Mohammed Zayed

Sunday, September 23, 2007

CAML.NET DOCUMENTATION IS NOW AVALIABLE

The CAML.NET .NET framework documentation is now available online in the same format used for the MSDN docs at http://www.johnholliday.net/camldotnet . This documentation set describes all of the CAML.NET .NET static methods as well as the ICamlQuery Read More......(read more)

Microsoft Secure Content Downloader

Recently, Microsoft released a new downloading technology that sounds very similar to bittorrent. The technology, called Microsoft Secure Content Downloader (MSCD), is touted as "a peer-assisted download manager" that's capable of securely downloading specific files. MSCD is intended for consumers who are downloading from a home PC or business users whose computers are not behind a corporate firewall. The main feature of the technology is its peer-assisted nature. Each client downloads content by exchanging parts of the file they're interested in with other clients, in addition to downloading parts from a content server. This makes MSCD sound like a hybrid of peer-to-peer and server-based downloading, which would allow for greater performance without having to worry whether or not enough people are currently sharing the file you need.

Another feature of this new technology is the secure content description, meaning that it ensures that the content you download is exactly what the publisher created. MSCD is currently a Community Technology Preview, and will only allow you to obtain Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2. A Community Technology Preview means that information related to MSCD's performance and network transactions, including your machine name and IP addresses, may be logged to help evaluate and improve MSCD performance.

Switcher

Switcher is free utility for Windows Vista (running Aero) that lets you arrange the windows on your screen in different ways. The default view is the "tile view," which arranges the windows so that you can see all of them, even across multiple monitors. Another view, called the "dock view" magnifies one window and arranges the rest along the side. There is also a grid view, which is a good one to use if you are also going to use the number shortcuts for the windows (the first 9 windows can be activated by pressing the respective number on the keyboard).

Your desktop can be treated as a window, too. In this new version of Switcher, the windows now have a customizable background color, border, and a label which can display any of the following: the filename of the application, window icon, the number shortcut, the memory used in megabytes, the process name and the window title. Other new features include filters to help you narrow down the windows that appear, the ability to close windows during a session, smoother animations, and additional keyboard shortcuts. To learn more about Switcher, check out Bao's Blog. To download the program, visit the Switcher website here.

Foxit PDF IFilter

The Foxit PDF IFilter is "designed to help users to index a large amount of PDF documents & then quickly find text within these documents." Whether files, email attachments or database records, Foxit PDF IFilter helps you find the text you are looking for. The tools supports the following Microsoft products: Windows Indexing Service, MSN Desktop Search, Internet Information Server, SharePoint Portal Server, Windows SharePoint Services (WSS), Site Server, Exchange Server, SQL Server and all other products based on Microsoft Search technology. If you download this to use with Vista's built-in search, you will need to rebuild the search index. To do this, open the Indexing Options dialog box from Control Panel, click the Advanced button, and then click "Rebuild." Thanks to Ed Bott's blog for this great tip!

10 HALO 3 LINKS

The highly anticipated Halo 3 release happens Monday at midnight. Here are a few cool Halo 3 links to get you more excited (if that is even possible) until you can play the blockbuster game:

1. First of all, if you haven't checked out the Halo 3 site, stop what you are doing, and go see it. Right now! The site, using Silverlight technology, is so cool that you don't even have to be a rabid Halo fanboy to appreciate it. Here, you can take a 360 degree tour of the Halo 3 world, taking custom screenshots along the way. The screenshots can then be used as wallpaper, posted to your blog or website.
2. If you're an XBox Live Silver member, visit the Best Buy website, where they are offering 3 days of free online gameplay using XBox Live Gold. You also might win a Pontiac G6 GXP with a custom Halo 3 paint job.
Get some sweet Halo 3 action figures.
Visit the Windows Mobile website to pick up some free Halo ringtones and wallpapers for your phone.
Get a Halo 3 edition Zune. Besides having killer custom graphics & packaging, the Halo 3 Zune comes loaded with music, artwork, trailers, and videos from Halo, Halo 2, and Halo 3 as well as an exclusive episode of Red vs. Blue.
Watch a live action short film based on the Halo franchise over on MSN.
Stock up on Halo 3 Dew to fuel those first few days and nights where you will be calling in...cough..."sick" to work.
XBox 360 Halo Edition. Yeah.
Grab a Halo Covenant replica weapon or laser tag rifle.
Pick up a Halo fan suit for the win (if you have a spare $20k.)

MS BIZTALK SERVER R2 RTM IS OUT !!!!

You can find the download link on Technet

Cheers,

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Service Pack 3 for Sharepoint 2003

Here are the links to the downloads:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=AB086D48-1148-48DE-B4EC-A6298367E5F0&displaylang=en

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2BBFC89B-EB59-49FF-B58F-684693CB25A7

Sunday, September 16, 2007

Live 2.0 Snapshot !! More Tabs and More Simple

Saturday, September 15, 2007

Robert Scoble , Almost 5000 Friends – Community Maniac with no Doubt

Hey this guy is amazing ……..

Have you heard of Robert Scoble's Friends .. He has more than 4987 .. I knew about his number of friends through <Lawrence /> . Gosh Amazing Number Scoble :S. Dude why I find you every where, you've been in Channel 9 , now at Podtech and i like your Scoble Show. You are the community guy Scoby.

Hey wanna know more about this Technology Maniac then check his awesome blog scobleizer.com

Watch him out http://www.facebook.com/friends.php?id=501319654

Friday, September 14, 2007

Will MS Become Facebook for the Enterprise ?

Quoted: <Lawrence /> Blog

This article with the same title has been making its rounds during the past 24 hours within the SharePoint community and has generated quite a bit of excitement because it highlights the planned deployment of a MOSS 2007-based social networking service over the next several months to about 110,000 employees of Wachovia, the 4th largest bank in the U.S.

We will be posting a series of blog entries very soon about how SharePoint Server 2007 can provide a significant portion of the answer to the question above. We will describe in detail how Microsoft is already using MOSS 2007 to enable Facebook like social networking functionality within our intranet, and what non-technical issues such as privacy, security, multilanguage, and diverse cultures had to be resolved. We will also disclose at the appropriate time how SharePoint vNext will provide the bulk of the answer to the "Facebook for the enterprise" question plus so much more from the perspective of Social Computing for Business.

In the meantime, if you want to learn more about how Web 2.0 applications for the enterprise can be built with today's Microsoft products and technologies such as Silverlight, ASP.NET AJAX, SharePoint, and Windows Communication Foundation, you should sign up for Microsoft ArcREADY "Web 2.0 and Beyond" sessions being presented at multiple cities.

LINQ IN JAVA – This time for real

"It's called Quaere (no idea what the name means), and it looks to be extremely similar in design to LINQ. However, it doesn't have the built in language syntactic sugar. What I find funny, is a response to this blog post suggests there's a "similar" library here: http://josql.sourceforge.net/. Yeah, that's similar all right. It parses strings, so doesn't have any of the type safety or intellisense support. So, once again, there are way too many developers out there who don't "get" LINQ."

Quoted: Channel 9

Online Banking with CardSpace

This demo shows how Windows CardSpace can be used for online banking, providing a more secure and streamlined experience for users (no username and password, strong authentication and phishing repellent).

The Wachovia website is built using Corillian's Voyager platform which includes support for information cards. Cards are issued by the bank to its users and the user authenticates via the card and an Arcot Systems' software-based smart card.

The demo was originally shown at the RSA Conference 2007.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Screencasts/341692_InfoCardOnlineBanking.wmv

VS 2008 CTP is coming !!

A new CTP of VS 2008 to be shipped this weekend, Stay tuned ?

Thursday, September 13, 2007

The Ultimate Steal

Start teaching Students how to have legal copies.

http://www.theultimatesteal.com/home.asp

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

SharePoint Events Manager

Project Description
Events Manager is a Feature for SharePoint that allows administrators to manage events attached to their site's lists and document libraries directly using their browser.

More http://www.codeplex.com/speventsmanager

SharePoint Inspector

http://www.codeplex.com/spi

SharePoint Inspector is a free tool to browse your SharePoint 2007 farm.

When I talk about SharePoint 2007, I mean Windows SharePoint Services v3 (WSS v3) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS).

Its main purpose is to help SharePoint developer
You can see objects composing its structure, get their properties by reflection, which can be very useful when you want to check if your code does what it should do.
You can use also some advanced features like activate/deactivate SharePoint features, add/remove event receivers, manage your recycle bin.

Requirements

Framework .NET 2.0
Windows SharePoint Services v3
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (optionnal)

Versions

Version 1.0.0.0

Displays SharePoint objects with reflection on their properties :

Farm
Servers
Services
Feature Definitions
Solutions
Databases
Web Applications
Site collections
Websites
Content Types
Site Columns
Features
Lists
Associated Workflows
Event Receivers
Recycle Bin
...

Actions :

Activate / Deactivate feature
Add / remove event receiver on list and content type
Manage Recycle bin

Accessibility Kit for SharePoint or AKS

Background

About a month ago on July 31st, HiSoftware issued a press release, announcing an agreement with Microsoft to develop the Accessibility Kit for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. The kit will provide templates, master pages, controls and Web parts along with technical documentation to advance the accessibility of MOSS based web sites and applications for people with disabilities, especially those who are vision impaired. All of the source code will be provided via the Microsoft Permissive License and will be available on CodePlex and/or another (more accessible) web site later this year for customers and other Microsoft partners to download, reuse, and extend. This e-mail provides more details about the announcement.

Overview

Microsoft has hired HiSoftware as a vendor to develop the Accessibility Kit for MOSS 2007, also known as Accessibility Kit for SharePoint or AKS. The decision was made primary based on HiSoftware's in-depth expertise and broad industry experience in providing tools and services for improving accessibility to the point of compliance with various standards and beyond. The contractual Statement of Work calls for HiSoftware to deliver a kit that can significantly reduce the time, knowledge, and effort required to implement a SharePoint-based web site that conforms to the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 Priority 1 and 2 checkpoints, which are collectively known as WCAG 1.0 AA. The AKS can also be used to address the exceptions that have been identified in the U.S. government's Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act's Voluntary Product Accessibility Template or VPAT documents for MOSS 2007. While most of our customers find the improvements in accessibility (more info at Office Online) over previous versions of SharePoint to be adequate for their needs, a growing number has asked us to provide even more.

Approach

The AKS is being developed as a set of building blocks rather than an end-to-end solution. We expect many SharePoint partners to take various pieces of the kit and integrate them into their respective product or service offerings while some customers will integrate particular components of the kit into their deployment processes. Furthermore, HiSoftware and Microsoft will jointly establish and nurture a community of SharePoint site designers and developers that's focused on accessibility advancement and standards compliance.

To ensure optimal prioritization and completeness of features and documentation, the AKS project team is planning to work with a small group of partners and customers in a private beta program that will kick off within the next couple of weeks. If you are very seriously interested, please contact Dana Simberkoff, VP of Business Development at HiSoftware, but be forewarned that the acceptance criteria will be quite stringent due to the aggressive timeline of the deliverables described below.

Deliverables

These deliverables were established based on customer and partner feedback that we've received thus far and are prioritized based on the scenarios that would impact the most end users of a MOSS-based web site down to the least.

Milestone 1: AKS 1.0 Private Beta – ETA September 17, 2007
This initial milestone will provide a testable version of the kit that focuses on the web content publishing and authoring scenarios for Internet facing web sites as well as intranet portals.
Milestone 2: AKS 1.0 Release to Web – ETA October 29, 2007
This milestone will provide a production ready version of the kit that can be used in the implementation of live MOSS based web sites or portals.
Milestone 3: AKS 1.5 Update – ETA December 17, 2007
This milestone will provide accessibility improvements for advanced web content authoring and team collaboration scenarios.

Conclusion

The Microsoft product teams for Windows SharePoint Services, Office SharePoint Server, and Office SharePoint Designer are committed to improving accessibility and enabling everyone to utilize the power of SharePoint. More details about the AKS will be forthcoming as the project progresses over the next few months. In the meantime, if you have any questions, suggestions, or concerns about accessibility, please post them in the SharePoint - Accessibility forum.

Quoted: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sharepointteamblog/~3/152684971/pre-announcing-the-accessibility-kit-for-sharepoint-aks.aspx

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Playing around w/PopFly and Facebook

http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2007/07/27/playing-around-w-popfly-and-facebook.aspx

New Web Development Features in Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2

http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2007/07/30/orcas-beta2-what-s-new-in-web-tools-upgrading-from-beta1-gotchas.aspx

ASP.NET enhancements in VS2008 and .NET FX3.5

Quoted http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/default.aspx

"Today, let me talk about enhancements to ASP.NET that you will see with Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5.

Earlier this year, we
introduced the
ASP.NET AJAX Extensions which is available
as an add-on for Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0.

With the release of Visual Studio 2008, these AJAX extensions have become an integral part of the product.
While we have kept the runtime extremely compatible, we have also added customer requested features such as enabling many of the new controls to work inside an UpdatePanel (TreeView, Menu and WebParts) and enhanced support for client side Javascript localization. On the tooling side, we have made some major investments in JavaScript Intellisense, type inferencing, and new control extenders design time that you can
read here.

One of the most exciting new technologies in VS2008
is LINQ.
To complement this, ASP.NET ships a new control, LinqDataSource to support LINQ scenarios in web applications. Essentially, this LinqDataSource control allows a declarative way to use LINQ by using the data source control design pattern that was introduced in VS2005. With the added designer support, it is very easy for developers to databind against LINQ expressions.

Another interesting control is the ListView control. This new data bound control is designed to provide great formatting flexibility with CSS
to website designers. With improved support for CSS in VS2008, the control allows developers to write cleaner HTML by separating markup from styling. This flexibility also allows displaying data in interesting ways. For example, ListView supports a 'tiled' layout where each cell of the grid contains a row from the table. Support for such scenarios is valuable in a variety of scenarios, such as the online product catalogs.
From a data binding and events perspective, ListView should seem very familiar to ASP.NET developers.

A separate server control, the DataPager control, is the ideal companion to ListView and allows navigation through pagination. Thus the ListView and DataPager go hand in hand in providing complete customization of the layout.

ASP.NET builds on the investments made in the Application Services - Membership, Roles and Profiles - in.NET Framework 2.0. In VS 2008, we expose these APIs as web services with both JSON and SOAP endpoints. The JSON endpoint caters to the AJAX scenarios, where as the SOAP endpoint caters to any
SOAP 1.1 compliant clients such as WPF or WinForms applications, as well as applications written with any other framework. The feature allows clients to
leverage the ASP.NET Application services and share a common membership, utilize role management features, and manage user profiles across a number of presentation tiers. It also enables developers to conveniently maintain roaming user states.

In summary, ASP.NET is shipping new features with VS 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 that will enable building rich web applications faster."

Silverlight 1.0 is out

Silverlight 1.0 officially released …. What you are waiting for … SILVERLIGHT IS Out ..

http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/install.aspx

MAC and Windows users can run Silverlight now. Linux users are in progress.

SilverLight is Rocks!

For Developers: Try Silverlight Extensions for VS.NET 2008 Beta ;) and still you can utilize Alpha Eddition for Expression Blend.

Regards,

Got 15 minutes? Give Ruby a shot right now!

Ruby is a programming language from Japan (available at ruby-lang.org) which is revolutionizing the web. The beauty of Ruby is found in its balance between simplicity and power.

http://tryruby.hobix.com/

It basically running through Ajax and extensive JS manipulation. Its Interpreter is highly intelligent but at the end of the day it's a command line (Console) activated on web, no GUI to mention herein yet.

Hey Mr. Web Gamer , Gleemax is coming.

Gleemax.com will be the home for gamers on the web – a combination of social networking, on-line gaming and game related content. This site will be for everyone. Whether you play RPGs, TCGs, board games, turn-based strategy games, miniature war games, or almost any type of tabletop/hobby game, you will find a home here.

The Gleemax site is not available yet. This is just an informational site and placeholder for the future Gleemax site. Gleemax team has already previewed what the public Alpha version will look like here.

Read the press release, media coverage, and Randy's blog for the most current information.

In the meantime, stay tuned to the site as we roll out this project. Gleemax.com team will keep you informed of all the new developments as fast as they can.

DonnyBrook: Real Massively Multi-Player shooter Gamer

DonnyBrook is a project that Microsoft Research is working on to make games more epic. Imagine playing an FPS with hundreds of other players- not just 8 or 16. "How can that be possible?", you must be asking! "There would be so much LAG!", you must be saying! Well - Microsoft employs some pretty smart people who truly care about improving the gaming experience. Watch this clip and learn how they did it.

http://on10.net/Blogs/laura/donnybrook-real-massively-multi-player-shooter-gaming/

Windows Live Translator .. Beta

beta for the Windows Live Translator is now available. On the surface, it may look a lot like Altavista's Babelfish, or Google Translate, but there are some interesting features born out of Microsoft Research that are new to online translation. Try out the Bilingual Viewer by putting in the URL www.expert.ru and choosing "Russian-English". You'll see an interesting side-by-side comparision between the original and the translated page and some controls to change views at the top. One of these controls will translate only the text you mouse over, or show the original text on mouse hover, which is very convenient for those who aren't completely fluent and just need a helping hand in the translation.

Sinitic languages, or ones that use ideographic writing systems can be incredibly hard to translate. As a test I compared the Chinese version of Wacom's Bamboo product page in Live's Translator to Google Translate, see for yourself:

Live: Bamboo has displayed the pen input function which well Windows the Vista operating system, Office 2007 and in Mac OS strengthen. It unified closely with these system's in pen input function, has provided digital ink tools and so on pen or glimmer light pen, easy on documents, electronic forms and demonstration slide prominent demonstration and increase digit annotation; Even may in the demonstration process for the slide increase annotation, cause the demonstration process to have interactive and the vitality; May also use the hand-written text, the signature, the schematic diagram and the doodle entrusts with the personalized characteristic for the email content.

Google: Bamboo good play Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Mac OS enhanced pen input function. With these systems in close connection with the pen input function, providing pens or ink Yingguangbi and other digital tools, easy in the document, spreadsheet and presentation slides and added that the figures highlight the Notes; Even in the course of the presentation slides add notes to demonstrate the process more interactive and lively and ; can also use handwritten text, signatures and graffiti for the draft e-mail content to the personalization features.

Microsoft products roadmap for FY08 and beyond

Oh boy, a Microsoft roadmap, haven’t seen one of these in a while. This is extracted from Steve Ballmer’s Powerpoint presentation at Microsoft Show and Tell (Financial Analyst Meeting) 2007 yesterday. I’m surprised Mary Jo Foley or Todd Bishop haven’t picked this up earlier. I’ve noted some of my items of interest with a red asterisk.

This above information contains forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties. If you make investments based on this information alone, you are an ass. Please remove yourself from the stock market immediately.

Monday, September 10, 2007

Billionaires List, Where am I?

Today I was walking through the Billionaires List. I was navigating their achievements. I have seen Bell gates (MSFT) , Paul Allen (MSFT) , Steve Jobs (Apple) , Steve Ballmer (MSFT) , Michael Dell (Dell Inc.) , Lary Ellison (Oracle) , Segery Brin (Google) , Larry Page (Google) , Pierre Omidyar (Ebay) , Hasso Plattner (SAP) , Eric Schmidt (SUN , Novell , Google ) , Jeff Bezos (Amazon.com) , David Filo (Yahoo) , Jerry Yang (Yahoo).

The first question been in my mind is not "Why I'm not there" , But "What they did and still doing for being craved out there" .. I slept in their history profile for hours. I realized that somewhere there was a beginning. They made a change, a real huge change as a group or as individuals. Lookout for an example Omidyar , This guy is brilliant. I like his online services. I like his civil social and his path in unleashing passion for achievement, he made a change and he got results, a huge turnover results.

What about Me? …….. I'm spending tons of hours on technology but in the end of the day am executing my boss tasks, no shares nor appreciation. What about Me? …. It's time to act through reaching that list. It is not for being in luxury life, and it's not a necessity as much as A NATURE OF MINE.

Am expecting "Enshallah" to find in the next three years a valuable friend of mine his name is "Saad Samarah" on that list. This amazing Business guy is going with an innovative e-commerce idea that will explode with huge number of online trading services. I wished if I could be in his technology team, he gave me everything I asked for but unfortunately I couldn't change my track of technology for certain reasons related to my stay at Jordan.

Now I would switch my time in blogging to extensive time for writing business plan and my idea software design... For me, my legend has begun. For the world, a New Era of Technology Investment is coming. Stay Tuned.

Sunday, September 09, 2007

The new 7 Wonders Panaorama

Watch out this awesome link -> http://www.panoramas.dk/7-wonders/

Amazing J … After this link don't tell me ever you haven't been there :P

Tamim Barghothy – Another Prince of Poets

من أجمل ما قال ومن أعذب ما كتب ... تميم البرغوثي طيب الله ثرى البطن اللي حملك ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAA5xjvXDC4&mode=related&search

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GGP89OhAaU

http://elshare3-seyasa.blogspot.com/2006/07/blog-post.html

http://semsemafavoritepoems.blogspot.com/2005/08/blog-post_25.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dvzk97tcOY&mode=related&search

Zain (Fastlink) Website is MOSS 2007 Version

Know What ?????

ZAIN.COM (Formely known as Fastlink) IS BASED ON MS SHAREPOINT 2007

Just check out their new Web Features (Blogs, Articels, Document Management, Search, .. ) --> It's MOSS 2007.

MS Dynamics GP Overview

Interesting to know more about new MS Dynamics GP Workflow Feature.

Here you go ..
http://cid-6d367e7630e177ec.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Shared%20Files/Workflow-GP10.zip

File provides a comprehensive overview about MS Workflow Foundation in MS Dynamics GP 10.0

Enjoy !

Saturday, September 01, 2007

CRM and Sharepoint

Quoted from SPSFaq

"CRM and SharePoint will be converging more and more, they have a great deal in common in that they track information in real time around people and business processes. CRM is about tracking people more, and SharePoint information, but I think they could eventually become the same think, with CRM built on the SharePoint platform. CRM 4.0, codenamed Titan is being built now, and it will be available in the 1st quarter of 2008. MS will also be making it available via SaaS, in other words software as a service.

This means you will pay per user and MS will host it. This will lead to better profit margins for MS, once the setup costs of the huge server farms is covered. For the companies it will mean faster setup, deployment and cheaper ongoing costs. And they will have all the failover, backup and capacity they could want. It will alsomean no more incomprehensible licencing. If you want CRM it will just be 100 employees = $50 per month. This is the future of software my friends, soon most software will be sold this way. Don't say I didn't warn you :-)

Here are some useful links:

Integration of CRM and SharePoint announced:
http://rehmangul.wordpress.com/2007/05/08/ms-crm-and-sharepoint-2007-integration/

How to configure a CRM Web Part in MOSS 2007:
http://blog.sonomapartners.com/2007/08/microsoft-crm-w.html

Here is a useful blog on the subject full of useful information:
http://sharepointsix.blogspot.com/

Note also that the next version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM will be offered via the web, or SaaS as MS is calling it: Software as a Service.
http://searchcrm.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid11_gci1198320,00.html

And here are those TechEd presentations, look at the Dustin Miller one it is good fun!
http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/teched07.aspx?tab=overview

Enjoy!"

Extend Sharepoint Features

See This Link:

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/08/28/more-useful-and-free-sharepoint-features-available-at-http-www-codeplex-com-features.aspx

Regards,

Mohammed Zayed

Building Workflow in Sharepoint

I made a "Building Workflows in Sharepoint" Community night in Jordev.net. It was awesome attended by 52 persons.

To find the "Workflow in Sharepoint " presentation Visit this Link:

http://cid-6d367e7630e177ec.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Jordev%20CN%20-%20Building%20Workflows%20in%20MOSS/

It's my pleasure to contribute in empowering my community relationship at all the .NET Clubs User Groups in the Area.

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Workflow in MSS with Mohammed Zayed

MS Expression "Think Expression"

For MS Expression interests,

Now be part of "Think Expression" Community.

http://thinkexpression.com/

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.

http://www.liveside.net/blogs/main/archive/2007/08/21/microsoft-launches-tafiti-search-and-silverlight-experiment.aspx

SharePoint Server 2007 SDK: Software Development Kit

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6d94e307-67d9-41ac-b2d6-0074d6286fa9&displaylang=en

AUGUST 22, 2007

Overview

The Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 SDK is designed for solution providers, independent software vendors, value-added resellers, and other developers to learn about the new Office SharePoint Server 2007 enterprise application and platform. It features conceptual and "How to" articles, sample code, and programming references.

What's New in this Release for the MOSS SDK

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.
New tools and samples included with the MOSS SDK: Developer tools and samples for the following areas of MOSS development (new items in bold):

Full details can be found in the Welcome Guide of the SDK, accessible through the Start menu or button.

The download file OfficeServerSDK.exe provided for the SharePoint Server 2007 SDK contains the following:

Compiled HTML Help files (updated with new content since RTM), OSSSDK2007.chm and WSS3sdk.chm, which contain conceptual topics, Class Library and Web Service References for SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.
Updates to the MOSS SDK conceptual topics include:
Updates to the MOSS SDK Class Library and Web Service Reference include:
Code samples that relate to topics in the SDK: Business Data Catalog metadata samples, Custom Single Sign-On Provider, SampleWebService, and Custom Filter Web Parts. The sample projects use Microsoft Visual C# and Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.
Updates to the MOSS SDK code samples include:
- Microsoft Business Data Catalog Definition Editor tool
- Protocol Handler Sample
Enterprise Content Management Starter Kit.

Also included in the SharePoint Server 2007 SDK, the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Starter Kit
Designed for solution providers, independent software vendors, value-added resellers, and other developers to learn about how to extend the new ECM features and platform in Office SharePoint Server 2007. It contains the following:

White Papers

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

Code Samples

Content Processing
- Term Replacement Document Inspector Module
- Document Converters (server-side custom property remover, docm-to-docx converter)
Records Management and Policy
Workflow
Note: The following workflow samples are meant to demonstrate concepts and provide a starting point for extension. They are not the same workflows that are included with Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Visual Studio Project Templates for SharePoint Server 2007 workflow

SharePoint Server Sequential Workflow Library
SharePoint Server State Machine Workflow Library

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

in this day 24/8/2005 was the last call between us when you were in lebanon acting that you missed me. Two year from that moment i still remember every word and feel every single emotion i lost in that call.

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 3^RD 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 "

Have you heard the name MS Popfly ... If you didn't yet you should do ..

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]

Panaroma – WOW Virtual Reality

Watch out:

http://www.papervision3d.org/demos/panorama/

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.

http://channel8.msdn.com/

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/

Announcing Wine 0.9.43 release

http://winehq.org/?announce=0.9.43

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

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.sharepoint.portalserver

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

http://www.spsfaq.com/

www.mcmsfaq.com

Sharepoint University

http://www.sharepointu.com/

Sharepoint Code

http://www.sharepointu.com/

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

http://www.msd2d.com

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.

Saturday, February 17, 2007

I Miss Blogging !!!

"To sink into the way of Achievement"

In Fact, am stuck with thousands of tasks within Generic Corporation and even am spending most of the week hours in the corporate burning to enhance its line-of-business and bring new clients on board.

Life is pretty out there, we became 4 and expecting in this week to expand more to become 6 people.

The Board now includes:

DR. Nabil Kharman (Chief Executive Officer and Founder)
Khaireddin Bushnaq (Technology Specialist)
Elie Awwad (Chief Creative Officer)
Me (Chief Operating Officer)

We are Hiring !!!

Senior Software Developer (1)
Mid-Level Software Developer (1)
Marketing and Sales Officer (1)
Office Executive Assistant (1)

Now we are preparing to move to the new office within one Month. Life is pretty here even in the most moments you get boring for the reason we are working at A SCHOOL :S .. yeah it's true we are working in the Al-Saadah College Schools and represent for the pyblic as one of the giant IT Services Providers in the region. No one knows this fact but to avhieve and challenge is the output of every day we pass while working hard to expand our business focus and build a strong Business Development for the Year of 2007. Our core demand is to Emphasize that we can deliver in time and in best quality the e-vision of public begining with Enterprise Products and include the Home User Collaboration and Office Management Tools to end up in what beyond the seen.

To Know more about Generic Please Visit the following website:
www.generic.jo

GENERIC ROCKS !!! (it's my favor winter theme)

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Vy Life First Day

what an awesome place full of passion. In fact this is my target to lose tons of weight .. VY\y Life held in Amman, close to Abdoun Mall is a Gym Club with an amazing Facilities that crackle every articulate of your body and let you relax far away from business stuff . well i should thank my manager after God success for this subscription facility and hopefully am going to enjoy with all means my membership there .. Amazing Facilities , you can swim, burn fats, build your body, run around for 200 Meters, Kick boxing classes, Saona, Jakozi and end at squatch game.

Will i guess now i found a place to blow away my damn memories .. i found a place to shrink my weight .. i like it !! >>

Let's wait After Month who is the sweetest Man ever born nowadays "Prad Bitt or ME :D" ?!!

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

The Launch Event is in Amman on December 20th

Get Ready for a new DAY

Register Now

Experience the next generation of Microsoft software with the launch of Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office System and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. On Wednesday, the 20th of December 2006, at 9:00 am at the Zara Expo (IT Pro & Developers) and Grand Hyatt Amman (Business Executives). Come and discover how to...

Amplify the Impact of your People.
Simplify how People Work Together.
Help Protect and Manage Content.
Improve Business Insight.

Secure and Manage your Core Infrastructure.

Join MS to discuss your most complex challenges. Discover solutions. Bring your toughest questions. Walk away with answers.