and how not to. On the client...(read more)

SharePoint Infrastructure Updates

2008-07-15T21:28:00Z

SharePoint Infrastructure Updates has been published a few hours ago. These are more than a simple hotfix or SP1, they bring a lot of functional additions as well. For example, we have a brand new search UI and administration page: Similarly, we can find Content Deployment updates, performance upgrades, etc. You can find the full info in the Product Group's Blog. http://www.lmsolutions.hu Posted on SharePoint Blogs...(read more)

SharePoint Best Practices Conference

2008-07-11T09:07:00Z

The SharePoint Best Practices Conference will be organized in Washington D.C., 15-17 September, 2008. I'm really proud to say: I'm one of the presenters! This morning I've received a mail to my Inbox: " Your Session has been Selected for the SharePoint Best Practices Conference " My session's Title: Reinvigorate the Business Client - Best Practices for Extending your OBA over your Imagination http://www.lmsolutions.hu Posted on SharePoint Blogs...(read more)

LINQ4SP News

2008-06-28T20:20:00Z

We have a new LINQ4SP version uploaded to our site . This new file doesn't contain new features, but has been extended until 1 Sept 2008. http://www.lmsolutions.hu Posted on SharePoint Blogs...(read more)

VSeWSS 2008 1.2

2008-06-07T20:43:00Z

VSeWSS 1.2 is here! The new version is avaliable for VS 2008, so let's start to use! Visual Studio 2008 Project Templates Web Part Team Site Definition Blank Site Definition List Definition Empty SharePoint Project Visual Studio 2008 Item Templates (items that can be added into an existing project) Web Part Custom Field List Definition (with optional Event Receiver) Content Type (with optional Event Receiver Module List Instance List Event Handler Template http://www.lmsolutions.hu Posted on...(read more)

Important: LINQ4SP site moved!

2008-06-07T20:08:00Z

Because of a problem with our hoster, the LINQ4SP download has moved to a new URL . Please, if you are interested, follow this link and get updated. Sorry for the inconvience. http://www.lmsolutions.hu Posted on SharePoint Blogs...(read more)

Case Study: Insurance Contract Management - Part I.

2008-05-27T19:16:00Z

We have an insurance customer, who required a contracr repository. WSS 3.0 fits on their base requirements, but they had some special needs as well: First of all, at the end of contracts' lifecycle, after signing them, we have to save several attachments, for example scanned copies or some appendixes. In one word, every contracts contain a main document and some attached documents, so we need document libraries with ability to attach files to documents. The second special need is a custom field...(read more)

LINQ4SP - Delete a list item

2008-05-25T20:53:00Z

OK, let's play with LINQ4SP again. You can download Beta1 , write a simple query , create a new list item and lookup fields . In the next part I'll show you how to delete an item from a list : [TestMethod] public void DeleteCreatedItems() { using (AwContext context = new AwContext()) { var q = from subCategory in context.ProductSubcategory where subCategory.Title == "new sub category" select subCategory; foreach (ProductSubcategory psubcat in q) psubcat.DeleteOnSubmit(); var p ...(read more)

LINQ4SP Beta1 is here!

2008-05-21T22:39:00Z

I'm really happy to announce: beta1 release of LINQ4SP is available , and can be downloaded . If you are interested, you can find the install kit and Release Notes on this URL .. If you have tried it or just generally have some thougths please feel free to comment here or e-mail me at molnar.agnes{at}lmsolutions.hu If you find any bugs, and would like to report it to the developers, here is the issue tracker of the project: bugs.lmsolutions.hu - after opening site select project LINQ4SP. As this...(read more)

LINQ4SP - How to create a new item with a lookup to another list?

2008-05-20T21:44:00Z

Well, how do you like our solution to query a list or insert a new item to a list by LINQ4SP? What do you think about it? What would you tell, if I show you a newer interesting thing? Are you ready? - OK, today surprise is how to insert a lookup reference to another list. See this short demo , or check a piece of code here: // Create a new Category ProductCategory pc = new ProductCategory() { Title = "new product category", }; // Create a new Sub-Category item ProductSubcategory pcat =...(read more)

LINQ4SP - Create new list item

2008-05-17T12:47:00Z

Well, we can query our SharePoint lists with LINQ4SP, that's great. But what about data manipulation? Can we create, modifiy or delete items as well? My answer is: yes, we can! We are able to create new item, modify or delete items with LINQ4SP! First of all, let's see an item creation: we'll insert a new Product item to our Products list. This list is migrated from AdwentureWorks database, with some other tables. We don't need the whole AdwentureWorks database for our demos, so we...(read more)

LINQ4SP - Simple Query

2008-05-15T04:36:00Z

In the last demo I showed you are able to generate the context and business classes with the LINQ4SP code generator. This time I would like to go through and easy query generation and some basic filtering. First we generated the context from a SharePoint list and created a test project. This is, where the current video starts ... More to come, stay tuned ! http://www.lmsolutions.hu Posted on SharePoint Blogs...(read more)

Architect Academy in Hungary

2008-05-14T13:32:00Z

Microsoft Hungary will start a new, intensive training series for architects and senior developers. The main goal is to give a wide and deep architectural knowledge for participants. The Architect Academy 's main topics are: development methods and tools design patterns development tools: application lifecycle management (ALM), TFS+VSTS+EPM application platform: .NET, WCF/WF/WPF/CS application platform: DSI application platform: application integration, ESB/ISB application Platform: SharePoint...(read more)

LINQ4SP - Code Generator

2008-05-12T23:31:00Z

As we're planning to release LINQ4SP Beta1 at the end of this week, let's start to show some pieces of it! First of all, I'll show you how you can browse your site's content, and select what you want to use in the generated code. You can select lists, columns, lookups, etc. After finishing the selection, you can open and use the source file. If you want to see, how does it work, click here for a short demo . http://www.lmsolutions.hu Posted on SharePoint Blogs...(read more)

Announcing LINQ4SP

2008-05-08T19:05:00Z

If you are a SharePoint developer, most probably you have heard about the LINQ to SharePoint project on CodePlex. You may have also tried it several times. Our company did that too, but after deeper investigations we decided to create our own LINQ implementation, LINQ4SP . Why? Here you can find our reasons: Our architecture is built on design patterns and has a clean and easy maintainable structure. We make use of the visitor pattern by evaluating the LINQ expressions as is the case in other LINQ...(read more)

Announcement: OBA Composition Reference Toolkit 2.0

2008-05-08T07:41:00Z

Good news: the OBA Composition Reference Toolkit 2.0 is ready to use! Version 2.0 (V2) of the OBA Composition Reference Toolkit evolves the Version 1.0 release of the Toolkit to add information technology (IT) administration capabilities, a prescriptively secure user experience for OBA composition, and incremental deployment of OBAs. The V2 release also provides support for installing the OBA Composer on a client computer that is running the Windows Vista operating system and connecting to a remote...(read more)

OBA Composition Reference Toolkit 2.0

2008-04-23T20:24:00Z

I have really good news: the OBA Composition Reference Toolkit version 2.0 is coming soon, in the first half of May. This release will extend the functionality of the V1: it'll contain security handling, incremental provisioning, and we'll be able to install the Composer client to Windows Vista, and let the server on a remote SharePoint server. Moreover, we'll able to use a lot of new components for HR recuriting, Expense Reporting, Purchase Requisition Management, Financial Services...(read more)

Generate documents with OBA

2008-04-21T13:05:00Z

In the OBA demo Part 1 and Part 2 I presented how we can easily deploy and provision OBA components with OBA Composer. In this post, I'll show you an example developed by our team which creates some documents from LOB System data. Now let's see a general user need: we'd like to generate several documents from data stored in several LOB Systems: contracts, specifications, training materials, etc. These document types have common parts, but we need custom information as well. We have some...(read more)

OBA demo - Part 2

2008-04-17T23:31:00Z

In the OBA demo Part 1 we could see how we can build component-based applications by OBA Composition Reference Toolkit . But these are only the base things - these are really important, as in a building, but we can't move in yet. We're really happy to have it ready, it's an important step to our goals - so let's go away! Well, in the following demo I'll present you how we can build the next phases of our OBAs, what kind of possibilities we have, and what are the limitations. So...(read more)

MVP Summit 2008

2008-04-12T08:42:00Z

Welcome from Seattle - I'm just arrived this afternoon to participate on MVP Summit 2008. Actually here is night, but I have a jet leg (9 hours difference to Hungary) - I hope, I can reduce it soon. I think, it'll be a great event to learn a lot of things, and meet a lot of interesting people (first of all, other SP MVPs). I can't wait Monday! :) http://www.lmsolutions.hu Posted on SharePoint Blogs...(read more)

OBA Composition Reference Toolkit VPC

2008-04-11T21:48:00Z

Yes! Yes! YESSSSSSSSSSS! It's downloadable! The VPC Image is downloadable for everyone, which contains the OBA Composition Reference Toolkit presented by me several times in Hungary (Hungarian Architecture Forum, Visual Studio 2008 Launch, etc.). The OBA Composer is downloadable for several weeks, but needs a really complitated server environment. The newly accessible virtual environment is a really big help for us - could you imagine that? The fully installed VPC can be downloaded from http...(read more)

WSS 3.0 --> MOSS 2007 migration

2008-04-05T22:25:00Z

One of our customers had WSS 3.0, and just decided to upgrade it to MOSS 2007. The installation was successfully finished by their own operational team, and they was waiting for us to migrate the sites and other contents. OK, it's a really average task, but here is the trick: we had to keep the GUID of all documents and list items because of a custom feature. (All documents and list items are identified by GUID in this feature.) Well, how to start a task like this? - Of course, planning. What...(read more)

Most Valuable Professional

2008-04-01T19:53:00Z

I'm really happy and proud of writing these words: I have been awarded SharePoint Server MVP from April 1, 2008. I'd like to say thank you to all my friends and colleagues, who was helping me to achieve this award. I'd like to say thank you to YOU , all readers of my blog as well: thank you for all feedbacks, comments and e-mails. I promise, I'll continue... http://www.lmsolutions.hu Posted on SharePoint Blogs...(read more)

Announcement: MOSS 2007 and Community Server 2008 integration

2008-03-29T21:24:00Z

A very new announcement: the Telligent Community Server 2008 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 will be really rich integrated. MOSS 2007 and Community Server work together to connect people, processes, and information to form a robust social networking solution . By positioning Community Server next to your existing SharePoint application, you unlock several key integration points: Fully Integrated Experience Enterprise Grade Blogging Feature Rich Forums Social Streams Rich, detailed Reporting...(read more)