Most of you may have already read an earlier post on how to send emails from LightSwitch (seen here). This post extends what was learned in that previous post, and shows how to wire up a button to send an email on demand.That previous post showed a specific function that would send out an email when an entity was added to the database. A helper class was created in the Server project of the LightSwitch solution. Then, when the new record was created in the database, that server code was called and an email went out. Here is how I did that… Read More »
Article source: http://www.paulspatterson.com/technology/lightswitch/microsoft-lightswitch-sending-emails-from-the-client/
I recently watched a great webcast by Rich Dudley in which Rich made some very interesting points about what Gartner Research calls “Citizen Developers”. I was immediately intrigued by this Gartner information so I dug a little deeper into this citizen developer thing, and here is what I found…
According to Gartner, “Citizen developers will be building at least a quarter of new business applications by 2014…”. That, according to the report titled “Citizen Developers Are Poised to Grow”.
Represented by about 6 million information workers, these “latent” application developers make up that same Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch target market.
Very interesting, indeed!
Article source: http://www.paulspatterson.com/technology/lightswitch/microsoft-lightswitch-championing-the-citizen-developer/
Posted by robbie on January 4, 2012 – 9:46 am
We all use development frameworks during the course of our projects. Frameworks help us to be efficient developers by re-using existing components and providing us with avoinding the overhead associated with developing applications.
ASP.NET MVC is still a fairly new framework – the majority of ASP.NET projects use Web Forms and they have been successfully serving client’s needs for years, but the rise of MVC fills a much needed hole for ASP.NET.
ASP.NET has many strengths and weaknesses:
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Article source: http://www.robbiemadan.com/2011/12/18/asp-net-mvc-vs-web-forms-another-opinion
Posted by richardb on December 1, 2011 – 6:59 pm
If you have ever setup Incoming email on a document library you will have noticed how the emails will arrive into the document library in .EML format. When you click on the .EML file it will either open up in your browser, or prompt you to Save it to your hard drive. The browser will show you the main body of the email, but will be missing all the good stuff like TO,CC, BCC Subject, attachments etc.
I’m going to walk you through the steps of setting up SharePoint and IIS to allow you to open these files in Outlook instead. This allows you to see the original email in all it’s glory.
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Posted by richardb on November 30, 2011 – 9:00 pm
Filed under .NET, SharePoint
Microsoft has very good guidelines for how to build applications that can update large SharePoint lists without causing your server to grind to a halt.
The main piece of advice: don’t use the SPListItem.Update method in a foreach loop. They have a very good article here that describes how to build such an application.
The general gist of the approach is to build a MethodFormat of the following syntax:
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Posted by richardb on November 30, 2011 – 8:39 am
Microsoft has just released the first update to SharePoint Online and they have added a couple of features that really strengthens the “cloud” proposition to anyone trying to decide whether to keep their SharePoint farm local or go online.
Business Connectivity Services
BCS in SharePoint Online allows us to finally connect internal line of business systems to our SharePoint Online portal. It’s now possible to start generating meaningful dashboards, KPIs and even CRUD (Create, Read, Update Delete) applications in SharePoint Online that can connect to your internal systems. Read More »
