
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
MS Expression "Think Expression"
For MS Expression interests,
Now be part of "Think Expression" Community.
The website includes resources and articles that support Microsoft Expression Suite. It's one of a kind designed by Abdul Rahman Zaza supported with Samer Chidiac , I like expression for its powerful deign, media engine. Expression has empowered WPF through MS Expression Blend and many were asking if Blend will replace Cider the codename for WPF Visual Tools in VS 2008 but the answer were Expression was build to separate the development Environment from Design Environment which means that Layout is fully separated from Event-Handling and Backend code.
With Silverlight Alpha Release, expression web is playing a main rule in building this Rich User experience web applications. I still believe that Expression needs more enhancements and testing yet.
Microsoft launches Tafiti - Search and Silverlight experiment
Tafiti, an experimental demonstration site that combines Live Search with Silverlight has just been launched. It's described as follows:
Tafiti, which means "do research" in Swahili, is an experimental search front-end from Microsoft, designed to help people use the Web for research projects that span multiple search queries and sessions by helping visualize, store, and share research results. Tafiti uses both Microsoft Silverlight and Live Search to explore the intersection of richer experiences on the Web and the increasing specialization of search.
Search results are presented in the central column, with the right hand "shelf" available to save result you are interested in via drag and drop. The carousel on the left hand side allows you to cycle through the search results you wish to view (Web, Images, RSS etc) and these too can be saved if you wish. The results you have favourited can then be shared via Windows Live Spaces.
SharePoint Server 2007 SDK: Software Development Kit
AUGUST 22, 2007
Overview
- Installation enhancements: You now have a choice of installation location when you're installing the SDK. Browse to your preferred folder during setup. The default installation path for MOSS is C:\Program Files\2007 Office System Developer Resources\.
- Start menu navigation: This release features a new Start menu shortcut for quick access to documentation (compiled HTML Help, or CHM for short) files and the Welcome Guide (ReadMe.htm), which is a landing page with links to all the tools and samples. In Windows Server 2003, click Start, Programs, 2007 Microsoft Office System Developer Resources, Office SharePoint Server 2007 SDK to open: MOSS 2007 Technical Articles and Visual How-Tos, Office Forms Server SDK Documentation, Office SharePoint Server SDK Documentation, Welcome Guide, Windows SharePoint Services SDK Documentation. In Windows Vista, click the Windows Vista Start button, All Programs, 2007 Microsoft Office System Developer Resources, Office SharePoint Server 2007 SDK to open: MOSS 2007 Technical Articles and Visual How-Tos, Office Forms Server SDK Documentation, Office SharePoint Server SDK Documentation, Welcome Guide, Windows SharePoint Services SDK Documentation.
- Offline experience improvements: All of the technical articles, visual how-to articles, and book excerpts are now packaged—plus the Excel Services and Excel 2007 Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 Job Submission Developer Guide—into one searchable CHM file. Browse offline for content published on MSDN out-of-band with the SDK. (Known issue: Several links in the MOSSSDK_TechArticles.chm and WSSSDK_TechArticles.chm do not work in a strictly offline scenario. Also, WMV file screencasts or downloads associated with articles are not packaged in the CHM, to keep the download size manageable. Workaround: Browse to the content on MSDN online; for ease-of-use, the CHM file TOC is the same as the MSDN Library TOC.
- Custom Workflow Report Query Generator
- Custom Workflow Report XLSX Injector
- Visual Studio Workflow Templates
- Enterprise Content Management Workflow Activities
- List Item Activities
- Hello World Sequential Workflow
- State Based Approval Workflow
- Modification Workflow
- Replication and Contact Selector Workflow
- Intersystem Purchase Order
- Confidential Approval Workflow
- Group Approval Workflow
- Approval Workflow Sample
- Multi-Stage Workflow
- Server-side Collect Signatures Workflow
- Custom Workflow Report Query Generator
- How to: Customize RSS for the Content Query Web Part (new)
- How to: Create a Minimal Master Page (revised)
- Provisioning Portal Sites (revised)
- Portal Site Template File (revised)
- Portal (Portal Site Template) (revised)
- Webs (Portal Site Template) (revised)
- Web (Portal Site Template) (revised)
Updates to the MOSS SDK Class Library and Web Service Reference include:
- How to: Customize RSS for the Content Query Web Part (new)
- Enterprise Content Management Starter Kit.
- 2007 Office System Digital Signatures Developers Guide
- 2007 Office System Encryption Developers Guide
- Information Rights Management - Pluggable Rights Management, Technical Overview
- Importing Custom Actions into SharePoint Designer
- Workflow Security Topics
- Custom Reports
- ECM Activities
- List Item Activities
- Hello World Sequential Workflow
- State Based Approval Workflow
- Modification Workflow
- Replication and Contact Selector Workflow
- Intersystem Purchase Order
- Confidential Approval
- Group Approval
- Review Workflows
- Collect Feedback Workflow
- Multi-Stage Workflow
- Server-side Collect Signatures Workflow
- Custom Reports
Visual Studio Project Templates for SharePoint Server 2007 workflow
MOSS HAS Achieved US$800 million mark for revenue
Wow! What a fantastic year for SharePoint products and technologies! For those of you who haven't seen the news yet, we just announced that SharePoint Server passed the US$800 million mark for revenue for Microsoft's previous fiscal year (FY07) that ended on June 30th. In fact, SharePoint Server is the fastest growing server products in Microsoft's history.
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/07/30/thank-you-for-a-banner-year-for-sharepoint.aspx
Saturday, August 25, 2007
MyProgress.com
Sooner or later you have to quit staring at your achievements in the Dashboard and turn off your Xbox 360. Let me offer you a way to extend that visual gratification into your reality.
With MyProgress.com you can keep track of all your "life rankings & analytics"; income, expenses, loans, investments, education, health and wealth. Health is still under construction, but one nice touch is a progress bar showing you how long it will be before they're done with it, which is a great idea. Wealth catalogs your belonging with some simple amortization settings. [Suggestion: they need to add a field for serial numbers, something that should be kept outside of your home anyway.]
The non-financial data can be fed to your own site with a snippet of embed code for display right next to your Xbox achievements.
Friday, August 24, 2007
24/8/2005 the friday that i don't want to remember
Two days after 24/8, i was flying to dubai translating all our dreamz to truthness.
Two years ago, i was like a bird comin back to home, flying to you just to emphesize my love immortal. BUT i didn't know at 31/8/2005, once i reach Amman holding unforgotten perfidy that three years of my own SMLife was just a dream ... i was just dreaming of Somebody's Me ....................
I realized that even some people still breathin that's never means they still alive. That's you, that's what you will keep on forever. Screw you and all your damn memories.
Thursday, August 23, 2007
MS Regional Office for MENA moved to Tunisia!!!
This what I heard recently but still not confirmed yet.
Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and Sudan IT Market is booming and rich with IT Business Opportunities.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
I Think Community

What an awesome Special Community Night that i attended yesterday. Samer Cihidiac's CN Special title was "I Think Community" which emphesized the need for having a strong contibution in community work. "Community contribution is always leading for success and strong information sharing", he said. Muhannad and Ayman has made an amazing work out there and i believe these two guys has made Jordev live again.
I catched many friends there ... I really enjoyed this awesome CN :) ..
Jordev is Rocks !!!!
Sunday, August 19, 2007
I like being on Stage .. What about ya ?
http://on10.net/Blogs/laura/you-want-a-stage-check-out-ourstage/
HD View Beta 2 Released - Now with Firefox support
HD View Beta 2 was released last week in conjunction with Siggraph 2007 in San Diego. The big news in this version is the addition of Firefox support. Firefox users wanting to get their "gigapixel on" will now be prompted to install a plugin when viewing sites with HD view collections. (Plugin available here) Another new feature is Auto Tone Adjust. This works like an auto gain; adjusting brightness and contrast ratios in darker (or hazier) areas of a photo to increase clarity.
Check out the HD View Windows Live Spaces blog or the official HD View web site for more on gigapixel imaging.
Annuncing Family.Show 2.0 Release
A few months back I recorded a video with Vertigo Software for their original 1.0 release. And today, Microsoft is announcing an update to this release. This release adds a data grid (one of the common objections to WPF was the data grid functionality), multiple skins, new data visualizations, and a 35-page whitepaper that guides developers through the best practices in this application (in XPS format, of course).
There have been thousands of downloads of the application, and great feedback from developers so far – check out some of the quotes on the Vertigo website.
If you've not yet tried out Family.Show, you can use it here.
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Waiting the Release
A year ago I was investigating in Depth about Microsoft Communication Server 2007 Products and Technologies since this is was one of my responsibilities to ensure its integration with MS Sharepoint Portal 2007.
I was amazed by Microsoft PBX and other Under Research Products (MS Round Table)
After a year from now … an am still using the beta versions of MS UC but I think time has become to start using the Official RTM. I still don't have the date of release yet in my hand but soon we will all have it.
Microsoft Communication Server is part of my Information Worker Specialization.
For more details about MS Communication Server 2007 visit www.microsoft.com/UC
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Microsoft Announced Imagine Cup 2007 Winners
Congratulation for all, unfortunately again Arab is not there.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/aug07/08-10ImagineCupWinnersPR.mspx
FOR MICROSOFT MEA: WHEN WE WILL HAVE ADVISORS FROM 3RD PARTY WHO WILL MANAGE AND EMPOWER STUDENTS EFFORTS AT IMAGIN CUP. YOU KNOW WHAT, WHEN I PRESENTS HAYAT AT IMAGINE CUP 2007 AND I WISH IT WAS RECORDED THAT DAY JUST TO BE REMEMBERED, I DO REMEMBER WHEN QUESTIONS WERE DIRECTED OUT OF SCOPE AND NO ONE EVEN DID UNDERSTAND A 10% OF WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT. JUST A YEAR AGO THE SEAMLESS IDEA WITH THE SAME TECHNOLOGY (DATAMINING IN HEALTH) HAS BEEN AWARDED BY MICROSOFT FOR SOMEONE ELSE FROM ISVs.
I'm Waiting more effective efforts on this track.
" Even Paris Hilton can use PopFly "

Popfly is the fun, easy way to build and share mashups, gadgets, Web pages, and applications. Popfly consists of two parts:
- Popfly Creator is a set of online visual tools for building Web pages and mashups.
- Popfly Space is an online community of creators where you can host, share, rate, comment and even remix creations from other Popfly users.
Popfly is based on Silverlight and currently is in Alpha Version
More about Popfly in http://www.popfly.ms/
What happened with Live SkyDrive ?
Windows Live SkyDrive is on online storage service. It's fantastic because you can gain access to any of your files from anywhere around the world as well as share files. Here's Jim and Douglas to give you the details
http://on10.net/Blogs/Galileu/windows-live-skydrive-o-novo-nome-de-windows-live-folders/
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Key Benefits

- · Develop Smart Client Applications
o Visual Studio 2008 delivers new and easy ways for developers to build smart clients by providing a comprehensive set of tools and classes that simplify integrating smart clients with new or existing web applications, and by handling local caching of data for disconnected scenarios. - · Create Microsoft Office applications
o Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) is now fully integrated into Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition. Visual Studio enables developers to customize various Office applications, such as Outlook® and PowerPoint®, to improve user productivity and simplify deployment. - Build Windows Vista Applications
o Developers will be able to easily leverage new platform technologies, and deliver more compelling applications to their customers, by effortlessly incorporating new Windows Presentation Foundation features into both existing Windows Forms applications and new applications. - · Handle Data More Productively
o The introduction of Language Integrated Query (LINQ), and various other data access improvements, now enable developers to deal with data using a consistent programmatic approach, perform data access with new data design surfaces, and use built-in classes for the occasionally connected design pattern. - · An Improved Developer Experience Overall
o Visual Studio 2008 delivers a better developer experience overall through the combination of significant product quality improvements, changes to the way the most popular design surfaces return errors to the user, and simplifying the user’s ability to adopt the toolset and framework separately. - · Enable New Web Experiences
o Beyond the secure, reliable and extensible infrastructure of IIS, developers can easily create efficient, interactive Web applications. The seamless integration and familiar programming model of ASP.NET AJAX enables more efficient client-side execution to deliver end-users a more responsive Web interface. - · Improves Application Life-cycle Management (ALM)
o ALM provides great support, not only for managing the entire software development life cycle but also for the critical interaction with the final end-users and IT stakeholders of an enterprise application.
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 Launch Wave! Windows Server 2008
Feb. 27, 2008 promises to be one of the most important dates in Microsoft's 33-year history, as it will release a host of major new products, including Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008.
Read More: http://entmag.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=8800
[Quoted from Samer Chidiac's Blog]
Channel 8 – What a Creative community site it is.
Channel 9 then Channel 10 and now Channel 8, what an amazing evangelism team they are.
Microsoft is always empowering its Channel community by providing up to date news feeds and live meetings with its team of research and developers. Give a facility of awesome show for their updated events.
Am watching Imagine Cup 2007 updates through Microsoft Channel 8 site.
Gmail Going Huge: 9000MB+
Reports we're getting in the mail say that some Gmail users have seen their storage bumped to over 9GB today - 9030MB, to be exact. If not a glitch (and why would it be?), it means Google is playing catch-up with Yahoo, which now provides unlimited storage.
With no other info, we can only assume the accounts are currently being selected at random. As someone who is just about to exceed his Gmail limit, I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
Microsoft and SAP Interoperability
Microsoft is doing effective efforts on level on Integration with SAP. This is how Microsoft can provide a facility for its clients worldwide who use SAP Business tools to integrate with Microsoft Products and Services. I was extensively searching in depth about limitations of integrating SAP Netweaver with MOSS, Integrating SAP and SQL Server BI, SAP and Biztalk Server, SAP and Project Server and more. Through Business Data Catalog I was able to retrieve information from SAP repository into Microsoft Sharepoint Portal 2007 even I made some wonderful IVIEW. The powerful Of SAP SOA has empowered this integration.
To know more about integrating Microsoft Products with SAP
http://www.microsoft.com/isv/sap/
Microsoft and Open Source
By Glyn Moody on Mon, 2007-08-06 05:53.
No one would have believed me if I had said five years ago that Microsoft would have a page on its Web site called "Open Source at Microsoft" with the following remarkably sane and reasonable statement on the subject:
That's right: Microsoft has released not one but several pieces of code as open source. Moreover, it's submitting some of its home-grown licences to the Open Source Initiative for approval. So what is going on here?
In part, I think that Microsoft's own analysis of its motives is true: we do live in a heterogeneous world of technology, and the creation of Microsoft's open source pages and projects reflects a long-overdue reflection of this fact. It is also testimony to the continuing success of free software. Initially Microsoft obviously hoped it would prove a fashion that would eventually fade way, but as its own FAQ states:
"Open source is neither an industry fad, nor a magic bullet."
It looks increasingly likely that Microsoft's OOXML file format will become an ISO standard alongside the OpenDocument Format. As others are tracking in detail, the way in which this is happening is unsatisfactory, to say the least. The end-result will be two directly competing standards in the area of office file formats. This in itself is unhelpful, since the whole idea of standardisation is have one standard, not lots of them. But it's worse than that. Microsoft's OOXML is nominally open, as standards should be, but in practice its 6000+ pages of documentation mean that nobody except Microsoft will be implementing this standard, which is largely a re-definition of a closed standard as open, without any change of substance.
In many ways this new approach is exactly the reverse of that espoused in the famous first Halloween Document. There, the idea was to "de-commoditise" open protocols by adding proprietary elements. Today, the technique is to pseudo-commoditise proprietary standards by getting them defined as open.
Despite this essentially hostile intent, I believe (and have done for a while) that the power of open source will eventually win out over all of Microsoft's remaining fears and concerns, and that the company will embrace real open source fully for all of its products (at least where it is able to do so for legal reasons). It's just a question of time.
Watch Out Silverlight and Terralever's Zero Gravity
Zero Gravity Project on Channel 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=331171
Best Community Resources for Microsoft SharePoint Portal 2007 Ever…
Sharepoint Products and Technologies Community
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905506.aspx
Sharepoint Community Portal
http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/sharepoint/forums/default.aspx
Sharepoint Community Newsgroup
Sharepoint Resources
http://heathersolomon.com/blog/articles/148.aspx#07Intro
Sharepoint Portal How-Do I
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms550086.aspx
Sharepoint Developer Portal
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905503.aspx
Sharepoint FAQ Board
Sharepoint University
Sharepoint Code
RSS for IFilter Team Blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/ifilter/rss.xml
Collection 5404: Implementing Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007
https://www.microsoftelearning.com/eLearning/offerDetail.aspx?offerPriceId=127456
Sharepoint MSD2D – Effective Sharepoint Portal community
Sunday, August 05, 2007
A New Chapter of Challenge has Begun …
A new channel of challenge in my life has begun. I left Generic Corp. After 9 Months of the hard working, wither people has believe it or not, we made Enterprise something in short time of period.
I've been a part of Generic and a founder member for the last 9 months; we were working hard to build a strong reputation for the corporate within Jordan Market. I believe that some unexpected mistakes have created discordant visions about the value of this company and its core staff. At the moment, Generic is growing in the market faster than before utilizing its unique services in building a strong line-of-business and I wish all the luck for the all the friends there. Are you confused about the reason of resigning? It's not personal as much as sometimes withers you like it or not you should take advantage of it.
Where am I? Am slowing down more than ever in chosen my upcoming family, I would love stabilizing with high achievement rather than challenge with high risk management. Nowadays, am building a strong knowledge for my upcoming career, trying to get advantage of MS Solutions Framework and going deep into MS Unified Messaging Services 2007 in addition to MS VS 2008 and MS SQL Server 2008, too.
So am going to Think Big. Start Small and Act Now!
I'm Wishing Generic Corporation utmost Achievement and best luck. I'm sure that this should be mentioned by any professional.