Leveraging Windows Azure WCF Services to Connect BCS with SharePoint Online

Introduction You might have read an earlier post of mine where I discussed the new Business Connectivity Services (BCS) functionality in SharePoint Online (SP-O) and walked through how you can leverage jQuery and JavaScript to interact with an external list in SharePoint Online. This blog post assumed that you had created an external list in the first place and provided you with some code snippets to create a view of an external list. Since that time, a great post from Christian Glessner popped up that shows you how you can walk through creating an external list using SQL Azure.

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Leveraging Windows Azure WCF Services to Connect BCS with SharePoint Online

Processing Documents in Bulk Using SharePoint 2010 and Open XML 2.0

Learn to use the Open XML SDK 2.0 to generate specific documents, SharePoint 2010 to store those documents, Word Automation Services to convert them to XPS files to print, and .NET Framework code to send them to the printer.

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Processing Documents in Bulk Using SharePoint 2010 and Open XML 2.0

Sample: Processing Documents in Bulk Using SharePoint 2010 and Open XML 2.0

Explore code that uses the Open XML SDK 2.0, SharePoint 2010, Word Automation Services, and .NET Framework code to process documents in bulk.

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Visual Studio Code Metrics PowerTool 10.0

Command line utility to calculate code metrics for your .NET code.

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Visual Studio Code Metrics PowerTool 10.0

Video: Accessing SharePoint Data with the .NET Client Object Model

Watch this visual how-to video and learn to use the SharePoint 2010 managed client object model to read and write data in SharePoint sites from Microsoft .NET Framework–based applications.

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Video: Accessing SharePoint Data with the .NET Client Object Model

Video: Retargeting a Word 2007 Add-In that uses Smart Tags from .NET 3.5 to .NET 4.0

Watch this visual how-to video as you learn to change the target version from .NET Framework 3.5 to .NET Framework 4.

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Sample: Deploying an Office 2007 .NET 3.5 project and an Office 2010 NET 4.0 Project

Explore the code in this visual how-to article as you learn to build solutions that target both .NET Framework 3.5 and .NET Framework 4.

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Sample: Retargeting a Word 2007 Add-In that uses Smart Tags from .NET 3.5 to .NET 4.0

Explore the code in this visual how-to article as you learn to change the target version from .NET Framework 3.5 to .NET Framework 4.

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Sample: Retargeting a Word 2007 Add-In that uses Smart Tags from .NET 3.5 to .NET 4.0

Visual Studio 2010 Keyboard Shortcuts

Earlier this week the Visual Studio team released updated VS 2010 Keyboard Shortcut Posters .  These posters are print-ready documents (that now support standard paper sizes), and provide nice “cheat sheet” tables that can help you quickly lookup (and eventually memorize) common keystroke commands within Visual Studio. This week’s updated posters incorporate a number of improvements: Letter-sized (8.5”x11”) print ready versions are now available A4-sized (210x297mm) print ready versions are now available The goofy people pictures on them are gone (thank goodness) The posters are in PDF format – enabling you to easily download and print them using whichever paper size is in your printer. Download the Posters You can download the VS 2010 Keybinding posters in PDF format here .

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Setting up a Local Mail Server for a SharePoint Virtual Machine on Server 2008

The only way to do software development for SharePoint is really a Virtual Machine.

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Setting up a Local Mail Server for a SharePoint Virtual Machine on Server 2008