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Today I found really good article about delay loading web part data in SharePoint 2010 site. I has all the coding and demonstration of how it works after implementing it. Hope this will help us some day when doing complex web part implementations. http://kjellsj.blogspot.com/2011/06/delayed-load-sharepoint-2010-web-parts.html Cheers

Running SPDisposeCheck tool against SharePoint code is good practice to avoid unnecessary performance and other runtime issues. Following information will help you to to install and configure SPDisposeCheck tool in your development environment. Download SPDisposeCheck Tool SPDisposeCheck tool can be downloaded from here More information regarding SPDisposeCheck tool can get from URL http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/SPDisposeCheck Configuring SPDisposeCheck Tool 1. Download and install SPDisposeCheck setup.     2. Go to Visual Studio 2010 Tools menu External Tools 3. Click Add and add SPDisposeCheck.exe as command. Give Arguments and Initial Directory values as given in the following window. Tick Use Output window to show error in the output window. Click Ok. 4. Go to Visual Studio Tools menu and click SPDisposeCheck. 5. Check output window for issues identified by SPDisposeCheck issue. 6. Now only thing remain is fixing issues listed in the output wind...

Today I gave a hand to my team member to create his SharePoint 2010 development environment. When I was running configuration wizard it suddenly ran the way I never expected without giving any details on database access and any other information (Usually it prompt us to enter account details and database server details). So I wanted to write this post to help others on how to prepare development environment. When I searched through the net I found this MSDN article which shows the full guide one how to prepare the SharePoint 2010 development environment. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee554869.aspx

Yesterday we downloaded the newest preview version of Microsoft SharePoint 2013. Preview version is available in technet http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh973397 . I configured a virtual machine with the preview version and following are the steps I followed to configure the SharePoint 2013. Prerequisites Installed OS – Microsoft Windows server 2008 R2 SP1 Installed Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Find more information about the prerequisites from the link http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485(office.15).aspx Downloaded SharePoint 2013 installer using link http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh973397 Above link will download .img file named SharePointServer_en-us.img. I installed winrar and extracted the content inside the .img file to a separate folder. Installation steps Then I ran the installer and it gave following message. Which said I need to have couple of updates need to install in to the system. Microsoft has provided a tool...

In my BizTalk development environment I configured BAM portal some times back and I configured BizTalk several times after that. Today when I tried to access the BAM portal url it wasn’t there. So I checked the BizTalk configuration wizard and it look like follows. I thought that I haven’t configured the BAM portal so I pressed the Apply configuration and applying process went smoothly. But still the portal did configured. Then I found that this was due to a previous configuration I have done to the environment. I followed following steps to correct the issue. Open the command prompt in administrator mode. Go to the location where the bm.exe resides. It usually resides in “ C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009\Tracking” folder. Then run the following command to get the current BAM portal configuration values to a configuration file. bm get-config -FileName:"BAM_Config.xml" This will create a BAM_Config.xml file under the same location where the bm.ex...

Yesterday Microsoft has released latest version of SharePoint called Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013. I wanted to download the latest version and I found following urls which we can used to download SharePoint Server 2013 Preview. Technet Url - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh973397 Spjeff’s powershell script - http://www.spjeff.com/2012/07/16/download-sharepoint-2013-preview-with-powershell/ SharePoint Foundation 2013 Preview - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30345 To start with new SharePoint Server 2013 I found some training materials which published by Microsoft. You can get more information related to those training materials from the following URL. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vesku/archive/2012/07/17/sharepoint-2013-it-pro-and-developer-training-materials-released.aspx Cheers, Chinthaka Wimalaratna

Last week I bought my first ever DSLR. I searched a lot on model which suites for my budget and finally decided to settle in Nikon D5100. For the fast few weeks Nikon 5100 price went down due to some reason. So I thought of buying it without waiting anymore. I got a bundle package with reasonable price from CameraLk. So my new camera gear is as follows. Nikon D5100 Lens AF-S DX Zoom-NIKKOR 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR Nikon Tripod Nikon side bag I’m waiting to do some experiments with the current gear and will definitely add more items to the list. I did some DSLR photography before using one of my friend camera. At that time I was amazed by photos generated by long exposure shots. I hope to do some experiment and stick to a specific area.