In this walkthrough, I'll show you how to import data from a line of business (LOB) system into SharePoint user profiles and make that information searchable. Using this approach, you can leverage information that is stored in other LOB systems and create a unified view of user information in SharePoint. Create an Interface to the LOB System Suppose your company has an HR system that contains information about employees. Since it is the system of ...

U-Haul just made the move from MapQuest to Virtual Earth. Actually, U-Haul has been a long-standing MapPoint Web Service customer for several applications and they've decided to move over their Location Finder over to Virtual Earth - sweet. Hey, where do you think that whole "Mom's Attic" name comes from for that area over the driver's cabin? Either way, it makes for some great jokes of where the mother-in-law sits during the move. Their location ...

I recently had an issue where I had a general search procedure which took a comma delimited list of search terms, and I wanted to data mine the combination of the parameter values called in production, to establish things such as most popular searches and poorly performing search options. Itzik BenGan has already written about grouping proc and query calls, but I needed to group the param names and values. The following regEx string allowed ...

I know with all the noise about the next version of Visual Studio Team System code named Rosario it seems weird to have a post on how to get started on VSTS 2008 – but i have had three requests for this type of information in the last two days. The first place i would recommend starting is the Hands on labs Brian Randell (MCW Technologies) built into the Public Ready VPC found at: http://www.micros... ...

The first step in migrating from Microsoft FrontPage to Microsoft Expression Web FrontPage helped bring WYSIWYG publishing to the World Wide Web. Since those early beginnings, however, the web has changed; countless new technologies have emerged, evolved, and slipped into obscurity. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has led the way in defining the web’s technological common ground, referred to as web standards. Websites that conform to W3C web standards are referred to as standards-compliant. ...

I spent a lot of time working in ISVs before joining Microsoft and getting a budget for training can be a challenge (as can time out of the office when deadlines are looming :-)). This is where on-demand training can be a great asset - have you seen the training course directory on our ISV Innovation site? Essentially you can access Live Meeting recordings of sessions on technologies such as Office 2007, Vista, SQL Server, ...

Hi. In previous posts I talked about the IE8 IEAK and new event logging for IE8 in the Application Compatibility Toolkit. Today, I’m going to discuss the improvements we made to Group Policy support for Internet Explorer 8. Background For those of you who might be new to Group Policy, here is a quick background. Let’s first assume you use an Active Directory environment to administer the computers in your corporate network. If that is ...

The October 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine just went online yesterday, and it's chock full of content on parallelism. Definitely worth a cover to cover read! Paradigm Shift: Design Considerations For Parallel Programming Coding Tools: Improved Support For Parallelism In The Next Version Of Visual Studio Concurrency Hazards: Solving 11 Likely Problems In Your Multithreaded Code Easy Async: Build Concurrent Apps From Simple F# Expressions Editor's Note: new Thread(ReadEditorsNote).Start(); yourAttention.WaitOne(); Windows With C++: Exploring High-Performance ...

There's a good article about how to create versioned assemblies for precompiled ASP.NET web sites. You can read it here. In order to create versioned assemblies, one of the easiest way is to add a compilerOptions attribute to the compiler Element in your web.config file. You will also have to create an assembly information file in your web application so that it can refer to the version information. In the assembly information file, you would ...

This is going to be a relatively short post. Mostly just link love to Computer World. It's a high level article but defiantly worth the read if you are interested in Microsoft's cloud direction. http://www.comput... Other samplings from the Microsoft world include: Partner Work - Windows HPC Partner- Electric Cloud Microsoft Research Work - TechFest Presentations and Demos Presentations - Democratizing The Cloud, The Cloud Data Center & The CARMEN Science Cloud & Beyond Reference ...

If you are a tech entrepreneur in Canada, you need to mark your calendar for StartupEmpire. My team (specifically David Crow) will be there and we are a lead sponsor. They have added some amazing speakers to the lineup. Jevon has posted the details: Things have been coming together quickly for StartupEmpire. I am excited to announce some incredible new speakers, and we will keep announcing others as they are confirmed. The interest so far ...

Computerworld interviewed Anders Hejlsberg who is the lead architect for the C# languages about C# and its future. In an interview in The A-Z of Programming Languages: C#, Anders describes the reasons for the development of the Common Language Runtime (CLR) and C#. "There were several elements that we considered key design goals, like support for the next level up from object oriented programming, to component based programming where properties and metadata attributes were all ...

It's been two years that I've been at Microsoft and I can say what an amazing 2 years I had! At the ASP.NET UE team, I shipped ASP.NET Ajax 1.0, Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (that it was much more than a simple Service Pack!). They say that at Microsoft you're responsible for your career and this is absolutely true. When I saw the opportunity to become the Documentation Manager for the ...

It still puzzles me that we continue to get emails from people, who cannot find either the latest WDK or the WDF 1.7 coinstallers.So, just for completeness the steps are:Go to https://connect.m... (if you have problems signing in using Firefox, then try Internet Explorer)Login with your Microsoft Passport or your Windows Live ID. If you don't have one, then you need to create one for free.After you login, you'll see a page which has a ...

Multithreading is tough. This is what John Robbins says about it in his excellent book Debugging Microsoft .NET 2.0 Applications: "Don't do it... Make sure there's no other way you can structure your program before you decide to incorporate multithreading into your application... you are easily adding a minimum of an extra month of development and testing to your schedule". I agree with it completely. But there are times multithreading is unavoidable. Especially when more ...

Steve Martin has released more details on the .NET Framework 4.0. For me, the information on Windows Workflow 4.0 is very interesting, as this is the first major update since its inception: Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0 Significant improvements in performance and scalability · Ten-fold improvement in performance New workflow flow-control models and pre-built activities · Flowcharts, rules · Expanded built-in activities – PowerShell, database, messaging, etc. Enhancements in workflow modeling · Persistence control, transaction flow, ...

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As promised in my last posting let's take a look at the new "Workflow in the cloud" functionality offered in the July drop of the BizTalk Services This cloud based workflow system leverages Windows Workflow and is hosted in our datacenter and extended as appropriate through "cloud-scale" runtime services and infrastructure. The idea being that you can run your workflows on our infrastructure which will scale to your throughput needs - subject to appropriate payments. ...

You may want to use your SQL data to show that with a WebPart on a SharePoint Site. Now you want to sort that data with a different collation because the target language is different to US English. - Have your data on a SQL source - Create your XML file; Reference: http://msdn.micro... You may also use an easier way to do that with "Microsoft Business Data Catalog Definition Editor". To have that tool you ...

As part of our patterns & practices App Arch Guide 2.0 project, we'll be creating step-by-step How Tos. The How Tos help turn some of the concepts into action. They are particularly helpful for some areas where there's friction or complexity. Here's our initial batch of draft How Tos on CodePlex: How To - Structure Your Application How To - Design Presentation Layer How To - Design Business Entities How To - Design Business Components ...